skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then I oppress people all the time. I oppress students of mine who cheat during tests. I oppress people who talk too loudly when I ask them to be a bit quieter. I oppress the guy who almost ran me over last week when he quickly drove across the sidewalk to park and I yelled at him.

All those who participate in a boycott are of course also oppressive. So are those on strike.

Do you really think this is the exact same as East Germany?

It's tough to bear, but we do allow private clubs to discriminate on the basis of race. That's part of what freedom of association means in the US. (For that matter, in most states, if I am a business owner and I have two employees, then I'm still allowed to discriminate in the workplace on the basis of race, religion, etc.)

Your point can be valid, if there is widespread inability to get work when publicly holding a minority viewpoint. That does not seem to be the case here. All evidence is that Mozilla would have been able to continue in some fashion with Eich as CEO, and that Eich could easily get work elsewhere.
I wouldn't necessarily mind the tactics, but I do strongly oppose USAID having anything to do with it. It's hard enough to deliver humanitarian aid to affected populations without governments also suspecting that nice eager aid worker is really there to foment revolution or collecting intelligence.
Theres a lot of naysayers on HN :) Don't be discouraged and continue on -- I think you have a good service at least in the technical sense.

PS: I'm guessing the competing service you're referring to is gfycat? They do seem to be increasing in popularity even though they offer a similar feature set to yours.
The collective might of society. The only natural right is "might makes right". Every "Right" we grant ourselves after that is simply a particular implementation of that initial principle. The key is to make sure your group of like minded folks have might on their side.

A right necessarily entails a responsibility onto others. Without some framework of mutual agreement and enforcement, talk of rights is utterly impotent.
something like nitrous.io would work for this.
But conservatives who support traditional marriage (and civil unions with the same rights as marriage) are not welcome in the club, right? How is that appreciating a diversity of thought?
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Where we live in a world that is growing ever more intertwined through business, understanding the management styles of the companies you do business can establish a successful relationship with strong and effective communication.
From that perspective yes. But MS clearly showed they didn't like that. It was about the attitude in general. If MS want to really open things up, they should formally have an open license for APIs that would protect them from MS patent and copyright threats.
Marriage is both legal and social, and the two are heavily intertwined (hence the religious objections). The recognition itself is, arguably, a right. The argument is then that the government should respect the right, not "grant" it.
Market share matters.

Apple were doing well by profit share in the PC market in the early 1990s when they were as now a bigger company than MS. But because there were so many more PCs out there software developers and hardware manufacturers targeted MS not Apple and then when Apple machines were poor in the mid to late 1990s Apple almost disappeared.

If Android is, say, 80%+ of the market at some point and it's no longer worth making things for iOS Apple and Apple have a generation or two of stuff that isn't that good Apple could be in the same position as they were in the late 1990s and it's unlikely Jobs will be back again to save them.
I think what is meant is that CloudFlare or no CloudFlare, cat pictures have to be transferred and traffic is generated. imgur will have to pay it either way, even if its CloudFlare doing the delivery.
“only very few people who could afford to buy are doing so. Many are held back by high barriers to entry, which Artsy is solving.”

Thank god.
Quick feedback: When I get to a "next" page, the focus must be on something other than the core content, because spacebar doesn't scroll the page. Clicking anywhere in the main content box makes spacebar traversal work :)

Looks neat, might be a good candidate for longer-form literature than jekyll pages.
Not what I mean. Thinking ill of people and actually contributing resources to see those people oppressed are not even in the same universe morally.
If only the Vatican Bank was so transparent...
Check your intermediate/chain certificate.

http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html#hostname=cointipp...
I respect your considered opinion, then, even though I strongly disagree with it.

I will point that, if you didn't trust him more than that, if you didn't trust Mozilla more than that, and if you didn't trust our ability to sniff out and handle such a situation, then I'm assuming your opinion would be different? If so, it's worth considering that your trust may not be shared by most people, and there are good reasons, in general, for skepticism. It's also worth considering that when the consequences are large, even a small risk may not be acceptable.
I fell that they are doing it because of a growing threat from Linux as a Windows alternative.

With Valve pushing their Debian fork and more gaming support for Linux in the last time, Microsoft wan't to appeal to the Open Source community the reduce the "bashing" which ... which could actually loose some force behind it.
Not that it could actually benefit Linux with better Mono support etc.
There was no network involved, it was Cryptsy's internal db (just like mine).

Also, for blockchain-based cryptocurrencies transactions are seen by most nodes within seconds. When I withdraw from the site to an address that I just made up, my Dogecoin client picks up the (unconfirmed) transaction almost instantly.
Let's say that he did hold that extreme opinion. He's also one person in a greater company and without the direct means to make that interesting viewpoint come to light. It's also unsure if he even had the intention to bring it to fruition.

However, if he did start to act on a plan to bring it to fruition, using the company's resources or heck, even his personal off-time resources, don't you think -that- would be the point at which people should be calling for his ousting?
see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525198
Actually, KVM can allow you to create NUMA domains inside the guest, for better or worse.
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No, they could not have, because the Linux kernel is open source software. But I understand the confusion, because Colin does his level best to market Tarsnap as if that was what it was.

I am unclear on what you think the purpose of a commercial website is, given your objection to the idea of suggestions that make them perform better.
It is somewhat interesting whether these links keep getting killed because HN's response has been so wholly immature or for some other reason.
I think the big difference is that .NET and Visual Studio will depend on the Roslyn compiler. Rotor was a sample implementation, but nobody at Microsoft (to my knowledge) was shipping an actual product / project that depended on Rotor moving forward. I've talked to leads on the team who are excited about being able to roll out new language features using this new compiler. There's a good, long term business justification for Microsoft to keep working on this after open sourcing it, which I've learned over time is a very good and important thing.
Or profiting enough from Android and ChromeOS royalties to see it's a profitable model.
He's still allowed to be CEO of Mozilla. (Calling a specific job posting a "right" seems a stretch — do I have the right to be CEO of Mozilla? Where are the complaints that I'm being effectively prevented from exercising that right?)

Nothing and nobody forced him to resign. He could've weathered the storm and risked Mozilla's most valuable asset, its goodwill, over his beliefs. It would've been a terrible thing to do to the company and made him a terrible CEO, but nothing stood in his way.

Claiming that someone's rights were violated because he voluntarily quit his job is patently absurd.
It's about as close to wrong as you can get in any meaningful sense.
You said he "makes almost exactly this argument," referring to the one in my OP -- so my comments were in reference to that argument and not his work.
It is a curious characteristic of the philosophy of tolerance that only one thing may not be tolerated: intolerance.

In general, I don't like a sociocultural norm that punishes people solely for taboo or unpopular beliefs; while I'm pro-gay-marriage, I hold other opinions which are even more controversial. Yet if the issue was a more extreme one (say, if Eich was a Holocaust denier), very few people would be comfortable with having him in a position of power, and the implicit legitimization of that political opinion.

I'm not sure it was right for the left to call for his resignation; however, in terms of what's best for Mozilla and the open web, I think it was the right move for Eich to step down.
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Ask HN: What is your talent CRM / applicant tracker setup?
There are a number of services out there now to track applicants, and any number of general-purpose CRM's and task trackers that people seem to use for applicant tracking (e.g. Trello).

We're currently using asana, and it's perfectly good once applicants are in the system, but it's a bit cumbersome for dealing with a lot of inbound and passive candidates.

I'd love to know your end-to-end setup for monitoring, recruiting, and managing the interview process for technical candidates.

Please state the stage of your company.
I thought statistical significance started at 30 data points
HN posts drop in rank for being too controversial, IIRC. (comments to points ratio gets too high)
How come nobody looked at this list and said, "Holy shit, why do need 6 templating libraries?", or "Why is it we have 6 libraries that are build tools?"

At some point I would've thought some of these would get consolidated, but instead all we have is more and more and more libraries popping up. Instead of just building in features, we're just simply building new libraries to address some need a developer had which wasn't in an existing library.

I'm all for an awesome set of tools, but at some point, shouldn't we really think about combining some of these and just build one or two tools with all the features a developer needs?
> It has no un-boxed primitive numbers. Let me just say that again. A language for numbers that doesn't have primitive unboxed numbers.

What you're leaving out of this makes me think that you don't understand the field at all.

Everything is a vector. There's no need for an 'unboxed' number when you have vectors. If you're doing computation thinking of operating on individual data points rather than vectors, matrices, and multi-dimensional arrays of datapoints, you're doing it wrong. R is doing it right.
Sounds more like a politician trying to have it both ways. Prop 8 had nothing to do with civil unions and said almost exactly what 2008 Obama said he believed. Then as the polls changed so did his "beliefs". Just politicians being politicians.

Another great example of this behavior is Hillary Clinton who as of 2013 supports same sex marriage but back who 2000 said:

"Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman."

So obviously everyone against Eich as CEO of Mozilla will be against Hillary for President. Right?

Maybe be we should just ignore people's personal views when it comes to their employment. Especially when those views have nothing at all to do with your job as in Eich's case (not the case with Obama or Hillary).
Eich was not legally barred from being CEO. He could have chosen not to step down. He could choose to start his own company to be CEO of. He could be CEO of another company.

He will not be barred by the government from doing all of those things. He is not being prevented from exercising his right to be a CEO. He was asked to step down by many people, as is their right, and he did.
If they just give you the cheese, the trap doesn't work.
Ah, what a joke. I recall someone not putting it on their timesheet and instead going directly to the Department of Labor. Good on them, I say. I've got a vested interested in the company doing well, but that was a ridiculous policy.
Outfoxed: how protests forced Mozilla's CEO to resign in 11 days
dang is specifically demoting and killing them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7527229

I'll wait for his post on the topic to form a final opinion on that, but my initial reaction is that it's wrong to bury a story of this magnitude in the tech industry.
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Here's the thing. I thought for a long, long time (MediaCrush has been around for 9 months, you know), about why gfycat might be more popular. I cannot arrive at an answer. MediaCrush is an objectively better service in almost every way imaginable. We tried to be better by making a better service, and it didn't work. So, I start looking for other reasons. The biggest reason I can think of is that our launch was botched on Reddit because the admins came down on us, and they did not come down on gfycat. More people know about gfycat. As for imgur, I haven't thought nearly as much about how to compete with them, they're just too ingrained in Reddit culture.

YouTube uploads are not supported, intentionally. That's legal hot water we don't want to be in, and frankly, neither should gfycat. The fact that it's not giving a user-friendly error is a problem - I will investigate it.

Saying gfycat blows our service out of the water is nonsense. Stop spewing nonsense. That's a single simple feature that is intentionally not supported. Do some actual research.
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"Horns and cow spots!" "Ears and dog spots!" "Horns and cow spots!!" "Ears and dog spots!!"
Cool. I built a somewhat-similar tool [1], which doesn't handle any of the interactive examples, but generates physical books (PDFs) and ePub, etc. I'm getting close to publishing my first "real" book with it, which should be cool to see.

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/elliottslaughter/bookmd
Obviously there is too much detail and history to lay out the Correct Ethical Choice for every single situation ever, but stuff like "give people equal rights," which is what we are talking about in this case, should be incredibly obvious to any reasonable person these days and judging by the backlash against Eich's appointment to CEO, that seems to be the case.
Let me put it a different way, since the term "free speech" admittedly has many different connotations.

My day job is as a scientist. In science, individual researchers put forth many different ideas, some right, some wrong. Over time, we come to a consensus on which ideas are right and wrong, and the right ideas are kept and the wrong ideas are dropped.

However, we don't blackball people who had the wrong ideas: on the contrary, we want to encourage diverse ideas and opinions because it is only through the conflict of these ideas that truth emerges.

I don't want to live in a society where people have to fear for their jobs or a public mob action because they espoused an unpopular opinion. I disagree with Eich's opinion today, but tomorrow I could be in the minority. Yes, the wrong ideas can be harmful, but in my opinion if we have an open marketplace of ideas, rather than the "chilling effects" of political correctness (or religion, or any other force that says that there are unspeakable ideas), the truth will eventually out.

Case in point: gay marriage itself. A few years ago it was a radical idea, now it's just a matter of time before it becomes legal nationwide in the US. Ironically, the only reason there was enough political force to oust Eich is because his viewpoints are now in the minority.
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The Hounding of Brendan Eich
Huh. I fail to see how that has to do with this character at all but thank you for the information; I really didn't think Mozilla acted as a pseudo-EFF.
Nesting of references is getting intense, but see: https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup
From multiple previous discussions.

I'll submit a pull request soon for any new ones brought up by this discussion (unless someone beats me)
Quick question: Am I supposed to not be learning JavaScript because of him?

edit: apparently downvotes are being used instead of "no, that's silly" which was really the point
psst, kerbal is not a substitute for actual physics.
Yes, I am referring to gfycat. They actually don't really have a similar feature set - the only feature they have from us is the "HTML5 GIF" thing. MediaCrush does a lot more than that - but we do compete with them in that HTML5 GIF space.
Seems like Python has been gaining a lot of ground in areas formerly ruled by Fortran. A lot of those folks made forays into Java and Python seems like a breath of fresh air to a lot of the academics I know.
What do you think of ChangeTip?

https://www.changetip.com/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/221wr2/bitcointip_w...
"MediaCrush is an objectively better service in almost every way imaginable. "

I disagree. You're very protective of your work and obviously deluded to the quality. It's a shame.

As a reddit user I will continue to use gfycat as in my 25 minutes of testing over 5 different sources, gfycat worked in under 15 seconds and for 100% of the time, and provides an objectively superior feature set at every stage of the process.

At this point I don't even know what you support. You don't list it on your webpage (gfycat does), and you don't fail when bad input is brought in (gfycat does). You don't give a progress report for uploads (gfycat does) and you don't support speed changing on html5 videos (gfycat does). Your service brands all pages with your logo and naviagation links, gfycat hides the entire UI except for at certain times, for a much much cleaner look that almost appears like a native gif.

Just did multiple gifs as a test and gfycat is just objectively much faster at uploading and encoding. Gfycat finishes the whole process while your service says "pending" before it begins! I'm sorry, I don't see a single way your service is better. Maybe outline them instead of just claiming it is?

Sorry you don't agree. Keep blaming admins, I'm sure that'll help you build a truly competitive service.
I'm not suggesting that "just improving people's health, education, etc. is enough." I'm suggesting that people aren't being paid enough because, structurally, they are in a poor bargaining position, and thus can't command higher wages, and so have worse outcomes, which perpetuates their position (that being the structural part).

Lots of things go into it, and looking at individuals doesn't really address the wider problem. The only reason that people accept the low wages is because they have nothing else, and once things improve enough to drive wages up the industries that rely on low-wage labour move on.

Now, you can take that two ways, and I see both as true (whereas you might only see one). Firstly, the jobs have (eventually/sometimes) improved conditions, up to the point where people demand too much, and the manufacturers have to move on. Note that this wasn't a benevolent act on the part of the manufacturers - they came there because that was where they could get the best return on their investment. It isn't quick, and the manufacturers have absolutely no interest in making it quicker - uprooting an industry is expensive, so they are incentivised to stop people attaining economic independence.

The other way to look at it is that the only reason that the manufacturer could extract such a low price is because the people they came to employ were in such a desperate position that they had no other choice. The only argument is that it is still fair, because it was a mutual agreement, a point which I addressed in another sub-thread: it is not fair, because it relies on coercion. We go around the world, coercing people into doing work for us for as little pay as we can get away with.

I don't know if you listened to it, but the NPR t-shirt podcasts had some of this stuff in there - including a guy from the t-shirt industry saying precisely that they go to wherever the poverty is, because it's cheaper (which makes sense!)

The typical refrain is that, as I already mentioned, it makes things better. Yes, sure, it sometimes does, only much slower than it could do. There are also a host of other positive and negative effects that aren't covered by these ridiculous generalisations I'm making, that can make things either much better, or much worse, for the people involved.

My belief is that we should use our combined wealth to mitigate the risks of uncertain negative events, and that it doesn't cost very much to do so for people who are poor.

edit: I've enjoyed the discussion btw! :)
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Artsy is focussed on a specific niche in the art market that is not the high end (ie $100k ++ work), but more what they would call entry level $5k - $50k works. Artsy (and some of it's competitors) help these entry level collectors to get a greater survey of what is happening and what is available in the art world. To date, this would have required travel to galleries around the world (mainly NYC for the past couple of decades) and/or travelling to one of the big Art Fairs (see Art Basel - a one week extravaganza where more than a billion dollars of sales is likely). If you have the time and access to those events, you will get a great survey in a couple of days.

Artsy simply brings that to your device/home/computer. They don't make sales, more make the introductions to galleries that are selling the work. It continues the overall art market movement away from bricks and mortar 'galleries' to online and art fairs.

The value add (pain point) that Artsy provides is the recommendation engine. This is unique (not sure how well it works from my experience on the site) and is crucial in a market that is always looking for the 'new' and 'exciting'.

The overall market is terrifying in that million dollar plus works are traded over .jpg form. That's why there is a significant cohort of art consultants that are paid to look a work in real life to provide the '3D' context.
I also stated off writing a book using Markdown in Vim and was pretty happy at first. One of my goals was to have a Web site that mirrored the book content (http://osc.justthebestparts.com).

(I learned a lot about writing Markdown-to-epub+Web-site tools as well :))

But my book had numerous illustrations and occasionally lengthy code samples. What worked fine on a Web page did not play out so nice in a naive conversion to mobi/epub/PDF.

I ended up waiting until all content was basically done and then using InDesign to set the layout (primarily for PDF but it helped with the epub export as well). The biggest issue was making sure that breaks occurred in a sensible way. (I took a look at Scrivener and it just wasn't right for me. But I encourage people to try it out.)

I'm all for more tools that make it easier for people to focus on content over the nuts-and-bolts of production but one really needs to be sure that the tools are producing the results you want, and that's going to vary with the type of content.
That sounds odd. If dang wants people to comment on the original story then he should leave it on the front page.

Kinda fun to see routing around censorship in action. :)
Good post. I agree.

I also have attained altered states of awareness thru both drugs and mediation. The mediation was hard work, but it seems the results I earned were longer lasting.

For future, I won't hesitate to use drugs to (maybe) snap me out of a funk if need be.