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"Does anyone doubt that had a business fired a CEO six years ago for making a political donation against Prop 8, liberals silent during this controversy (or supportive of the resignation) would've argued that contributions have nothing to do with a CEO's ability to do his job?"

I also suspect many of the outspoken opponents against devout Christian viewpoints (or exercising those viewpoints - various people have insisted they're fine with people having such viewpoints as long as they're never exercised) would not protest against other religions which hold similar viewpoints.

As a supporter of gay marriage, and somebody who believes spirituality isn't real, this still strikes me as picking on someone. And also a shitty way to advocate gay rights.
I mentioned this elsewhere, but invites were queued. You had 10 invites and you could send them all out the first day you got into Wave. But it might have been days or weeks later before their received their invitation. Mine came 2 weeks after a friend invited me. My sister's arrived a week or so after I invited her. This killed the momentum, it took too long to build up the social network which this system depended upon.
There is still risk. Even if you never lose money on a trade, your firm can lose money. You're paying fixed costs such as colocation. It's conceivable that all your trades are profitable, yet the sum of all those profits is lower than your fixed costs.

That becomes more likely for any given firm as the competition increases. Spreads get smaller; there's more competition for any given trading opportunity. For each firm, that can mean declining profits per trade and declining numbers of trades made. When the product of those two numbers gets too low, you're in the red.
Censorship at it's finest. I also expect to be downvoted despite raising a good point, lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
Correct me if I'm wrong but couldn't this problem be solved by some simple rules or act of legislation ?

For example, make it a rule that when you buy a stock, you have to hold it for at least some time - say a minimum of 5 minutes.

Or you could just impose a fee/penalty on traders that buy sell the same stock within one day of trading.

(note - I'm merely speculating here and have no specialized knowledge)
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How is the system broken? This drug wouldn't even exist if they weren't able to charge such a high price for it. And nothing is preventing the government or other organizations from also researching drugs. It's not mutually exclusive and it's unlikely two labs would discover the exact same drug.
I have had this experience looking @ similar book-packages.

As a consumer, what I would like to see is a path that allows me to upgrade after the initial purchase: "OK, I really like this book that I purchased and would now like to buy the remainder of the package..."
I tend to agree. In the pricing grid, the book alone appears first, but in the website itself, the book alone appears last. I think it should be first in both cases.
I've watched this from the sidelines, and I read the mozillazine blog site at least daily. There was plenty of support for Eich within Mozilla, and many gay employees blogged their support for him too.

I read mozilla's statement of "we let you down and should have been better" as referring not to promoting Eich, but that they let the internet infection fester and didn't attempt to lance it immediately.

If my read is correct, then the entire basis of Friedersdorf's article is wrong.
MS tried to sabotage mandating free codecs for standard real time communications, but W3C managed to put Opus in WebRTC. Not sure what's going on in parallel efforts in this regard but it's a pretty important issue and MS is on the wrong side in this one.
The main thing that needs to be done, is the public needs to learn & adjust its behavior. This is a sociopolitical problem, and I think it needs to be fixed by those means. Either through adjusting norms of socially accepted behavior (i.e. don't crucify someone for what they did 10 years ago) or through strong leadership from political figures/groups.
Since you two are both personal friends of mine can I just point out that (a) you both know a bunch of stuff about markets and (b) Andrew works in R&D at Bloomberg. :)
I didn't get that. Elaborate?
Much like your cable modem is "unlimited" bandwidth. It's free until it's not. For Imgur it most certainly would not be free.
I think that's a good point. Realistically, once the cat was out of the bag and the initial PR response from Mozilla failed to connect, the matter was realistically out of their hands. They could've encouraged Eich to stay and weather the storm, ensuring that the controversy kept going and Mozilla itself remained in the background of the gay marriage question, or they could've let him do what he did, and now endure the controversy from the other side.
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I wonder if he had denied the holocaust or was an active KKK member if this author would be singing the same tune.
One of these articles has to survive the flagging brigade (likely made up of the same McCarthyites that brought us to this position) and stick to the front page. Maybe this will be it? It's certainly fair and well-composed.

Edit: Nope.
"It's more like taking a peek at the other players' cards, when only you have the ability to do that."

In what way is it like that?
By the time the future gets here, all of today's patents would have expired long ago. Everything around today will be completely free. Not to mention replicators making manufacturing basically free as well.
Bigotry is usually referred to someone who puts down a group of people, based on their race, sexual orientation, sex, etc. Things that people cannot control: "I hate all left-handed people."

In his case he was (at least partially) trying to deny a group of people (homosexuals and other derivatives) the right to Marry a same-sex partner and have equal protection under the law. Note this issue is similar to people protesting that a black man should not be allowed to legally marry a white woman just a few decades ago.
I'm still game. Now I get to fight the corporate demons for hardware to run it on. It'd help if its authentication tied in with our system too.
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> Ah snap. The Night Walk experience is not optimised for your device or operating system.

Great. Please don't tell me what's wrong with my browser or os.
>> many of whom spoke out

Curious -- Does anyone know how many Mozilla employees spoke out?

I only saw the first few articles referring to tweets by a small number of Mozilla's 600+ employees, but I haven't been following this story as closely as others.
Zed highlights the always forgotten necessity of documentation. The app looks great. Has a few quirks but seems otherwise stable and I LOVE being able to edit remote files with a local editor.

But I don't care how good your app is; if you didn't write documentation then you're just not done. And don't go giving me that adage "its open source! contribute the docs yourself." The fact is, its YOUR project that YOU wrote and it is simply incomplete with little/poor documentation.

So, to the Zed author: before adding anymore features please take some time and write good quality docs. The community will thank you.
Between the way our industry has handled this latest thing with Mozilla and the way that related issues like gender inequality is handled at various conferences, I am finding myself less and less wanting to be involved with the community at large. It feels more and more like if you disagree with what a very vocal minority believes, you are going to be ostracized to the point that you could lose your job.

I have a family to take care of so losing my job would be a pretty big deal. I don't doubt that many of the other people that get caught up in these incidents are in a similar situation.

So, every time I consider speaking my mind publicly or even being involved in a public tech conference as an attendee, I think twice and am starting to just avoid them altogether.

It's sort of a shame because even local conferences are getting besieged by self-righteous people who are hell bent on righting some unintentional "mistake" by the people who work very hard to put them on in the first place. I find what our industry's community is starting to be something I don't much want to be associated with.
I agree. Though you could argue that the internal support for him also wasn't strong enough that he stayed on. Silent majority?
Ditto for volunteers
OK, and how do you do that exactly?

Clearly calling people out publicly is not allowed. What's the proper approach for changing the public's behavior?
You can "guarantee" profits but still be revenue constrained.
I've already programmed quite a bit of C and C++, and this seems like a great read + resource. I'd be curious to know how a non-developer or somebody coming from something like Ruby or Python that had never developed C felt about this.
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It could be context advertising, promoted groups in social networks, good SEO or attractive design. According to statistics, all these ways are temporary. You can see it if you add context advertising on your website. You’ll get an traffic improvement, but then another question appears...
Market makers can declare "self help" in the event of technical difficulty. Exchange rules prohibit declaring self help to avoid adverse market conditions. In practice, self help declarations have a peculiar habit of cropping up in rough markets. Nevertheless, "guarantors of market liquidity" remains a rallying cry for traditional market makers.
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Good point. This seems like an interesting case.
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Is "registering algorithms" really a good solution? It seems incredibly hard to analyze or simulate such a complex system.
Or you can blow up like Knight.
For some folks it can cause a psychotic episode; this happened, for instance, to an acquaintance who was also bipolar.

Carl Hart's book "High Price" had some interesting anecdotes about how drugs interact with underlying brain chemistry, environment, and cultural expectations to give different experiences.
I've used Xtend many times over the last few years. In fact, I'm using it right now at my "real" job for an internal project. I'm mostly a Clojure guy who still has to do a lot of Java work to pay the bills - when I can't use Clojure on a project, Xtend is a breath of fresh air.

The current form of Xtend has been around for a few years now, and has steadily improved. Its origins go back many years, to the OpenArchitectureWare project where its predecessor (called Xpand) was used as a templating and model transformation language for the framework. Since oaw moved to the Eclipse foundation (5-6 years ago?), most of the tools have been dropped, reworked, or merged in with other Eclipse projects.

Out of all this reworking for the new generation of Xtext came Xbase, which is an expression language that you can just drop into your DSL and have pretty much the entire Java language available (type system, expressions, scoping, etc.). If you're doing serious modeling/DSL work, this is about as good as it gets without going to something like MPS (which is awesome, but has its own set of limitations). Xtend is essentially this Xbase language in stand-alone form, with a few other goodies. There is also another project called Xcore which lets you create EMF models in plain text, mixing behavior along with structure, and it uses Xtend/Xbase as well. This is one of the reasons why I'm not too worried about Xtend becoming "abandonware" or anything like that - its main components are pretty essential to some key projects in the Eclipse ecosystem.

So why wouldn't you just use (Scala, Groovy, etc.)? Well for one thing, I can (and have) bring Java developers up to speed on Xtend in about an hour (less if they know anything about functional programming). You can see some benefits in more concise code right away, and it only takes a couple days to get productive with it. No one can do that in Scala or Clojure. If you're looking for a strategic platform to build your next JVM architecture on - well, that's not really Xtend's place, you're looking for Scala or Clojure (hint - the latter). But there are a lot of projects where Xtend is a very nice fit, and as a bonus, I've found that developers who learn Xtend first have a much easier time learning a more "serious" language like Scala or Clojure later.
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That was 6 years ago. The majority of Californians supported Prop 8 at that time. Even Barack Obama opposed gay marriage back then. Why aren't we raising the pitchforks against Obama?

People change.

This is a witch hunt from an action that someone did a long time ago. He didn't even do anything wrong. He just supported a mainstream proposition. He is on the wrong side of history, at that time, sure. But it doesn't deserve such a reaction. This mob justice is scary.

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Edit: Censoring me with downvotes only proves how extreme things have become. My reasoning is rational.
It's been annoying for months, at least. I've noticed it more and more - at least once every couple of days, I'll experience the phenomenon which I'm sure most here are by now familiar with: I go to read the article, go back to find the discussion, and it's gone. Oh, this again. Of course with this Eich affair, it has been so much worse.

I'm beyond annoyed at this point. It's hard for me to imagine how people think forcing stories off the front page left and right are really, significantly making the site better.
One very common meaning for the term "bigot" is basically someone who dislikes a group of people for no good reason. The term is often used as an umbrella term for "racist", "sexist", "xenophobe" and other terms. In this case, I used it as a synonym for "homophobe". If it makes you more comfortable, you could replace the word "bigot" in my comment with the word "homophobe" and the meaning would be the same, though less general.

Here's a definition: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot
I totally agree. I never pay for Java apps.
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The way that you think middlemen inject themselves into transactions that don't require them isn't what happens in the actual world. You're worried about a problem that doesn't exist.
Get started on the classics. As a very strong general rule, they're classics for a reason. Some of them can be read in a single long sitting ("The Great Gatsby" springs to mind for that). Old and modern; the British author David Mitchell has written some fist-bitingly good modern literature. Branch out; some modern Japanese literature is so good it carries through the translation.

If you can, get them in second-hand paperback - carry them, bend them, flick back and forth through them, mark them up with a stub of pencil. They're so good. They really are. Thankfully, they're also something that can't be hacked, pivoted, presented as a service, gameified or whatever other buzz phrases we churn out to make ourselves feel smug. There's no other way to read them than to simply open the book and read.
This is an amazing idea. I had a similar experience working cashier at a food co-op that I realized was operating in an alley beside my new apartment. Working on cash duty for 2 hours a week is one thing, but I think the most mind-blowing idea came from being a regular shopper when not on-shift. I'm a pretty friendly and respectful guy, and I like to think I treat everyone fairly and equitably, but... this job made me realize that something was amiss. When the people stocking your shelves and charging your credit card might just as easily be a professor or small business owner, a tiny behavioural toggle flips in your brain. And I found that disconcerting. I realized that maybe I hadn't been giving the other people in my community the mindshare they deserved, if that makes sense.

Or maybe, in a funny way, a member-owned co-op is a lot like open source, more than anything else. People who are there, are there because they choose to be. Maybe that's the most important thing that informs the different sort of interaction. We assume unhealthy things about people who do not choose to be serving us.

Or maybe that's not the take-home. I'm still thinking on it :)
> Would American society be better off if stakeholders in various corporations began to investigate leadership's political activities on abortion and to lobby for the termination of anyone who took what they regard to be the immoral, damaging position?

I don't think it's useful to try to find some blanket rule that works for this case and all other cases somewhat similar to it.

There's a lot of variables in play. The likeliness of affecting change. Eich's worth as CEO. What Mozilla stands for. How his political beliefs and political actions relate to people. The list goes on. Each individual with an opinion on the matter made a call, factoring in the variables that are important to them, and acted accordingly.

If you find Eich's specific beliefs regarding gay marriage to be disgusting enough to suggest he not take the specific position of CEO of Mozilla, go for it. Does that mean that you should protest against every CEO of every company you have stake in, if you disagree with them on some political level? No, of course not. You should make the call on a case by case basis.
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I don't really know. I can speculate- well-reasoned & accessible pieces that avoid throwing around blame (public figure). Friends speaking with friends (grassroots). Political guidance/commentary from The Party (political figure).

All I'm hoping for right now though, is that people will individually start to recognize the pattern & begin to lose their bloodlust.
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I feel like on HN I could convincingly pretend it's something to do with distrusting Google with my data. In reality it's user incompetence.

Back in iOS6 I added a passcode to changing location service permissions on a whim of security. I promptly forgot it. Upgrading to iOS7 has added extra security measures that makes it impossible to extract the passcode from backups :(
Wow, they didn't even mention the WWE Network, which is the closest thing we have to a proper cable network disruption as I've seen. However, let's not forget the cable/telco oligopolies still own the last mile and they won't go down without a fight.
The word glass is too generic; its meaning has been used many times to mean something other than an internet-connected device that you wear on your face.
Or even an antennae.
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He's a self-proclaimed progressive, if I read that article right.
(1) The NHS still has to buy the drugs, so there is still significant incentive to market them.
(2) While British doctors are not paid by their patients, they can be(and are) paid by pharmaceutical manufacturers to run trials, speak at conferences, advocate to other doctors, etc. (A notable, and infamous, example is Wakefield's MMR study, which was performed while he was receiving money for drug company litigants and trying to develop a competing product)Better than the US, but not perfect.

A book I recommended elsewhere in this thread, http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Epidemic-Bullets-Psychiatric-A..., does an admirable job of researching the history and results (medical, scholarly, social and financial) of psychological drugs in the US.
Sweet, it's great to see his hometown in a post on HN :)
AI and VR say otherwise. :-)
It'll help if you don't consider yourself a "Microsoft dev" though.
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Okay. "First" was rhetorical, rather than factual. :P

In any event, there have been plenty of regimes in history where you needed to be a member of The Party and toe the party line... and if not, you'd be ineligible for any position of power, and maybe out of a job. Perhaps your nation had a revolution, and the party in question is Communists. Perhaps it's merely a Reformation, and you're just not allowed to be Catholic anymore (or a counter-reformation, and you're not allowed to be Protestant). Maybe it's just the local banana republic.

And this is purely a partisan-affiliation play. No one has seriously asserted that Eich was mean to any individual gay person, influenced company policy in a way that said gay people are unwelcome, or anything of that nature.

In any event, it's quite clear that at least some portion of our society -- the one Mozilla operates in -- works under the guiding principles of those regimes. How modern of us!
You're just spewing "fire and brimestone" shit. How exactly is permitting homosexuals to be in relationships with each other damaging in any way your ability to have a heterosexual relationship?
"Mundane" cycling daily is all that it takes to get the majority of health benefits. No reason to downplay what he's doing.
Except for the fact that a large chunk of the support for _California's_ Prop8 came from outside the state (specifically: Mormon Utah), especially in the form of money. How do you counter that "sociopolitically"?

That aside, I can agree that someone shouldn't be crucified for a bad decision that is well in the past, especially if they've learned the error of their ways.
And I think that people who can say things like this really just don't feel gay rights are as important as other people's rights. Like they're optional. Like we did them a favor letting them get married, and now they're just being mean.
One thing that I'd love to see is a system for adaptive edit/delete windows. Right now it seems to be a fixed length of time (I want to say an hour?), but I think it'd be conducive to better conversation to have flexible windows, where -- and maybe this isn't the right approach -- the window is extended by X minutes for every reply, or something along those lines.

It'd certainly flatten threads a bit, especially in the case of someone posting a factually incorrect comment and correcting it after the fact.
Ask HN: Does no one else think Chrome's find bar needs more features?
It's always irked me that the find bar in Chrome has no options for case-sensitivity, regexes, etc. It also doesn't reload its matches when the page changes.

I understand that at least 80% of the time, the simple find is enough to get by with. But what about the other 20% of the time? To me, this seems like low-hanging fruit that would enhance my experience a lot.

I was thinking of writing an extension (or even modifying the Chromium source) to address it, but for once, one of my "good ideas" isn't already implemented! This is what finally brings me to ask, does no one else even have this complaint?
I'm still not sure where I fall on this issue, but one thing people sometimes leave out of the discussion is the fact that a CEO is the public face of the company. Part of your job is to "embody" or communicate the brand, mission, what have you, of the company you represent, and I don't think Eich had the ability to do that. His interview with the Guardian was bizarre, and not what I'd expect from a CEO dealing with controversy.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/01/mozilla-ce...
I thought the same thing at first, but then realized IT'S A FREE MARKET.

For every job out there, there are [x] people more qualified and more desperate for it.
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Yeah, and why not just compare him to Hitler?
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Tolerance of homosexuality has absolutely fuck-all to do with birthrates in those countries.

Seriously, what is your thesis here? What do you think is happening? "Oh honey, I just saw two gay men in the park. Let's never have children." ?