skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This outcome makes me sad. Although I support legally recognized gay marriage with all the accompanying benefits such as hospital visitation rights and next-of-kin status (arguably these are the two real benefits), I most emphatically do not support the political correctness attacks on Mozilla's co-founder.

Mozilla and the open source community have been gravely hurt by this move. The witch hunt to oust Eich from Mozilla was not just unfair, it was a travesty. He co-founded Mozilla and created some of the key technologies in Mozilla products.

I am much less inclined to support Mozilla monetarily or in any other capacity from this point on. Call me a hypocrite, call me whatever you like, but I feel that strongly. This guy should not have been treated this way.

What's more, I suspect that were he a white female or a black person or an Asian instead of a white male, the voices of hate would have been more muted. It's much harder to criticize a person "of color" or a female in this politically correct era, out of fear of being called out as a hypocrite. Which I believe them to be, anyway.

This has done nothing to improve the lot of gay Americans; in fact, it is a sorry blot on the history of gay rights and decent people of whatever sexual orientation will ultimately distance themselves from it. Mob rule is nothing to be proud of.
For every people who says that "the CEO is the face of an organisation": can you name all the former Mozilla CEO's? Or any CEO who wasn't Jobs or Ballmer?

Honestly, I am curious.
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bs article. agree with all the comments. imo, i'd rather know that an applicant knows twitter bootstrap than not. although not exactly similar...it's like saying you know how to use jquery. sure you didn't write jquery, but you can utilize it's libraries. bootstrap is like that for css and some js. why not put it in?
Toggl vs Harvest vs Everhour
A little ruby script to fetch information about movies in a directory
there also have been subreddits banned without violation of laws(/r/pcmasterrace), or still stays while its clearly a voting ring because some of admins decided to support them(/r/shitredditsays)

Dont get me wrong I like reddit, but free speech and rule enforcement? no, the site is a mess.
Title is a bit misleading, this is a list of development tools and libraries with a focus on Javascript. There are quite a few non-js tools in there.
In the world where you live, where CEOs never tell lies, what colour is the sky?
Larry Ellison, Eric Schmidt.Carly Fiorina. Meg Whitman.
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Your adwords rep will hide the complexities if you like - be prepared to bleed money all over the place though - in many simple, complex and esoteric ways.

Most of those "no price listed" tools run somewhere between 5-15% of ad spend. Many times with high minimums. I see no reason to choose one from scratch.

Either learn adwords (really learn it, practice, test, do it right) or hire someone who knows what they're doing (and beware of all those who think they do but don't...)

Google is super optimized to get into your wallet so either play ball or stay the hell out of the path of the greatest money machine ever created as it rakes in cash all the way til it can't monopolize more.
I'm curious why you think the East German and US situations during the Cold War were all so different from the perspective of what the comparison was talking about.
Barack Obama's full quote:

"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them."

Candidate Obama opposed prop 8 in 2008 and strongly supported civil unions.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1598407/did-barack-obama-an...
>All he had to do was lie and say "I understand how my activities can be seen as divisive and wrong and inconsistent with my commitment to upholding the diverse values underpinning the Mozilla community and I apologize for my behaviour at the time. I will do everything in my power to make up for it and I hope the community can judge me based me on my record from this point onwards".

I think liberals have a hard time understanding that "bad people" people truly believe the things they say and do. If someone feels that their beliefs are justified they generally don't care if it upsets people. It seems like all you wanted from his guy was an insincere apology...or worse rhetorical nonsensical featuring all the right pleasant-sounding keywords.

Frankly, I prefer it when bigots speak freely and openly-- that way the rest of us can understand what we're up against.
Are less and less people buying iPhones, or more and more people buying phones? (Not a rhetorical question, I don't know whose numbers to trust for mobile stuff.)

Apple's business is not one that has to own a market to make gobsmacking amounts of money. As such I doubt they see being outsold by Chromebooks as being a serious problem; they've been being outsold in the laptop market forever and are still making yachtloads of cash.
He was CEO for two weeks. If Mozila would have statements, interviews, and a PR plan prepared, they would have to be done before he became CEO.
I'll check it out. It's nice to have another option. Drop a link on Hubski. Most of us there use imgur. (I run Hubski)
Haha, went out and these comments got downvoted to pluto. Honestly though, I haven't heard a decent argument in response other than "lazy is good". Sure, but architecturally, you're basically in the "engineers run the architecture" or "its an architecture of convenience for business purposes" camp. I'm in the former, I'd like to hope that some nontrivial subset of the participants here are in the former, but most are no doubt in the latter. People get upset when you slight their world. That's understandable. The TLDR is: even if people made a lot of stuff happen 20 years ago; it doesn't justify using the same methods today, and discussing the tradeoffs is constructive not dismissive.
What about the 18,000 couples he funded a campaign against? He just gets a pass for working to dissolve their families?
Indeed, Brendan has actually gone to extreme lengths to not use his right to freedom of speech. Just look at all this "I prefer not to talk about my beliefs"[1][2]. With the CNET piece, the reporter was very kind, open and professional with him. He handed Eich the forum to come out with his views on a silver plate lined with silk. But Brendan chose not to use it, instead going for the "my private opinions as CEO are irrelevant". Well clearly, they aren't.

It's not about freedom of speech, but actually holding you accountable for what you say, which is a great thing.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-ceo-gay-marriage-firestorm-...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/01/mozilla-ce...
Being able to have everyone install it on every computer, without any thought of licensing definitely gets it in the door for some people.

The interactive nature of it is handy compared to SAS even when that is also available. I've known people to use R first, make a plan, then go back to programming a SAS on the massive data sets that R might not handle as well.
Yes. You should have seen my mother when she figured out that Liberace was gay. As if Liberace wasn't the gayest person ever.
Our users call it a hotfix so that's what we're calling it. Often the fix is something they do on the server side while they disable the frontend. Does that make sense? It's not meant to be misleading but succinct headlines are hard to write.
No, if the Mozilla staff can't grow a pair and stand by one of his employees then I don't want to have any relationship with them.
People with socially-conservative views are one thing. People who've donated significant cash sums to remove rights from a small percentage of the population for no practical reason is not a 'socially-conservative view', it's a discriminatory action.
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Interesting. When I read your first comment, I didn't realize you meant "bypass kernel" in as wide a scope as you describe here. Usurping CPU scheduling, in particular, was something I didn't think was common practice. Can you name a (presumably commercial) DBMS that represents this kind of "self-manage everything" architecture?
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Just the whole cult of personality, near-godhood thing.
Because viewpoints are not opaque little packages whose contents do not matter.

Nor are they isolated from historical context.
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I've had insomnia my whole life (I don't say 'suffer', because sometimes I enjoy it, though pay the price the next day).

I don't recommend melatonin, unless you've messed up your body clock and are trying to 'reset' when you go to sleep.

ZMA is just Zing/Magnesium/B6 (I don't know why it isn't called ZMB, maybe that's too similar to zombie?). I haven't taken ZMA specifically, but I have taken all of those supplements together at the same time bumping up the levels of a multi. I wouldn't say I noticed a huge difference in sleep performance.
Absolutely agree. The compelling reason can be business requirements as previously noted, eg. scalability, security, law. Unfortunately if you're doing something global and non-trivial that's the rule rather than the exception, in my experience.
You're still stretching the point.

If you have an issue with the term marriage, then you're coming at it from a religious perspective. There's separation of church and state, it's a constitutional thing.

If you want to redefine something as a Civil Union, then you help create and vote for that specific legislation. There was/is no logical or rational reason to vote for Prop 8.
That was the idea behind SociaLocale https://github.com/csmatt/socialocale
No problem ... it happens.
To pick a glaring example, what about American slavery? Do you think there was an unbroken line of racist slavers from the dawn of time right through to Eli Whitney's cotton gin? The fact is, slavery was made much worse because of the economic situation after the invention of the cotton gin.
Maybe, yes and no, respectively.
I mean, unless we're talking about Roy Cohn. ZING

Seriously, I'm in full-agreement, but I try to get in a good Roy Cohn diss any time I can.
Tens of millions of Americans supported anti-miscegination laws. It certainly made them racists.
No, that's not okay.

I very much disagree with the KKK, but I believe in a society where they have the right to think whatever they want about non-white people, without getting harmed.
Yes! Everyone should have the opportunity to learn in an environment where they feel empowered and understood. How does this project do anything except further the goal?

The GP's comment was not saying that an all-girls camp would be sunshine and unicorns. It was saying that one particular environment made them feel small and disempowered as a girl and that an experience like Girls Who Code would appeal to them for that reason.
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Why do you say that it's a no-brainer?
I'll get downvoted for this one but they have a similar characteristic as well:

they both catch fire!

I had a 2010 MBP go up in flames and an immediate colleague's one screen went phut and melted. Lambos do this too (google images)
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> I find the moral compass of a lot of HN posters rather baffling sometimes.

From what I can tell, pretty much everyone in this topic thinks that opposing gay marriage is immoral and donating money to Prop 8 is a bad thing. The divide is on whether it is OK to oust someone for their beliefs, given a lot of extenuating circumstances. And on HN, there are a large number of people who think yes, and a large number of people who think no.

You know what bothers me? People who try to shut down debate. Those that think not only is the other side wrong, but it's not even up for discussion. There's another poster decrying the lack of ethics in the tech community, which really is another way of saying "don't even talk about this, my opinion is right/ethical/moral, and yours is wrong/unethical/immoral."

Another way of shutting down debate is by making snarky one-liners. Why actually talk about something when you can assert that you are right, and that HN is stupid (presumably excluding the large number of people who agree with you)? What exactly are you adding to the discussion?
Is marriage a civil right, or even a fundamental human right? On closer examination, the answer appears to be NO.

The campaign for gay marriage, branded as marriage equality, actually leaves many people behind.

Brothers can't marry sisters, mothers can't marry sons (nice way to avoid inheritance tax!), men and women can't join in a polygamous marriage even though there is a long history of polygamy in many cultures around the world.

It's quite ironic that the campaign for marriage equality is itself highly discriminatory.
Can I hazard a guess that he is aware of how HFTs make their money, and further point out that one of the reasons he has an unusually specific amount of detail to offer about how electronic trading works is that he is in fact an electronic trading software engineer?

Further, your attempt to poke a hole in his analogy is itself flawed, because you have a poor working notion of the scarcity involved. "There aren't just 10 shares of MSFT in the market" is what you're thinking, while ignoring that there is a finite amount of MSFT offered a price compatible with your investment goal. You can't think of the total amount of MSFT that exists. To reason about the market, you have to have a notion of what you're willing to pay for it. Many people who hold MSFT are unwilling to unload it at anything near the current spot price. This stands to reason, because if they were willing to unload at that price, they wouldn't be long MSFT.
I have a backup file there, so can confirm it does work for that purpose.
This solves the "setting up the codebase" question but doesn't quite solve the "learning your codebase" issue. Especially if we're talking about a codebase with any sort of custom frameworks or heavy modifications of existing frameworks.

If I can't get a "Here's a real problem we have, solve it however you want" thing, then this is the second best answer. You're absolutely right.
Allow me space for an editorial and downvote magnets :P

I'm actually a little concerned by the "phenomenon" of R. I say this as someone whose workplace uses both SAS and R. I'm also familiar with python, and wish we could use it more at work, but it doesn't have the "cult-following/network effect" amongst statisticians that R has.

The "problem" I speak of is that R is very popular for people applying a quick little stats script for a package they've downloaded using a technique they don't understand with output they haven't verified on a tiny problem that won't scale. And 95%+ of users are just doing it by rote, and now they're trying to apply it to problems outside of its domain.

But ACow_Adonis you say, doesn't that just describe everyone with every programming language ever?

Yes. But you see, R seems almost designed (or not designed) as a language of unseen problems. It is several multiples slower than regular python (if you thought that possible), and several HUNDRED times worse than other compiled languages. It has no un-boxed primitive numbers. Let me just say that again. A language for numbers that doesn't have primitive unboxed numbers. It is the poster boy of Wirth's law.

But not only that, i said its basically been designed for "dodgy results". Watch how its attempt at lexical scope combines with lazy evaluation for ridiculous fun. Bizarre, automatic and random conversions behind the scenes. 1-indexing of arrays...but 0-indexing doesn't throw an error. Automatic repetition of values in smaller arrays when combined with arrays of larger size. Internal functions of one letter names in a language with KIND OF one name-space for people dealing with MATH with a long history of using these individual letters for other things!

So combine these "features" of the language with people implementing things by rote, not checking their results, returning results without error messages/warnings...

A SAS marketing person made the comment once of “We have customers who build engines for aircraft. I am happy they are not using freeware when I get on a jet.” and we all piled-on the hate, and rightly so.

But after using R, what scares me more is the thought that professional stats people ARE using it when i get on a jet :(
I work at a big bank in quant research. I can easily say that open source tools are favored here over their more expensive counterparts. Futhermore, over the last few years I've definitely seen a shift away from R and toward Python. NumPy, SciPy, Pandas libraries in Python are all excellent (and way faster) than equivalent options in R.
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OK, well I haven't read the book (only the NYT excerpt so far) but I am highly skeptical that such trades are happening. I will read the book though, and reserve judgement until then.
Julia is a lot of fun, but still has ways to go. R and Python ecosystems are pretty mature in comparison.
What about Matthew Shepard? He wasn't killed for being gay.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/14/matthew-shepard...
You don't "fix" anything, unless by "fix" you mean "turn off broken feature". It's a nice idea, too bad they tout it with such deceptive marketing.
If the CEO says "my views on why some of my employees shouldn't have the same rights as others of my employees" that seems pretty problematic.

If this were a CEO who had been found to be donating to ban blacks and whites marrying it wouldn't even be a discussion.
I did not find this list particularly useful. It is a nice attempt, but the way it categorizes libraries can be deceptive. I do not think anyone would consider bower and npm to be comparable projects, except in the most abstract sense. The same applies with node and express; one may as well conflate ruby with rails.

That said, a lot of the tools are really good. I would, personally, argue that underscore is the most important javascript library in existence. It transcends frontend and backend, server and client. It is data manipulation at its finest. It brings functional programming paradigms to javascript. It is beautiful.

After spewing this mantra, one of my colleagues wrote a blog post about it that presents a nice introduction[1]. I would also highly recommend Michael Fogus's book, Functional Javascript[2], that heavily relies on it.

1. http://singlebrook.com/blog/simplify-your-javascript-with-un...
2. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028857.do
Isn't this more of an Etsy for fine art?
Gay marriage was legal in California until Prop 8, so Prop 8 removed some people's right to marry.
> When your whole company is an activist platform, it's a bit harder to say that political positions of the CEO don't matter.

I see the point that it's different for a non-profit than it might be for a for-profit, but I'd also think differences in primary focus matter too.

If I was looking at the conversation over the last week as a representative, I'd suppose that Mozilla is more of an LGBT standard-bearer than an open-web advocacy group.

One could argue that's a ridiculously narrow window to focus on, and that's probably correct, but it's no more narrow a focus than that turned on Eich's donations vs the whole of his behavior and what he had to offer as CEO.
Because (in the US at least), gay people started more openly coming out in the 1970s, with large increases in the 80s as well. So that's 30-40 years of gays becoming increasingly open.

Not to mention before that, there were people, even in the small town south, that everyone knew was gay but just didn't discuss in open terms.

Now it's true the cultural stereotype for "gay" was the Village People or Liberace or whatever, but a large number of people knew ordinary gay people as well.

Of course, even today, and even in a place as open as San Francisco, I suspect most everyone knows more gay people than they think they do. I know that's true, in fact. A lot of people just never talk about it.
Thanks. We(Plivo) actually tried PA out for the dev-targeting display ad option. (not retargeting). We didn't feel we had the kind of ROI we wanted at that time.

Incidentally, would the reports from Conversion Explorer be more granular than the conversion reports at Adroll? (with Adroll, it's not possible to see the "who" part, but when and where, yes)
Since you think ethics are absolute and unchanging, can you please tell the rest of us what the one true ethical code is?

I'm pretty sure a much more reasonable interpretation is that ethics are subject to cultural norms, and that we should not decide on one true version of ethics and force that upon everyone.
Don't forget Octave ( www.octave.org ), which belongs on any list of open-source analysis suites.
AFAIK, a large chunk of Twisted is already working on Python 3. I don't know how long they have left to get 100% of it, but it's made substantial progress.
> * It means you don't believe that the government should recognize same sex marriages as marriages.*

Perhaps his situation would have been better had he explained his views that way. But, like the people who think a functioning laissez faire market in medical care would spring forth if only the government would get out of the way, such views are unrealistic.

Unfortunately, his actions are indistinguishable from those of a bigot. As for growing up in a different environment, there is a vast amount of racism in some homogeneous societies. And there is no reason to give it any leeway.
That would be awesome. I see things like this every few months and it is a bummer when there is nobody to test it with.
It doesn't poison the well as it stands, because someone could still take the OSS software, add a pretty layer with the business continuity guarantees and a bunch of salespeople, and charge $500/mo, and businesses would go with that one rather than that looks/acts like tarsnap. And that would be a rage inducing tragedy. To avoid that, I really hope Colin takes some/all of this advice.
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Your reasoning here is very similar to the rationale for oppressing Communist sympathizers during the Red Scare. They were opposed to the democratic principles of America and we ostracized them for it, and I'd thought the lesson we took from it was that we were very much in the wrong. I fully support gay rights, but I have trouble embracing what feels like a new form of McCarthyism (just s/Communist/homophobe/).
So now that he has resigned as CEO, assuming he takes or maintains a high level position with Mozilla, will the firestorm die down?
Briefly: that's a great way to get a backup which is not actually an accurate and consistent representation of your database, unless everything about both your setup and the exact state of MySQL's memory and your write usage over the interval of your backup operation breaks in your favor. For more detail, see the part about "Copying Table Files" in the backup chapter of the manual.
If diversity does not include people with opposing political viewpoints, it's not diversity.
Do you have any resources that talk about how to optimize for conversions?
Right. I think I remember Digital Apollo quoting an engineer who estimated, based on their extensive ground testing, that the AGC had a MTBF of about 50,000 hours. That's not particularly good, but considering all the Apollo missions spent only about 1000 hours in space total, it was apparently good enough.
The previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525198
Important. Also, Oracle has bought/absorbed free software and slowly suffocated it (lookin at you, MySQL).
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