skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of your first distress link, one of the distressed employees says: To be clear, @mozilla's culture of openness and inclusion is nothing short of amazing. I just feel that this CEO appt does not match that.

Directly following that is "In a post on his blog, Eich writes, “I am committed to ensuring that Mozilla is, and will remain, a place that includes and supports everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, economic status, or religion”. Whatever his current personal beliefs, he has pledged that Mozilla will be that environment. At this point he is actually doing what the detractors are asking of him: making a positive contribution to counter a previous negative one.

Your second link on distress has At every turn, I have been heartened by the degree of passion and care that have been apparent as colleague after colleague steps forward to express nuanced opinions, and by the commitment to equality and fairness that runs through the group like the stitches in the binding of a book. and And as much as I’d rather not see a boycott of everything Mozilla does (which, it seems, most people still think of as “Firefox”) based on the actions of a single person affiliated with the organization, I am completely psyched to see this many people this angry in defense of civil rights.

These are people annoyed with a CEO, but who are very positive about Mozilla's culture. They are nuanced opinions that aren't the oversimplified "crucify the company because the new CEO made a donation half a decade ago". They take pains to separate the private behaviour of the CEO and the culture of Mozilla.

Those links are saying the same thing my link did: Not particularly happy with the personal beliefs of the CEO, but very happy with the environment at Mozilla. It's the knee-jerk politics that talks of the ascendence of the new CEO being matched up with a new culture at Mozilla where gays are oppressed by jackboots. I've worked in places before where the CEO was not looked on kindly by the staff, yet we still did good things.

Regarding healthcare in the US, I'm not too familiar with it, but different workplaces have different levels and coverage of healthcare, and healthcare is a significant perk of a job. When our Australian company first reached out to make an SF office, our recruiters were initially puzzled at the importance that the locals put on healthcare as part of their remuneration package. Healthcare is another fiery topic though, and best left to a different thread :)
Ingress (which interestingly is also linked to google) works something like that. Wouldn't be surprised if they're prototyping for a big game release in the future.
Seems like someone at Microsoft is reading this thread. In that case, an incubator I'm involved with (Tandem Entrepreneurs in the bay area) would like to get that sweet incubator deal if it's still on. We're already on a similar deal with AWS.

And ahem, Google cloud folks if you're reading this... you know what to do.

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And 68k to PPC.
Thanks for the feedback.

The letter lists the name (The Innovation Act) and HR for reference. The SR is yet to be determined. As soon as I find that information, the letter will be updated.
Your description sounds incredibly basic, it is unlikely I would pay anything for what you describe.

Plus, is your price per person, or what? If not per person, would you really, for example, license this to GE or Berkshire Hathaway (250,000 employees, more or less) for $10/month, one of the poll options?
Seems like a bit of a PR stunt to be honest, we'll see if they follow through...
Don't cache the fake version?
Fireworks was an excellent prototyping tool,and when I say excellent i mean the best and the easiest to use out there.It was infortunatly "depreacated" by Adobe.
FYI: I got a 403 error when I tried to sign up (CSRF verification failed). You should probably override the default template for that error page, too. Nice to see you're using Django, though!
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I'll just shamelessly copy my own tweet about the branding problems of Azure

"It took them too long to understand that the Windows brand is tarnished forever. I propose ditch "Microsoft" too. Just "Azure"."
That's basically all of reality TV. There's hardly anything real about it. The scenarios are all scripted. The only thing that's sometimes real are the reactions of the 'stars'. And, even then, they're so re-edited and re-framed, that the end result doesn't have much in common with reality.
It sounds like both this Matti Leshem person and the legal team that drew up the awful contracts (which Rosen softpedals a bit, as "standard practice" and unlikely to "actually [be] pursued," as if those excuse anything) thought they were working with stereotypical reality-show contestants, i.e. people so desperate for fame that they'd put up with any kind of horrible shit for a shot at the limelight. It must have been a bit of a shock to discover that their "stars" weren't interested in playing the Hollywood game.
Okcupid directs Firefox users to switch browsers (visit in Firefox)
School doesn't seem to matter - I go to a 'top school' and got rejected :(
This is more of an opinion about what is best for Mozilla's image in the public eye, not about anyone's right to have a job.

You can without a doubt hire a murderer as your CEO. It will always be my opinion that you should at least think very hard about doing so before you make the final decision.

If you run for president and you're a satan worshipper, then it would be my opinion that you will lose. If you own a cookie company and want to hire a murderer as a CEO, it would simply be my opinion that you may lose sales. If you don't care about my opinion, or don't care about sales, and go ahead and hire a murderer as CEO, then that's perfectly fine. At the end of the day, it's really up to you.

But if someone out there wants to organize a boycott because the CEO isn't a vegan, that's also fine.
I preordered Macaw and intend on trying it out... I also own and use Adobe Edge Animate and Sublime Text, etc...

Can someone offer a distinction between tooling such as Text Editors, such as Macaw, such as Dreamweaver, such as Edge Animate that actually makes sense per people's arguments and each company's prospective use cases?

Many people are arguing that Macaw would be great for prototyping but that the code generated is not production ready, but I would argue that Adobe Edge Animate by that logic would offer an even better prototyping environment, but have not heard people go gaga over it for such purpose like they have Macaw.

If people do argue that code generated by Macaw is production ready (in some form), then why would Adobe Edge Animate not also be production ready... for same purpose?
Opposing gay marriage isn't always linked to bigotry.

I oppose ALL state-sanctioned unions because I don't believe it's the state's business to say who can and cannot be in an official relationship (hetero, homo, or all the poly/group unions). As long as the people consent, why does the state need to approve?

Considering marriage is a non-binding contract (no fault divorce), the contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on (even prenups are overruled with alarming frequency).

From the state's perspective, what does approving marriage offer? It offers monitoring and control (and a religious position), but almost nothing else. Child guardianship is already a non-marital issue. Last will and testaments along with living wills (if enforced properly) deal with most legal issues pertaining to marriage. Minor modifications to tax law deals with the rest.

If someone wants to be married, they should go to their local church, mosque, synagogue, or whatever. If they want legal protection, have a will and they should sign the proper docs (even married persons should do this). If they want a binding contract, they should contact a lawyer and get one (just as they would with a prenup if they want something semi-binding).
Nweb: a tiny, safe web server (static pages only)
Going even "deeper", you could try starting with ROM BASIC on a PC and building the beginnings of an OS from there ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_BASIC ).

I have written a simple assembler (that supported labels) using the DOS DEBUG utility, but never had enough time to go through the levels of abstraction beyond that. If I did, my next steps would've been a text editor, followed by a simple C-like compiler.

Another interesting "bootstrapping" problem I've heard of is this: Suppose you rm-rf'd a *nix system, and all that was left was the kernel and shell process running in memory. How much of the system could you "rebuild" with only that?
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Why not just go to the source of someone that was there? http://msminotaur.com/blog/?p=187

The sad part is, someone suggested to a few people on Reddit that people look into Game Jams if one is serious about coding games, stuff like that. Makes me much more skeptical to do that now.
Ours gets us $100 / month credit. Which previously was not quite enough for one medium vm.
A lot of folks are hating on this but realize a few things:

1.) This is the first version. We're creeping into an era where a couple of dudes can compete with MASSIVE corporations. Expect rough edges, but give congratulations where they're due.

2.) This is the future, like it or not.

I'm a developer (primarily front-end) and while I may not immediately integrate this into my workflow, I can see it becoming a staple for many as it evolves. The idea of "drawing" code is very intuitive.

Übergeeks will bitch and moan about how it's not the perfect solution or how they'd rather code it by hand. That's all fine, but don't ignore it because it's not your ideal solution on day one. Give it time.

If you're smart, you'll at least play with this on a side project and learn the basic mechanics. If this works out well and continues to evolve, it could replace a lot of jobs – think about that.
thanks! I will try out haskell too. Although I usually stay away from functional programming. It somehow look intense to me :P
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hmm its funny how you site the link that I posted...lol I will assume you recommend Go over Node.
makes little sense,but they'll end up running unix themself one day,dont worry...
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I really like this idea. Have you found any persistence frameworks that support the use of schemas WITH connection pools? Also, running multiple versions of a domain model concurrently seems like it'd be a headache.
OKCupid, for people without those overbearing, quietly judgmental matchmaking aunts, friends of parents, co-workers, etc.
Reads like a sponsored post.
I am curious about this as well. Should we take "NoSQL" in Maria literally? For instance, is it possible to talk to the database using db.find() and db.save() APIs similarly to how MongoDB works without writing any SQL?
Forth is created by practice. DSSP is created by theory.
Dialog System for Structured Programming is a programming language designed for Setun, a balanced ternary computer developed in 1958 at Moscow State University.

http://ternary.3neko.ru/setun70.html

it is possible to construct postfix expressions directly from the operands and operations by similar way as it is made in mathematics.

As we see Facebook and Google embrace fabbing their own chip's, it's time we revisit lost forks in the road of computer science to see if we went down the track a long time before kernighan & ritchie or von Neumann
"LinkedIn: the website for self-promoters too shameless and impatient for Facebook." I'm not sure what else I would expect.
Yeah, that would be awesome. I haven't looked into it yet but if you'd be willing to help out we'd be happy to accept contributions! The one thing that I think might be tricky with including standard migrations is keeping them compatible with Django 1.4-1.6; although it seems to be possible to have both in a given package [0] it doesn't seem all that user-friendly.

[0]: http://treyhunner.com/2014/03/migrating-to-django-1-dot-7/
I put bootstraps on my bootstraps so I could bootstrap my bootstraps while I bootstrap.
Maybe marriage certainly is between a man and a women within THEIR RELIGIOUS point of view. And that's fine. Their church can be as exclusionary as they want to be. But the US government shouldn't be exclusionary. Marriage in the US affords civil rights and distinctions (inheritance, consent, taxes) that should simply be equal for all citizens. Your religion and their obsolete views of things makes no difference. Who cares if your church or temple won't do a gay ceremony.
it's a little stronger than that, in my opinion.

I think it would be like finding out if the CEO of Microsoft didn't want blacks to be able to get married. Would you expect blacks to continue using Windows?

Imagine you were gay. Would you want to use Firefox and JavaScript? I'm a big fan of JS. I'm straight and it's somewhat distasteful to me now. If I were gay, I think that feeling would be very strong.
Very interesting analysis. I'm in the process myself of spinning up a saas with multiple forms of payment. However, my UX basis for bitcoin would be something like gyft which uses bitpay. These transactions are instantaneous and directly from the users wallet (any wallet). That seems to me to be the standard of service at this point. I'm missing the advantage then of using coinbase. I only see it limiting potential audience which seems rather counter to the idea of accepting bitcoin in the first place.
I completely agree but there has to be something more to do than just waiting until the day comes they suddenly "get it" that they're being disgusting human beings. I really doubt that time is near.

edit: I realize this is basically asking "how do you stop online trolling?" which is pretty hard question.
This tool sucks, I tried it when it was posted on a previous YC thread. I tried it on a few accounts where I'm directly connected with someone & it gave me bogus addresses.
What is a credit history and why should I care?
I did not mean to suggest that there's is or should be a universally enforced definition of what is "slight" or "superficial".

Perhaps not, but you did appear to be suggesting that some people should be able to tell other people what is "slight" or "superficial", instead of everyone getting to decide that for themselves. If everyone gets to decide for themselves what is "slight" or "superficial", then we basically have the situation we have now; but you don't seem satisfied with the situation we have now.

it would be better if it was given to someone in need of a computer for immediate reuse.

Not necessarily; there would have to be sufficient benefit to the person re-using it. You keep on ignoring that part of the equation.

try "getting rid of it in a way that does not guarantee continued use"

Same comment here: you're assuming that continued use is actually a benefit for whoever is using the item. What if it isn't?

I'm not trying to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do.

Huh? Saying that people are not taking proper account of the consequences of their actions is telling people what they should do--it's saying they should take proper account of the consequences. If you're not willing to own that statement, then you should stop harping about the consequences.
Except all marriages are civil marriages - and the government has to treat all equally. that is all. Your church, temple, or mosque can be as exclusionary and ignorant as they want to be. that's fine, and protected free speech. But the government shouldn't give rights to some and not all (inheritance, consent, tax breaks etc).
Do they have a free tier like Amazon?
No low margins at all. Don't forget the bandwidth pricing. No low margins there at all. Digital Ocean includes up to 5 TB of free transfer. That would cost $614 per month at AWS. Not to mention dedicated server providers like OVH where you can get a modern Xeon and unmetered 300 Mbps bandwidth for $ 137 per month.

Edit: typo
Ah, well, PHP's mail function is kind of terrible. https://phpbestpractices.org/ (look for the section on why)
Looks pretty sweet. Do you have a style guide for contributions? There are a lot of low-hanging fruit here that would be easy for contributors to get in and start making pull-requests.
Here's someone who started with the hardware, although he only ported existing software to it:

http://www.homebrewcpu.com/
Thanks - no I don't, any tips or resources on the best way to get this prepared?
Nobody's obligated to use Firefox. The problems arise when a business like OKCupid starts publicly dissuading its users from using Firefox.
I've had the same server up for months. Some of my workers roles on the other hand drop a bit.
ERP and mindfulness are really, really effective in treating OCD. I know, because one of my children had a crippling case and now is free of it. I spent several months at UCLA's Pediatric Intensive Outpatient Program with him and have seen it work on about a dozen children. The same treatment can also be used on adults.

ERP stands for Exposure and Response Prevention. The idea is that you progressively expose the person with OCD to their fear(s), during which, they cannot perform any compulsions. Eventually the brain is retrained and the OCD falls away. For example, someone with a fear of germs would be asked to touch a door handle and then not wash their hands for as long as possible. This is extremely hard for them. However, this simple technique, applied over weeks or months in conjunction with therapy and meds, can reduce a person's OCD to almost nothing.

Another point is that the kids respond to the group setting. They form bonds and support each other during the process.

The UCLA team is absolutely amazing at this: http://www.semel.ucla.edu/adc/ocd_treatment

If you have or know a child suffering with the disorder, please look into this program or one like it!

If you have any questions for a parent that has been through this with a child, contact me at capitalism99@gmail.com
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Also: http://subfictional.com/2014/03/24/on-brendan-eich-as-ceo-of...
There's no chance of this actually happening, but I definitely agree.
Former PopCap exec starts PlayFab to help game studios with back-end support
I get it ... you're not a fan of the branding.

What matters is the product.
And someone who has spent their life in Photoshop will probably say that a HTML file + Browser dev tools is more confusing than using Macaw ...

I backed this project, and haven't really used it yet. I am also not a designer.

That's where I think the sweet spot is. Like many others I am a developer and being handed a .psd / .ai / whatever is just awful. At least this tool gives great markup for us to build on. Heck, I'm pretty sure the project files can be checked right into version control.
What other actions does he need to take? Passing prop 8 harmed people.
Yes, Azure VMs run on top of Hyper-V. Which means that the physical machine must reboot after every Hyper-V update.

However, each physical machine also runs an Azure Host Agent, which runs on top of Windows Server Core. While the use of Server Core helps cut down on reboots, it doesn't eliminate them.

But then, why doesn't Hyper-V just stay up while it reboots the VM containing the Host Agent? Because the virtual disk drivers are implemented for Windows Server. (Hyper-V has the concept of a management OS, which has privileged access to the hardware.)

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2012/08/2...
OkCupid Is Browser-Blocking Firefox to Support Gay Rights
Eich didn't give $1000 to an anti-state-marriage proposition, he gave to an anti-same-sex-marriage proposition.
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Don't forget that in some areas of the country, we get snow pretty regularly - in my experience back-up camera lenses get completely covered by road grit in snowy zones pretty quickly - makes it hard to rely on for something critical like highway visibility for a few months a year.
OP here. I am not in any way affiliated with the Macaw team, I'm just a fan that was closely watching. The reason I linked to the checkout page was that Hacker News would not allow me to submit a link to their home page because of a past submission.

I urge everybody who does not see a lot of information about Macaw here to check out http://macaw.co/. Sorry about any confusion and to the Macaw team if this was not the destination that they intended.
The latter, where growing, harvesting, processing and delivery is done through a repeatable automated process.
Many decades ago, Microsoft had Xenix. It was a very competent Unix-like OS at its time.

No. Not really. But it was what was possible to run on PCs at that dark age.
I usually just start out with an existing style guide. Maybe take something like the PEAR style guide [0] and distill it down to the basics. You basically just want people to know how you want things formatted and what is an acceptable structure for commits.

Looks like a pretty cool system. My products are all Twilio-based, so I could see a lot of value in making your system telephony-agnostic instead of relying on Plivo.

Sweet product though.

[0] http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php
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They really need to cut prices. I created a card-lookup site for a collectible card game (http://www.lotrlcg.com/).

Originally it was written in PHP and was on regular shared hosting through InMotion Hosting for about $5/month.

I rewrote it in ASP MCV and hosted it through Azure and they are charging about $20/month - a jump that I was not expecting. The convenience of being fully integrated into the MS stack is great, but I was planning on moving everything with project I start. Hopefully the price difference will be good enough to stay.
> I - was smarter in some eareas than my teacher in cs (who had a PhD in cs)

Eligibility for PhDs isn't calculated by pairwise comparison.

It's judged by original research. Which requires a lot of study, a lot of study, just to take you to the outer boundaries of the sub-sub-sub-sub-field your PhD happens to be in.

One subject I was taught in a quasi-postgraduate setting (in Australia we have a kind of mini-PhD called "Honours") was evolutionary systems. In one subfield of that topic, the original paper appeared about 30 years ago. A year later there were a few dozen papers. Within five years there were tens of thousands of papers. Conferences. Study groups in computer science departments around the world.

To get a PhD in that field, you need to exhaustively search the literature -- surveying and reading potentially hundreds or even thousands of papers and projects -- just to figure out what has yet to be researched. Just to get to the starting line. That takes several years.

PhDs are hard work.
Our most brilliant scientists have recently discovered that the word "love" has multiple overlapping definitions. Strange but true.
This does not sound like a typical game jam. You should definitely jam. It's a great way to carve out some time for a project, and also a great way to meet people who you might end up working with.

Check out the original indie game jam: http://www.indiegamejam.com/igj0/
I agree that there is a massively high rate of automation already employed in the agricultural sector, however much like the difficulty of high speed internet is focused on the last mile, the last mile for food automation is in cooking and delivery in a palatable, healthy and convenient manner.

To those ends, the logistics of food production are massively intensive and account for most of the food waste worldwide, so shrinking the logistics chain alone would significantly reduce costs and improve quality. I am thinking in this regard about the containerized growing systems that are starting to enter the market.