skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The East Germany comparison made sense and your comment about capitalism also made sense. Mozilla itself might very well have simply made a reasonable business decision. 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.

The Hitler thing is uncalled for.
The oppressed have already won? No, I don't think so. I do not see any reality to a claim that the gay community is not actively oppressed. Perhaps you mean the gay community is sufficiently less oppressed that it should stop defending itself. Then how few lives need to be ruined for that qualification to take effect?
It's a real practice in hospitals with trained medical doctors. Not "in my apartment with a close friend."
Why do people have to be employed at all? If computers/robots become as good (I don't see this in close future), people will just use them to produce what they need and they will not need money.
Subtle difference: Apple and IBM have made use of free software such as FreeBSD, CUPS, Webkit, etc. Microsoft here is taking core technology and releasing it as free.
Species is not a matter of choice. And yet we're quite fine oppressing chickens.
It's based on whether the government of the country spies on its own domestic network.
Not to make a general rule, but in this case I think it would have.

The most damaging thing about homophobic (or other bigoted) views isn't necessarily how the holder of those views acts toward people based on them (in this case it's clear that Eich didn't treat individuals any differently), but how making those views public legitimizes them in other people, giving space for others to act on them directly, and delays full societal acceptance of the marginalized group.

In other words, it's the knowledge that a public figure has those beliefs, not the beliefs themselves. If he just hid them, it would make things better overall.
The Woman Behind Apple's First Icons
He should have just said that he's a devout christian or muslim, and therefore does not condone gay marriage. It would suddenly become adorable in the name of tolerance and diversity.
Are you asking if I could design you a secure backup system?

I could, and it might asymptotically approach the quality of Colin's.

I don't think you're comfortable with the amount of money I'd charge for that service.

You're better off paying Colin cost-plus for AWS storage, since that's all he seems to want to charge. :)
Brendan, thanks for the feedback. It's really cool to hear comments like this from someone like you. We really respect your work in the field.

Good catch on topprocs_file, we'll have to find a better name for it.

In terms of overhead, we put a lot of effort in it and, as you pointed out, we're already extremely optimized. But we think we can do even better. For example, we don't have any kind of kernel-level filtering yet. Coming soon! :)
Linus is right but he's still a giant asshat.
I think it's clear that the comment you're replying to does give them a pass since he says he votes GOP.
The fact that you count something as an object or see the world in discreet terms is also similarly arbitrary. You could see "objects" as something that's more interconnected and thus would count them differently. If we were far smaller and "looking" at things on an atomic level, putting that grouping together would not be quite as likely. And even still, you're focusing on the "discreet" positive space versus the negative space.

There are many ways to view the world that also would create its own system of abstraction and eventually "come out to be true." You're just used to one particular variety and it's all you know, so you call it the truth.

Oi vey, engineers. Everything is so 1D.

I HIGHLY recommend reading this to understand a bit more about how differently the world can be understood given just your culture alone (read: its all arbitrary):
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Dangerous-Things-George-Lakoff/d...
Yes, you can buy it if you don't mind waiting 6 months or sometimes much longer.
You really think github can host windows huh? It will crumble and die.
There is a real world cash based economy. A lot of person to person trust exists in that world too. Not everyone is middle class and above, drinking their Starbucks coffees paid for on their credit cards, even in this "first world"... Have you never been to a local market? Stallholders generally much prefer cash, even to the extent of causing the customer inconvenience. Bitcoin is the internet equivalent of this.

I don't actually think it will be of huge benefit to people like you who are happy with their credit cards. What Bitcoin will (and is already doing) is enable new applications and a new internet economy where location and real identity is no longer important.

(In this sense, I suppose I'm kind of agreeing with you, since I don't necessarily think there are any absolutely concrete examples of Bitcoin supplanting CCs. I think Bitcoin's greatest potential is elsewhere in untapped areas.)
I might be misremembering (I'm on the other side of the country) but didn't the civil unions give exactly the same survivor benefits?
I change my mind about things all of the time.

While 'peer pressure' is seen as a negative, if you think yourself right while everyone else is wrong on an issue it is a pretty good indicator that you should check your assumptions and logic carefully.
i wish they would post the sources of the initial basic that bill and paul wrote.
To the author: Could you dig a little more into why you did not find product/market fit? (Perhaps use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys). That would make this post more valuable as a lesson learnt and a sign post to others. Now it reads more like an anecdote which nevertheless is a good read.

Similarly for the startup lessons. A deeper (albeit painful) introspection into the mistakes made would make this a valuable post for others.
Vicious bigotry is not "a political view".

Can we please stop comparing Eich's hateful, hurtful and downright delusional notions with ordinary political or personal views?

Being anti-gay is not a political view. And being anti gay marriage is just a very, very lame and transparent attempt to make being anti-gay seem somehow less hateful.

Hating people for what they are may be very human, understandable even, but it's not a "political view".
> Why bring it back to earth? Wouldn't it be safer & less expensive to return it to ISS instead, (or is that what's implied) ?

No, that would involve a very complicated and expensive breaking maneuver to slow down the spacecraft, not to mention getting in exactly the right orbit to rendezvous with the ISS. It's much, much easier to just the payload sturdy enough to survive atmospheric entry and a crash landing.
You have confused the right of free association with government oppression. OKCupid has a right to not be associated with Firefox. That's rather the opposite of what the Stasi did to dissidents in East Germany.
This is amusingly relevant to my life:

Dr. McKay, who was not involved with gravity measurements, noted that only Enceladus was known to possess the four essential ingredients for life, at least as it exists on Earth: liquid water, energy, carbon and nitrogen.

“I would say it’s our best bet,” he said.

Mars has a dearth of nitrogen, found in amino acids and proteins, and the surface today is dry and cold. Europa, which also possesses an under-ice ocean, may have all of the ingredients, but that has not been confirmed.

Amusingly, I have Europa as a colony in a comic I write. In mentioning this elsewhere just now, a physicist has suggested this resource to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System_in_fiction#Comics_...

I shall have to learn yet more about our solar system so I can make up dumb bs for humor's sake.

(Not that I expect anyone here to really care. I am just cracking up over this.)
These days, I goto imgur frontpage to view the gallery, viewing the daily "funnies" is not done via reddit anymore.

My reddit usage is more directly into specific communities, less of the general sub-reddits.
But he is being judged by his actions, because his actions suck. His actions like donating a grand to these jerks, like donating money to other jerks like Pat "our promiscuous homosexuals appear literally Hell-bent on Satanism and suicide" Buchanan. He has a history of badness and it's catching up to him. Though, honestly, the Pat Buchanan donation bothers me even more than the Prop 8 one; donating money to Pat Buchanan should not only be reason to not represent Mozilla but possibly be thrown off of planet Earth entirely.

And if somebody has a problem differentiating between civil and religious marriage, that's their problem. A few people's failures in civics classes should not be a rationale for injustice or a pass for people who wish to encourage further injustice.
Off-topic, but have to state: With this website open, the cpu usage of xorg flew up to 65%. Congrats to fastcolabs.com for making such a slick, html5, javascript asynchronous streaming website.
I've been learning a teeny tiny bit about C, for the low-level aspects. Rust seems much better (at least eventually), but I was afraid that it was so good that it spoil me and turn me off going back to studying C. But maybe this really is the best time to get into Rust - for Rust to get as an active community as possible. Even though increasing that community participation might only manifest itself as more newbie questions on IRC on my part. :)
Currently using MongoDB for my historical quotes ticks database. Any peeps in trading use KDB+ in production or for fun think it's expressive enough to write queries directly to it for backtesting?
Rust can be called from other languages even with std. The main thing you'll be missing is the ability to handle task failure (which will just cause a process abort), but also protection from stack overflow. For full integration it will require a small amount of runtime API that is yet to be determined.
If I walked into my office tomorrow and told people that I think women aren't humans, abused some racial minorities, my livelihood would be affected because of my socio-political views.

And I'm okay with that.
Yes, it probably was. And it's just as sad.
You've missed the context of this document.
I've seen it stated a few times that after Rust 1.0 there will be no more backwards compatible changes.

Does that mean ever, or just that it'll be stable for some time before people start considering a 2.0 to try and fix whatever warts are discovered from wider usage of 1.0+ ?
Well, it's the world we live in, not as it should be. The government definition of marriage and the rights it confers (not just survivor benefits, but substantial tax/program eligibility economic advantages, among others) are real and should not be withheld on the basis of sexual orientation. And the priority should be addessing this clear violation of the 14th amendment before addressing the relationship between the religious ritual of marriage and the nondenominational legal relationship of marriage that regrettably shares the same name.
I said nothing about him being owed a job, nor did I mention anything about a separation.

In fact, the "everything is connected" principle is exactly what would motivate, say, a serious-minded Catholic to vote, donate and set public example in such a way as to promote the Catholic Church's social and moral doctrines. That is to say, "everything is connected; these aren't just truths for me, but truths and norms that deviated from on large scales will lead to societal decay, proliferation of evil, and everyone will suffer all the more. Therefore I will act, vote and speak publicly so as to see these truths reflected in laws and policies that will affect society around me, in my own time and for generations to come."
Sure, the world is not black and white, you can always twist things around and mince words to support any viewpoint. But you picked a bad example, because the argument with abortion is that the unborn baby has rights too.

The only way you can say gay marriage violates someone's rights is to say that people have the right to not be offended, or the right to hate people who are different from them. For all the contortions that people will make on this issue, it's fundamentally about fear and hate and nothing more. Abortion is a much more nuanced issue.
None of them should be lumped together. There's no evidence that open-sourcing is a "standard play" demonstrative of anything as specific as what leoc claimed or with predictive power. That list of companies seems to demonstrate the opposite, in fact.
Politicians say one thing while believing something else all the time. It's almost a qualification for the job.

I don't care about that (much). 'Twas always thus...

I'm pointing out that there are surely things 2008 Candidate Obama could have said and positions he could have taken that would have disqualified him in the eyes of many of the folks here, even if they suspected he didn't really mean them. I'd like to hope some of those would include expressing support for racial segregation or opposing interracial marriage. But many in this discussion are claiming that BE's 2008 opposition to gay marriage is morally indistinguishable from support for racial segregation or opposition to interracial marriage, and that he should be judged accordingly. Then how can they square that with a vote for Senator Obama in 2008?

The analogy with the Civil Rights Movement to end racial discrimination absolutely has some force behind it, but I don't think making that analogy ends the debate over how to treat folks on the other side.
As I said, I disagree with my father-in-law's views, just like I disagree with Eich's views. I have tried to talk my father-in-law out of them.

But I certainly don't think employment should be conditional on having the right set of beliefs. That way lies madness -- it's the very reason we forbid employment discrimination based on religion, for example. How can you possibly determine which privately-held beliefs are "too bad" for you to deserve being employed.

Also, Mozilla's mission has absolutely nothing to do with gay rights. Arguments based on "freedom" and "openness" are so highly metaphorical as to be meaningless, as those words mean different things to different people.

As another example, I think the conservative approach to economics is disastrous and would be ruinous if adopted. But do I therefore think that conservatives shouldn't be hired in jobs totally unrelated to economic policy? Of course not.
Depends on the field of course. I'm in environmental science/energy economics so python is kind of a no-brainer if you want to go open source (and we do).

However, my significant other is working on a physics PhD and everything she does is in C or C++ with CERN ROOT. I used to use Matlab, and she thought it was adorably weak. I get a little more respect using Python now at least.
Things like this are about ethics, not "American Values" or any cultural norms. It used to be the cultural norm to be a white supremacist but that position as never actually been ethical.

Additionally, in this specific case it's worth noting that the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary the Mozilla Corporation are largely political organizations and someone who holds such obviously bigoted views is pretty clearly unqualified to lead an organization who's goals are freedom and openness.
Grand Central Dispatch[0] is the latest (2009) I can think of...

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
@peteretep >>>Out of interest, had the language been "only marriage between a man and a woman of the same color is valid or recognized in California", would you have said supporters of it were racists<<<

I don't know what I would say about that, but that's not a true analogy except in the political sense, certainly not in the biological or anthropological sense.

Since you bring up racism, though, it should be noted that 70% of African-American voters in California supported Prop 8.
They butchered it when allowed CNAME in the root breaking RFC and other things with it, so I would not be surprised that they don't do anything, but perhaps majority only cares about A/AAAA.
"I wouldn't say they should be fired but they should be made to feel that actions taken to discriminate against others can have social consequences in both your personal and professional life."

Well, it worked. The CEO has resigned today.

I would like to see one instance of the HN (or should I say, the US left) community going on the side against discrimination but regarding something against their personal beliefs.

I won't hold my breath.....

Why should I respect your freedom of choice..when you can't respect mine? We live in a world now where if I say or do something that is against the US left, I have a chance of getting fired and or having my livelihood or career ruined.

This is evil.
Exactly. God here is representative of some singular fundamental truth about the universe, assuming such a thing even exists. And math wasn't created in such a fashion.

Math was designed by humans to be useful, which it very much is. But ultimately it's just a system we made up, and then kept building on top of ad infinitum. Just go exploring into the topology branch of math (one example of many) just to see how remote from what you see around you math can get.
The releases are under Apache License 2, which has both a patent grant and a patent retaliation clause.
Very true. Some hallucinogenic can significantly intensify depression.
Where can potential interns apply?
I think this is an unfair characterization. The only time I'm aware that the reddit admins have actually censored anything was the /r/jailbait subreddit, which given that /r/jailbait contained lots of borderline child pornography could hardly be called a massive freedom of speech violation.

(This is in fact the "violentacrez fiasco", if I remember correctly).

There have also been a couple of instances where subreddits have been banned due to violation of laws (/r/creepshots), organizing voting rings (/r/niggers) and vandalizing other reddit communities (/r/gameoftrolls).

I am no expert on internet history, so if there are any blatant errors in my understanding, please correct me. I understand reddit to be very strong on the principles of free speech and "lassez-faire" web policy. The same can not be said of the moderators of various subreddits, but this is not an admin issue.
I doubt in orbit rendezvous with ISS would be safer and cheaper. It might be safer from planetary contamination standpoint, but complexity of such maneuver would handily offset that. On top of that there is a host of other issues due to the cramped space on ISS. For example: not enough space for proper isolation of sample, not enough equipment to properly study sample, and the fact that limited manpower would be available for examination.

Regarding planetary contamination, with the amount of meteorites hitting ocean I do not think we have anything to worry about.
Mozilla employee here.

Please remember that Mozilla is not one person. Mozilla is a global community of people, staff and volunteers, working to protect and care for the web in a way that no other group of people can. We are not perfect, but we are generally good people, and we are trying our hardest to do good, selfless work.

Be angry about Brendan, but please do not let your anger cross over to the project itself. Mozilla is about so much more than one executive.
Strange, I'm able to compile 12k lines of code (that's output) in 5.2 seconds. Running this on a watch + autoreload process, so 6 seconds after I hit save, the results show up in my web browser. I do remember 0.9.1 being excruciatingly slow though. Edit: forgot to mention, I'm using the NPM package
Is there a middle ground here somewhere? In that the kernel developers create some sort of DB specific hooks that allow some of the kernel bypass mechanisms to be implemented?

What are the key things that a kernel bypass version does different? Can these be separated out in a concise way which would lead to multiple DB implementations being able to use these same interfaces? Essentially for any major DB system, you'd want the kernel tailored anyway - you're not going to be doing much else on your DB server (are you?)
Maybe “prohibit” was the wrong word. On the other hand, I would argue that a “SHOULD NOT” is stronger than you think: The HTTP standard (RFC 2616) says that:

“[…] the GET and HEAD methods SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval. These methods ought to be considered "safe". This allows user agents to represent other methods, such as POST, PUT and DELETE, in a special way, so that the user is made aware of the fact that a possibly unsafe action is being requested.

I would argue that very few people would claim that it’s OK for HTTP servers to have HEAD and GET requests be non-idempotent just because they feel like it. “SHOULD NOT” prohibitions should not be ignored just because you really want to do it.
Hate to burst your bubble, but the only thing apple has going for them is the iPhone, which is arguably a fad. The reason Rolex never goes out of style is because they never change their style, and apple is no Rolex like a lot of people seem to think. People easily forget about all the hype around the iMac g3. Sure, it changed the company, but they still have yet to over take windows. Now Android is out selling the iPhone because of the business model. No large companies would ever replace current desktops with iMacs except in specialized "labs" where they're needed (mostly for designers). Apple isn't dominating any market. They're not on servers, they're not embedded, they're not on super computers, they're not on mainframes. They're no where, but if you spend your whole life surrounded by graphic designers and programmers and hacker news, they're going to appear to be everywhere.
I am stunned at how many people on HN seem to thing Eich should not be judged on his personal so-called "political" views.

If he was a racist in favor of segregation would people still take that position? I seriously doubt it.
R is rising now? I thought R was in decline because it was being displaced by Python!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6808127
I think that's the case.

Note: https://github.com/bup/bup does that too (though it does not encrypt), and http://liw.fi/obnam/ does too (and it does encrypt).

What tarsnap gives you that obnam doesn't is (a) managed cloud storage, (b) tarsnap's history and reputation, and (c) Colin's personal reputation. That's a lot, and it costs money above the S3 storage costs (which you could point obnam at).
Post goes through some detail on that.
Comparing to Debian isn't exactly setting the highest bar for usability. FWIW, OS X manages to support native code without requiring runtime downloads or other manual dependency management.
Who said he gets a free pass?

Our election system is deliberately designed and maintained so that only two parties--only two candidates--matter. That sucks, and I'd change it if I could, but in the meantime my options are to either stay home, which accomplishes nothing; vote for a third-party candidate, which shows admirable idealism but is also unlikely to accomplish anything; or vote for the lesser of two evils, which at least has a chance of producing some of the results I want.