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> I'm totally fine with anybody pursuing whatever kind of political agenda they want, but at the moment you start to derail real progress, the moment you attack one of the best organizations who has literally been busting its ass for the last decade to change the world for no profit

1) So you're contradicting yourself in one sentence.

I wish to pursue an equal rights agenda, and in so doing protest, loudly, when people who publicly act against equal rights are promoted to prominent positions. Now, I didn't expect Brendan Eich to be fired (he wasn't) or step down (which he did) but maybe to actually explain himself (he didn't). If his feelings are so strongly held, and he values free speech so much, then by all means let him make his case.

2) Mozilla is a non-profit, but plenty of the people working for it make perfectly decent salaries.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Mozilla-Salaries-E19129.htm

> All the more reason to shut down the bullies who have domineered the narrative, produced nothing but useless bickering, and have sought nothing but divisiveness at every turn in the everlasting quest for more pageviews. I'm looking at you, Gawker.

3) Seems to me like it's the pot calling the kettle black.
Not without tearing through "common" areas to install the wiring and connect to the utility. And unless you plan to connect all the way back to your unit's power meter, you will also need a meter installed in the common area that's exclusively for your use.
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As a Mozillan, how did you think your users - people outside Mozilla - would feel when Mitchell stressed Eich would restrict application of his views to people outside Mozilla?

It was your users who were outraged.
Nokia usually uses model numbers. 9:20 for Lumia 920, for example.
Unfortunately, the reality is that one of the first questions they probably asked Chris when vetting him for interim CEO is "Are you or have you ever been an opponent of same-sex marriage?"
I'm going to draw the line at conflating people's personal opinions with their professional ones.

I totally disagree with Brendan's position on gay rights, but I completely support his right to have his own personal opinions.

If we don't separate these issues, we are only enabling other corporations to fire leaders because they _DO_ personally support gay rights.

That's not acceptable - but we can't have it both ways.
That's not attacking Mozilla. This is like joining a strike. If you're on strike you're not attacking the company. Though IMO unions in US are a little bit weird (too much power play).
I feel like there's a bingo card that has all of your half-assed excuses on it.

> I'm totally fine with anybody pursuing whatever kind of political agenda they want, but at the moment you start to derail real progress, the moment you attack one of the best organizations who has literally been busting its ass for the last decade to change the world for no profit...

I'm fine with pursuing your politics until I feel your politics are inconvenient.

> Well, you declared war. I think this whole debacle should be a rallying cry that we're not going to accept this kind of bullying anymore.

Not tolerating bullies that seek to curtail your existence through law does not make you a bully.

> The worst part is, the progressive platform has some really important things to say about the way we live. We're not an equal society yet. We still have more changes we need to make to secure the freedom and happiness of everybody, especially groups that have been historically marginalized.

How exactly are you going to do that by letting the CEO of Mozilla be a supporter of Prop 8? How exactly are you helping anyone by outright enshrining in law a discrimination against gay folks?

> All the more reason to shut down the bullies who have domineered the narrative, produced nothing but useless bickering, and have sought nothing but divisiveness at every turn in the everlasting quest for more pageviews. I'm looking at you, Gawker.

Of course, all those people who are affected by this are just being decisive and mean, leave Brendan Eich alone!

> Don't tolerate this any more. Brendan Eich was just one casualty. It's time to start sticking up for ourselves.

Sticking up for ourselves is what people were doing by voicing their complaints with Eich and his support for Prop 8. Nobody was launching a campaign to strip him of his rights in law.
Wow! You are right
http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/
Death threats against Mozilla employees and contributors don't count as attacks on Mozilla in your book?
Agreed, although I've heard "going forward" a lot more.
Sadly, the launch has been scrubbed due to a helium leak.

http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/2833937/statuses/480...

Next attempt will be April 18th.
I presented a fact with no opinion attached, I have no desire to join the debate. I'm not sure why you've chosen my post to reply to, there are plenty of others who post actual opinions you can discuss.
The Dealership model is outdated to say the least.

But there are some genuine liability issues that need to be addressed at the state level.

Most state regulate most aspects of the Automobiles that travel their roads and there would have to be some compromise on licensing and nexus so the consumer won't be left holding the bag from a product liability prospective and states can enforce their product standards without stepping on federal toes.
> Persona does everything right

Except one thing: it requires cash (SSL cert[1]) you're stuck with the google/facebook/etc-style situation of having to rely on a 3rd party to maintain your identity.

It's not a popular opinion here where most people have well-paying tech jobs, but real identity and privacy on the net is something the retired, disabled, unemployed, single-parent, and other poor people need as well. Without solving this problem fist, you are simply incentivizing the current status quo and dooming any new scheme to fail.

[1] No, that SSL cert is not "cheap" when you have to live on SSDI that doesn't even cover rent/food/etc fully. The domain itself is less expensive, and can be sub-delegated between a few people.
Neat read so far! Not done yet, but I think I've found a small error in kernel.c: the attribute byte of the characters in "my first kernel" should be set to 0x02, not 0x07.

edit: I misread. 0x07 is intentional, 0x02 was mentioned as an alternative. Good post!
This seems like it will be a very interesting book. If anyone is interested, I have written a short and compressed intro to NNs, using very simple Python code:

http://cjauvin.blogspot.ca/2013/10/neural-network-101.html
How better to version the screenshots? Clever.
By implication, are you saying that being homophobic is not a choice?
I think most people hate him subconsciously for inventing JavaScript abomination. The current back splash is just an camouflage for that :-)
Who are the owners of Maker Studios?
I don't think of either VB or Flash as being in any way 'non-programmer'. VB has tools to eliminate a lot of the more mechanical aspects of GUI programming, but in the end you're still writing a form of BASIC to make it actually do anything. Likewise for Flash and ActionScript.

If anything, these both go to my point. They are very much programmer tools, they just lower the bar to getting something on the screen so you can get to the hard parts of programming sooner. If you aren't computer literate, or refuse to become computer literate, you still won't get anything done with either of them.
I think you're confusing culture with religion. (A similar example is female genital mutilation, which is a cultural phenomenon and not a Muslim teaching. IANATheologist.)
It sounds like you need to be able to predict the future in order to know what political views are currently acceptable for CEOs to support. What if in the future we live in a stateless socialist society, and the idea of wage labor or private ownership of means of production is widely considered immoral or repugnant? Or what if in the future we live in a stateless capitalist society, where the idea of taxation or economic regulation is widely considered morally repugnant? Or worse yet, what if society reverts back to considering slavery acceptable and abolitionism repugnant?
The right to express outrage is not an absolute. See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/bz/archives/2014/04/speech_an... for what I consider some obvious limitations on it.

You're saying there were no instances of item #1 on my list, and I believe you are correct. However, there certainly were instances of item #2.
If by burned at the stake you mean rightly called out questionable contributions that flies in the face of respecting LGBT Mozilla employees and then deciding not to say anything about it or make an apology, then yes he was burned at the stake.
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These kind of things seem to happen often. I know helium is very hard to keep in containment due to it's atom size. Nonetheless, I wonder if there's technologies being developed right now that could fix that once and for all.
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I think the line would be at human rights violations. Having different political views is fine and expected--it's a completely different thing to deny peoples' right to marry simply because they are gay. A societal change in norms is necessary to combat discrimination, and the best way to shape societal norms is to apply social pressure.
I suspect there are two parts: some of these (drones, fiber) are intended to provide a more seamless Internet experience to more people. By extension, it means more advertising.

Others are investigations of revenue streams beyond advertising but able to leverage Google's in-house strengths in machine learning, computer vision, distributed systems, AI, and other related topics. This is not strange given Google has had subscription based services for some time now: e.g., Apps and Cloud Platform.
The name "gun": a) has negative connotations, b) is ungoogleable, c) can't even write about it without being ungrammatical and d) will be filtered out at some workplaces.

Dumb, de-dumb dumb dumb.
I think the point of the article isn't that PM tools aren't useful, it's that they shouldn't be the focus especially of a new team starting out. When starting something new, it's easy to get bogged down in the how, rather than focusing on the why and the what. I think analyzing workflow and project management is more successful when you have already worked on a team for a while and realize where your strengths and weaknesses are, so you actually have data to use to determine what project flow might be more efficient.
Striking is damaging though, that's why people strike. Inciting others to 'strike' is to incite others to 'do damage', which sounds like attacking. Let's not forget that Mozilla make most of their money via Google search affiliation - less users equals less income.
How does pngquant compare to pngcrush?

And are you not able add this as a build step?
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This article reads like a conspiracy theory: We have this awesome thing, but our overlords won't let us have it because they say [offical reason] but that's just a cover story; the real reason is [supposed evil motivation].
It's probably too late for anyone to see this, but notice how even on HN, the parent gets modded down and raising any question about this issue (I don't even pretend to know what happened) is suppressed.
More misdirection from mikeb85. While it is true that different Buddhism sects had and have various views(including discriminatory) in relation to homosexuality, it is intellectually dishonest to avoid mentioning that Dalai Lama (a most prominent Buddhist spiritual leader) supports gay marriage.

Proof:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/tibet/1068249...
I tweeted in praise of Mozilla's support of the web a few days after he resigned and was asked in a response if Mozilla helped support my preferred bigotry. While I don't disagree with the criticism of Brendan Eich, it has gone a little far when my praise of Mozilla's support of the open web got me labeled a bigot (IMHO I am not). Making a correlation like this is wrong and can only hurt even a good cause.
Safe is a wrapper around EncFS, which (a) potentially leaks a lot of metadata and (b) is a weird combination of CBC and CFB. I'd feel better about Truecrypt.
This website doesn't tell me ANYTHING about what Safe actually does. The SVG tour says it "prevents" other people from seeing my data, but given the low competence most products have with regard to security, without details, I am never going to trust it.

Edit: I found this after installing the app: http://www.getsafe.org/about it has a bit more detail.
If people are trying to strip religious people of their rights, as Eich tried to do (and successfully did, for a time), then it would be unreasonable to ask religious people to respect the idea that religious people should not have rights.

Ridiculing is fine. Freedom of speech ensures religious people the right to practice their religion; it ensures non-religious people the right to ridicule and mock religion. It ensures Eich's right to speak out against the civil rights of an oppressed minority. It ensures our right to ridicule him mercilessly for doing so.
Something you charge money for.
Nah, it's really not. Check out RV/LV polling numbers from 2008. I'm sure they showed a difference.
No, word length has (almost) nothing to do with it.

XKCD assumes each word has, regardless of length, 11 bits of entropy. It implies that you are picking up each word out of a dictionary of the 2^11 (2048) most common, non-trivial[1] words. And truly, example words are common: correct, horse, battery, staple.

Contrast this with the "classic" example. You pick a single base word from a larger list (16 bits of entropy == 64K-word dictionary) of longer, more complex (troubadour, 10 letter long) words, and then subject it to a number of transformations to pump its entropy another 12 bits.

The key insight of this piece is that attackers have moved over to techniques that make password length a poor estimator of its entropy level. It is the rarity of the base word that makes the lion's share of a password entropy, with length adding marginal improvements, mostly from the increased chances to pack more transformations into it.

This gets lost on the discussion of the comic's main thesis and less subtle insight that it is easier to add entropy by increasing the number of base words than by adding transformations to a single base word.

[1] I am removing trivial words of length < 4 because if you choose from them, you may end up with a password with length between 4 and 12, which may be brute-forced without regard for dictionary attacks now or in the near future. Shortest word in the provided example is "horse" which is weak evidence in favor of this hypothesis.
Is this closed-source? What crypto algorithm and library are used? Who are the developers?

The website at getsafe.org has very, very little info for a crypto app. I understand the need to keep the pitch simple for casual users. But the website needs a link to much more detailed info for those of us who know some things about security.
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What are your thoughts on the "encrypted homedirs" in Ubuntu?
There are many people who are still religious but do not go to a church or temple. There people who do go to church who do not donate. There are churches that are neutral or even supportive on the issues of gay rights. There are also people who don't agree with everything their church does, but feel the good it accomplishes (helping the needy, for example) outweighs the bad.

None of these people, are doing anything close to the same thing as Eich's personal, fully intentional, concentrated contributions directly to the cause of undermining human rights.

It's important to judge people based on their real actions and beliefs instead of generalizing based on stereotypes. That's when we risk getting onto the so-called slippery slope.
Looks great, looking forward to dive into this.
Disliking things generally isn't a direct choice, though it may be possible to make deliberate choices that will change your tastes over time.

Particular expressions of dislike may be choices, but the underlying feeling is not.
You're correct that there is a tension here. This is why a few years ago (2012, iirc) Mozilla adopted an explicit policy that beliefs like that must stay outside of the project. See http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/parti... section (i).

This does not say that project participants cannot hold such beliefs; that is an untenable requirement for a project involving people from many countries and cultures. But such beliefs need to stay outside things like project mailing lists workplace conversations, and so forth.
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I would probably think twice before using anything based on EncFS. See this audit for a lot of detail:
https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm
Product manager you are... a janitor, essentially.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Brendan was NOT 'incredibly' suited for the job.

Let me explain: I have no doubt that Brendan was an incredible CTO/is an excellent hacker/engineer.

But being CEO is not about that, it's about being a leader. Being a uniter and a communicator. a galvanizer to the corporation/community he was trying to lead.

Forget about his donation a few years ago. In the short time he was CEO, he had the opportunity to weather the storm (so to speak) he and Mozilla Corp found themselves in. But in fact, by avoiding the issue, he dug a even deeper hole.

His one interview about the issue to The Guardian was a complete mess PR wise: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/01/mozilla-ce...

It was a mistake to appoint him as CEO. I'm sad that he left Mozilla, he could have continued to provide a lot of value to Mozilla and the Open Web in several capacities, But he was not "incredibly well-suited" for the job as Mozilla CEO, IMHO.
Not an error.
0x02 means green character on black background.
0x07 means light grey character on black bg.
It's explained with one, and coded with another.
I don't know what other devices you've used but Samsung uses its own keyboard on some (maybe all? I've only used a few) of their phones. Its not the fastest thing out there. Switching that out with the Google one can make a huge difference in perception of the phone's performance.
Whatever. Let's focus on the real facts instead of these anectodes about "Big Country" "small country". I find this stuff fully meaningless.

Here's the full review with English subs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ5PqPeOPT0
You're not hit with a $50 expense. You have exactly what you paid for, and you can wait as long as you like to decide if you want what is on offer in the upgrade.

Also, what relevance is the 20 days figure? You owned the product for 63 days before the upgrade was released.
You asserted that an exercise of free speech on OkCupid's part was "an attack". That's not a fact -- it's a subjective opinion about a fact ("OkCupid asked visitors to its site to use a different browser" being the relevant fact).

I don't know that I particularly agree with your opinion, or at least, I know I don't agree that it was less of an attack than Brandon Eich's actions. So I was attempting to understand your response.

It's rather odd to complain that posting your opinion in public provoked a response. If you're not interested in having a conversation, I'd suggest that the wisest course of action is not to post.
> So far so completely harmless.

For a start, you're ignoring the death threats a number of people received, no?

This wasn't just about people organizing boycotts; this was about a media-circus-fueled full on hate mail campaign.
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I'm still rather disappointed in Mozilla's handling of the issue. I've since gone back to using Chrome, and away from thunderbird as well. Free speech is important to me; more important even than using and supporting open source software, which is pretty important to me. Someone's personal life, and their professional life, should be able to be kept separate, and the fact that they dragged out his political support of Proposition 8 into his professional life is a clear violation of free speech. If the issue were so important, why did they choose him as CEO in the first place? Instead, they created an obvious and blatant attack against his character for his own beliefs which had absolutely nothing to do with his day to day work, particularly given that he was a great leader, technologist, and could have brought Mozilla to the next step technologically.

Would I support a member of the KKK, or any other known "hate" group? It is their right of speech, and they are still free to have it, so long as it is not in a manner of defamation (such as slander, or libel), which looks much more like how Mozilla responded.
I could argue that anyone who supports any special legal recognition of "marriage" is directly pushing for the codification of discrimination. Many people make the argument that if a man and woman who are romantically involved can get a government marriage license and reap certain benefits, then gays should be able to as well. That obviously makes sense. But why can't two roommates in a plu(a)tonic friendship receive the same benefits?

The prohibition of gay marriage is clearly a double standard. But simply allowing gays to marry doesn't completely resolve the double standard. Either the legal benefits of marriage should be extended to literally all people, or there should be no such legal benefits for any people.
I'm not exactly Linus Torvalds but I'm pretty sure a program that prints one line of text is not "a kernel". :)
How does battery replacement work when you're supposedly pulling up to a station and a robot is installing a new batt to the underbelly of the car?

Shouldn't all batteries be "Netflix for tesla batteries" whereby you simply rent them?
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I hadn't realized that Patrick was part of Auctomatic. Huh.
I work at Mozilla and, really, it looks very much like an attack.

Several calls to boycotts, several petitions asking for the resignation of our CEO, demonstrations, insults, death threats, ...

Note that the situation is pretty symmetric: we now get from the conservatives what we got from the liberals two weeks ago.
For those who don't know "Meyrin" is the name of the municipality that hosts part of the CERN.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meyrin
it's free software, more info can be found here: http://www.getsafe.org/about
I doubt they polled everyone. And I doubt that anyone can prove that there wasn't some sort of bias in the poll.
> Prop8 was passed based on propaganda.

Let's use that reasoning carefully so that we do not disqualify our entire legal code.
I was setting up my connections before going to China. I found this guide useful: https://blog.ls20.com/ipsec-l2tp-vpn-auto-setup-for-ubuntu-1...
And so far everyone has missed telling the poor OP how to avoid writing two equality checks...

if( [80, 443].indexOf(port) !== -1 && http === false )
I stopped using Firefox because it's gotten really buggy in the last couple of months, not because Brendan Eich stupidly voiced his opinion in a debate he should have seen he was on the losing side of a long time ago.
Particularly any LGBTQ Mozilla employees that lived in the state of California between 2008 and 2013, which I assume is many of them.
I keep an updated list of reliable VPNs with good support: http://www.greycoder.com/best-vpns-2014/
I see the text/view bug occasionally but restarting the program usually fixes the problem for me.

About the tutorials. Sketch is simple enough to get a grasp without any resources but there are some features that are buried. I recommend this site:

http://www.sketchappsources.com/tutorials-tips.html

Also when Googling, "Sketch App" does the trick.