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Actually, Mr. Eich's “silent” support of legislation that discriminates against individuals is precisely the type of societal friction that Foucault hinted at.

It is everyone's business. The sooner the culture makes an othered minority issue socially repugnant and less some sort of innocuous personal political belief as you hint, the greater the chance for longer term change.
Take it as a read on the customer base that's out there. People are THIS PISSED OFF. Even if you're sure you're right, perhaps you're missing something about how the actual Internet customer base feels about this.
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Yes. MS said that they would match any AWS price change.
Why doesn't OkCupid take a bolder stance and remove all JavaScript from their site? Brendan invented it. I guess that wouldn't be convenient. Better to ask users to inconvenience themselves. This really isn't fair to all of the people who have worked so hard to make Firefox what it is today.
Please don't rely on this.

For example of the extra detail that is really involved, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Issuer_Identification_N... - e.g. 504837 is ATM only despite looking like a MasterCard.

Card identification also occasionally changes - Diners was bought by MasterCard, Visa used to be 13 digits, etc.

I'd be really wary of hard-coding this anywhere. If it passes the Luhn algorithm and the first digit is ok, consider just passing it on to your processor and seeing if it gets approved. Add a black list of known-not-to-be-valid prefixes if you'd like. But a whitelist of valid prefixes will break one day without warning while also not really being the full list of valid prefixes you think it is.

If you really need to be doing this, you can pay for a regular feed from a processor, but the only use case I've ever seen for truly needing that was to identify debit cards by number.

I've had cashiers force through faked manual auths on 19 digit private bank debit cards, which I assume is fraud disguised as incompetence. But I think dealing with a few weird cases (with proper auditing in place) is better than declining a legit card because they expanded the valid prefixes and your code wasn't updated.
This is ridiculous. If we started boycotting every company based on our disagreements with their CEOs beliefs, we'd have to eventually boycott everyone.
Why not just rig up and expose jQuery slide animations as buttons to your designers? Could be as simple as they click on the container they want to animate -> click on an event -> click on an animation.
And even in the companies far from everyone is covered by that policy. (It’s still a good policy.)
Without stated context I of course jumped on this link like "oh jeez what's Mozilla done, broken some click-to-flirt functionality on OkCupid"!?

But alas, it is not a technical reason. Nor even a product oriented one. It is a political statement regarding the head of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. So he made a mistake. Once. Maybe many times. That's his personal dealings, and while one may dislike Eich personally for this, and one may be inclined to not vote for Eich in, say, a public election, I find it absurd to protest a product that has but a tenuous connection to the man.

Firefox is, has been, and probably will be for a long time into the future (we hope) a product of many hardworking people, perhaps the least of which is the CEO, so far removed from the product we all know and (some) love. The speed, the engineering... Has nothing to do with Eich. He drives the overall vision of the foundation, naturally, as CEOs do. Does his personal preference/mistake mean he's going to destroy Firefox? No. Does it even mean he will destroy Mozilla with his personal viewpoint on social issues? Probably not. Does it mean he a "bad" guy? Well, on the whole one is inclined to say no, although it will and is argued he has a character flaw, this may be true.

The philosophy of dropping one of the most widely use browsers (outside of corporate environments) simply due to one man's one-time view... Seem absurd.

(I've tried my best to avoid putting my own opinion on his viewpoint in here, but perhaps he's made a mistake or two in the past. Given the amount of criticism recently, this much is clear, now.)
Based on your comment, I would guess that you have never had to file a long Schedule D. Accurately tracking your short and long term capital gains and losses is not always as straightforward as it might seem, especially when you have lots of transactions. Additionally, there are often associated matters (such as carryovers) that you wouldn't want to address without the assistance of a qualified professional. Unless you're an investor/trader who is familiar with these issues and has enough money at play to make it worth your while, the hassle, costs and liability that could arise should you make a mistake are going to quickly eliminate the utility of using Bitcoin over USD.

Additionally, you need to look at this from the perspective of a merchant. The average merchant has expenses denominated in US dollars and accepts payment in US dollars. There is no FX risk. Bitcoin changes that. Do you honestly believe that the average merchant is equipped to manage FX risk, or has any appetite for FX exposure in the first place?

Please note that volatility is a red herring. Volatility has no bearing on the costs associated with tracking capital gains and losses (you need to accurately track your transactions regardless), and while the level of volatility will certainly impact how you manage FX risk, low volatility doesn't mean that there is no risk to address.
But they still wouldn't be illegal. No one would go to jail for being married.

They just wouldn't be recognized by the state. That is way different than what OKCupid is trying to say.
As always, PG has a great post on this:
http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
It's a dot-org, so people expect them to have principles. No-one would expect Larry Ellison to be other than a shitweasel, but they expect Mozilla to have actual principles.

If you sincerely don't understand this, it is possible that you do not understand the Internet customer base sufficiently.
Mozilla released a blog post on Saturday clearly stating:

> Mozilla supports equality for all, including marriage equality for LGBT couples.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/29/mozilla-supports-lg...

There's no evidence that Brendan Eich will bring any of his political views to the workplace; this continued backlash feels unwarranted.
Cons are where web comic artists make a LOT of their living. Setting up the convention booth so that you minimize theft and maximize sales is going to come in very handy later (and probably did this weekend, when some of the Strip Search contestants had a booth at Emerald City Comicon). The signature challenge was because you're asked to sign things many times in rapid succession at cons as well, but is probably less useful than learning how to set up your booth. The time constraints are relevant considering how hard it is to draw a comic strip on a regular schedule, but granted 90 minutes is pretty extreme.
Looks like all this is doing is trying every combo of first name, last name, initials, etc @ company's website the person was employed by.

Nothing new here that's actually hacking in though, just checking the combos for a positive return form rapportive (or really could just be pinging the email servers).

With that said it is in a nice and "consumer" friendly system, but even if this gets shut down you can do it manually very easily and always have been able to.
There is no easy swap-in replacement.
Bit late on this (school gets the better of me most days), but thanks! I'm glad (and happy) that PyRethinkORM has been helpful to someone.
What do you mean by your own analytics? How do you do that?
A mode of expression can be petulant and abrasive even if the underlying message is good. Social justice advocacy is full of abrasive and petulant people who do a poor job of representing good causes.

edit: Can you stop with the downvotes? I'm not arguing that OKCupid's message is petulant and abrasive. I was trying to make sense of what honksillet was saying.
Yeah, by no means an easy problem to solve. But I think better research tools, in general, are an interesting area. Search engines are beautiful things, but their output is limited by your input. They can't necessarily help you with the things you didn't know to look for in the first place. In a way, a search process is a very deterministic, almost teleological one. I believe there is room in the market for a more focused, yet more open-ended research methodology.
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If a Hacker News comment is not good enough to post with your regular account, it's probably not good enough to post at all. That's not always true, which is why we don't ban throwaways. But it is certainly true in this case.
We have to hope they never form a sort of cartel or join an informal alliance. Until now we are really getting a lot of benefits due to this competition
So can hiring extra server admins, There's always a tradeoff.
I replaced all ads on my website with Bitcoin donations, week 3.
A Google Doc with similar but sometimes different data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BvG2WFB6SR9o40fbJSyi...
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I've used Azure's cloud hosting in production for a half dozen sites and I have to say it's driving me nuts.

We tried to flip DNS to Azure and it wouldn't resolve. It took our senior developer two days of talking to Azure support to solve. Ended up being their fault.

Today I ported some work using PHP's mail() function, which evidently Azure doesn't support?

This is probably our own fault for switching environments but we've moved sites from Media Temple and GoDaddy to Azure and consistently had problems.

Needless to say, a price drop isn't making me any more excited about Azure. Their UI is convoluted (though beautiful, for sure) and I've had nothing but issues with it.
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Then I'd say you either don't know how tragic the situation in Uganda is, or you have no sense of proportion.
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duplicity to S3 here. I'd like to eventually figure out how to point duplicity to Glacier. And of course it'd be nice if GPG supported some more modern cyphers and modes, but it's Good Enough(tm).
We'll forgive Fred Phelps, but apparently the hate for Javascript just runs too deep.
They released it too late.

If they had ANY clue, they'd have thought of this ahead of time. e.g. Brendan donates $2k or $5k to a gay charity requiring a public record (as the Prop 8 donation did) three months ago, someone notices two months ago, he can then stay as gnomic as he likes. Something like that. But, y’know, literally nobody in the upper echelons of Mozilla thought of this.

That neither Eich or the board thought of this ahead of the time does, actually, suggest they're not up to the job. This is SIMPLE STUFF.
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Ask HN: Is there a way to bill automatically for a metered service?
If you sell a metered service, like Heroku or AWS do, are there automated ways of billing your customers' credit cards?

Normally, using any one of a number of recurring-billing options would do the trick. But it seems like these are largely intended for cases where the amount that gets spent doesn't change month-to-month.

What if the amount does change month-to-month? Are there processors or payment services that can accommodate that sort of business model?
> HFT is manipulating the pricing so that it is no longer worth it for you to buy it, therefore fleecing you of the profits you would have made if they weren't there.

This makes no sense to me. Are you claiming that HFT purposefully drives up the value of every single stock? How would they even do that? And why?
What we call bullshit is another way of saying, "in case you are supremely boring we reserve the right to make it seem like observing your day-to-day life is at the least enjoyable as a train-wreck." Maybe we are bullshitting by not living so well thats its more enjoyable than watching others live poorly.
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Are you one of those fools who believe we can define words any way we want? Meditate on this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/od/37_ways_that_words_can_be_wrong/

What I'm saying is, the term "intellectual property" messes with our heads in a way that is difficult to compensate for.

Words do have true meanings, you know: it's whatever comes to our minds when we read or hear them. And I mean everything that comes to mind, not just what is supposed to come to mind. Take "shit", for instance. It's not just what comes out of our butts. It stinks, it sticks, it's disgusting. These secondary associations and feelings are what we refer to when we say "shitty code" or something. Nobody in their right mind would try to apply the term to a masterfully crafted gem. It would never fly.

Let's try a though experiment. Replace "intellectual property" by "intellectual monopoly". Do you feel the difference?

No?

I don't believe you.

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I agree the term "intellectual property" is well accepted. But it is not well understood. Most people wrongly believe intellectual property and physical property are analogous. Many people (especially those in power) wrongly believe stealing a film is like stealing an apple.

But I assume you understand the term well, and therefore don't fall prey to these gross fallacies. You're quite an exception, not being sensitive to this "intellectual property" piece of Novlang.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as

"The "not as bad as" argument, or the fallacy of relative privation, is a form of the moral equivalence fallacy that takes note of the existence of things that are worse than what is actually under discussion - for different purposes, as outlined below. It's popular with people who know perfectly well they're doing something wrong; being fully aware that they're doing something wrong, they feel compelled to attempt to justify it and do so by pointing to other, usually worse, actions."
Considering that learning is a means to an end for most people, another factor is employers' willingness to hire a self-taught individual -- far greater in areas like software development or design (where one can showcase one's skills through a portfolio) than say medicine (where the only credential of accepted value is a professional degree). Not saying that's the way it should necessarily be, but the status quo presents a hurdle for self-learners and content creators.

That said, we're in this for the long haul, and we definitely want to try and push the boundaries in areas other than software/technology down the road.
You're being argumentative instead of informative or useful.

"bash is just one of many possibilities, so bash != UNIX shell. It is not available by default in all UNIX systems"

Bash is one example of a modern UNIX shell. It is not the only example - there are some that are more advanced in some ways, and some that are less advanced in some ways. I wasn't saying "BASH IS ALL UNIX", I was picking a specific setup as a point of comparison.

"bash is not a REPL with support for live coding."

What are attributes of a REPL which you see bash as lacking? Clearly, it Reads, Evaluates, and Prints. If you just object to the particular language, fine, there are certainly things to object to there - though I think it's pretty great as UI. It's certainly atrocious when you try building anything large out of it.

"as consequence of the last point, bash cannot provide graphical output and respective manipulation of system data structures"

That's mostly false, which you touch on immediately following.

'Writing data to /proc to alter the OS behavior, is pretty basic'

It can get arbitrarily sophisticated, but...

'compared with changing OS behaviour with a "doit" message on a expression block.'

I don't know what this means, please elaborate.

"For better understanding, imagine using something like Mathematica as an OS shell."

There's too many things that can mean for it to aid my understanding much. Do you mostly refer to the ability to embed graphics in the interactive session while retaining a scrolling log? or are there other relevant attributes I'm not following?
Agree. They should keep quiet, and just take it. Just sit there and don't say anything. Don't be another MLK Jr. and turn this into some kind of personal political thing.

These fools would turn it into some kind of weird personal political fight if we castrate the next Turing. Hey, it's just a chemical castration. No need to make it personal. It's actually good for you.
So in other words, LinkedIn's "premium account" service suffers from an info disclosure vulnerability that they seem to be either too lazy or inept to fix, and are instead just using their legal team as a meatspace firewall.
The tone argument turns out not to be very convincing.
Hate on Microsoft all you want but this is a great thing. If Microsoft feels they want to play in the infrastructure as a service game they need to earn the customer's trust.

Price matching is certainly one way to do it. Azure does run linux by the way (a lot of people don't know that).

One thing I've been going back and forth about is whether I "trust" Google App Engine or Microsoft Azure more. Both are juggernauts but Microsoft seems very intent on staying and competing in this space.

For what it's worth I've used Azure before and don't find the interface too bad. Also for spinning up the latest and greatest Windows Server instance you can't really beat Azure.
I didn't see any suggestion from the author, did I miss it?
Christian Wimmer, an Oracle researcher work works on the Graal and Tuffle projects, gave a talk at Mozilla last year. A video of the talk is available here:

https://air.mozilla.org/one-vm-to-rule-them-all/
Dear Gays, we hate Mozilla, so please use a browser that spies on you like Google Chrome, or deinstall your Linux and switch to Windows Explorer, or install a browser that has problems with 80% of the other webpages.
Fortunately, we have an answer for that: http://newstechnica.com/2014/03/27/mozilla-announces-javascr... It solves the equality operator problem by not having any.
Congratulations for finally releasing. I have been looking forward to trying it out.
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You have to make a judgement about buying or using your judgment, and still judge the people you are buying it from, or copying it for free.

God judgement is essential from anybody from getting from X to Y where Y > X.
There are plenty of ways to support equal rights that aren't abrasive. OKCupid's actions in this case are abrasive--clearly abrasive enough to bother some people who strongly support marriage equality (such as myself).
agreed but on mobile I find spinning through the drop-down more annoying than typing the exp date.
I hope not. I think it will be like rear/side mirrors. You can use only mirrors to back up, but eventually, they will not be enough, and you will impact something. I think that the same people that don't look now are the same people that won't look then.
I bookmarked this[1] a dozen times. I wanna try that ASAP. The whole monitor > forth > lisp is a nerd dream

[1] especially kragensitaker's comment http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9x15g/programmi...
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> This really isn't fair to all of the people who have worked so hard to make Firefox what it is today.

Do you mean it's not fair because it hurts these people, even though they haven't done anything objectionable?
> Brendan invented it.

You're just giving people more of a reason to hate him.
>That neither Eich or the board thought of this ahead of the time does, actually, suggest they're not up to the job. This is SIMPLE STUFF.

Evidence suggests that they've been spending months fighting a battle pertaining to picking an insider as CEO, which ultimately caused three members to resign from the Moz Co. board.

Which explains why they were so unprepared for anything else.

e: Bogus theory by Ars and WSJ, Mozilla issued a statement that the shake-up of board members was planned well in advance amongst themselves for various reasons.
Does anyone know if it differs from Adobe Edge Reflow in any meaningful way? It superficially seems like it takes a similar approach. Given that it comes with a hefty price tag, i'd need some serious persuasion.

Naturally I'll play with it a bit more for myself before drawing any concrete conclusions.
The Pokédex just shows "150/150 caught"...not sure if you get anything special.
I've worked in LA on various tech projects in the entertainment industry... and this case has a familiar ring to it.

Be wary of allowing people and general culture from the Industry in on your gig. Especially if cameras are rolling. Really sit down and think about what is being traded -- possibly your time and integrity for a brief laugh.

Of course another way to look at it is: one individual who caused trouble here for taking it too far and not being sensitive to the situation. Whatever the industry, we've all run across people like Matti :)
Ask yourself. 'What is the most important thing I have to say here?' And from what I've read, being barefoot is not one of them. As PG says, 'Yes you can be barefoot.', but that's not the story. And not knowing the difference says only one thing to me - Beginner. But we all have to start somewhere. Might as well be barefooted.
I would hope—I dare not say imagine—that the law would simply not require any response (or even reading it) outside of work hours.
> Edit: this link works for everyone (it is provided in another submission): http://www.okcupid.com/home?mozilla_message=1

That message doesn't work for me. I think you have to be logged in.
Yes, a wide variety of them: Stripe, Litle, Chase Paymentech, Cielo, ...
There are some pretty sweet pencil & paper + app solutions out there, that allow you to draw the UI and take pictures of it. http://maniacdev.com/2013/06/nifty-iphone-app-allowing-you-t...
oh look , at okcupid we just found out a way to use the current news as advertising!

i think such stuff despises more than eich's support for prop 8.
I'm actually disappointed it isn't subscription based. $179 is a pretty big sum, and there's no way I can thoroughly test out the app in 2 weeks (I'm a programmer, not a designer).

I would have happily bitten the bullet on a monthly fee.
Hmmm I see what you mean, I was thinking about robots made of steel, running on electricity with some efficiency greater than humans. Sort of like the used car bodies getting crushed in dumps, like we have basically unlimited amounts of iron and whatever remaining fossil fuels would go to run industry instead of feeding people. And then one mechanic could maintain dozens or hundreds of machines and multiply his or her productivity many times.

But you bring up a good point, about how if natural resources are in decline, we may be headed back to an agrarian society (which incidentally is not productive enough to feed more than about 1 or 2 billion people, so most of the world would starve). To me, a future in which people are still engaged in manual labor is one where technology has stopped improving or even failed.

For example, I’m shocked that people still pick crops by hand. Some of that is propped up by immigration laws and being able to pay farm workers below minimum wage. Otherwise someone surely would have automated it by now. But then, I could say the same thing about almost any manual labor (somewhere along the line, the dignity of manual labor and the compensation we pay for it diverged, so almost all of it pays less now than we think it does, and is declining).