skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting aside moral arguments for a moment, if Eich didn't voluntarily step down Mozilla may be in a bit of a fix, as per California Labor Code - Section 1101:

>No employer shall make, adopt, or enforce any rule, regulation, or policy:

>(a) Forbidding or preventing employees from engaging or participating in politics or from becoming candidates for public office.

>(b) Controlling or directing, or tending to control or direct the political activities or affiliations of employees.

>- See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/LAB/1/d2/3/5/s1101#sthash...
There are deterministic interpretations of quantum mechanics, under which the usual randomness in quantum mechanics is not truly random.
Mozilla is not Chik-Fil-A
The problem starts when people start rallying active boycott on a person because his opinion is different.

Why is that a problem? People have the right to boycott whatever they want, it's really one of the only peaceful and effective forms of dissent available to ordinary citizens. That "difference of opinion" manifested itself as a financial contribution to an anti-gay cause, what kind of reaction would you expect from those who were exclusively targeted by said law?

a prop that passed in California, by the way, so maybe it's not just a bunch of wackos

And then it was overturned by the supreme court as unconstitutional, so maybe it is "just a bunch of wackos". Either way, I don't think the fact that a law passes lends any credibility to the substance of the law. To quote the court:

DOMA’s unusual deviation from the usual tradition of recognizing and accepting state definitions of marriage here operates to deprive same-sex couples of the benefits and responsibilities that come with the federal recognition of their marriages. This is strong evidence of a law having the purpose and effect of disapproval of that class. The avowed purpose and practical effect of the law here in question are to impose a disadvantage, a separate status, and so a stigma upon all who enter into same-sex marriages made lawful by the unquestioned authority of the States.

In other words, the only practical effect of the law is to disparage and stigmatize homosexuals.
Thread for the announcement has been buried for some reason, but it's here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7526619
Whatever else, the GrubHub guys are impressive entrepreneurs...

Back in about 2006 when they were just starting out, I had a competing site and remember how sh*tty their site was
(even had .jsp in the homepage file extension!); from that to becoming a $2 billion company (granted with Seamless merger)...all hats off to them...
>I can't directly address your question, because it doesn't seem well formed to me.

Let me see if I can take a stab at re-wording it. Why should someone who provides little value to society be rewarded the same as people that provide more value to society?
The way I see it. This guy didn't won the birh lottery but his mom worked her ass off so he could have a ticket at it. The fact that he feels guilty of basically having accomplished everything that his mother ever wished for him should be a very dishonirable situation. Ooh the humanity...
The Promotional Value of Business Cards
According to his blog it sounds like he's gone from Mozilla but will still be informally involved.
What's your email? Shoot me one. cjbarber@stanford.edu
No, he's leaving Mozilla https://brendaneich.com/2014/04/the-next-mission/
This contents me. Good choice Eich.
Someone pulls into a gas station and buys all the gas they have at 3.99 a gallon. Should they be able to cross the street to the other gas station and expect to do the same thing, or can the across the street gas station raise their prices to 4.00?
Awesome! Do you have any idea what licensing / re-use / fair use of this content is? For example, would I be able to take these scans and build a digital product (e.g. web / desktop app) around them? Could I print one out and put it on a t-shirt? Etc.

Something tells me "definitely not"...but I wasn't able to find anything conclusive on the site.
Today I learned that some people believe gay rights are so important that they think anyone who disagrees with the preferred, tendentious public-policy perspective on gay rights IS A MONSTER incapable of treating people like human beings and destructive to an organization. Also, pluralism is dead.
I like to think what we value drives our day to day actions. Often, the rewards for those actions are along another dimension and independent of your values.

If we are lucky enough to line up our values and the rewards we get for our actions, that might be a happy life :).

In this case, I speculate the guy wanted to build something fun, the reward came in $, so there is angst of values driving the action vs the reward of the action. It's great he is so aware of it though.

In a path dependent process like life, I feel a good way to measure yourself is % increase over your former self, along any dimension and quantification you see fit.
This might be a stupid question - but what if you have two icons, one with the cat with a black nose, one with the cat with a gray nose?
I've found this to be a bit of a nightmare with Japanese and English. Japanese DVD and CD titles often have a mix of both languages, so length becomes next to meaningless when comparing Japanese strings even against themselves. The feel of the text is also completely different, which makes it hard to balance the layout for both languages.
They use Edgecast's CDN (which is now owned by Verizon?)

https://www.edgecast.com/company/news/edgecast-powers-imgur

Off the top of my head, I think they offer their bigger clients pricing of $0.02-0.04 per gigabyte. I could be wrong though.

44040192gb *0.02 = $880,803 / 12 = $73,400/month.
IOS7 bug allows anyone to disable Find My iPhone and bypass Activation Lock
This is what happens when your headphones aren't plugged in all the way
There's something strangely appropriate about old books and works of art and high-tech in the same space. It feels like you're present in a continuous stream of thought from ancient to present.
"Marriage" IS a civil contract. This is the entire point of the institution. And considering the Government is the embodiment of and the centralized authority for our society, it very much should be at the center of marriage.

A "marriage" is a multifaceted social institution that has civil/economic implications (first and foremost) and cultural implications as varied as the number of people on the planet. To state that it is only a religious institution is incredibly myopic to it's history and evolution in human society.

That all said, we pretty much have the same view, but I propose a slightly different solution: drop one of the terms entirely. There is no reason to differentiate between civil unions and marriage. They are legally the exact same thing - no reason to have two terms for it.

I would say we drop "civil unions" and stick with "marriage", but that's just my opinion.
> So Barack Obama, the President of the US, was against gay marriage in 2008; I'm confused as to why he gets a pass here

(1) Barack Obama didn't contribute money to Prop. 8, and in fact specifically spoke out against it and similar measures in 2008, e.g., "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America's about." [1]
(2) Barack Obama's wasn't appointed CEO of Mozilla Corporation, so the people that think that Eich made a bad head of Mozilla because of that don't have that basis to object, and
(3) Barack Obama's position on gay marriage has changed since 2008, and he has spoken on that evolution at length.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/11/obama-on-mtv-i/
That's the fun of Apple "Kremlinology", finding meaning in the smallest, stupidest details of their invitations. It's like when my friends and I would hang out in diners and try to prove the Discordian Law of Fives by finding relationships to the number 5 in the most mundane things.

Packet of sugar? "Sugar" has 5 letters.

Coca-Cola? Their slogan is "The Pause that Refreshes". Six syllables. Six is 2*3. 2+3 is 5.

It's like, so deep, man.
Most people are probably very much in favor of marriage equality, they just draw a different line than you about the role that personal opinions should play in an pluralistic workplace. Let's not conflate the two views here, there's been enough discussion around this to recognize that there are at least nuanced arguments on both sides that defy this binary classification.
If OKCupid are against Brendan for his stance on gay marriage, they need to stop using javascript. Brendan Eich invented javascript.
> Meritocracies are not fair.

True, for a meritocracy to be fair implies there is a fair arbiter. In absence of a fair arbiter people use something else as a proxy, money is typical.
> Once the issue was raised as a legal issue, it became subject to constitutional scrutiny and the U.S. Constitution simply doesn't allow for that kind of discrimination and the kinds of argument used in support of.

This is actually completely backwards. It only became tenable to approach as a legal issue after gay marriage had become culturally acceptable.
Agree to a certain extent...nothing sucks more than zero value traffic.
I believe in gay marriage but I also believe in peoples right to oppose it, this whole thing is shameful.
The world is not fair, therefore we should collectively just shut up and put up with this enduring inequality? The majority of the world's population are living in poverty, and well over a billion people are entirely destitute. Lacking food, water, healthcare, sanitation, education - can they still 'win'?
I'm not saying the point is to make people more wealthy... I'm saying, the society must be wealthy enough to afford it. The food comes from somewhere. The clean water comes from somewhere. Wealth must exist to be redistributed.

Frankly, "look at all the wonderful things that people will do when they're freed from having to do the things they are doing today" is the scariest thing about it. I'm a programmer. A pretty decent one. The exact sort of surplus-generator that this scheme is predicated on. I go to work and I enjoy my job, but let's be honest, if I could choose how I spent my time, it is not what I would do. I would do something fun and personally interesting, like my outliner (read: "yet another f'ing text editor"), or one of my video game ideas.

This is MURDER to the basic income idea. It only works if enough of us choose to keep working away on things we don't really want to do, and there's a real tension between "a living wage"... that is, by definition enough to "live" on without a job... and something less than that, which is hardly basic income.

How many people are advocating for a basic income because they really think it's just, and how many people are just itching to use it as a way of not having to work anymore (but use the high-minded wealth redistribution as a cover for advocacy)? Even on HN, I rather suspect there's more of the former than we'd like, more people dreaming about how they could easily live frugally if they could not work at all... and we're the workaholics of the world if ever there were any, we crazy programmers. If this is put to a vote, how many millions of people would be just voting to never have to work again? We're not that rich that we can take that yet.

The exact reason why we can't all just do what we want, today, is that "what we want" doesn't add enough value to society on its own for us to be able to afford it. If we could live in a glorious wonderland where we just did what we wanted and we all came out collectively wealthy in the end, we wouldn't have to try to create some "basic income" idea, we could just do it right now... but we can't. Our desires don't overlap the needs of the world well enough. That's true even here in the programming world, and if anything in the entire spectrum of work would work like that, it's our world, with open source and feasible free collaboration between thousands on single products. I can't see how to make the numbers add up... and that is what we have to do if we're going to make this work, not rhapsodize about how wonderful it all could be in Utopia if only we got together and wished hard enough.
This is one of those things that long-time expats that live in Japan often take back with them when they leave. Another is the practice of removing your (utterly filthy, inevitably) outdoor shoes when you enter the house.

I read Shogun as a kid (great book, for a little kid) and going back home to the USA and using the toilet there always reminds me of the scenes where the European sailors that shipwrecked in Japan sit around scratching their fleas and scoffing at the Japs' grotesque habit of bathing every day... gross
The feature I really want in a smoke alarm is a "snooze" button which I can pre-register. I don't have a good fume hood over my kitchen stove, and the smoke detector is essentially in the kitchen (it's an open kitchen/living room), and the smoke alarm is on the kitchen side of the living room).

I want a way to easily hit a button prior to cooking and not have any smoke alarm (but maybe a CO alarm still) for the next 15-30 minutes. As long as I'm still in the kitchen cooking, I don't need the smoke alarm to tell me if there's a fire.

On the other hand, it's also entirely likely someone could step out of the kitchen for a few minutes, kitchen could catch fire, and bad stuff would ensue if the alarm were disabled.

One option might be a pre-alarm for 5-10 seconds, during which you can snooze it. Unfortunately, if anyone ever died in a fire where 5-10 seconds might have made a difference, massive liability would ensue.

The right solution is to move somewhere with a proper high-flow external-venting hood, of course, and only heat/CO alarms in the kitchen area.
Funny, when I first read about the Nest Protect, my thought was that the Wave feature could be dangerous if it was unintentionally activated. I figured they would have really tested it to make sure that couldn't happen, but I still wasn't comfortable with the feature in general.
Similar to how a swing-by is used to accelerate a space-vehicle, I wonder if a swing-by could be used to decelerate as well.
I'm really struggling to decide where to come down on this issue. It absolutely is a bigoted opinion that he holds and essentially comes down to denying a group of people happiness for no good reason.

It is extremely unlikely that these beliefs would affect Eich's job performance, though it is probable that holding those beliefs would affect the performance of Mozilla contributors - and for a group (corporation?) which relies on volunteers to function, this is an important consideration.

Plus, a big part of Mozilla's modus operandi is holding itself to a higher standard - and I don't see why that shouldn't apply to social issues as well, especially for those which Mozilla's community deems important. I have seen arguments that this is only a vocal minority making a fuss - I would imagine that the vast majority of those involved in Mozilla believe in equal rights for gay people, and many are upset (I am upset that he seems resolute in his views and refuses to have a conversation about it, for instance).

I do feel bad for the guy, though - it seems like he played a massive part in getting Mozilla to where it was today - but he partially brought this on himself, and not just by way of a $1000 donation 6 years ago, but also how he reacted to it recently.
The system isn't a democracy or a meritocracy, it's the system with all its ugliness, obfuscation, ambiguity, complexity and pettiness that comes with it being composed of lots of people seeking their own interests. Stop trying to turn it into an abstract philosophical concept. Just deal with it as best as you can, and if you really understand it well or just let dumb luck lead you down the right path you might even be able to hack it like the guy in this story.
That's a strawman - the alternative to a meritocracy is not necessarily communism.
Auditions are wonderful for job seekers: they allow you to evaluate the company much more deeply than the company evaluates you. If the work is tedious, boring, and uninspired, you know that this job isn't for you.

I once applied to a company that insisted on interviewers doing a test first. Just looking at the questions on the test, I knew this wasn't a company I wanted to work for, so I didn't even bother doing it. They asked me "why didn't you do it?" and I told them I knew this job was a poor fit just by looking at your test questions. I'm not sure if that is what they intended, but the benefit was good for me.
You act as if the decisions are uniform. Legislation banning gay marriage has been upheld repeatedly by the courts. Prop 8 itself has had an eventful docket, and was most recently struck by a court (after being upheld), and the Supreme Court refused to decide on the case's claims because the party appealing the decision did not have standing to bring the case. The Supreme Court has made no ruling on Proposition 8.

Nationally binding case law on relevant marriage topics didn't exist until Windsor last year, and even that stopped short of claiming that all bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, and 4 sitting Supreme Court justices disagree even with the narrow logic by which sections of DOMA were invalidated, which essentially punted the issue back to states and said that the Feds were obliged to honor marriages granted by states.

Should we all go boycott the Supreme Court as long as John Roberts is Chief Justice?

It's completely misleading to pretend that reasonable, non-bigoted people can't oppose gay marriage and/or can't believe that bans on gay marriage are constitutional and fair.
Take a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SuGRgdJA_c.

We will see an increase in automation for jobs that we didn't expect to be so. The speed of this transformation depends on our creative and technical ability.

If you think that work defines you, read up about the Puritans in America. They had an extreme motto that 100% of your waking life must be allocated to work. You could say they are the only religious that had a fear that someone around them was having a good time.
Why does being against gay marriage make you a "massive prick". If people for gay marriage wasnt a minority it would be legal already, are you saying that the majority of the population are massive pricks, and should be ostracized from their jobs?

EDIT: here comes the leftist downvote brigade, the sad thing is I support gay marriage, you people should really grow a backbone.
How can you call it "thoughtcrime" while immediately bringing up his donation? You may consider it minor, but clearly there's more to this than just thought.
Viral?
Looks serious but if not password enabled. but if password enabled, shouldn't that stop it happening?

By the way, it looks mdm server can disable activation lock, anyone knows detail?
Can someone explain this a bit better? As far as I can tell, the argument is basically "these particle effects should be predictable. I can't predict them, therefore they're impossible to predict". That sounds like nonsense to me... And I don't understand the cos equation.

The argument seems to assume that the experiment is perfectly controlled, and given that we're still figuring out quantum effects, this seems to be in impossible task (Make sure no outside effects can change the experiment, without knowing all the outside effects). So, to me, all the experiment proves is we don't understand what's going on.

My belief: There is no such thing as true randomness or chaos. Only order we don't understand.
> Actually, with respect to civil rights, acts of omission matter >= acts of commission.

No, I think actually using (or advocating using) power of government to discriminate is a bigger problem than merely failing to oppose such abuses, though both are bad. But, in any case, this is irrelevant because:

> Therefore the POTUS withholding support

On Prop. 8, the President didn't withhold support from the side that Eich spent money opposing -- Obama opposed Prop. 8 specifically and measures to entrench prohibition of same-sex marriage in Constitutions generally in 2008.
I don't think that at any point Eich did not have the right to hold his opinion, just as people and companies have the right to choose not to associate with those who hold those views. Mozilla, and those (internal and external to Mozilla) who are calling for his resignation are not the government are not opressing him in any way.

Whether or not this is the right call for Mozilla is up for debate, but whether his rights were infringed certainly is not.
I didn't downvote you, and I believe your comment was correct.
Actually, in a free democracy, it is his right to go against others beliefs and to contribute campaign money to those who hold similar beliefs to himself. That's what makes this country so great.
> an ongoing conversation Patrick and I had been having with Colin, not all of which HN is aware of

The knowledge that there's missing context, which was provided in some sort of back room inside-baseball hn-elites secret discussion to which I was not a party and will never be granted access, kind of makes me wish the article had never been posted in the first place.

"Here's my article - which you'll never understand, because you weren't there, because you're not cool enough". Great.
No don't tell them this. I like being mediocre but in-demand.
Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich Resigns
They site footer has a copyright notice. I'd say contact them - they may be open for non-commercial use.
>Our organizational culture reflects diversity and inclusiveness. We welcome contributions from everyone regardless of age, culture, ethnicity, gender, gender-identity, language, race, sexual orientation, geographical location and religious views. Mozilla supports equality for all.

_Unless one of your cultural or religious views is that marriage is between one man and one woman._ We're inclusive of everyone! Unless you voted for something we don't like...
I'm not saying you should hire anybody, but don't pretend like you will then don't.
Tesla gigafactory faces skepticism from Panasonic and analysts
I wonder what the effects of other arylcyclohexylamine compounds have on depression. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence on Bluelight.ru and Erowid.org suggesting that other chemicals of this class can have a positive impact on depression. Of course, there are plenty reports of addiction and negative behavior (mostly with PCP). I know that many people report the legal analogue Methoxetamine (legal in the US; Ketamine is schedule III and the federal analogue act only applies to schedules I and II) has potent antidepressant effects.
The concern is that those policies were put in place before he became CEO. They're a part of Mozilla culture, yet he made no (publicized) attempt to reconcile his well-known personal views with them. That's a problem!

He could have let the campaign bluster. A good CEO will piss a few people off anyway. It's inevitable. Eich could have let a few developers quit, but shown everyone else (especially the board!) why he's the right person for the job.

Unfortunately, his recent bumbling turned a medium PR mess into a major one, and demonstrated that he might not be CEO material after all. That's my take anyway -- I don't believe the original donation was the cause of his resignation, just the trigger.

There are a number of Silicon Valley companies that would hire him to a high position today. Probably not to CEO or HR of course. Or PR. But remember how many influential friends he has -- they won't be swayed by this mess. In a few months, when all this has blown over, I expect most companies will be happy to forget this ever happend.

His life is far from ruined.