skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing I find most challenging about the context of this whole story is this: if we extrapolate the moral position out properly, anyone that has ever - at any point in their life - been a bigot (in any way), been sexist in any way (toward men or women), or been racist in any way (toward blacks, whites, anyone), is to be disqualified from being Mozilla CEO. One comment at any point in a lifetime, should be enough to warrant exclusion and mob justice.

The typical response: oh, but that'd be going too far. It's only too far when it starts to ensnare most of the population. The mob likes easy, solitary targets, that could never include themselves.

I say let's see how this holds up under actual practice. Every Mozilla CEO must be diligently screened for having ever once said or done something hateful toward any possible category of persons.

Ever told a racist joke? Ever said something inappropriate to someone? Ever leered at a woman or man inappropriately? Ever supported a politician whose stated position was to discriminate against gay marriage? Disqualified. The mob is always a mass of hypocrites and cowards, unwilling to apply their projected standards to their own thoughts, behavior and choices.
I wonder what the effect on overall hygiene is? I wash my hands after every bowl movement, in total (shower, etc) I wash them every 5 hours.
Will people now wash their hands less?
Indeed. They passed a law to make it illegal. That's no longer an opinion, that's an action.
Mozilla chief executive, a gay-marriage foe, steps down
Yeah. I get so mad when the default Ubuntu install gives me Firefox. Sure I can always just immediately use FF to download another browser, but it is so anti-competitive! Such monopoly!

Seriously though, you have to have an initial browser to be able to get the browser you want. Of course a company will make that initial browser the one they make themselves. I've never understood the outrage over this.
Thanks for the vote of confidence.

To be honest I'd much rather talk about the pro's and con's of strong type systems or whether you can model semi real time systems on the JVM than I would the relatively uninteresting questions about FIFO matching in modern exchanges. But man people say some really ignorant things as soon as equities trading gets involved.
On reading that it seems like you use paper still. I didnt realise this. Do you use the normal paper before or after the water? Seems like after water and drying to me, but potentially much less?

Also, does it do away with the need for women wiping after a pee?
"... says he was born in the US, went to Cornell, then to Harvard, ..."

pg is a Pom, "is an English programmer," cf: ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_%28computer_program...
Sorry, but "free speech" really only applies when the government gets involved in regulating it. Read the Constitution sometime.

He could just as easily have been ousted from his role for wearing the wrong color shirt to work, if enough people didn't like it.
> I know I have been lucky enough to have a manager that was not offended if I finished all of my work early and left

A problem with most knowledge-domain jobs is that the work is never done.

There are always new tasks incoming and other tasks parked pending further information, so there's no opportunity for for employees to say 'I'm finished'.

In that scenario the only way the employee can escape is to say 'I have met my assigned hours'.
I can get behind anonymous donations. After all, we vote anonymously, anonymous speech is protected speech, so why shouldn't anonymous donations be protected as well? In the marketplace of ideas, shouldn't it be the ideas that are judged and not who said them or who paid for the ad?
Any ideas if they are hiding anything fun?
Yeah, grew up in Minneapolis and most everyone removes their shoes, especially during the winter as it would create a complete mess if you didn't.

During the rest of the year, it depends a little bit on the residence. I never cared if someone kept their shoes on in the junky apartments I lived in during college, but if it were my parent's well-kept house for example, I'd consider it rude to keep them on.
Great response from Nest. But honestly - their algorithmic "trust us, the device knows what its doing" approach has always made me uncomfortable. The thermostat for instance - I don't want my thermostat to learn my habits and predict what temperature I want, etc. I just want to tell it what temperature the house should be and when, and leave it the hell alone.

Same thing with the smoke detector. False positive? Push the button. Its the rational ux given the criticality of failure modes involved.
This happened to me last year. I went to a dentist near by where I moved. The dentist and her assistant were both highly incompetent. Her assistant for example, could not understand a single word. When I demanded my X-rays, so that I can go and get a second opinion, I was refused at first and then told that it will cost $25.

So, I went to Yelp and put a review about them. To my surprise, I received a call from them asking to remove the review or I'll face lawsuit. I deleted the review.

To be honest, the language I had used was not bad in any way and all I did was describe my ordeal with an incompetent doctor.
This story encapsulates the complexities of the human nature. For every individual with guilt about his new-found wealth there at least two on the other extreme who would loose no sleep over it and sometimes even if the wealth is ill-gotten.
We can measure time more accurately than anything else, but it's still not good enough for some purposes you could imagine. You can't, for example, use two independent clocks to keep two gigabit transmitters in phase without feedback for more than months.
Under Islam, the penalty for being gay is DEATH. Beheading, stoning or hanging, depends on how the Sharia court is feeling that day. So why don't all these activists start calling out and protesting outside mosques and embassies?

Perhaps the mob are cowards, more comfortable lynching one man over his views rather than tackling real persecution on a global scale.
Agreed. Laws reflect society's view of morality; on gay marriage, those views are changing and the laws haven't quite caught up. Now, I am very carefully not saying that it's okay to use the democratic system to persecute minorities, because it's not, but no sensible person is going to argue that laws against theft should be struck down because they persecute kleptomaniacs. There must exist a grey area somewhere in the middle of the scale where it's hard to tell whether the law is persecuting a minority or upholding a legitimate moral principle (the fact that euthanasia is illegal likely falls in that area right now), and though that grey area is hard to discern (contentious public political discussions would be a reasonable approximation though) I think at least in principle we should be able to respect other people's views on issues in it.
FWIW, I never believed Obama when he said that. I just assumed he had to say it for the votes.

Eich is a different story; for a modern tech company with a presence in SF, which is super-pro-LGBT. Also I see mozilla more as a family than a company(I'm sure it's due to branding/marketing) and having a person who +++donated funds+++ to prop8 as the CEO was a very awkward concept for me to accept. It's one thing to believe different things than I do, it's another thing altogether to ///donate funds/// to prevent something that really does him no harm yet inconveniences/saddens others. To me, that's an ethically corrupt action. Then he becomes the CEO of a company that is soaked in a culture of leftwing pro-LGBT. It's the donation that crosses the line for me.

Furthermore, it makes me wonder if he'd use his legally-obtained funds as Moz-CEO to do similar, more significant, donations in the future to other laws that would conflict with the Moz culture.

I guess you have to decide when opinion is just that, or something more harmful. A KKK member shouldn't be leader of the BlackGirlsCode effort and Eich shouldn't be the head of Mozilla. Of course, this analogy shows that I think of Mozilla as a very open-minded, liberal, pro-LGBT promoter rather than just a company that makes software. I can't convince anyone to see mozilla the way I do, but somehow they've put that spell on me... and clearly on enough people to cause this whole ordeal and resulting fallout.
Don't forget OpenOffice.
It's not easy to wrap tarsnap. If you own one tarsnap account, how do you split that up into multiple accounts? You'd end up writing code for account management and authorization (not written by colin).

Also, you can't provide the guarantees you want. You could hire 24 hour tech support but will they be able to troubleshoot colin's servers if they are down and he is sleeping?

Update: another business idea for Colin. Keep tarsnap as-is but license the server code for a fee so others can run a business as proposed.
Just caught my error :P
If everyone exceeds to their full potential, then those with greater potential will see greater success. That seems problematic to you, but what are the alternatives?

Those with less potential exceeding beyond there potential is nonsensical. If that happens, it only means that you incorrectly estimated their potential in the first place.

Alternatively if we limit success such that those with the most potential can never realize the full extent of their potential, how is that fair? Those people only get one life, you should not deprive them of their ability to live it to their fullest.
Superb article. Think of a band as an entertainment startup, if the relevance isn't obvious from the headline.
Because, of course, a lie of omission* can't really be considered a lie at all!

Of course, it all depends what we mean by lie. In my experience this tends to vary from person to person.

Personally, I do tend to lie of omission* much more willingly than not of omission, though I am not really convinced that it is any more moral.
Same situation for me in Cambodia. It wasn't until I ran out of toilet paper one time that I caved in and tried the "bum gun". Now it's my preference for sure, cleaner and quicker too.
I only see one being denied a civil right...?
"There are also cheaper compromises that only replace the toilet lid instead of the entire toilet and without requiring a hot water line."

Both the models I recommended are of this type (they are just a seat, and they don't require a hot water line).

I considered the model you recommended. The main reason I went for the higher-priced models is that they are higher-power, and can heat the incoming water in real-time. The more inexpensive Toto models are lower power, but compensate by having a built-in tank to store water. I guessed (but did not verify) that, on occasion, the tank could run out of hot water before I was done.

Does the tank on the B100 always have enough hot water for you?
There are some practical approaches

I'm all ears!
This is all wrong. Brendan was wrong, however others were wrong essentially forcing him out. I feel Mozilla will lose some in this, taking a few self-inflicted wounds because they are open and that is unfortunate. It is the reason CEOs are plastic.

Part of Mozilla's culture is now throwing someone who helped build it up under the bus. Yes his personal beliefs may be dated on this one issue, lots of people are on the wrong side of the issue but it had nothing to do with his contributions to Mozilla. This makes me more disappointed in Mozilla just when Firefox is really killing it with gaming.

Should a person's life work be wrecked because of one bad choice? Social changes of that magnitude will have people on the wrong side of the wave for a time, it takes time to educate. I think this is the wrong way to educate, it feels a little bit like a witch hunt.
There was a little study about this last year I believe [1]. Most of what comes out of your A is happy living at 37°C, so I'm sure it doesn't mind an extra 3°C or so.

[1] http://www.tested.com/science/life/459452-doing-it-wrong-hot...
> He made a donation specifically intended to maliciously hurt my friends and neighbors.

Where the fuck did you get that idea? You just made that up. You don't know his specific purpose, you may think you can infer it but you certainly don't know it.

Furthermore, there is not a scintilla of evidence to suggest he acted out of malice. It is far more plausible that he considered gay marriage inconsistent with his religious beliefs and that he also felt compelled by his religion to defend his view of what marriage should be.
After thinking about it some more, I've changed my mind. I think it's far more beneficial to bury a toxic story. I wrote the above comment before actually reading the commentary in the resignation thread.

EDIT: The solution of "keep it near the bottom of the front page" is very creative, and it seems like a good plan. It's appreciated that the mod team is putting in so much thought about how to handle this.
Donating and voting for prop 8, and therefore not in favor of redefining their "institution of marriage" (ignorant as that may be on their part) is not plain and simple hate, it's clear that you didn't even bother to read the blog post if you're willing to trivialize this issue like that. Even if you don't respect Brendan's beliefs, beliefs that I certainly don't respect, please stop trying to turn this into a black and white, "tolerant" vs "bigot" issue.
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I'm confused, do you think that "consenting adults" refers to animals? What are you trying to tell us about yourself?

I honestly don't give a fuck if consenting adult family members decide to fuck. It is not my business what they voluntarily do with each other. How and why could/would it possibly be any of my business?

In other news, this is yet another great example of "refurbished arguments against interracial marriage". What I am not seeing in your comment is any rational reason why somebody should want to criminalize homosexual relationships. Do you have any?
The 20th century is replete with examples of women entering traditionally male professional roles. None of these industries is hostile toward men; in fact, often the opposite. The scenario you suggest as plausible is in fact quite unprecedented.

What makes Computer Science so different from all these other fields and professions?
With their traffic, AWS is not cost effective in the least.
How about the fake incompatibility between DR-DOS and Windows?

How about bankrolling SCO's lawsuit?

How about all of the patent shakedowns (Linux, Android, Rockstar, ...)? And their new pro-software-patent advocacy group?

And that's just off the top of my head.
Hey, if we're gonna go quoting that book, I believe there was something about throwing the first stone.
WAI – Video Call with a Random Contact
Open-source projects will generally be much easier to set up than a typical corporate codebase. A lot of effort to set up a corporate dev environment is annoying, but to an open source project it's death.

Getting familiar with the codebase is still an issue, but at least that knowledge has the potential to be useful even if you don't get the job.
Clearly reddit had an early vested interest and used their dominant media position to "pick a winner" in that space which enriched their portfolio.

This should certainly be illegal if it isn't already. Although, making anything related to money illegal in this society almost seems futile at this point with de-regulation so out-of-control.
Yeah, but CDs were never made to last very long. The key with digital information is that it's easy to duplicate and copy, so the preservation strategy in the digital age is data redundancy.
Are you now or have you ever been a homophobe?
I don't really see the purpose of Yelp if reviews can not be 'raw' and 'uncensored'. The reason we all use yelp is because we won't get some boilerplate testimonial- rather we will get the gritty details whether good or bad.

I can see the effects its having on some businesses. My suggestion to those businesses: focus on good customer service
Yep, voted down for no reason. I have actual real world experience with teams trying to use this technology. Is there an actual MS army trying to keep these threads pro MS?
Most of the people I know who are against gay marriage (yes, I know some such people) aren't against gay people being considered married by the state. Civil unions, and most other forms of marriage ceremony, are A-OK with them.

People against gay marriage are, as far as I'm aware, really just against gay people being considered married by the (Christian) church, because--in their opinion--Christianity has a specific definition of "marriage", and gay marriage doesn't qualify.

It seems to just be a bunch of people talking past one-another. Each group sees their definition of "marriage" ("marriage" as in "legally considered together", or "marriage" as in "accepted as a couple by your local congregation") as the only one that actually matters, and so obviously that's the one their opponents are arguing about as well.
This faux outrage over one man's views, which were hardly extremist given they were shared by 7 million Californians in a vote, has robbed Mozilla of its co-founder. Who the hell is Hampton Catlin to call a boycott? I doubt anyone had even heard of him or his software company.

Message to Hampton Catlin and Michael Lintorn Catlin: if you want to make a brave stand for gay rights, why don't you start protesting outside a mosque or an embassy where under Islam the penalty for simply being gay is DEATH ?

[1] Goodbye, Firefox Marketplace: http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/03/24/goodbye_firefox_m...

[2] Five Reasons Eich Should Step Down: http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/03/28/five-reasons-eich...

[3] A Sad Victory: http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/04/03/a-sad-victory/
They don't. They are running off of a few ads plus 40 million dollars.
"His opinion is no longer private. Once you vote with your dollars you have publicly acknowledged your opinion."
Here is the thing, SCotUS has ruled that the 1st amendment protects anonymous political speech precisely because a lack of anonymity can lead to the "economic or official retaliation" against those with differing political views and has also ruled that money, in the context of politics, is speech. So is there a constitutional imperative to protect the anonymity of political speech when that speech comes in monetary form? I personally believe that we are better off being able to see how our leaders have financed their campaigns, but what we have hear is prima facie evidence that not protecting speech when it is in monetary forms leads to the exact sort retaliation that the Supreme Court used in the justification of McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission. I emphatically don't agree with his views, but the threat to everyone's right to free political speech and the potential threat to transparency of campaign finances are not to be taken lightly.
At this point, I can't even read food reviews on Yelp without wondering if there are negative reviews missing. I just end up opting browsing photos for a truer experience.
> In my experience, the teams that choose typescript are usually windows devs that cannot wean themselves off of visual studio due to their dependence upon auto completion and IDE tools.

Well, since VS does auto-completion with JavaScript too, so maybe you're not understanding the whole situation. Some people like TypeScript for its ability to facilitate creation of large projects via addition types, classes, and namespaces, while retaining much of the basic JavaScript syntax.
ivanca - let those of you without sin cast the first stone. I'm sure if you name a group you're a member of we can find something less than savory about it.
The public domain, BSD, GPL, and all that
an obvious policy: since CA doesn't have gay marriage, it's optional to offer partners of gay employees health benefits
TypeScript also adds namespaces.
that would then mean that no government in the world is legitimate. Maybe we should invalidate all laws/regs passed during Obama's presidency, since he has fundamentally reneged on the promises he made in his campaign?
While everything you wrote is basically true, there's perhaps another detail of Washington and Oregon politics to consider - the west and east are completely divided politically in both states. For example, if you were to look at another divisive issue like the legalization of marijuana, you'd probably find that exactly the same counties in Washington voted against it as that voted against same-sex marriage. Eastern Washington and eastern Oregon are rural, agrarian, religious, and significantly Republican compared to urban, wealthy, etc Portland and Seattle. So, when you look at issues like this is isn't just "a pretty large percentage of the electorate" but rather a geopolitical divide that runs straight down the Cascades.
Game of the Year
We, the universal
None of which is true when building a new home. But they still don't put them in new homes either.
RIP Java! :)
Oh, don't worry, Silicon Valley still has some forms of religion. Like the idea of Singularity, with Kurzweil as a prophet. You also have Saint-like figures such as Steve Jobs, whose achievements are God-like for all his believers, no matter how he mistreated employees, competitors and humans in general.

It's a strange thing, actually, to see people reject older nonsensical beliefs while creating their owns devoid of all rationality.
Artsy is awesome! In particular I love that they have tons of high-resolution images available for free. Although their online gallery is pretty sweet, with a little effort you can download them in high-res for yourself [0].

[0]: https://github.com/peterldowns/artsy-download-script
Isn't that the DailyKos logo? What is up with that?
TLDR;

"The aim of the investigation is to determine what each artifact is, where it came from and how Miller obtained it, Jones said, to determine whether some of the items might be illegal to possess privately."

Not sure whether this is justified or just another overreach by the FBI.
>Please don't paint all Christians with a broad brush.

I'm not sure how I gave you the impression that I was doing so. I didn't say "Christians speak of 'civil unions'", I said "Christians THAT speak of civil unions."

I agree that the government shouldn't be in the 'marriage' business. I'd be OK with the government calling all marriages 'civil unions' for legal/tax purposes. That would be fair and impartial. Unfortunately, the subset of Christians that is currently arguing for a monopoly on the term 'marriage' would still be upset, because then it still wouldn't be able to stop homosexuals from using it.
Activity Roulette
Good Customer service means bugger all when negative reviews are being posted by people who are not customers in an attempt to sabotage the business. (Like competitors as suspected by the company in the article)
Please dissociate religion as in private beliefs from religious institutions and their leaders. If you assimilate both, it's very much a strawman.
Hold on, cash-based transactions work in the real world because you can inspect goods beforehand or you're paying for services already received. It doesn't require a lot of trust.

That doesn't hold in the mail order or online world. Consumer protections are more important.
Isn't publishing in the WSJ just preaching to the choir?