skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be like blacks not using Windows because the CEO of Microsoft said that blacks should not be allowed to get married.

I believe users can boycott a product and start a movement and have a huge effect in today's world. It's happened before and I think it's possible it can happen again.

I think most people realize that it was socially acceptable for people to hold certain beliefs in another era and would not fault them for holding those beliefs.

If the car was invented by a homophobe, it's not like people would ditch it, given that cars are essential to many people and also given the time period the inventor lived in. But is Mozilla or javascript essential? Maybe. You could certainly be correct that it won't happen. But I can see it being replaced. I can see a group of people choosing alternatives.
It doesn't sound so reasonable if you are Iraqi, particularly if like most Iraqis you already regarded the presence of the Americans as a colonialist occupation.
When a community is involved, it's not that simple. A slightly better Hacker News, released tomorrow, would not succeed. People wouldn't migrate. Seems to me that unless some catastrophe befalls HN, such as blatant mod abuse or chronic technical outages, nothing will replace it. At least for a while.
"Websites don't actually accept USD, for example: they accept Visa"

This has to be a joke. Are you going to ignore the part where I you can't send USD over the wire? Websites would definitely accept USD, if they could.
This book looks like it will be the definitive guide to designing for iOS.
Considering that companies openly pay to run PSYOP on televisions and in your browser every day, I would say it's not illegal
Really, denied them their human rights?

I think you might be overblowing the horn just slightly there.

Sigh.

Nobody is being oppressed.

In most progressive countries, civil unions are available, which confer exactly the same benefits and rights as a traditional marriage.

In fact, in many countries, you don't even need to do that - simply having a de-facto relationship will be enough.

So basically, it's about a word - in this case "marriage", which has traditionally been between a man and a woman, they want to redefine it to include any two humans.

I'm not saying that tradition is "right" just because we've done it that way for thousands of years - maybe it's "right" that words should change over time.

However, to try to claim the moral high ground by making disingenuous comparisons to Apartheid is pretty disgusting for all those that actually suffered through Apartheid.

What next? Comparisons to the pogrums?
There's another bug when you can substitute coinbase's iframe with your own, when you use coinbase button. This iframe can ask for username / password, and there's no way for user to distinguish fake iframe from real. They also not into replying emails on their whitehat@ address.
I gave up on that long ago because few sites actually allow the foo+bar@email.com syntax. + seems to be disallowed by most regex filters.
Perhaps you're an apologist for bigots.

I know him. You're wrong. He's an unrepentant homophobic bigot.
> The Rise of Hacker News Is Bad News for the Tech World

> 504 Gateway Time-out

Agreed, its appetite for destroying small web servers is unquenchable.
Your statement is useless, which is why it has been downvoted. It misses the essence of what currency is.

Volatility makes bitcoin a poor store of value: you should not leave assets in bitcoin that you cannot afford to lose, because those assets may vary in actual value (meaning, might vary in what someone else is willing to pay for it) substantially over time: $10,000 of bitcoin today might be $5,000 tomorrow.

Volatility makes bitcoin a poor medium of exchange: if I wish to sell something with bitcoin, I take on large risk that the value of my transaction might change. The t-shirt I sold for $10 today might yield me only $2 tomorrow.

So, it is accurate to say that there is no intrinsic value to a bitcoin--but this statement is meaningless. $10 is also not an intrinsic value--currency is only relevant as a unit of account or a medium of exchange. Things only have value relative to each other. We use currency to assign a numeric value to each object.
I think you are likely correct on the cost. I would honestly like to know what the most cost effective way is to save a life. My guess would be vaccines in 3rd world.

There is something that still bothers me about laws like these. A very vocal minority drives the cost up for everyone, while the effectiveness of the law is questionable. It is of course a tragedy when a young person is killed in an accident but is this really a good use of the government and law? People need to be careful when they are operating a car. Also who is going to argue against saving a toddlers life? That is probably a poor political move. This just seems like another sign of how weak willed our political system is at standing up for what is in the interest of the general public and not a vocal minority.
On the other hand Azure has some awesome features not available in AWS. For example you can upgrade an Azure instance to a bigger size with zero downtime.
I stand corrected, it's Norway that has the North Sea oil money, not Finland.

But Germany does have the policy I mentioned, that inject money directly into employees' pockets during downturns rather than firing them, it's called Kurzarbeit:

http://www.aei.org/article/economics/fiscal-policy/us-should...
I'm sorry that you feel I'm being an apologist for bigots, but I have no evidence to suggest that Eich is himself a homophobe. We all know about the donation, obviously, but that in and of itself is not evidence of his "anti-gay" stance.

If your anecdote is true and he actually is homophobic, I'll be even more hurt. But I still believe that there's really no reason for Brendan, being the most qualified, to step down when he seems comitted to equality going forward. Regardless, what OkCupid is doing is unfair (especially considering factual inaccuracies in their message) to both Mozilla Co. and Mozilla Fnd. in addition to all of the contributors.
This is a strange case for bitcoin, competing with credit cards. Most consumers would be better off paying with a card: same cost (none), more protections (the ability to dispute bad merchants over defective goods).

It's not a bad idea for Square to add it, since some people have bitcoins obtained through speculation, mining, cheap money transfers, and so forth. But even so, they would be a little better served paying by card, due to the extra consumer protections they'd enjoy.

Where bitcoin makes more sense to me is in replacing cash. But that mostly makes sense to me in the real world where you can inspect goods and whatnot in advance of cash payments. (There's maybe some potential for it online in the form of micropayments, where trust and protections don't matter so much.)

But for online sellers that already accept cards, I have yet to hear why bitcoin reflects a better choice than cards for the consumer. Anonymity maybe? For the average consumer, not worth the tradeoff in lack of ripoff protection.

Sellers would be better off, sure, but don't forget it's a two-sided market and consumers are heavily incentivized to use cards. Most of those "high fees" are funneled back to the consumer's pocket in the form of benefits and rewards. It's a form of lock-in to the CC system.
As fun as implementing Caffeinator might have been, this makes me wonder if the simpler solution of buying a nice coffee machine could had solved the issue in a much simpler way (and cheaper... developer time is expensive, and more so on weekends! :)
If you can edit the post it would helpful if you included something to let people know what the project is. Something like:

Opencall: open source call tracking software

Self-host your call tracking solution – own your data, cut
your costs and track calls in any country.
>> Retreating to dictionary definitions does not make a point

Well, yea, actually, it made it quite clearly, hence my post.

>> nor does asserting that prejudice by an oppressive class against an oppressed class is the same as the converse.

Oppression is oppression, elegance and articulation do not change that. Your attempt to say that my belief and understanding of the meaning if a single word describing a single legal institution is oppression underestimates what I was stating originally; that we who believe and understand the meaning of the word marriage are being oppressed by a very vocal, sometimes very vocally belligerent and socially irreverent group in context minimally and notwithstanding.
Slashdot effect all over again
They may not even have permission to air what they already have; some of the developers hadn't even signed the contract yet.
I feel like there should be a "website is down" button. That would indeed improve HN. Thanks for the practical help!
Explain that to the many religious people who used their religion to justify racism and misogony, as they now use their religion to justify homophobia. You can cherry pick and whitewash your religion however you choose, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a powerful weapon for racists and misogynists and bigots, and they use it against people they hate.

Of course maybe I'm misinterpreting you. If by "it is not the truth," you mean the religions that people use to justify their hate are not the truth, then I agree with you.
Are people suggesting that holding a personal opinion that is contrary to another person's opinion disqualifies that person from having a job?

I haven't seen any suggestions that he has attempted to discriminate, or implement discriminatory policies, against any individuals at Mozilla or otherwise.

I voted for Amendment 64 in Colorado to legalize canabis. Should that disqualify me from working because maybe means I get high too much (though I don't use)?

The argument against him is that he's discriminating, but now we have a case where OkCupid is literally and actively discriminating against users based on their choice of browser. Other people have actively threatened him. Those actions are, from my perspective, completely hypocritical: "We don't like people that discriminate, so we're going to discriminate against people that we don't agree with."
I just wish more industries had an HN.
He's just upset there was no reward given to him and is blowing this thing out of proportion.
If you must... use submodules.
That's bad, do it better
irony is fun, not necessarily constructive

Link to cached article:
http://bit.ly/O9W3qd
The Rise of Hacker News Is Bad News for the Tech World authors website then proceeds to crumble because of traffic HN brings to said article. The irony is too much to bear. Is this an April Fools joke or is the article serious?

This is equivalent of saying, "The rise of organic farming is bad for non-organic farmers" or "The rise of solar panels is bad for the petroleum industry" or "Reddit is bad for Chrome and Firefox because it competes with bookmarks" it's all highly subjective and biased — it's hard to take articles that essentially say X is bad because of Y or I hate X because of Y seriously, especially when they don't even make a valid argument or back up their claims with an ounce of credible and non-biased evidence.

If it weren't for Hacker News I honestly wouldn't know what is going on half the time. You can't get the type of news and useful resources you come across on a daily basis on HN anywhere else in my opinion. /r/programming on Reddit might come close, but HN to me is always the penultimate resource for tech news relating to not only programming but investment, startups and other industries I wouldn't generally go searching for like biotech, medical research and other various areas of tech you would normally have to read several sites on to get.

Plus, you can't deny Show HN is also a great way for people to showcase cool things they've made as well. I've come across some great projects and resources in the years I've been using the site via Show HN alone.
The author does spend a LOT of effort writing stuff (and showing a silly gif) to basically say "requests aren't rate limited, can disclose existence of user and full name if email is known".

Coinbase responded to him on the 25th[1]:

"We've spent some time considering the implications of this behavior and have built this intentionally. The benefits to obscuring this information is minimal and, in our opinion, not worth the additional friction alternative flows would introduce"

Anyone can signup on Coinbase, right? So even if they did add some rate limiting, unless it was severe (or required a verified account), attackers would just sign up for more accounts.

1: http://shubh.am/bugs/coinbase.htm

Edit: I also like this part of their response: "Furthermore, it's not necessary to use "Burp Suite Intruder" in the manner demonstrated here. The functionality is exposed more directly in an intentional fashion over our API"

https://hackerone.com/reports/5200
In the press "declined to comment" doesn't mean that the person responded "no comment", as far as I can tell. It means the person did not respond.

I've seen a few cases of press folks sending an email with a question and then going to press an hour later claiming that the addressee of the email (who happened to be 12 timezones away and asleep, as it happened) "declined to comment".
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You're right about revenue being a very important metric, and I think optimizing for conversions has its place too. I would be interested to hear the results of your repurposing!
Advertisers and headhunters like to use it.
I was surprised he called out jl. I thought she was being conscious about the fact that she's "thin-skinned" and going to avoid areas that might be sensitive & OP turned it into a "she might get vengeful one day" negative.

OP needs to give HN some credit. Building a good site is harder. Building a good community is harder. Until TechStars or someone comparable comes up with an alternative, complaining that one company decided to fill a niche that wasn't being filled seems really lame (it's not like HN is proactively squashing any other startup sites). People are here because it's the best tech news resource around.
A comfortable, well-fitting pair of pants. Pants are the foundation of any outfit. I'm personally searching for the perfect pair, because I only want to own one pair.
Well, personally, I'm still paid in dollars. And dollars can already be used in all of these places.
I just reacted to this:
https://medium.com/dotconferences-posts/5f43d452bd89
Welcome to the club of being even more hurt.

A lot of people disagree with you, because they believe financially supporting Proposition 8 is prima facia evidence of homophobia, just as donating money to the KKK is evidence of racism.

But you're performing logical backflips, and parroting implausible straw man arguments usually proffered by dyed in the wool homophobes to justify their hatred, without actually having any knowledge of Brendan's beliefs, in an attempt to counter arguments and testimonial from people who DO know him and HAVE been negatively affected by his beliefs.

That's why it's my belief that you're being an apologist for bigots. Your "maybe he's against all marriages" argument has been shot down -- don't try it again.
Typically via holding alt and pressing short cut keys. That is the old way to do it. Unity introduced a new way to do it where you use the alt key and a text box comes up which allows you to search the options by keyword. It could be done better in Unity, but I still like it better than searching though the hierarchy that mostly never made sense to me.

The real answer is that things like Vim and Emacs long ago came up with interfaces that don't require toolbars/menubars. They were added a long time ago, but I am amongst the people that turn them off and don't use them even though they are available. For many of us, mousing is less efficient than well tuned muscle memory.
The advocates of basic income are almost right on this issue.

If it were the case that we have a large surplus of labor, and there was not enough work for people to do, then it would make a lot of sense to have a basic income, which would be the most efficient way to deal with technological unemployment.

However, right now, we really don't have a surplus of labor. If we did, then the average standard of living would be really high. In order to raise the standard of living of people around the world, people need to produce things, which requires work.

That fact that we cannot provide a high enough average standard of living even when the incentive to work is very high, proves that drastically lowering the incentive to work would not provide a sufficient standard of living.
I had not heard of Strip Search - thank you for posting the link, girlfriend and I enjoyed the first 6 episodes this evening and definitely plan on finishing it up.
Any market that is worth entering will have competitors. Look at what you are doing as a strategy not a last-ditch effort. Open source is a very valid way to build a business in a market with entrenched proprietary competitors, and it's exactly what my company is doing right now. I wish you luck, and go sell some software!
It's the urge-to-punish that I find objectionable, applied with increasing levels of indirection, and in spheres of life that should be consciously firewalled from religion/politics.

Mozilla is clearly a very inclusive project and a pro-LGBT workplace, which also does a ton of good on other issues. So what's "kind/respectful" about boycotting all of Mozilla, because of a one-time outside-the-workplace political donation by one manager?

The boycott tactic says: "bend to our preferences or we'll shun/nullify/punish you totally, not just in the zone of disagreement". That's the same kind of zero-tolerance orthodoxy-enforcement that drives censorship or war-making. Look at the "enemies" language OKCupid uses!

I prefer instead the logic of coexistence, and cooperation on common interests, even during the deepest of disagreements. That's important, because in our reasonably-wealthy, mostly-free society, every remaining political disagreement involves difficult issues of identity, rights, and morals.

I'm hypertolerant. I buy from, and do work for, and consume the rhetorical/cultural output of, people I vigorously disagree with all the time.

But also, I don't really buy anything "from a CEO". I don't even know the names (much less the religions or political sympathies) of most CEOs heading firms that supply my daily needs. This goes equally for local businesses: at a restaurant operated by a Catholic family, my 1st question will be, "what are the specials?", not, "have you publicly renounced the Pope's regressive stances on social issues?"

Many communities have already evolved to the point where gay rights are a given. In those places it's time to be gracious winners! As easy and fun as it may be to dig up the corpse of Proposition 8, and shoot it in the head again and again, there are plenty of live battles on similar issues elsewhere.

I'd prefer California (and our industry) be a positive example of how, after gay marriage is recognized and normalized to become "no big deal", everyone can still get along. Not an example of how retributive anger, and the appetite for economically-punishing losing dissenters, never ends.
That may be, but the docs are quite nice; people who can write better code might still gain from considering how they can make their documentation this instructive.
> are being oppressed

Are you being beaten to death for your sexual orientation? Are you having your fostered children of many years removed from your family? Are you being denied the right to be with your spouse in the hospital or on their deathbed?

You are in no sense "being oppressed". This is the way in which your "oppression" is not oppression, and one of many reasons why retreating to dictionary definitions of words is a cowardly, useless way to argue.
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I think lobste.rs has the right approach in at least being more transparent about moderation: https://lobste.rs/moderations
I'm saying that we can choose to define a word any way we want, but we shouldn't use non-standard definitions if our goal is to be understood. And, more importantly, arguing over "true meanings" of words when pretending to debate value judgements is one of the most common and ridiculous pitfalls that people fall into.

That article on lesswrong seems to agree with my point. "Intellectual property" is a specific term that has a specific and well-accepted definition, both as a legal definition and in common everyday usage.

> Words do have true meanings, you know: it's whatever comes to our minds when we read or hear them.

I completely disagree. Words are meant for communication. I say a word, and you hear it. My goal is for the idea in my head to map to the same idea in your head. That's why I should be aware of my audience, and shouldn't use words in non-standard ways. If you go around using the term "intellectual property" and you don't mean patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc., then you should expect to be misunderstood. And if you base your argument against IP protection laws on what you claim to be the "true definition" of "property," you're not actually arguing the relevant value judgement. You're just making a semantic argument.

> Replace "intellectual property" by "intellectual monopoly". Do you feel the difference?

Of course I feel the difference. One is an extremely common term that is fairly well-defined in legal and other circles, while the other is an ad hoc description of a similar or identical concept. And both would include patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc. What's your point?

> I agree the term "intellectual property" is well accepted. But it is not well understood.

The definition of the term is well understood. Perhaps the economic consequences of the idea itself are not well understood or widely agreed upon, but the definition is. That's why I advocate for debating the value judgement of the concept, rather than the definition of the term.

And, to be clear, though it's not particularly relevant to whether semantic arguments are worthwhile, I do oppose all forms of government-enforced intellectual property protection.
Yes, but Eichs has never said he hates gays - if you can find a single case or interaction where he has, please share it with the community.

(Or possibly don't - I personally think this entire stupid affair is being blown our of proportion. What the guy does in his own time is his own damn business. If and only if he somehow lets it bleed into his work, sure, you can do your whole outrage, let's boycott Firefox dance).

Look, the guy has a traditional view of marriage - the same view the human race had for thousands of years. Sure, some people want to redefine that, and they're well within rights to do that - nothing wrong with that.

However, this silly overbearing PC nonsense is getting old - we already get this faux outrage from the Moral Police every time the gender issue crops up.

Look, I get we want girls in tech - diversity helps, and it sucks they're not encouraged more to go into it.

Personally, I think this whole marriage thing is overblown. E.g.:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10729717/Brian-Sewe...
The "full, technical" report doesn't offer any new information. It just shows how to get the firstname and lastname.

The PoC does not at all demonstrate how the alleged bug could be used by phishers to their advantage.. it doesn't even show usage of the firstname or lastname! That makes it incoherent.