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Sure, it's a free country. If someone doesn't want to exchange dollars for work hours anymore, for any reason, that should be totally fine.

I'd also stop giving that company money.
> I wonder if Kay would have been more open to accepting change requests to systemd without Linus's bad behaviour. It bears thinking about...

Why is Linus' behavior in response to crap like this bad?

> Kay: "Again, move discussions to the mailing list; this is a bug tracker, but there is no bug to track or fix here."
Would you be fine if Eich had donated $1000 to an group trying to stop inter-racial marriage? Inter-racial marriage issues are not some far past thing, "In October 2009, Keith Bardwell, a Louisiana justice of the peace, refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple..."

In your mind, is being against interracial marriage just an opinion people shouldn't be held to account for... or like me, would you say "of course fire the racist asshole".
I actually meant Libya in the last sentence. Sorry. Shelling and Bombing is very much a reality there now.
Ruh roh - Ubuntu discontinued a service.

Ubuntu, why are you being evil all of a sudden?
Not tolerating intolerance, is not intolerance.
This is one reason why I prefer Haskell ;)
How tragic it is that VB gets type cases, guard cases and exception filters well before C#.

I guess that's why F# is starting to hit the prime time.
thanks; let me train myself to those lines and yes because this thing is so prevalent all places, i'll anyway someplace or other hit upon it.The best way out is to grow out of it and hope all young grads get to do the same :)
yes thats exactly what i am doing...
Being in opposition to same-sex marriage does not make one a homophobe (even some gays are against it). If Eich did not express any aversion or hatred towards homosexuals, it is not justified to label him as a homophobe.
Some of these seem undocumented anywhere that I could find.

I posted an SO question about some of them, if anyone has any input on the matter:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22881465/what-do-these-ne...
This is written really well, kudos.
I'm not aware of any case, but it's possible. You may have examples during the Vietnam war or the Red Scare. The basic issue is the same, though: is it OK to let the Vox Populi evict a CEO for holding currently unpopular views?
-- Sometimes founders will insulate themselves by hiring some engineering management to do their bidding.

that's exactly what happened in my case.
"Free speech has nothing to do with this, this is someone whose actions many people found incompatible with what they saw as Mozilla's values, both inside and outside of the organization, and who can blame them?"

I can blame them. Mozilla makes a web browser. Gay marriage has nothing to do with Mozilla's mission or with the political issues Mozilla has to deal with as part of its mission. I could understand the uproar if Eich had donated to a "ban free software" cause, but that is not what happened.

You're right, this is not about free speech. Eich was not punished for what he said, he was punished for what he thought. The donation is irrelevant here, other than the fact that it revealed Eich's beliefs. There would be just as much anger and vitriol if instead of a donation someone revealed that Eich had voted in favor of proposition 8.
You know Microsoft had a POSIX subsystem in Windows not long ago, right?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754351.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
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Money is a human construct. We all use resources. We all can be productive, neutral, or counter-productive. War is counter-productive, as an example. Crime is counter-productive for example. It is best to shape our societies to reduce counter-productivity.
I purchase a phone/cable/internet bundle from my provider and the price has held steady for the six years I've had it. In fact, the only increases have been when we've added services, like more HD channels, on-demand, etc.

Of course, the fact that they have a virtual monopoly on the cable TV business in my town probably has a lot to do with their pricing stability. The only competition they have is a satellite provider, and calling them "competition" is being a bit generous.
If someone harassed me while I was waiting for the subway and tried to get me to quit my job, I definitely wouldn't want to work for them. I'd probably go out of my way to never use their product, actually. I don't see how this is any better than the "do you have a minute for ____" clipboard people that prey on tourists for donations/signatures on the sidewalk.
I never understood why people are so hell-bent on advocating https://example.com/item/7536855 over https://example.com/item?id=7536855, or even https://news.ycombinator.com/?item/7536855 in human-readable websites.

The last form is short, allows for the simpler routing and much easier linking on the backend as you don't have to do any magic to resolve relative URLs. That's a tangible benefit, and it can make some code and operations much simpler. (For example, you could add an alternative page called item2, and it would happily reuse all the resources of item just via relative URL resolution.) Ability to use direct links (<a href="?comment/111">) also means more readable templates and easier time finding what links where.

The first form is supposedly "hierarchical" and "more semantic". What does that buy us in practical terms?
The writing on this site seems pretty terrible: http://www.freshtechapps.com/7-reddit-amas-that-went-horribl...
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I agree with most everything you said but I don't believe past actions lock you into a future course. He could have come out and said his views on marriage equality had changed but he didn't and so we have to assume they haven't. Had he said his past donation was a mistake and his opinion on the matter had now changed I doubt we would have seen the same backlash.
You don't seem to be responding to the central point of my question really, which is an open one. I didn't comment to tell everyone the Right Answer, I was musing about how people work.

I see you are fairly new here: something that sets HN apart from other corners of the internet is that generally, we try and be tolerant, and give other people the benefit of the doubt. Snarky one liners are not always looked on very positively.

Naturally, there are heated discussions and these ideals don't always hold true, but one of the guiding principles here is to pretend you are talking to someone in person and think about how that would guide your interaction with them.
Thanks so much for this list! What's your Twitter handle I can follow you on?

Have added this list to my project!
Ask HN: ebooks consumption and usage gathering
Hi everyone,

I was hoping some of you might be kind enough to answer this small form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12YhZrUv94YS7gtr-CiRMkjF6OJdf86kiMBf8h8OzhKw/viewform

It will take around 5 minutes and it's about your usage of ebooks to shape a small product.

Thanks
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Why is it so hard for browsers to implement a common set of byte-code. Then we all get what we want and it would make it much simpler to port your favorite language to the browser.

This compile to javascript trend seems so brittle and frail.
You see same-sex marriage as a human right. (You would surely agree that same-sex marriage was a right even were it not a legal one.) To those of us who believe in human rights, which undoubtedly includes Eich, that would make anyone who took action to deny anyone that right unethical.

The problem is Eich doesn't see it as a human right. Indeed, to him, it may be the case he sees same-sex marriage as unethical. (We don't know what his objections are.) At any rate, he has no reason to find the support of gay marriage ethical or the opposition of it unethical.

There is no objective morality that tells us who is right or wrong here. There's no divine tablets we can all interpret listing out all our rights.

You can't stop at "same-sex marriage is a human right" and "opposing gay marriage is (ergo) unethical." That just leaves you talking right past people like Eich. It doesn't advance the argument or the cause - it just labels people as stupid or bad.
I don't like this idea. Any strong disagreement by one side could reasonably be called intolerance by there other. And then where does it end? Tolerating other people, even when they act in a way contradictory to your own moral convictions is the definition of tolerance.

What Eich did was not illegal. It was disagreeable to many. But tolerant people would chose instead to strive the more for their position without directly attacking him and his career. That is what the intolerant do. Intolerance says "I disagree with your actions and your thoughts therefore I must prevent you from having any power or influence in our society." Tolerance says, "I disagree with your thoughts and actions, therefore I will work to persuade you otherwise. Failing that I will find a way to coexist with you, despite our disagreements. We will build a society that that respects the differences, and protects the weak from abuse by the strong, regardless of their beliefs."
Chick-fil-A also has nothing to do with Gay Marriage [1]. It's not like this is some totally unique event, in the real world these issues are more than a proposition on a ballot and they effect the way people do business, whether you like it or not.

As an executive at Mozilla, Eich forced the organization to take a stance on the issue by donating.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_same-sex_marriage_c...
O how I hated to do animation, if you didn't build your character correctly you would get all types of bends and pops when trying to animate. I rather just stick to character modeling, sadly I switched majors since I realized it would be hard to get into a good job afterwards .I already did all the basic sutff, did superbowl coverage animation for news station when I interned in HS, as was at the top of my class in college but I would of needed to move to get any challenge, which I wasn't ready for at that time. O well.
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Why on earth is anyone defending Brenden? I am gay in a third world country and if I come out, at best I will be socially ostracized, get fired and lose my whole family or at worst, suffer life imprisonment. He actively supported a legislation which treats gays as subhumans. His justification is absolutely abhorring. Does Brenden know how many homosexual men and women live constantly in fear for their lives? Does he know how much pain people like me suffer through everyday in their life?

What is wrong with people? We should respect his political opinion? Bull-fucking-shit. His political opinion just adds suffering to already shitty lives. The first thing I ever did after getting a credit card was donate to Mozilla. That's how much I like that organization. I can never digest the fact that he became a CEO.

I waited to see if he had changed his opinion. All I wanted to hear from his mouth was, "I am sorry that I have hurt many LGBT people by donating to prop 8. I made a mistake." He never said that. Deep down he still considers us as subhumans. I am very sure that he would be a great CEO. But If he were the CEO, Mozilla as an organization has let me down.

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Funny how the donation becomes the issue only after someone mentions thoughtcrime. Until then, the issue is what Eich believes.

"If we were talking about a CEO that was racist and had donated to the KKK would you still rush to call foul when they were forced to step down by popular opinion?"

Here are the guidelines I would use:

1. What does the organization they are CEO of do? If it is an organization devoted to providing aid to oppressed minorities, obviously KKK membership would be a conflict of interest. If on the other hand the organization makes general purpose software, I fail to see the relevance.

2. Is the CEO trying to use the organization to promote the KKK's agenda? If so, there is a problem with his professional conduct. If not, then his KKK membership is something he does on his own time; hateful, sure, but I do not want to live in a world where people are not allowed to separate their personal and professional lives.
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It's like programmers who find out about metaprogramming. Usually they grow out of it.
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> The reason for this is that a forum is a collaborative effort, a collective work, and the contributions of other people's content might only make sense in the context of yours.

Sure, but what about posts that have no replies? And what about a cascade, that is, poster B replies to poster A, poster A deletes their account, the post remains, poster B deletes their account, both posts disappear?

I don't care about HN or Skype as much, but when I get my commenting system done I will look into doing something like that. I do believe in letting people and their content go. It's like making a party: yes, if people start leaving the party will be less fun, but it's more fun that way for the people leaving, and the rest ought to cope; considering one day they might want to leave as well. And while link rot sucks, so does everything just growing and only growing all the time. Let the web be a jungle, a living thing, and let things die, too? In the tiny part of this garden I attend to, that's how it's going to be. If in doubt, it's a zen thing ^^

At any rate, I don't really see the "liability nightmare", since it's already a fact that if you post something on a forum for 5 seconds, someone could take a screenshot and reproduce it until the end of time -- liability remains with the people posting stuff in the first place. It's just a matter of politeness to reduce this as much as you can on your end for anyone who wants to take something back, to do your part, without that implying any promises -- the way I see it, you loose some content, but you gain other content, because people know it's not necessarily etched in stone, and can try themselves out.

Again, I'm not complaining about how any site handles this, and I'm happy to post on HN. But Plutarch said the mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled, right? Likewise, I believe in the process of the web much more than any heap of "content" it might produce. And at least for what little own content I have on my site, I intend to curate it every now and then, check for broken or obsolete things. I'm not even above editing year old blog posts, the whole point is that should I die, I will leave the best of what I made and thought, not just an endless "log" like toilet paper. If in 10 years some of what you wrote today doesn't strike you as silly and outright false, what did you do in those 10 years?

Public spaces like HN and reddit and slashdot I feel are different from that -- you get a lot out of them, and for that you give up "exclusive ownership" for what you said. This is fine, but I could see that a private or small community might feel similarly like I feel about private things; they don't exist for the sake of historians or lurkers, but for what they have with each other. When that ends, there is no need to keep it around. What does it profit a person if they gain all the content of the world, but lose their ability to reinvent themselves, right? Not everything is a wiki, not everything has to be revision controlled, not every conversation is about timeless facts, or facts at all.
My judgement is clouded and I might post some more inflammatory content. What is it that makes me react that way ? Every time I do it I don't even feel good after that.

Has anyone experimented with meditation/mindfulness here? I imagine constantly being aware of your reactions and moods would help in situations like this.

And in regards to that, are there any studies on mob mentality in western vs eastern cultures? Or am I just barking down a pseudoscience rabbit hole
Ironically posted on facebook?

Also, knowing that something is addictive and negativ does not stop one from continuing to abuse it.

Social rehabilitation centers, the next big thing?
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Ask HN: Can we prioritize discussions without killing sumbission diversity?
Is it possible to add 'save story' button?

<p>The issue with trolling the comments section is a problem. There seems no easy way around it. But we've reached the state where we cannot submit stories or save stories without endorsing discussions. Those things that take a life of their own after the fact and on tangents.

<p>Related to this is the issue of "duplicates." If we have an issue with say 2 or 3 sides, the "no duplicates" rule (which makes sense in theory) means that one of those views gets priority (often times by being first/random) for reasons not relating to submission quality.

<p>If we have a "dupe" button not a "flag" (which means=/=shit) this would seem to allow people to follow a front page story (say 1 of X=10) and then for people to continue submitting different points of view (say up to a limit=10 or whatevs) and then perhaps keep this on a rolling time frame.

<p>So, we can have max=1 story on top 30 under "topic X" and then something like a rolling N alternative stories (perhaps to educate your commenting on the first page?) somewhere.

<p>So for the story on page 1 the "dupe" button would be an "alt" button with a hyperlink to a new page with 10 stories. This prevents the situation of the first/arbirary story completely being "winner takes all" in terms of its influence on what is ever "learned" on the subject.

<p>To a large extent, we have something like this

"<p>Why topic X is important [page 1]

<p>Why aspect Y of topic X also matters

[alt page: Topic X stories 1 of N].

Right now we have issues with many mixed motives in the voting. Some stories impact people directly. They may be bad PR for the company, they may be bad PR for their personal politics, they may be emotionally loaded by someone's personal experiences.

But a balance between voting up/down a submission that is informative of a discussion needs to be separated from the perception of "endorsing" a discussion that has gone off the rails. Right now it seems if anytime a general topic comes up like this it's to binary the outcome. This only leads to limitations on the comment quality.

Because basically you only have the understanding you start out with.

We had here (for example) a number of front page submissions about a recent book. But the actual original work by the author (10,000 words) never made the front page. And not because of the quality of the submission, but because the "first, no duplicates" rule put a press-release type generic story on the front page.

When discussing complex topics, with many particulars completely non-obvious without prior experience or access to the original piece, this is quite limiting indeed.

So we are now debating only shadows.

Anways, you can't read this most likely. But feel free to chime in anyways with your own thought.
Ask HN: Our college is teaching us outdated technology
One of my colleagues just sent me this quote saying "I think this is how our college works":
"At the end of your four years of torture in university, there is the tendency to think that "I’ve learned all there is to learn"… only to come out into the real world and realize, "I’ve been learning outdated technology!""

We are basically learning stuff like XML, XSD, XSLT, JSP... I'm not saying anything of this is useless but I think priorities should be somewhat different, like learning JSON instead of XML, PHP instead of XML+XSLT...

I wonder what is correct way to tell professors that we are learning something that won't get us job as "easily" as PHP/Javascript would. Are there any other proposals that would improve our college program which I as a student can propose?
I've written a little bit more about them using the examples from CodePlex on my blog ( http://blog.filipekberg.se/2014/04/04/microsoft-open-sources... ).

There were also some interesting discussions on the C# sub-reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/225g4b/microsoft_ope...

Hope that helps and answers some of the questions you have!
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If you don't need to pedantically follow RESTful approach, that is if you are not developing Web APIs, I believe user experience should be preferred
No, it's really not.

This is an argument that tries to emotionally justify the limitations of web browsers that force us to compile down alternative languages into web "assembly".
No one said it's ok to be racist or homophobic. The problem is lynching. I can clearly image similar case when someone hasn't done anything, but there is a semi-proof that he/she did. What if internet mob go after his/her family?
I think most statically typed languages don't care for this kind of shenanigans.
I'm not sure of this direction. It looks like a rather large syntax explosion to cover a bunch of corner cases. C# doesn't want to become Perl. That's my initial gut feeling but perhaps that will change.

Does anyone know what the dollar syntax is? Similarly, the new dictionary initialiser syntax? Fisnlly, what is private protected?

Edit: these are from https://roslyn.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Language%20Featur...
Oh how you're wrong, let me count the way.

Polygamists are entitled to get married. You can't be a polygamist if you're not married. Everyone who has the right to get married has the right to be married to one other person at a time. Polygamists included.

As for relatives, they're free to marry people who are not close blood relatives for solid biological reasons that are well defined and well understood. You strain your argument to the point of ludicrousness to suggest anyone should be ok with close blood relatives marrying. Adopted siblings would be free to get married. A man would be free to marry his adopted mother. As abhorrent as that may sound to any people reading this (adopted or otherwise), the law isn't that you can't marry relatives, it that there are specific kinds of relatives you are not allowed to marry.

Also, do not equate racism and interracial marriages with homosexual marriages. The former is just a matter of skin color - a black man and a white man are the same. If we go by the racist logic, it would be OK to deny a tanned white man marrying a pale white woman.

What on earth are you talking 'bout willis? Are you saying that gay men are different to straight men? Because if that's what you think, then you are, without a shadow of a doubt, a fully qualified homophobe. In fact, you could get a job teaching homophobia at the international college for cunts.

If you want the public to support your cause

I don't care one jot wether the public support it or not. They sure as hell didn't support equal rights for black people. Where would black people in america be now if they had to wait for the white man to acknowledge their rights? This stuff isn't up for debate, this is the way the world is going to be wether you like it or not. If you think the world is waiting for you to say, "it's OK, gay people can have rights, I'll allow it", then you're delusional.
> but Michael Lewis is not helping the situation one iota, from the looks of it.

Hasn't the FBI been recently investigating this ?
Steps 2 and 3 may be better in the hands of the consumer -- in other words, while you can get away with probabilistic guesses for an initial query, you'd be better off leaving the consumer with an interface they can pick & choose from instead of trying to pull a Siri.