skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting and well written article.

I think the issue that causes a lot of this emotion around money is the fact that we as a society like to think that the harder you work, the more money you make.

It's obviously not a true statement at all.

When you come into a lot of money for relatively little effort (the comparison of the kid vs. the mother), you start to feel like you don't deserve it at all.

"Why do I get $1M for a few months work when my mom gets $20K/yr for busting her ass?"
Would any of the admins (or anyone) care to elaborate on why all the Eich-related posts are being deleted?
wasn't talking about zed specifically, just about text entry software in general. the worst offenders seem to be IDEs and web-based forms that want to do per-character callbacks.
Mozilla CEO resigns
That's a really interesting definition of "lynching".
Just like IT projects, there is no silver bullet to interviewing, and you have rightly brought up some good points about why this will not work.

Despite producing over 60 apps for the iOs app store, a new employer wanted me to whip up an app with a tableview that is sortable and searchable. I told them to stop wasting my time.
[video] How MySQL is used at Dropbox
You may have missed this:

A 2008 paper looked at a random sample of more moderately successful founders (sales in excess of $1 million and 20+ employees) and found an average and median age at founding of 39, with only 31% under 35.

According to the paper's abstract[1]:

Twice as many U.S.-born tech entrepreneurs start ventures in their fifties as do those in their early twenties, as this paper will show.

Given that this study covered more than 500 companies filtered by more reasonable criteria, I'd say it probably provides a more realistic perspective.

It's also worth noting that it appears to be in line with the age data from a study conducted by the Kauffman Foundation[2] that took a broader look at entrepreneurial activity.

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1127248&d...

[2] http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/research%20repo...
I don't think it's unreasonable to interpret "literally" as still meaning literally but the "strongest metaphoric sense" use an example of hyperbole. "Literally" is never used to mean "further from literal than you were thinking".
I fear this is a sign of things to come. Today it is CEOs, tomorrow it is someone lesser. Eventually it will reach the common worker.

Have an incorrect viewpoint on anything? Better keep quiet if you want to be able to take care of your family.
FAMU FSU College of Engineering Potential Split Causes Racial Debate
The concentration camp stuff is just stupidly reductionist South Park references. It would be great if the comments would just be downloaded into oblivion, but apparently we're not rising to the occasion.
I don't think anybody's contesting Eich's right to not get gay-married. And likewise, nobody's contesting his legal right to try to strip a civil right from gay people through California ballot propositions.

But I don't think one can to try to harm gay people and then expect to have no problem becoming the boss of a bunch of them. They have a right to express their opinions too.

I also think your live-and-let-live stance only works as long as others share the same view. Eich's donation is just the opposite of what you advocate: he refused to live and let live. Would you still be calling for tolerance if Eich were working against interracial marriage, or against letting black people vote, or working to have the Catholic church made illegal in America? I'm guessing not.
Mozilla's CEO Steps Down Due To Backlash
My opinion is that it should have been all contained to the first big thread, which should have been moderated such that it stayed on the front page.

This is a major topic, with major ramifications for tech, and it's going to be discussed.

True, most of the discussion isn't productive, but it's still better to let it happen, and to focus it all in one place instead of it being scattered around.
Is it possible to get it run on Linux/Mac?
Do you consider Mr. Eich's donation to a "hate group"?
That is true in general. But in this case, what new information arose in the intervening months? There were no reported cases. Presumably the only thing that changed was that Nest's QA team eventually got around to doing what they were likely too busy to do before release. So this appears to be a classic case of trade-off between safety and time to market. I don't presume to correctly judge what would be the right values to plug into that equation, but I think it is fair to raise the question.
I've posted this elsewhere, but in one of the many dupes that got buried, so I'll repost it here:

I really think it was inevitable once people started complaining about his political background. The whole appointment had become about the gay rights issue rather than about where he would lead Mozilla in the future.

No one really thought he was suddenly going to turn Mozilla into an anti-gay rights organisation, but standing down is still the decent thing to do. It lets Mozilla focus back on their mission and carry on without controversy.

In a way it's a little sad though. I was kinda hoping that he'd say he'd had a change of heart since prop8 and renounce his views. Maybe that's just the optimist in me though...
or in the 5MM club
Can you clarify something for me : are you a democrat or a republican ? And which of those 2 groups should be fired from their jobs ?

Any religions that perhaps should see all their members fired ? Which ones ?

Do tell.
>Do you think this will push the envelope toward greater acceptance of homosexuality?

Well at the very least it will make life harder for bigots.

Seriously, this isn't about the fact that Eich donated to Prop 8 5 years ago, it's that he seems to still hold this position. He has had ample time to offer an apology( in a sort of "facts change" manner) and the fact that he hasn't makes the case that he still believes in oppressing homosexuals pretty strong.

Free speech is not consequence-free speech, and he's still able to say what he wants. But expecting people to ignore who he is when he's representing one of the most symbolic companies in the open source communities is unrealistic.

Why would any of us want someone with those social views representing the tech community at large (especially at a time where so many -ism's have shown themselves to be prevalent). If he just wanted to do tech, maybe he should have stayed CTO.
I'm sorry, are you suggesting that we do not in fact have the right to choose which companies to support based on our opinions of them and their employees, and to tell others of our choices? That seems a rather more slippery slope than anything else here.
Cassandra doesn't store columns from different rows together to my knowledge. That means it is no way like an analytic column store where columns from all rows are stored together. This is not a bad thing, it just wasn't intended to be an analytic column store and makes design choices suited for other things.

See http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureSSTable

Analytic column stores can exploit storing columns separately by using various encoding schemes to compress data that are far superior to generalized compression and they can use the sort to zero on relevant ranges for each column.
Another perspective that I'm surprised hasn't been voiced:

Brendan had the privilege to climb to the rank of CEO, if only for a few days. But it is because of views like his that many don't get a chance at all to climb to anywhere near those heights. I know many qualified, talented, awesome people who, if they were straight and able to marry the loves of their lives, could become American citizens and pursue meaningful opportunities here (arguments about whether moving here is such a good idea these days not withstanding.) And marriage is just one of many ways in which we as a society diminish, limit or actively dehumanize those not a member of the majority.

I tolerate your views right up to the point where they make someone's dying moments hell because their husband or wife can't visit, or bar someone from working for someone else because of their gender or skin color. At that point, yeah, I'll gladly be a biggot against biggots.

Perhaps the reason we don't see more minorities in positions of power is that so many of us exercise our influence, be it via rhetoric or $1000 donations, to keep them out of those positions. I can't bring myself to feel bad when someone who does that is brought down.
The right to marriage is far more than a political issue, it's a fundamental human rights issue.
I have misgivings here mainly because I have previously given enough to political campaigns that any prospective employer that cares can find out what my politics are. The idea that my personal political opinions are fair game in a hiring decision is scary.

Granted, its a little different when we are talking about the CEO of a foundation with a specific ideology, but if this becomes wide spread the chilling effects are something to be concerned about.
That's an overly simplistic way of looking at it. He had a chance to resolve the matter differently and wasn't able to. It's possible/probable that he is not CEO material (for this company at this time).
you don't need to be using an iOS device for someone to use your devices authentication token to access your account. Sounds like perhaps a a vulnerability leaking oauth tokens in the iOS client?
So, what exactly he should do?! Call you? Keep the data for ever and pay a visit to let you know that something bad is about to happen?!
Most likely because they are not remaining civil very long. Time for pending comments?
There may be those who disagree who are now afraid to speak, considering their jobs may be at risk if they express the "wrong" opinion.
Hey, you can say and think whatever you want... but be careful of the "consequences". You are free... but be very afraid that we might find that you think the wrong thing.

This school of thought is being defended across tech forums. Appalling.
That was a well stated defense of intolerance.
I like Susan Kare's work. But I think the under-rated talent is Keith Ohlfs, who was behind NeXT's beautiful and functional UI and icons, and who later went on to do a lot of other interesting stuff, including the UI for WebTV as well.
That poor Mr. Eich, "lynched" by the mob. Well, not really lynched, he's still alive. But they beat him up pretty good! Oh, actually, he's fine. But his livelihood is destroyed and he'll never work in the industry again. Scratch that, apparently he has enough funds to take vacations while he decides what to do next. But hey, he doesn't get to be CEO of a big company! How terrible.

The injustice done to Mr. Eich is minor. He hasn't been killed or injured. He hasn't been blacklisted. He lost his job, in an industry where the average worker has to fight off recruiters with a stick, let alone someone like him.

Yes, there are consequences for your opinions when you become the public face of a large company, especially when that company is founded on some set of principles besides "make money". Those terrifying consequences involve not getting to be CEO anymore, and that's it. Big shock.
Could you ask around the office and find out some of the details about the C# bootstrap process? I would be fascinated to know what language the non-C# compiler was written in and also how long they used/improved the non-C# compiler until they switched to the C# compiler.

This source release is so cool!
That's not only wrong, it's also stupid.
He was on the side of the majority of California, this wasn't a vote in Texas or India. Even the mainstream Democrats were against Gay marriage a couple years earlier.

Many anti-abortion proponents consider abortion a form of murder, which is a more serious issue. But I don't see campaigns against CEOs who support abortion.

Comparing his view with racism is ridiculous. He's not for discriminating against homosexuals, just for keeping marriage as it's been. Can the growing polygamist movement immediately discredit everyone opposed to them as bigots also?
Lynching? Please. There's no legal right to be a CEO. Nobody's bringing this guy up in front of a congressional committee. He exercised his constitutional right to donate money, and everyone else exercised their constitutional right to criticize a public figure.

You'll see truly scary comments anywhere and everywhere on the Internet. If you judge every movement by its most extreme, unhinged elements, then there are exactly zero sane or wholesome movements.
Yep! Paying to help keep family members apart and put children at risk is a reasonable political action, one everybody should be a-ok with.

Saying that you don't like that? Shocking oppression of an innocent man.
I looked into GrubHub to do online ordering for my mothers deli, after seeing the roughly 25% fee I can safely say that many small business will look elsewhere... eventually.
Makes sense. But for a company that is on the brink of IPO (or recently IPO'd) doesn't this mean they are no longer young or fast-growing, but rather steady, matured and more predictable? (hence opening up to a larger, more public and less sophisticated set of investors)
An object coming in from a rendezvous with Saturn would be traveling at a ludicrous speed. You would probably vaporize on lunar impact. The Earth's atmosphere can help slow it down to a reasonable velocity--otherwise you have to carry a lot more fuel to burn in a slow-down maneuver.
Nest Halts Protect Smoke Detector Sales Over Wave Issue
Right, because geeks never buy services from traditional businesses.

Oh, wait.

>>Colin is going to be competing in a huge market with a bunch of other players. He's also likely to enjoy his business a whole lot less.

Also painfully incorrect. When you have a unique selling proposition, it's easy to compete in a huge market with a bunch of other players. It's also enjoyable.
Oh. Would you consider being against interracial marriage sufficient to make someone a racist?
As long as the government is giving exclusive benefits to married couples then, yes, being anti-same-sex-marriage is at least a little anti-gay.

It didn't have to be this way. I wish the government would get out of marriage all together. Edit: civil unions
I see where you're coming from, but I come at it from another angle to arrive at the opposite conclusion about "Hire by Audition" or "Overcome specific real problem" tests.

That is to say: I don't have the money, time, connections, nor geographical/familial luck to have been born in America or in a supportive environment and attend a "top college". Nor do I desire to throw away several years of my life and six figures to get a piece of paper from people dumber than me to say i'm as smart as they are.

In that respect, i'll take the one week of unpaid work over several years, thousands of dollars, and social/political/time barriers which are completely insurmountable to me because it puts me on equal footing with the stanford/mit/harvard graduate. If implemented well it means its more likely to have something to do merit, and i'll respect companies that have a process that at least TRIES to implement a merit based process far more even if i don't get the job.

I don't like it, but i prefer it over the alternatives...
> Granted, its a little different when we are talking about the CEO of a foundation with a specific ideology

Eich was CEO of Mozilla Corporation, not the Mozilla Foundation.
I think this topic -- how do we accelerate the decline in bigotry, esp. in regards to homosexuality -- is a hugely valuable topic to discuss.

I'm of the opinion that these kind of tactics probably aren't as effective as simply what I suggest: "letting the old people die". It's been shown that young people hugely disproportionatly support gay marriage, and support for Prop 8 is declining by a large percentage every year.

I think that when you decide that certain viewpoints or groups are just not allowable at all, all you do is marginalize those groups and push them even further to the extreme. I think you could make a case that Fox News et al would possibly be less extreme if the progressive movement wasn't so vocal about eradicating all potential opposition.

Just my two cents. I'd be really interested to hear other's thoughts on this subject, because I think that bigotry is tied to a whole bunch of other related problems that need solving.
Fair enough, but for a consumer product, it's specific at least from the recalls and safety warnings I've been exposed to as a consumer (car recalls, child safety products, food, etc).
It was a political issue in 2008, it was a ballot initiative. You grandiose view of the issue doesn't change the fact that he is being punished for his political expression.
depends on the job. being cto is one thing; being the ceo is a far more people-oriented role with a far more significant impact on how people who work for mozilla are potentially treated.

and this is not about his views; he actually donated money to help ensure that people would not get equal rights; even though those rights did not affect him in any way.
Is your 6-year old cousin a consenting adult?
hm, the first think I do when setting up new tarsnap hosts is create the .key file and back-it-up elsewhere. Since it's a text file '1Passwd' locker is good and if I were more paranoid I'd probably had a printed copy of every key. Just like GPG :-)
reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7528088
I'm assuming you did not read the link, the library includes art from feudal japan, a book from the Aztec empire, etc. Did you think it was just a bunch of old bibles? Missionaries would report what they saw when they traveled the world (often making "first contact"). I don't think digitizing texts in Ancient Greek will help "relevance" much.
I was using a broader definition of lynching to mean any punishment meted out by popular opinion rather than proper processes. I certainly was not using the term literally, and I am fully aware of the horrible historical background of lynching. I certainly did not mean to trivialize this history.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

> Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

You got a person fired for his political views. Let's not pretend Brendan Eich violated human rights, he did not.

You did.

I'm making my sites just outright refuse mozilla's browsers.

Can you please understand that coming from a country where political cleansings of companies and government departments are normal that you will see a VERY strong reaction against this.
The source code of the client is not under a liberal license.

I guess lawyers could argue about whether reselling the service fell under 'using'.

(I don't mean this to be hostile to the licensing, I just think that it is a big thing getting in the way of it being very possible to do as you say)
Sorry, but I don't put up with the double standard where you're allowed to be a jerk as long as you're just completely derailing the conversation and acting like an idiot, but not if you come out and use sarcasm.

It astonishes me that somebody can come out and say that the reasoning behind a rule is wrong, and then immediately turn around and say that they weren't actually talking about the reasoning, but the PR. And then he doesn't get called out on that at all, but I get called out for calling him out because I wasn't nice enough. Well, screw that.
He has no daily control over JavaScript, he does not set its policy, he basically has nothing to do with it.

But you already know that.
The majority of Californians probably don't support the law- it passed a referendum. Moreover, the critical partnerships for Mozilla are with people who heavily oppose it.
Both issues are solved by Octave... which doesn't require the bifurcation of the community of people writing new code.
It says the ALO order does not transact with passive liquidity orders, but the point is new information coming through after you've placed your limit order can be taken advantage of by market orders sent by HFT.

I suggested Call Auction because it's a good way to avoid paying the spread, and also avoid execution risk, both at the same time. Yes, the final execution price may be made of limit orders that did not take new information into account, but the ALO order you place into the market will get stale too unless you continuous adjust it, and even if you do, the slow reaction of you and your web browser will be no match for NLP bots scanning the news.

I made a bad booboo with the "You're worried the $101 isn't actually there - i.e. if you place an order to buy for $102, either the $101 order will get pulled by the HFT trader, or the HFT trader will buy the $101 order and sell it to you at $102.", looks like I got confused by the CNBC video I watched the other day. But see the other comment why you might make a limit order will a better price than the best offer.
Ask HN: Why are all the Eich posts being deleted?
Are they being flagged or have admins decided it's not what they want here? The subject certainly seems relevant to the audience.
Exactly. I read the book "Nickled and Dimed" when it came out. In the book, she describes a job application test which asks if employers and employees interests are aligned. She noted to herself this seemed a pretty political question.

I applied for a job at a retail store and was asked the same question prior to getting the job. I thought of the first words of the constitution of that American union which was founded in 1905, the IWW - "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common".

So nowadays, not only managers, but employees who think workers are entitled to keep the wealth they create, are verboten. Of course thinking profits can get kicked up to the lazy idle class loafer heirs as dividend checks is all well enough.

Some anti-homosexual screwball is finally pushed out, and finally everyone gets up in arms about how unfair it is that people are pushed out of their jobs. What a laugh.

Whatever God Eich worships who tells him to scorn men who love men, the idle class heir VC limited partner is the God of HN. Doing anything (traction!) to gain his favor and a piece of his surplus value stolen capital is HN's religion.
Typeface hipsters?
I completely agree with you. I think after that interview, this was the correct path. Still, I think we should give people a chance, upon taking a new position, to hold to at least a somewhat clean public record. He made that donation in five years ago. He probably had no idea at the time he would be seeking such a public position. Unlike Dan Cathy, there's no indication he would have brought up his views on his own (he would have likely to consider it a bad idea). Once enough hate had been generated, the interview was inevitable. And once it's out in the open, I mean, I agree, he should have backed down. I'm somewhat proud of him and I respect him more, but if you're a board of directors, you have responsibilities.

Overall, I think society benefits from the flexibility of forgiveness. Branden is a prodigal and historic figure -- we should at least give him the chance to continue changing the world.