skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certain communities are more sensitive to certain insults. SF, in particular, is home to many gay people; many of them came to this area of the country in particular to escape persecution. Even now coming out to your parents can be quite hard, but you don't have to travel back more than a few years to regularly hear stories of children summarily kicked out of the house, parents never speaking to children again, etc. This is a community that also welcomes, and to a certain extent prizes, nonconformists; or others that have had really shit experiences in grade school, high school, or the cities they grew up in

All of which says that the community of which mozilla is a part is particularly sensitive to slights against gay people. This should have been, oh, completely unsurprising.

And the ceo is often symbolic in a way that a cto isn't.

And in particular, I wouldn't work for firefox while he was ceo. He made a donation specifically intended to maliciously hurt my friends and neighbors. I can't support that.
I get a similar impression in my industry. The best-and-brightest automatically have ten different job offers, usually by virtue of the people they have worked side by side with in the past. You know, as in "I worked with this guy for 5 years back at company X, we want him".
Low taxes?! You want to cut funding for the social programs that are the only thing giving LGBT folks a shot at surviving in this oppressive, heteronormative world?!?

That's not a political belief, that's saying that people should starve in the streets simply because of who they love.

Any CEO who supports lower taxes is clearly hateful, and needs to resign.
Not using JavaScript would be a personal sacrifice, which is well above the slacktivism limits of trying to get someone fired from their job.
Well, they kind of still allow direct linking[0] and they also no longer provide the direct link after upload.

[0] http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/moved-temporarily/
So if the long march of progress makes a fast food drive-thru a site of civic participation, well, that’s surreal—but it’s democracy in action.

I wonder if this guy is aware that "long march" almost always refers to the "long march through the institutions", which is essentially a Marxist plan to subvert society. (When it's not referring to the original "long march" by Mao's forces.) I'm guessing he is. It reminds me of the old commie-styled Mozilla red star logo. Was that an accident? What's with these people? At any rate, if you ever want to donate to any political cause, make sure it's 100 percent anonymous. That includes supporters of gay marriage. When the worm turns, you might get the same as you gave.
If your manager fires you because you said something he didn't like 6 years ago, you should have left of your own accord a long time ago. Also, the statement probably does apply after all, in that case.
Well cost of sale in SaaS can be fixed (salary) and variable (compensation + marketing). I'm referring more to companies that have an "Enterprise" tier, or rather at least require Account Executives that are a must to drive sales with higher profile clients. Any company that does make serious money (that would be worth valuing) would IMHO warrant this type of structure (Basecamp and a few others being the rare exceptions to this rule).

> If variable costs approached those of manufacturing in software companies, you'd have to take a hard look at the management and consider replacing them quickly. =)

Having looked at various large SaaS companies (SF, Workday, etc) the variable costs appear to be quite high.
You seem to have vastly overestimated your qualifications in philosophy.

Any rookie in philosophy 101 can tell you that tons of philosophers have been in favor of EVERYBODY participating in philosophical discussions, and that leaving philosophy to the "experts" is mostly an idea of academic philosophers (that is, people with very little contribution to the history of philosophy, and a whole lot of secondary and derived output of annotating the historically important --and usually "amateur"-- philosophers).
It's also mentioned on his blog, or at least the statement "I’ve resigned as CEO and I’m leaving Mozilla to take a rest..." [1]. Doesn't explicitly say he's never coming back, but certainly says he's leaving Mozilla for a time.

[1] https://brendaneich.com/2014/04/the-next-mission/
Speaking of moonlighting clauses, can you imagine the legal shitstorm if you were to moonlight for a direct competitor? There's no angle in which that doesn't look bad.
This seems interesting. It looks like a regular sports bottle. The comments on that item suggest there are more and smaller holes than a single large opening, for a better flow for this application. Is that the only difference?

How does one use it? Is there a straw inside that draws from the bottom of the bottle? Do you need to position it upright, or upside down?

These two seem more natural to use, If you didn't have your bottle already, would one of these be more interesting?

http://www.amazon.com/Hygienna-Solo-Portable-Cleaning-Soluti...
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Bidet-BB-20-Portable/dp/B004IW5IT...
I'm not sure I see the relevance of an 11 year old piece of news, though I remember this story when it came out.
personally i hope it highlights how arbitrary all the writings are.
A lot of the Japanese toilets have water saving mechanisms where the water that fills the toilet is used for a small sink on the top of the toilet to wash your hands.

I agree that there are more ways that we should be conserving water, and we are beginning to see more toilets with a small or large flush function (which almost all Japanese toilets have as well).

As for your question about the noise function in Japanese toilets, fancy bathrooms sometimes have a noise function to cover up the noise of using the bathroom. Most normally it is a recording of a toilet flushing, but some other more "luxurious" ones have little jingles that play when you hit a button.
... it was hard to watch as people who should know better pulled
out the Chick-Fil-A playbook

That's exactly right. By all means, protest a corporation that uses corporate resources to fund hate. That's not what happened at Mozilla.

I am equally disappointed in Mozillians and in demagogues who didn’t
see the irony in hounding someone for their private opinion
because of "intolerance."

Mozilla is beautiful because they've united very different people for a common, worthy purpose. To accomplish that, they must firewall personal opinions, politics and prejudices that are not relevant to their mission.

That firewall has now been breached. It's scary to think that an important organization with a critical mission could be damaged by this breach.

If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents
with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone
else – then count me out. If we are about intimidating the free
speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies
who came before us.

Well said and incisively reasoned, Andrew Sullivan.
I have one. I'll never go back.
How do you know Socrates even existed?

As an aside - Socrates and Jesus seem to have many things in common. Socrates never wrote anything himself, his teachings challenged the status quo, he was accused of "corrupting the youth" and executed for blasphemy by the religious ruling group from his own people...
> Japanese toilets are simply better. For some bizarre reason we've resisted adopting them here. It boggles the mind.

That's not true. One major reason we don't adopt them is the cost of installation. If you have an existing house, chances are there's not an electrical outlet next to the toilet. Why is is important? Because Japanese toilets require power. Why does this suck? Electricians are not keen on working on bathrooms because of all the pre-existing pipes, so to do the job right, they'll probably have to rip off all the walls. Once the electricians are done, you probably have to hire a bathroom remodeler to fix everything up, because again not many licensed people are keen on working on the bathroom unless they specialize in it.
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Be warned. You're talking to well-known security buffoon and Monsanto flack, Tim Ptacek.
You might want to read Piketty and Saez. Facts kinda matter.
No, let's look at an example from actual history.

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd was an actual Klan official. Not only was he not hounded from office, he remained in office until his death in 2010, and was named to numerous leadership positions every time the Democrats controlled the Senate.

Similarly, Barack Obama appears to be immune to Eich-style criticism, despite the fact that he was opposed to gay marriage until, what, last year?

I've seen some claim that Eich's measly thousand buck donation somehow counts for more than the public opposition of a sitting President. That's completely absurd.

It is interesting that as soon as Obama decided that we'd always been at war with Eastasia...err...that gay marriage was okay for now (he's switched positions multiple times on this issue), then we started seeing the two-minutes-hate toward Chik-Fil-A, the duck guys, Eich, etc. Not before.

Very convenient.

For the record, I don't think the government has any business being involved in marriage at all, on any level beyond serving as a recorder of the contract.
Perhaps use a preconfigured Amazon AWS Workspace. I believe it comes out to less than $100/month for a fairly powerful remote workspace instance.
a principle he probably...

When a group starts throwing its power around on the basis of "probably," it's time to start wondering.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

I think that the great tech though-crime purge of 2013-? will end up having a different outcome than intended...
So you're going to leave the wave feature on then?
I don't eat with my ..., just sayin'. But it's fine with me if you want to wash it.
I had the same thought.i think they are going to use this to flag similar icons(and to show recommended images).so, most likely it'll be reviewed by a human.

Edit:

From the last paragraph.
>
we will be using the algorithm in the future on Iconfinder to warn us if a submitted icon already exists in our collection but it can also have other practical uses. For example, because images with similar features have the hamming distance of their hashes close, it can also be used as a basic recommendation system where the recommended images are within a certain hashing distance of the current image.
All Japanese models have a pressure sensor built into the seat so that no water comes out unless someone is actually sitting on the toilet.
I hear ya, but I guess I look at it like this: if you believe something and want to practice it while respecting other peoples beliefs with which you disagree, and importantly you don't put money and power into laws that prevent them from doing something that doesn't hurt you, and is none of your business, hey that's respectful. I can get behind that. That's being a decent human being. Mind you this is not an indictment of Mozilla, just him.

But, if you spend money to prevent other adults from doing something your religion tells you is wrong, but it's so etching that (1) not hurting you, (2) not hurting them, (3) involves love(!), and (4) frankly is none of your damn business anyway: yeahs you're not being respectful, you think you know better and want to force your beliefs on someone else. Well, maybe I'm crazy, but that's just wrong. Mind your own business I say. Again, not Mozilla, but well I get the politics of mAking a scene. This kind of know-it-all-ness has got to stop. Respect your fellow man. Stop trotting out religion as an excuse to force your idea of victimless morality on other people.

So yeah, I feel ya, but seriously, what loving adults do between each other, in the name of love for goodness sake(of all the things to be opposed to!), that's just wrong to get between. Your deserve a smack if you want to pass laws to make that illegal. Mind your own business dude.

So, look, I understand he thinks he was doing the right thing, but he wasn't. He backed a proposal to oppress people. That's never good.

But hey, we are all allowed to learn, everyone can change, so it may be a bit harsh if he's penalized after apologizing. But it was still a mistake to back this kind of nonsense on his part. Mind your own business dude.
I guess it's early to tell, but if the kernel folks don't object we would be happy to work at including our driver in the kernel.
I don't have an issue with him holding that opinion (though some people obviously do). I just don't see why his opinion should be allowed to affect others. By contributing money to a campaign which aims to make gay marriage illegal he is actively hurting gay people. That, for me at least, is a problem.

It's more like "I think it should be illegal to play without a basketball hoop because then it doesn't make any sense to me, because basketball is defined as requiring a hoop".
Here's how I like to think of this (I have made some huge simplifications by the way):

Basically, you have two entangled photons that travel in opposite directions. Let's say one heads toward New York and the other heads toward California. The particles arrive at their destination at the same time.

Each experimenter has a little filter (called a polarizer) that he can rotate, and each experimenter rotates his filter to whatever angle he wants the instant before the photon strikes it. Each experimenter then measures whether the photon passed through his filter or got absorbed.

Because each experimenter rotates his filter at the last possible instant before the photon strikes it, there's no way that the guy in New York could know what angle the guy in California chose, because to know this would require that information to travel faster than the speed of light.

Now let's ask the question: what is the probability that both photons had the same measurement? (That is, what is the probability that either both photons passed through the filter or both photons were absorbed). From looking at data from multiple runs of this experiment, it turns out this probability is a function of both filter angles.

But since nothing can travel faster than light, how is it possible that the probability is a function of two independently chosen angles? Well the simplest way this can happen is something like P = f(θ1)g(θ2). You can see here that the total probability is a separable function. In other words, the total probability can be computed using functions of two separate angles. It would be like computing the probability that two separate baseball players both hit the ball; you don't need any faster than light information transfer to figure this out.

However, in actual experiments, it turns out that P = f(θ1, θ2), and this function is not separable. What this means is the total probability is a function of both angles together -- you can't compute independent probabilities and combine them.

What does this mean? It means that somehow each filter "knew" the angle the other filter was rotated to, instantly. So reality is "non-local". BUT there's another option if you don't like that: the universe "knew" in advance what angles the experimenters would choose, and let each photon know this before they separated. This would give the correct experimental results, and you wouldn't have to give up locality. This is called superdeterminism, and it hasn't been ruled out yet, but let's be honest: is the universe really working that hard to conspire against us? (At least one Nobel-prize holding physicist thinks so).

EDIT: Also, why did this article instantly drop like 40 spots on HN? Is it because I shouldn't post comments on articles I submit? (I didn't write the original article by the way.) It's kind of annoying to spend twenty minutes writing a comment that nobody's going to see.
The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
I agree, it's painfully slow for anything but simple tasks. My former company (in)famously does everything in Excel (including Gant and flow charts), and being the only guy with OSX the load times were terrible, the UI sluggish and it crashed often. I was really quite surprised how snappy the UI was when looking at a coworker's windows box.
Roger Penrose has been making a similar argument for some time now. He argues that consciousness must be a quantum phenomenon and that it takes place in microtubules in neurons. It's an interesting idea, but has been met with a lot of skepticism because the structures are too large to really exhibit any quantum effects. But if you're interested in reading more, here's the Wikipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orch-OR
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This is the approach I took. If the developer offered an adds free app I would gladly pay for it not to have to deal with "Daddy, the iPad is broken." only to find that Safari had launched and taken her away from her game.

Now that she is old enough to read and some of the game apps she has used her money to buy prompt her to upgrade I just tell her we don't do in app upgrades and she is very adept at dismissing the prompts. Fwiw - Toca Boca apps are great. I still see her playing them occasionally although in the past few months her interest in digital games has really fallen off and she wants to play some of the board games or hide-and-seek instead.
Great news. A 180° turn since Ballmer compared linux and open source to communism 14 years ago ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_...
Let's watch a speech by Tim Cook. http://business.time.com/2013/12/15/apple-ceo-tim-cook-gives...

A quote he mentions:
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

This is progress. This is the exact opposite of Eich's actions. Sure, he stood up for his "ideal" and didn't back down, but he objectively hurt others. Opinions, fine. But Eich took actions to hold others back. Along with those who tried to deny interracial marriage in the past, he stands on the wrong side of history. There is no lynch mob--just other folks on the internet who have the right to speak against those committing actions of hatred.

"Basic human rights. Basic human dignity."
> and the employees of Mozilla

More precisely, a few employees. A similar number of employees are clearly on record as saying they don't agree with Brendan's position but don't think it's incompatible with him being CEO. A vastly larger number of employees didn't say anything in public at all, not least because many of them (e.g. all the non-gay ones) could not do so without being accused of supporting the views in question.

Of course the employees who did speak out in favor of Brendan staying as CEO got death threats for their troubles (see bottom of http://www.twobraids.com/2014/03/the-mozilla-ceo.html for example), because that's apparently how debate goes on the internet nowadays.
What's ridiculous about it? People who would deny homosexuals the right to marry are reprehensible. It's not too hard to understand.
Right, they aren't defective, they just might turn off the alarm. heavy sarcasm
R's origins are in academia and its primary users are statistics professors doing research. They don't care (and don't need to care) about performance or scaling.

If business users want a free, plug-and-play statistics package they can throw into their analytics stack, R is not the right tool for that job.
So was Hillary Clinton until a year ago. And they both repeatedly raised money to candidates that were against same-sex marriage. I guess neither of them are qualified to run Mozilla.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/thecaucus/2013/03/18/hillary...
- An orthodontist refused to take my brother and I on as patients because he disagreed with my father's job

Sounds a lot like things some in the religious right do that the left objects to.
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I'm openly gay - I came out at 15.

I agree with you, I don't think this is a scandal, its effectively mob/victors justice - why should there be social or employment consequences for expressing profoundly held religious beliefs - in my mind this is just as bad as when employers fire employees for being gay.

Now personally, I'm a about as religious as a door stop and honestly in my opinion most of the arguments against gay marriage either seem to boil down to "I think its icky" or "My deity tells me its bad", that said, I think anyone ought to be welcome to hold opinions contrary to mine, and speak them in the public square without fear of reprisal - so long as they are not violating the law, or actively discriminating personally.
Well, then, you are a fucking asshole.
That's precisely why people send their kids to school.
Oxford defines bigotry as "Intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself". Which is exactly what is done to Eich, just by bigots from the other side.
Great, now GPL the entire windows kernel :)
The 'zfs send' command will send an incremental snapshot if you specify '-i snap1 snap2'.

To restore, of course, you'll have to have snap1, and then you can apply the increment.
> But the people don't rule. Money does.

That sounds like Meritocracy 2.0.
I'm fairly sure Mono is installed by default on Ubuntu. I'm not sure what happens to Windows Forms or WPF code in that case though.
To deal with this, we check if a visitor is coming via search and if so do not show the tracking code / tag. We just focus on people who are coming direct to our site, which is a stronger interest gauge.
I haven't noticed the forward slash not working anywhere I need to use paths, from the command prompt and elsewhere.. it doesn't work for tab completion at a command prompt though.

You can always use a bash/cygwin prompt for that if you want.
Those are ubiquitous in Northern Europe as well—yes, including all public bathrooms.
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The whole "europeans were dirty" thing is apocryphal. European towns were loaded with heated public baths that got plenty of use, just like in Asia.

There was a phenomenon that the public baths became associated with the spread of plague and syphilis when those diseases reached Europe (because they were associated) and usage declined. This has somehow done whisper-down-the-lane into the idea that Europeans were filthy.
He basically echoes all the points I tried to make, and got hounded for making. But I think folks on the internet are just really fond of a good lynching once and a while. It's a consistent pattern.