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For those who do not use Firefox, the message shown is:

Hello there, Mozilla Firefox user. Pardon this interruption of your OkCupid experience.

Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples. We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OkCupid.

Politics is normally not the business of a website, and we all know there’s a lot more wrong with the world than misguided CEOs. So you might wonder why we’re asserting ourselves today. This is why: we’ve devoted the last ten years to bringing people—all people—together. If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal. Equality for gay relationships is personally important to many of us here at OkCupid. But it’s professionally important to the entire company. OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.

If you want to keep using Firefox, the link at the bottom will take you through to the site.

However, we urge you to consider different software for accessing OkCupid:

Google Chrome Internet Exploder Opera

Thank you,
OkCupid
The previous poster was talking about racism, not slavery. Slavery was not a thing in this country 50 years ago. You're making a much bigger leap than you think the previous poster did.
It looks like the miscommunication was _to_ him, not _from_ him. He was called in to collect his stuff, but then not fired once he got in with his boss.

Personally, I had no trouble following the article.
> You don't know Brendan, I don't know Brendan, nobody in previous threads comparing him to fucking racists or the Nazis knows Brendan.

I know Brendan. I met him on a number of occasions while working at Mozilla and interacted with him on many more. I think the comparison to racism is completely valid. I don't think he's a bad guy (he was always quite cordial with me) but his actions caused harm to a large number of people; I don't think that's okay.
Front-running is something that a lot of people accuse HFTers of doing that they don't actually do.
These aren't "proper" debs though -- they're not provided by the distribution, don't use the standard build tools, and so on. The closest analogy I can think of is the new packages you get from the paid portion of the Ubuntu App Store (ie, not universe), and those indeed conform to the /opt/vendor standard (with a few exceptions for things like a .desktop file).
I obviously wasn't clear enough - it's not about the contribution it's about leadership.

Brendan was an employee of Mozilla when he made his Prop 8 contribution - that's fine, that's his right and as you point out people are entitled to their own personal beliefs.

The issue is who a company/foundation/organization decides to be it's leader and the values that leader will exert upon the company/foundation/organization and the products it produces.

To be clear, my beef isn't with Brendan Eich (although I'd disagree with him if I met him), it's with Mozilla for selecting him to become CEO.
I got downvoted just for asking someone to explain the reasoning behind the report, given the acknowledged (by the IPCC!) flat-spot we're experiencing.

This seems to be a hard issue for people to discuss rationally.
Oral Arguments at Supreme Court for Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank
That hasn't been true for ages. It's an auto-fill/auto-complete combo box now. I can literally put whatever I want in there like "Cis Male".

I don't have strong opinions about what OkCupid is doing here, but it's a bit absurd that they aren't more progressive on the gender frotn.
$299!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the browser? It'll be suicide. It doesn't matter what else a browser does. If it blacklists sites for political reasons, users will flee.
>> What am I missing here?

> So I'm downvoted to hell, but what about my question?

The question does not deserve an answer, but you are obviously not going to realize and will remain enraged, which would be counter-productive.

Firstly you are missing that there is choice about browsers; but no choice whatsoever in a scripting language in browsers. They are asking their users to make a choice, one that will not hurt their users. By removing all use of JS they would actively hurt their users.

Secondly you are missing that even as CEO of Mozilla he does not remain in control of JS, even if he created it.
Virtual Reality and the Oculus Rift: How real is too real?
Also, surf (http://surf.suckless.org), or Midori, or Iceweasel, or Uzbl, or Jumanji... :)
My anecdotal experience has been that the older generations of gay men haven't cared a lot about gay marriage as an issue. Civil unions give them what they needed legally, and "marriage" as a concept separate from that didn't mean much to them.

I'm completely theorizing as to why, but it's a topic I've discussed with many of them and thought about some on my own.

The following impressions apply to older gay men I've met who don't care much about gay marriage as an issue. I'm explicitly stating I don't believe they necessarily apply to a wider gay community.

I think part of it is that older gay men tend to have been in some longer, more committed relationships, and feel that the reality of day to day loving is what matters to them. Give them legal rights with civil unions and they're good to go. They don't need "marriage" to feel more committed.

I think too older men are more comfortable with themselves and who they are. They have been gay and out (at least to some close friends, if no one else) for long periods of time and don't feel as much shame or need to be "accepted" by everyone. So the symbolic meaning of gay marriage (as opposed to civil unions) carries less weight for them.

And related, they've seen the truly big battles that were fought for the right to be out at all. This one feels smaller to them, less essential in comparison. They're happy with what they have. It's all they feel they need.
Do you honestly believe what you're saying? Of course they do, companies constantly keep track of the patents their competitors file to a) do as you said and avoid infringement and b) get inspiration for new ideas (There's nothing wrong with patenting qan improvement to someone else's patented idea, you just have to get permission from them to be able to use the base idea, andb they in term might seek permission from you to use your improvement).

I find it so hard to beliebe that people on hacker news think about these issues at such a childish level; everything is black and white, and we'll ignore the facts if they don't suit our world view.
But it's not possible. Every company is lead by scumbags, your only choice is which scumbag's product you buy.

This entire situation reminds me of this scene from 30 Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm3TepXcD8A
My apologies. Being unfamiliar with UK law I mistakenly made the assumption that the blacklisting is legally required.

However it might as well be. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation#Blac... it is in effect on 90%+ of UK ISPs and there is significant pressure on ISPs to implement this technology.
Ask HN: Seeking a Marketing/ SEO/ Design Growth Hacker as Co-Founder
So I created a high end disposable e-cigarette brand, head quartered in Long Beach, CA. I've setup a simple magento ecommerce website http://sigecig.com
I need help in generating traffic, increasing organic search, maximizing conversions/ beautifying the website/ great product photography.<p>If you happen to be interested in this industry, and feel like your skills could prove useful in building up this new brand, send me a message. My interest is in a vested partner, so I would offer equity for your involvement, based on agreed upon expectations.<p>This is my 4th company I've started, and I am looking to turn this small business into a nice acquisition target in 18-24 months. I was recently cold called by a UBS wealth manager out of Beverly Hills interested in Investing in the business. It is a hot space, and I realize that with the right partner, we could carve out a great business. Blu Cigs got over $135M, Njoy raised $70M on $1B valuation, Green Smoke sold for over $110M...V2Cigs is about to do $80M in online revs this year, most of these companies sell a crap product. I seriously have the Mercedes Benz of disposable e-cigarettes.<p>Regards
In C(++), the compiler may be able to figure that out. If the function doesn't, directly or indirectly, call any outside function, the entire call tree can be thrown away.

And that can cross libraries: if you #include a standard header, a C++ compiler may assume that calling, say, malloc() or exit() does what the standard says it does. That way, even a function that calls malloc or gettimeofday can be optimized away before it is even linked.

And of course, in many compilers, programmers can use #pragma's or attributes to instruct the compiler "you can assume this function is pure/doesn't return/returns newly allocated memory/etc (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html)

If you do that meticulously, the compiler has way more room for optimizations.
> Diners was bought by MasterCard

MasterCard didn't acquire Diners, it was just a partnership where Diners cards were branded as MasterCard and processed through MasterCard's network. Later Discover acquired Diners, and now they're processed through Discover's network.

But fair point - brand prefixes occasionally change, and if you hardcode them they'll eventually become out of date.
Do you have any theological credentials to back up these accusations?
NB: this only happens in english. In any other localization there aren't these options.

I <3 that facebook has done this, but realize that it's only for a fraction of its user base, not the entire site.
Previously he was CTO of the same tech company - not exactly a minor CxO position with few people looking to him.
Yup. When you have a small amount of traffic this logic really just points out your primary goal should be either getting more traffic or only designing tests that should have a large effect.

Some people reply to this by saying "Well then we'll just ship it and measure results without testing." That is a test... but it's poorly designed. If you can't see the improvement in a controlled experiment, it's rare you'd be able to see noticeable improvement in before/after.
Importance on the front-end isn't that high. Though we use it to change messaging around where the CVV is located. You do need to detect it on the backend as you have to pass it to the payment gateway, i assume the reason is to determine which network to put the transaction on. Some gateways take care of this step for you but most of older or lower level ones don't.
Glad you like it, happy to have you contribute :)
Cribbing someone else's answer to my similar question (a couple months ago):

Pure FP means no side effects. Side effects cause your state space to explode. (That is, no side effects means that the results of this function depend on its inputs only. Side effects means that the results of this function depend on its inputs, member variables of the object, file variables, global variables, the state of various things in the OS, user input read during the function, data read from the network, and maybe a few other things. It's much harder to understand such a function, get it working correctly, debug it, and prove that it correctly handles all corner cases.)

The size of the program state space is your enemy, not your friend. Control it or die. FP dramatically helps you control it.
Fascinating read, but it feels like a good third of the article was the author self-importantly talking about himself. You could fairly skip to the first heading, "The Set-Up", and not lose a single bit if insight.
When I read the title of this post, I first thought 'Oh okCupid's website breaks in FF and instead of fixing the site, they are asking their users to switch to another browser'. Then the comments here completely threw me off. Took some digging to figure out what the real issue was.

The okcupid link in the title (at least on mobile) just goes to their login page, no message about ditching FF there.
1. Yes, I understand Instant Exchange is separate. This is about how we wouldn't roll our own solution, _someone_ would be powering our Bitcoin integration.

2. Yes, as I said, if you know what's going on, it won't be weird to you. That said, cart abandonment is a big problem, as is keeping checkout pages as simple as possible.

3. Again, this is where we'll have to disagree. You say "people are using Bitcoin to get away from the credit card paradigm", but I say "people are not using Bitcoin because it's too far away from the credit card paradigm." If the Bitcoin community wants to grow outside of the fringe libertarian set, they'll need to understand people's needs more and their dreams less. I myself stayed away from BTC for years simply because of the rhetoric. People that aren't inherently interested in cryptocurrencies aren't going to use them unless they solve a problem they actually have.
A day too early. It's still March!
FYI, Azure runs Linux but does so on a Windows host.

Whenever Windows needs a security update, it has to be rebooted.

This means you need to plan for your Linux VM to go down weekly.
Let's pick a different hot button issue. Say Eich contributed to a pro or anti gun control measure. Hell, as far as I know, he has.

How many of you, who are as intensely interested in gun control/rights as people are over gay/anti-gay marriage rights, would be demanding that he step down? And if you say you would, there are hundreds of corporations actually in that position (either for or against) with whom you are probably doing business.
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Opposing gay marriage [1] is a sign of bigotry and hate, by that fact alone. It's akin to excusing white supremacists in the 1950's for segregating blacks and whites and underfunding black schools because their opinions were religiously motivated (and most claimed a religion as one of the reasons--children of Ham, and all that) and because they ignorantly believed blacks were inherently intellectually inferior. Nope, no hate or bigotry at all there.

[1] With a sliver of a possible out if you support ending all legal recognition of marriage.
But then you wind up feeding the narrative, which we've heard so much, that gay marriage opponents are the ones actually being oppressed here. I think that's mostly crap... except, perhaps, for cases like this one.

I'm not even sure what I think about it, but I can't reject silverstorm's point out of hand.
It seems to be following a repeating pattern.

* Bitcoin builds infrastructure.

* People notice bitcoin isn't going away

* Media says Bitcoin will make everyone Gazillionairres

* Bitcoin skyrockets until infrastructure comes under strain.

* Something involved with bitcoin breaks

* Media(not neccisarrily the same media) says Bitcoin is all over, and everybody will lose their bitoin, their home, and their dog.

* Price drops.

* Bitcoin builds infrastructure.

* People notice bitcoin isn't going away

We seem be going into the build infrastructure phase. That's where genuine value actually gets added, and doesn't actually stop at the other times, It's just when the craziness is going on it's hard to see from the noise.
There are plenty of companies I boycot and avoid patronizing based on concerns I have with their owners, executive leadership or company's position on issues important to me.

I don't think that is that uncommon, actually.
take a look at Indigo Studio http://www.infragistics.com/products/indigo-studio

We evaluated it and liked it for pure interaction design.
How? I'm actually really curious how it could be done easily.
What is Domain Driven Design
I've still got some of their Spooning[0] shirts from an April 1st of yesteryear. Good stuff.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/spooning/
OKCupid Asking Users To Boycott Mozilla
Maria was the 79th most popular female name in California in 2012 (the most recent year data is available for)[1].

Far from being a Victorian-era name, it was most popular in the 1960's, and remains more popular today than it was during the Victorian era[2].

However, it was a popular name in literature during the Victorian era[3], with mentions hitting a peak in 1908 (technically that was the Edwardian era, but close enough). Depending on your smoothness settings, it does appear that Maria was actually more commonly mentioned in 1999 than in 1908, though.

Interestingly, there is a dramatic dip in mentions during the 1920s. I don't have a good theory as to why this was.

[1] http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/namesbystate.cgi

[2] http://www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/girl/maria

[3] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Maria&year_sta...
Yes the point is, we take risk if we think it makes us execute better. If you're an investor who appreciates that culture you'll gravitate to our company. If you're traditional and prefer to be proper all the time, you'll be turned off. That was the opportunity we took, to help our investors decide if they like it or not before even reaching out to us to find out more.
>I was thinking Amnesia Fortnight from 2 Player Productions:

Yeah these are fantastic. High recommended. Production quality is high enough they could air them on TV too.
> Can a gay person be a homophobe?

I'm not sure if you're asking this question in seriousness, but... yes, gay people can be homophobic. A significant proportion of the population is gay, and every one is unique.

http://gayhomophobe.com/ focuses on anti-gay campaigners who have been caught in gay sex scandals. George Rekers is possibly the most familiar - dedicating his life to anti-gay campaigning while travelling with a personal rent boy.

The simplest polite thing to say about Brian Sewell (who you quote) is that he doesn't represent the wider gay community.
When you're arguing for inclusion, you should avoid pejorative terms like 'hayseed'.
Please forgive my accidental downvote. I intended an upvote.
If you're accusing him of "not liking" bigots, you're probably correct.

Why, specifically, is it okay for Eich to fund the oppression of homosexuals and not okay for people to say that they find that upsetting and therefore would prefer not to use or serve products he's associated with? What level would his bigotry have to ascend to before people were no longer obligated to use these products or, at least, not tell anyone they're not using them and why?
I have just tried this with new email and linkedin account with the intention to see my own linkedin mail. At least it does not work with the last firefox and linux mint here
You have a history of general reprehensibility on this site, so I probably shouldn't bother to give you the attention you crave. Because we all know that your beef isn't with them doing this, but with people not tolerating hatred of gays. And women, but, you know, one at a time.

That said, I want to stand up for a couple of my friends who work at OKCupid. They're excellent people and I don't believe the culture at OKC would be okay with using this as a vector for advertising. I'm confident they believe what they're saying and I wish more companies would take a stand against the bigots you like.
> "Every company is lead by scumbags, your only choice is which scumbag's product you buy."

Again, that's a really big claim that you can't possibly back up. I don't subscribe to the cynical and defeatist attitude either. I'll do the best I can to make the world a better and more fair place.
Ok I see that it is quite unrealistic to go community-wide with a Javascript boycott (and I was talking about developers, not users). It's just that singling out Firefox to me seems so arbitrary.

Now the target is Firefox, the last big independent browser, even though it was _Mozilla Corporation_ (not the foundation) that made the wrong choice. Mozilla Corporation is IMO the place were pressure should be applied.

I realize now that this is probably what annoyed me most about how this affair developed. I am quite attached to Firefox and was rather surprised that it became a target in a scandal that revolves around a stupid move by Mozilla Corporation.
User account.
The article assumed that the reader already knew what he was talking about and the people involved. It takes 11 paragraphs before he tells you what GAME_JAM is. Then the article names people like Zoe and Robin, gives their perspective, and describes them doing things long before we meet Zoe or learn what her role was in GAME_JAM.
In regards to directives.restrict, why even include the class or comment options? I'm not sure I've ever seen them used out in the wild.
They say over and over in The Sopranos that Tony Soprano is a mobster. That doesn't make it so in reality - that's just the fiction presented to us for our entertainment. To maintain the fiction, the show doesn't wildly contradict it.

Reality TV is the same - except the fiction is the competition isn't rigged and its primary goal is to find the best candidate. The show doesn't wildly contradict it, it's just not true.
> And in Finland, they redistribute the North Sea oil money back into the economy

Finland doesn't border the North Sea, nor does it produce a drop of oil from anywhere else. I'm not quite sure which country you were thinking of there -- Norway quite explicitly doesn't pump the oil money into the local economy but runs a giant fund that invests the proceeds elsewhere, to be used once the oil runs out.

It's also completely absurd to claim that Germany and Finland are somehow optimizing for per-capita income (wtf?), or that profit is the last priority, or that jobs are plentiful, or that one can't even get fired, etc. You appear to have built up some idealized version of Europe that has little to do with reality.
>Opposing gay marriage is a sign of bigotry and hate, by that fact alone.

No, it is not. One can actually have empathy with gays and believe that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.

I don't agree with those beliefs, but I'm speaking from experience that there are many people who believe that marriage has a very religious connotation.

Can you please cite a single interaction in which Brendan has looked down upon someone personally due to their sexual identity?
- Rate limit API requests (flag / suspend if there are too many request for money requests from the same user)
- Don't disclose which email addresses is registered/not registered with coinbase (right now they even go a bit further and actually disclose first and last names in the response).
Never understood this "face of company" stuff Americans are so obsessed with... if he wouldn't have took that job, but kept working on a similarly influential position as he did up till date, no one would be making these "boycott Mozilla" self-advertisements, just as they didn't do anything alike before, right?
Does all this mean that people care more about someone's three titular letters instead of his behaviour and actions in his position?
I still don't know why people find these "low" prices exciting. A most minimum spec VM in cloud still costs $380 per year. Considering these providers have advantage of scale plus load balancing ability, the cost should be 1/10th of this. I was looking for new host for my site and after I looked at Azure/AWS, I was floored how expensive these things are. Cloud prices had been riding in clouds for quite sometime. It has now came down but it's still way up there. The low margin claims by cloud providers is pure bullshit. The fact is that all of these people could have lowered their prices for quite sometime but they just chugged along until there was competitive pressure. Eventually, someone will become monopolist in this area and they would have free ride and all of these guys are in game to become that monopoly.