skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Verizon’s giving $1M to world-changing startups in education, health, and more
I don't think anyone is disagreeing with that. The point being made is that the people who come to vote are the ones who make the decisions. If people are being prevented from casting their votes, that is a serious problem, but if people choose not to exercise their right to vote then whatever vote they would have cast doesn't count towards the outcome.

Saying that a vote would have gone differently if more people on the losing side voted is obvious. It's also not constructive, except in the context of wishing more people would participate in the political process in the future. Amusingly (or perhaps not), the fervor against Brendan Eich is based in large part around his participation in that process.
@OpieCunningham - How many lives need to be ruined...

That's a great question, actually. How many lives were ruined by Prop 8? (which, by the way, was overturned by the Supreme Court)

Are there gay people in jail in California as a result of Prop 8? Are there broken marriages? Was there an increase in anti-gay violence? Not that I've heard of.

Prop 8, which apparently very few people seem to know (or care), was about preventing legal recognition of same-sex marriages, not about preventing those marriages per se. Legal recognition means next-of-kin and hospital visitation rights and some taxation differences. Really, other than that, people could perfectly well exchange vows and call themselves married, and the state has no authority to change this.
From the original press release[1]:

> The project consists of an initial four-year phase during which three thousand manuscripts will be digitised, which may be extended into a second phase to include the 82,000 volumes – more than 40 million pages – of manuscripts preserved in the Library and dating from between the second and twentieth centuries.

It's going to be slow but it's a step in the right direction.

[1]: http://www.news.va/en/news/agreement-to-digitise-82000-manus...
"They found that the moon’s gravity was weaker at the south pole. At first glance, that is not so surprising; there is a depression at the pole, and lower mass means less gravity. But the depression is so large that the gravity should actually have been weaker."

They found the gravity was weaker.. but it should actually have been weaker. So is it weaker or stronger?
very stringent rules around children's data in europe I believe
Similar problem with IE for me. I raised a case with gold partner support when IE9 came out as it broke ClickOnce download prompting. Been bouncing back and forth between framework and IE teams ever since.

Result: we now have to ship a .reg file to our clients before we can launch our shit via ClickOnce. That's only 2000 people we now have to hand hold through this.....
Can someone explain why any of these is a bad idea?
(a) completed transaction tax;
(b) regulatory fee on offers/cancellations;
(c) insertion of random delays into offers/cancellations;

All could increase friction and reduce the speculative/arbitrage opportunities, while having little effect on those wanting to trade to hold for periods exceeding seconds.

There is a belief that the churn of HFTs/Arbs is enhancing liquidity for "real" investors. There ought to be reasonable questions what amount of churn is useful, adequate, and whether some frothy levels should be constrained in some way.

Is there any way to decide when things are excessivly liquid, in ways that lead to undesirable effects?
You either did something questionable or broke the rules.

Also in reality, you have no chance trying to compete with Imgur on their own home turf especially that late in the game.
> If they weren't allowed to hold unpopular opinions, then pretty much all the social progress we made in the last century - racial equality, feminism, gay rights, etc. - would never have happened.

Back in the day, they weren't allowed to hold unpopular opinions. The history of civil rights is a story of many people going to jail for their beliefs, and then being force-fed when they performed hunger strikes and being lynched by roving mobs. The righteousness of their ideas became apparent because they clung to those beliefs and refused to budge until physical force moved them, and because they never renounced their beliefs despite the torment of their oppressors. To paraphrase Ghandi "You can kill me if you want, and you will have my dead body. But you will not have my obedience."

I'd argue that the stakes are not nearly as high here. We're not talking about sending Brendan Eich to jail. He is free to move about the world and continue making boatloads of cash at whatever firm is willing to hire the foremost JS expert on the planet. We just don't want him running this particular organization.
Yes, they are.

Here's my (shameless plug) rather simple explanation of how it works.

The long and short of it though, is that only half of any given reCAPTCHA is known, and you can usually bypass it somewhat persistently by just guessing that half.

Also interesting that I attributed its function as "contributing to the common good", while I infer the intent of this post as suspicious of nefarious motives. I suppose either stance makes sense with the appropriate amount of skepticism.

https://medium.com/tech-talk/e8f2a748f95f
Note that phillmv is not suggesting changing views, but just lying about changing them. Changing views can be done with integrity. Not changing them can also be done with integrity. Simply lying about what your views are, on the other hand really can't.
I keep hearing people saying that gay marriage is more than just a political view, but so is every other political view.

Don't support welfare? You're against poor people.
Support welfare? You're against the working man.
You're pro-choice? You're against babies.
You're pro-life? You're against women.

Pretty much every political stance can be viewed in the same fashion as people are viewing Eich's. The thing is, Eich has been at the company for 15 years; if he wanted to discriminate against gay people in the workplace, it could have been done already - he's a co-founder, don't you think he had some input towards the policies in place? And if it has been done already, I haven't heard of it, but I would fully support trying to get him to step down. The thing is, it probably hasn't been done, which would mean he has done nothing wrong in my opinion.
> We have employees with a wide diversity of views. Our culture of openness extends to encouraging staff and community to share their beliefs and opinions in public.

Except for the CEO, it seems.

I don't think what he did is right -- it should be pretty obvious to everyone by now that history is going to look unfavourably at all of us for dragging our feet on the issue he made a bigoted stand on -- but it seems a peculiar thing to include in the blog post announcing that your CEO stepped down because of his stance on a civil rights issue.
And if they don't, ask a few hours later.
Their Clang Arm64 back end as well, among other things.
Wow, no. That is not my logic at all.

Lambo is profitable, evidently, but they have an absolutely miniscule share of the auto industry's profits.

Profits, profit margins, and profit share are related but really distinct things. I hope nobody lets you run a business!
Don't know why you are being down voted, but you should understand its about tradeoffs.

If I want to increase my database performance I can either

1.) Build this plugin and integrate it into my already working ecosystem
2.) Spend time researching, testing, and deploying VoltDB.

Given the popularity of postgres, and the relatively low friction solution of (1.), its clear why this could be an adequate solution. Sure you won't be as fast as VoltDB, but as an outside engineer we don't know the potential customers requirements, and if being as fast as VoltDB actually matters.
100%. Tarsnap is like GitHub if it were priced by picodollars per byte in the repository blob.
Profit margins != profit share.
This is a red herring for I was not talking specifically. My main point was "a person and lifestyle are NOT the same thing" regarding the negative attitudes in the wikipedia definition of "homophobia".
He wasn't sacked, he stepped down.
https://www.infobright.org/ has been around for ages.
From what I've seen, he has demonstrated a few of the traits of a Level 5 leader (from the book Good to Great). Very humble, puts others before himself, has integrity. The fact that he's not a skilled interviewer and terrible at politics is a plus, not a negative.

CEOs with integrity in the face of public persecution are very rare.

The next guy to replace him could be someone that will sink the Mozilla ship.

> Leadership is taking responsibility and owning your actions.

You are implying that it is a fact that his actions are wrong, when it's simply an opinion.
I mean that prop 8, the thing Eich supported, was overruled. Anti-gay marriage laws are being overturned across the country.

That's precisely a definition of "sufficiently". The group is still oppressed, so there has been no victory. Your argument is that the group is winning and should therefore stop fighting.

Eich isn't responsible for every injustice, just the one he participated in. He is not, to my knowledge, actively oppressing anyone today.

Eich is a member of the group of oppressors. He had an opportunity (yesterday) to claim his role with that group was a mistake - he refused to state that. Therefore he is actively oppressing the group. If he had believed he had made a mistake and believably made that declaration, there is a very strong probability that the oppressed group would have accepted his admission and he would have kept his privilege. This happens all the time with public figures - even those whose admission of a mistake are questionably believable.

I asked someone else this elsewhere in this topic and I'll ask you the same: What is the victory here? What does this change, positively for the cause of equality?

The victory is the message to all others: if you oppress people, those people will defend themselves and you may suffer a lose of privilege. It is exactly this approach which incentivizes people to question their own beliefs, how and whether those beliefs adversely effect other groups and provides the opportunity for self-growth. If there are never any consequences to oppressing people, no one will ever reassess their oppressive beliefs.

And I ask again, how did Mandela treat his opponents after his cause was won, and why do we not strive for those standards?

Firstly, your comparison is far off mark. Mandela's cause was won - the oppressed were now in a position where they had complete power. That is not the case with an oppressor who recently received the privilege of being appointed CEO and the still-oppressed gay community - in addition, Mandela's situation involved life and death, not privileges. Secondly, I've already stated that sainthood should not be the minimum bar required to avoid being looked down upon. Defense is a perfectly acceptable course of action when you are being attacked. Turning the other cheek should not be the minimally accepted path.
I submit bug reports when I know it will benefit me. This means that the bug is substantial and the maintainers are responsive. I see it as a wasted effort otherwise.
A Sad 'Victory' – On Eich Stepping Down
Dude, you should brag about your approach to private offices, like your designer wrote about:

http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/

It reminds me of Joel Spolsky's articles on their approach to workspaces.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDeveloper...

It's so rare to find a workplace in SF that's not an open office plan that some of the most productive people retreat to remote work just to get shit done in their home office, like Rands did with his Nerd Cave:

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-nerd-in-a-cave/

Talking about the productivity of private offices could be a major attractor, the way Microsoft way back in the day had a big poster for college recruiting that was a photo of a door and the words "you'll get one of these" on it.
> It's obvious that a significant number of board members weren't happy

I'm aware of one board member that's true for. Note that the Wall Street Journal blog post that everyone has been quoting on the board member issue pretty much just got the story wrong. Two of the board members had been meaning to move on to other things for a while and just stuck it out to the end of the CEO search, since that's one of the board's key functions.
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From what I can see, the author offered Colin "advice" in a form of a consultation as a public blog post. A simple conversion from "unsolicited" advice.
> "Many comments in this thread, though, say that it's fine to have an unpopular opinion as long as you don't mind the consequences. It's fine for the people who disagree with you to punish you for having your opinion. That certainly invites the comparison with East Germany."

Eich went beyond merely having and expressing an unpopular opinion. He took action to support the effort to have his opinion forced upon others by the government. He couldn't restrain himself to respectful disagreement, and that's why he's suffering more severe consequences.
Really nice and new approach. I will give it a try for sure. Thanks.
Thanks, that's quite the list, though it's not exclusive to SaaS businesses which is what I was hoping for. Here's a link for people to read all the answers without having to sign in (append ?share=1 to the url).

http://www.quora.com/Startup-Founders-and-Entrepreneurs/What...
Cool! +1 for the "closest n people" for those of us plebes who don't live in a tech center... I tried a couple zips near me and no one to chat :(
When I went to that list I was specifically looking for underscore.js and date.js. Seeing a serious project that does not use these libraries makes me twitch.
That's exactly what I'm saying, that these preparations should have been made prior the announcement. His consideration for and acceptance of the role happened prior to the announcement, presumably. This should have been a part of whatever transition plan they had in place.
What is google just decided to filter those e-mails into my spam folder and I miss both? That seems like a very possible thing to happen.
An apology is acknowledgement of wrongdoing. He did not acknowledge wrongdoing, he acknowledged that he hurt people but did not admit to any wrongdoing.
This post makes me think I'm confused about the interests and projects most HNers are working on.

I suspect most people here on HN (if not the world) are interested in 'tech', and consider it 'high-tech'. I consider tech to be consumer tech 80% of the time. This report is looking more at Defense (Military I assume is what that means), Space (Satelittes, Rovers, etc), Health (drugs, and hopefully some of the tracking tech), Science (I have no idea what that means as an investment vehicle), other (THAT's US!).

Are there many people here working in Defense, Space or Health ?

Also, as this lists the percentage of a portfolio that is invested in these sectors, is that really the measure of who's 'top'? Don't we have to consider how large the funds are?
He could just not stress about running after his customers and chalk it up to breakage. Probably not a good use of his time to be chasing after them for a couple of dollars.
It's hard to say whether or not that's true. Such resignations are asked for at least as often as they are volunteered.
This is going to come back to bite us when the political winds start blowing the other way. I'm disappointed in how short sighted our community has proven itself.
It is. I'm curious because I'm interested in someone who has managed a large P&L but nevertheless thinks Tarsnap is the way to go for their org.

I am also curious because I believe most of the comments here on HN amount to not liking this article because it doesn't appeal to them as a customer without regard to what it means for Tarsnap as a business.
Does this mean one can now take this code and build compiler that targets Mac/Linux platforms? How about forking this to build new variants of C#?
Here's a cool book using GitBook : http://samypesse.github.io/How-to-Make-a-Computer-Operating-...

It's written by GitBook's co-author and teaches the basics of writing an OS in C++.
Letter by Alec Guiness to a friend as he prepares to shoot Star Wars
Sphinx already does ePub, PDF, and HTML. (Pair with ReadTheDocs.org for automatic builds and hosting from a git repository).
Would everyone please use "privilege" and not "right"? The legal benefits of a government recognized marriage are privileges, not rights. Government can grant privileges not rights.

I understand the demand for equal treatment doesn't change though.
Heap Overflow in YAML URI Escape Parsing (CVE-2014-2525)
Please don't comment 'good read', just upvote the article.
Comments are for... commentary, add to the discussion, ask questions, learn, etc. etc.
Welcome to HN.
They make money by showing ads that get millions of views per day and most likely selling information about their users.
Over 500 upvotes in 2 hours and the other discussion has disappeared from the front page. Is it getting flagged off or has it been removed by a mod?
I work at Microsoft, in Azure.

What I hear privately from the people I meet who work on the .Net and Visual Studio side of things is consistent with what the company is now saying publicly.

Basically: "We luvvv Mono" :-)
I'm curious if tarsnap has an API for enquiring on your balance and support for Stripe payments. Seems I could add a line to my crontab that would query it and send it more money if it needed it.
You have confused the general concept of oppression with government oppression. There are no laws specifically against black people in America, but our society nonetheless still has some big issues around race.

The government derives its authority from the people. If the people go right ahead and oppress you themselves instead of going through government processes, you aren't any less oppressed.
Building a simple limit trading market in .NET
Sure, but the possibility of going off of unemployment for a week and then back on again might be somewhat painful (especially since the interruption while reopening an unemployment benefits claim might last longer than just a week).
On the topic of being an "activist platform", I strongly suggest you read <http://incisive.nu/2014/thinking-about-mozilla/>, and in particular the paragraph starting "Several of my colleagues have called for Brendan’s resignation. I have not done so ..."
>being the public-facing CEO of a non-profit

He was the CEO of the for-profit Mozilla Corporation, not a non-profit.
Which means, in practice, that people can't necessarily use those freedoms. If most or all public spaces are privately-owned how do you exercise your freedom to assemble? Now that most of the communication channels people use are privately owned, how much freedom of speech do we really have?
it should have been weaker than it was
Umm, you need to be on LinkedIn to see that.
For the love of everything they aren't rights! They are privileges!
You do realize that you just said that the auction site eBay made the markets more efficient than the professional trader card dealers, don't you?
He was the CEO, not an engineer. In many ways, acting as the moral compass is the job.
That's a preposterous argument. Is there some kind of minimum damage level that must be achieved before publicly objecting to someone's views? How does one quantify social damage?
Which political winds would those be?
Yeah, I think that's totally fair to say.

I wouldn't place bets on any strategy that relied on Microsoft not closing the doors again at some point in the future, on future versions of their development stack.

Like you said, though, this is better than not having happened.
Microsoft announces new cloud experience and tools
Henry Ford on the relationship between Volume/Pricing/Quality/Wages/Waste
If it weren't for double standards, most people wouldn't have any standards at all.

All you have to do is look at all the public figures who express views, and act on them in much more thorough ways, who get a free pass. Look at the all the famous Hollywood types with very sketchy behaviors in their backgrounds. Look at politicians as well, where it's even easier to find skeletons. Eich has been held to a standard that a whole lot of people in public life, CEOs, politicians, movie stars, sports heroes, would not live up to. Do we now move on to all of them?

The biggest problem I have with this situation is not that it happened to Eich, but that the mob has been so selective. There are plenty of people in the public life who have done far more than donate $1000 to a state referendum that, let's not forget, was popular enough to pass in one of the most liberal states in the Union, but haven't been hounded out their jobs for it.

All the folks celebrating that a moral victory has been won with Mozilla ought to consider what happens if this considerable power is put to an evil use, or a use for which they personally find objectionable. Don't think it can't happen. 100 years ago, Fascism was the big thing because it allowed the leaders to Get Things Done, and in fact, many good things were done in that era by dictators with tremendous power to make sweeping changes. But some other stuff happened, too.

Of course, I'm speaking in a political climate where I heard many people state in 2009 that they wished President Obama weren't limited by the Constitution so he could _really_ fix things. I've never heard such a frightening thought from an American in my life, yet I heard it from a number of people back when the President was elected. That isn't a political thing either, because it would scare me equally no matter who the person was talking about. Sure, I don't like President Obama, but I wouldn't want that kind of power in the hands of someone who was the combined reincarnation of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Gandhi, Winston Churchill, and the Buddha himself either.

If we are living in a country where people are that ignorant of history and of human nature, then this society isn't long for the world anyway.

Maybe the tide is changing and this the start of a new era of populist activism. I guess you have nothing to worry about as long as you hold popular opinions... and, of course, those _never_ change.

Mob rule is a powerful thing and genies never go back in the bottle after they've been let out.
> It's obvious that a significant number of board members weren't happy with Eich's promotion on strategic grounds

What makes this obvious? I haven't heard any statement to that effect from any of them.
> Apple after the NeXT acquisition but before the iPhone (look how expandable our new PowerMacs are; on the software side, we're now an open-systems-loving Unix vendor, and we'll even open-source our kernel!)

Remember that time (well within the iOS era) that Apple claimed that FaceTime would be an open standard for interoperability?
The feature we brought to the table to compete with was turning GIFs into HTML5 video, so they save bandwidth and get extra features. This seems to be doing pretty well, though another competitor has shown up and seems to be doing better than we are in that space - even though they offer an inferior service.

As for questionably breaking the rules, we pretty much followed in Imgur's footsteps. Even if this was too much, it hardly justifies the crucification we received.
My general opinion has settled on:

Doing linear algebra -> Matlab/octave

Twiddling data tables around and making plots -> R
He still has the right to be a CEO. He does not now, and never had, the right to not be asked to step down. He does not now, and never had, the right to be respected as a CEO.
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