skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marriage equality is law in California. So yes, we should be tolerant of those that opposed it and lost. That battle is over here. And there's absolutely no indication that Eich evidenced anti-gay bias at Mozilla, in policy or attitude. (I am not one to stand on it, but there is a difference between being opposed to same-sex marriage as a single issue and being anti-gay.) By all accounts, he has gracefully accepted the result and moved forward. What benefit is there to be had by asking more of him?

The only way forward is reconciliation.
If he becomes the new CEO of the Javascript Corporation, possibly. There weren't boycott calls when Eich was CTO of Mozilla.
Install Node.js on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)
wget http://node-arm.herokuapp.com/node_latest_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i node_latest_armhf.deb

Git repo
https://github.com/nathanjohnson320/node_arm
very insightful post, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I think I'll give meditation a go
From http://roslyn.codeplex.com/ :

git clone https://git01.codeplex.com/roslyn

Do you mean on github?
> Q. Can asm.js serve as a VM for managed languages, like the JVM or CLR?
A. Right now, asm.js has no direct access to garbage-collected data; an asm.js program can only interact indirectly with external data via numeric handles. In future versions we intend to introduce garbage collection and structured data based on the ES6 structured binary data API, which will make asm.js an even better target for managed languages. [1]

[1] http://asmjs.org/faq.html
I'm sure he was, and that's an ok (but not perfect) argument for when he was appointed CTO, and that's probably at least partly why the similar reaction then didn't gain anywhere near the same traction.

But as CEO you are a representative of much more than your technical contributions. You are the face of the company.
Don't you see? If anyone decides to say an unpopular opinion that offends the left, their lives and careers would probably be ruined. Doesn't that stifle conversation? How is that a good thing?
As I mentioned in another comment without serious protections against it your exchange is going to bias very strongly towards many many single quantity orders (they can't be filled partially after all) and stacked orders around your last trade price.

You also are going to lose lots of large volume orders because most large order investors are less sensitive about price than they are about fill certainty.

That said the more I think about it, the more I think algo shops would love your exchange because price discovery would be so hard. When price discovery is hard there are more opportunities for the "smart" money.
Maybe we as geeks would be even better served if Colin was taking the money he's currently leaving on the table from business that aren't us geeks directly, but we have technical input in? Because currently he's missing out on those customers, and I know for a fact (I tried) that where I work would use tarsnap if Colin implemented what was shown here, they'd give him $500 a month, and us geeks continue using it with pico dollars (that doesn't go away!) and Colin gets more money and time to improve the service.

Seems good to me.
I am not happy with it at all.

You know what he could do with the millions Tarsnap could make him? DONATE IT TO FREEBSD. How about that being Geek2Geek? How much more better off would the world be if Colin donated $500,000.00 of his surplus income from the business to the FreeBSD foundation? Or the Python foundation? Or THE FSF?

It's infuriating how blind many intelligent people are to how much better the world would be if they allowed more money. I don't care if that ends up being them buying a new house or donating it or building another amazing business or having the money to live while they write more amazing open source software.

What if by making more money Colin is able to start another business that does unknown and amazing things for cryptography! The possibilities are endless and makes me SO ANGRY that people with such amazing knowledge and skill that is so much more than mine are SQUANDERING IT BY THINKING THEY ARE DOING THE WORLD JUSTICE BY NOT CHARGING MORE MONEY!
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I dont see the distinction you make between slavery and wage slavery. Why is it so clear to you that the first one was detrimental to the economy , and the second one isnt?

People flipping burguers could be doing something a lot more producting than flipping burguers as well.

Also in terms of poorer economy, I think we dont see eye to eye on the definition of it, because if you consider the loss of wage slavery work as a poorer economy, you should also see that for old fashioned slavery.
The colliseums closed after there were no slave-gladiators, so abolishing slaves did contribute to a poorer economy.

Continuing on that, this is why I found that phrase upsetting: "A great deal of the 'wage slave' jobs are also where a lot of the basic value of the economy is coming from"

If we admit to ourselves collectively that our economy functions thanks to people that have little or no options, there is a very small difference than running a place with slaves.

In the form of a question, if you had a cotton farm that could only work because you had slaves you could work to death, and slaves are taken away from you and you go broke, what is your feeling about that business?

And if you have a burguer joint and it only works because you have people that are very cheap to hire to cook the burguers and clean the place up, and once they want higher salaries you would go broke, what is your feeling about that business?
A homosexual male could not marry a man and also a heterosexual male could not marry a man. They are both equally treated under the law. What you want is to codify attraction into the law. Government should get the hell out of marriage and instead only deal in civil unions. Individuals can decide if they are married or not.
AFAIK, Eich donated $1000 to an organization that put the following amendment into the CA constitution:

"Sec. 7.5. Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

That's not "denying a freedom", that's defining a population who will receive certain benefits. It's a normal part of democracy. Just like when a government body defines "poverty line" to mean $XXX income, for the purposes of excluding the (very real, legal and financial) benefit from some of the population, we don't call it denying "rich people's freedom" to food stamps.

Now, whether we should distribute food stamps or whether there should be benefits for married couples is another argument, but merely expressing an opinion on the definition is certainly not the same as denying someone an essential liberty.
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I think we're up to 59% pro as of now, with broad demographic trends pointing toward further shrinkage of the anti-group above and beyond the natural attrition that comes from it no longer being comfortable to express bigoted views.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_marr...

This is an issue where public opinion is changing quickly, as it often does when oppression becomes recognized as oppression. I'd recommend taking the limit of the function as yr->2020.
Slavery seems a poor example, since the people with the "wrong" opinion were already rich and powerful, and the people with the "right" one were... well, slaves. A large part of this Eich fiasco has been rejection of giving power to someone who's already used it to "wrong" ends.

What are you proposing? That we shouldn't object to injustices, on the off chance we're wrong and too many people agree with us?

We can all only do what we think is best. Eich thought he was making the world a better place by trying to block gay marriage. It seems the world disagrees.
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> Regarding planetary contamination, with the amount of meteorites hitting ocean I do not think we have anything to worry about.

The amount of oxygen in the atmosphere helps a lot. The onset of photosynthesis caused a mass extinction ~two billion years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

I love that name. It sounds like some kind of a party.
Brendan Eich resigns as CEO from Mozilla
tldr: LLVM establishes a nonprofit to handle its current & future scale. Currently selecting a board of directors and an overseeing administrator. details to follow.
How exactly did you get that out of an Apache 2 license? http://roslyn.codeplex.com/license
Why not just use Arq + S3/Glacier then? http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/
In the 90's Microsoft could (presuming, perhaps unfairly, that Linus is/was rational) have bought Linux kernel for pocket change.

The community values when money/power is not the only/main driver for people creating technology. And for a good reason, I think. When we ask ourselves "why we can't have nice things", more often than not the answer is that "people in charge" are motivated by making more money, not making better stuff.

Yes, there is some naivete in this mindset. But I think some of that innocence is a good thing. FWIW, I liked patio11 more when he was excitingly writing how he earned $30k on Bingo cards then the new incarnation that is proud of using a shitty ThemeForest template because A/B tests well.
It can be argued that startups require a broad range of skills in a wide array of technologies, and you don't get that with inexperienced people.

In a mid-sized organization you can work on a java webapp - as in your example - and possibly only on a part of that java webapp. In early stages of a startup, you're likely to have to know your way around the webapp's frontend, backend, mobile app/mobile web adaptation, handle SEO, plan for scaling, be a part DBA, handle server administration DevOps style, and do all kinds of internal business process automation unrelated to that product you're building. You'd need to be a jack of all trades at beginning - since there's noone around who's specializing in that other stuff - or spend half of your time becoming a jack of all trades.
> "Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech. And you need free speech to fight for equality.... We have employees with a wide diversity of views. Our culture of openness extends to encouraging staff and community to share their beliefs and opinions in public."

This is kind of a weird emphasis, they're really careful to avoid repudiating his beliefs, even taking the mea culpa as a chance to emphasize the importance of free speech.

That's mostly weird to me because free speech was never at issue.

It's usually used in the first amendment context, a restriction on government action... but that doesn't make any kind of sense here, since the government didn't ever get involved.

More generally, they could be saying they value the ability of people to speak their minds. But that's exactly what we got here. One guy spoke his mind, then a million people spoke their minds about his viewpoint. They can't be saying they want everyone to be free to speak their minds without fear of any reactions from anyone whatsoever, because that's not actually free speech anymore.
You are right, the two things are just different sides of the same coin.

Jeff Bezos and Craig Newmark are both "providing maximum value" and "poisoning the well of competitors". I'd say both ended up in the same place yet have completely different business philosophies.

When discussing the merits of different pricing strategies, it is best if the argument stands without being clouded by notions of altruism.
Wow, that was an epic meltdown. Good grief.
But of course "remote" is a reciprocal relationship. If the senior dev is remote and the junior dev is local, it doesn't matter, the senior dev still can't mentor the junior.
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and in response...

http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/boycottslist.aspx
Actually, it's not. Reddit runs with a loose "10% rule", where you should strive to make 10% or less of your activity promotional.
OSX UI to backup your laptop, encrypted, to AWS: www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/

I don't know tarsnap well enough to compare encryption models with Arq or anything, but I'm not invested enough to dig into it either. Arq works for me as a customer, and I'm not really in the tarsnap market.
Err, did you actually read Prop 8 legislation?

This was never about "treating people as lesser humans", despite the cawing hyperbole from the pro-homosexual-marriage faction...

This was basically a semantic debate.

Marriage, for most of recorded history, was defined as one thing.

There's a new style of relationship that's arisen in modern times, and that group wants to extend the definition of marriage to cover that as well.

Heck, in many countries, you don't even need a marriage, leg alone a civil union - simply being in a de-facto relationship (i.e. living together) will give you the same privileges (tax, medical etc.)

It was never about privileges (government's can't grant rights), but just about ideologies.
If you are paying less, you can do all those things.
Where is the design? I can't see no design.
They're big binary blobs.

If the tables aren't locked while you're backing up, you're going to end up with inconsistent data.

There are tools like xtrabackup that allow you to extract a live copy of the files, but sometimes take some hand loving to get working on another system.

A good solution I found when wanting to copy those particular files instead of a dump/restore was to utilise the snapshotting features of LVM.

e.g.
1. lock tables

2. take snapshot

3. unlock tables

4. mount snapshot and copy data from it

Then the system continues to work and you have a consistent copy to back up.
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Well, it is kind of pointless to look at the K<->C interface without knowing K. If you read the Python.h it would be about as understandable (assume you don't know what a "class" is when studying the Python.h file - because K does a lot of things in ways different enough from most languages).

To elaborate: K uses one letter mnemonic codes for all of it's basic storage types:

G = General = 8-bit unsigned int
H = sHort = 16-bit signed int
I = Integer = 32-bit signed int
J = bigger integer = 64-bit signed int

(Note how G,H,I,J follow each other?)

E = 32-bit floating point "rEal"
F = 64-bit Floating point

(Again, they are near each other)

S = Symbol
K = "general list type", the central K language type

And that's mostly it; the last unnamed union (with fields "n" and "G0") is for vectors, n being the length and G0 being the data.

The only other field you are ever going to need is "t" for type (saying whether which union member is actually in use). The rest are internal implementation details, but are also easy to remember: r=reference count; u=flags; m and a have something to do with memory mapping and allocation).

There are a few more basic types: b=boolean, t=time,d=date,p=datetime,u=month - but they are merely different interpretations of the EFGHIJSK members above; to access data from C, all you need is the list given above.
Yes and yes. Standard Apache 2 license.
I would expect that you could use a decompiler to generate C# from compiled VB.NET code.
@Sir as a long time reddit user, your total blameshifting of your services inability to compete with gfycat, coming right after listening to you blameshift on why you couldn't compete with imgur, stinks to high heaven from here.

At what point do you accept responsibility for the success and failure of your ability to create a service and make it popular?

At what point do you stop externalizing the blame and get down to the hard task (or simply lucky outcome) of succeeding?

For what it's worth, I just made a gfycat of a youtube video to share with my mom. So I decided to do the exact same process for your service that you tout as superior to gfycat.

With gfycat, it was super simple to paste the youtube link, select the time frame and output the html5 video/gif. Done in under a minute. Your service has not actually completed an "upload" of the youtube video from a link no matter how long I've waited. Whenever I click on the random floating microphone near the top left of your services homepage, I simply see "an error occurred". I don't know how long I'm supposed to wait for this to work, but I just made 3 more youtube->gfycats while waiting.

I'm not lying, here are the 3 youtube -> gfycats that finished while your service says "uploading" without a progress bar at all (gfycat has a working progress bar so I can helpfully tell that it downloads the youtube video in about 10-15 seconds). http://gfycat.com/UnitedGoodnaturedArcherfish http://www.gfycat.com/RemoteWelltodoLadybird
http://www.gfycat.com/FeminineCapitalCob

No offense but gfycat obviously blows your service out of the water, so perhaps you should play catch-up instead of blaming reddit admins? Which is silly anyway, because gfycat succeeds through comments and people sharing it and talking about it, not through owner spam or something else.

For the record it's been over 10 minutes since I began a youtube -> html5 conversion on your site and it still says "uploading" and I think it's broken.
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The curriculum for the program is based off of a set of online courses which has grown to thousands of students. One GrowHack client and student includes Booktrack. Paul Cameron, CEO at Booktrack relates:

"In just over five months since Bookrack released its Booktrack Studio Web App it's user base has grown 30% every month, with 300,000 users creating more than 3,600 Booktracks in 30 different languages and have spent more than 2.5 years reading - this is without a mobile app which has just been launched"

If you know someone who'd be a fit tell them get more information and apply here by April 7th.
My (limited) understanding is that it took 3 days to transfer because that was a new wallet ID and it needs to spread through the network. If you send him some doge now it should take 10-15 mins or less.

Also this seems a like a natural progression from reddit's dogetipbot. I think it's a good idea to have a generic way to tip cryptocurrency on the web, I think once the right implementation takes place it'll be a real winner
and in response...

http://monsantoboycott.com/
Oh, I can hardly claim any real moral superiority. I was a Christian fundamentalist as recently as 2006. Apparently zealots for one team often end up being zealots on the other side when they change their mind.

I do not hate Brendan Eich. I do think he purchased what he is receiving, though.
That's your speculation and not fact. The only known fact is that he donated $1000 for Prop 8. From being for prop 8 the most we can conclude is that he wants the definition of marriage to remain "between a man and a woman" legally.

I'm an atheist and I see that one can be for or against prop 8 for sociopolitical reasons. Depends on what does one appreciate or understand as marriage. I can also imagine that many conservatives, atheist or not, would be for Prop 8 if that was ever voted in my state.
He didn't stand up for his beliefs. He dodged all questions about them, hid behind Indonesia (?!), professed his love of inclusion and free expression, and expressed zero regret for having donated.

If he'd at least come out and said "yes, I oppose gay marriage, but I have no intention of involving that with Mozilla" then I would still not be thrilled but I would respect him more. As it stands, I know he won't talk about what he believes publicly, but he will merrily support it privately.
I wonder if running on systems with NV cache controllers experience the issues with the slow fsync.
Will the people who tried to boycott Mozilla over Brendan Eich's appointment also refuse to use any of his creations?

If OkCupid said that they were planning to stop using Javascript because of his views I would have respected them a lot more than simply vilifying someone for their private personal donations to causes they believe in.
To me, one of the toughest lessons in engineering is that you don't have to solve all problems. Imagine holding up the release of the first text messaging system until the problem of dropped texts had been solved.

In the distant past, there was a chat system that had the A <--> B <--> C distance problem. People used it and were very happy with it despite that limitation. It was called CB Radio.
I strongly doubt they will replace the sensors, maybe it's influence the hardware in a 2nd version but they have plenty of sensors in the current Nest protect.

It's more of a matter of better measuring the room to allow the unit to guess when someone is walking by and when someone is standing in front of the unit and waving.

The sensors are almost working perfectly. Because this device is relied upon to save peoples lives and there are also legal repercussions to allowing a known bug, they have to make sure that the waving and walking can be distinguished 100% of the time.

Only in a very rare situation (like having the unit at shoulder level or in a hallways with a very low ceiling combined with multiple people running past it) would the unit malfunction.
Very awesome and direct response by Nest. Kudos.

Oftentimes, recalls or other safety notices do not adequately spell out specific issues, merely allude to a vague "safety issue." Transparency is good.
Is there a list of the best lists of javascript tools and libraries? If so, what list is at the top of that list?
Oh my God, you can't just tell a dog his ears are horns! Also, they are just spots.
Some photos:

http://www.quora.com/History-of-Apple-Inc/Where-did-Apples-i...
I, too, am staring at a lonely map with no one about. Its always interesting how Facebook and Twitter bring people far apart together, but people try the opposite quite a lot with a huge downside. I think Four Square might be the golden example of it working. Color sure wasn't.

[edit: you know fellow developers this type of display is depressing, you could at least say something upbeat to us folks in the middle of nowhere]
At that it is possible for some enterprising hacker to set up such a business using tarsnap, and try to pay colin as a consultant to make any changes required to tarsnap. Effectively build a shell business around the tarsnap business. Were I a bored sysadmin, I'd be tempted; especially with the key:backup relation, I could aggregate customers' accounts on tarsnap no problem, and take on all of the headaches mentioned for a very fat fee.
They already have some things from their catalog digitized.

e.g. http://www.mss.vatlib.it/guii/scan/link.jsp

http://www.vaticanlibrary.va/home.php?pag=cataloghi_online
Well, actually, he comes across as the bigger person.

He made a very public post saying, I'm happy to discuss my views - reach out to me and I'm happy to do it in private.

The alternate would have either been a public spectacle, or farce - sorry, but the real world isn't quite like 4chan, and adults are able to sort things out without resorting to baying mobs.
In another comment I mentioned the most elegant way to mitigate fifo priority gaming is to allow extremely high levels of fractional tick price. Something like 1/1000 of a penny would probably be enough.

I still think if you want to eliminate electronic market makers that is simpler and has less unintended consequences.
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