skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't post the full text. That last paragraph is important.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DUxu_L4...
Yea, but try moving the predicate to a local function, and you get:

Func<int, bool> pred = a => a %3 == 0.

Mix in more complex types (say a dictionary with a tuple in it), and it starts getting pretty verbose.
"If it's not the first time this has happened, it might be time to re-evaluate the pattern of behavior that led up to the unfortunate event."

Responses like this are exactly why women don't speak up when these things happen.
touché (even though all your examples are in un-related industries) :-)
at-will employment in california bro
I don't know any of the people involved here, but I would rather see this handled by the law than by an Internet lynch mob. The law maybe impotent and incompetent at times, but it's the best we have for dealing with criminal behavior.
since I can't get the site to load

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome...
On the topic of filters: I have over 200. It's more reliable than spam filtering (in the sense that I know I wont ever get an email from them again, and I don't have to worry about if that link is going to put my email on some "verified" to-spam list). So I doubt filters have anything to do with it ;) That's all handled on Google's backend.

On a side note, I do recall a few theories that were related to account age. Accounts opened around the same time seemed to be affected (as I read, anyway). This is a possible situation, however, it's almost impossible to know for sure.
Ask HN: Selling a Technical Website
My friend has a website that brings around 500K visitors a month all over the world and earns a decent $5K p.m. It has 1000 programming articles. Q: How much should the website be sold at? Points to consider. We have tried some online services and they are ridiculous.
Thanks, Ben. I knew there had to be previous discussion that I was missing. Again congrats - this looks like a good thing to me, at least.
Resume paper sounds like the Monster Cable of paper.
This is already off to a great start, but amassing pieces of simple logic like this will make it unstoppable.
Just so you know, the actual number of distinct many-worlds does not hurt the simplicity of the theory. Check out:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/q3/decoherence_is_simple/

http://lesswrong.com/lw/q4/decoherence_is_falsifiable_and_te...
The issue of this kind of thing simply not being talked about is a large part of the problem. Your friends may simply (understandably!) not want to talk about it.

It's uncomfortable to suggest but picking 10 of your close female friends and asking directly if they've been sexually assaulted at a party might be informative. I'll say that from my personal experience if you get fewer than 10 affirmatives I'll be fairly surprised.
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What would you do if you were his boss?

I would show him the post and ask him to explain himself.

All we have here is an unsubstantiated allegation; it happens to be an allegation I personally believe, but it's still not reasonably enough to fire someone over. If he was my employee and responded "that's all lies and I wasn't even at the pub" I'd encourage him to sue for libel. If he said "oh shit... yeah, I screwed up", I'd reconsider any important responsibilities I had assigned him (since such behaviour is evidence of not being able to act responsibly) but continue to employ him as long as he could contribute in other ways. If he said "yeah, so what's the big deal?" I'd fire him on the spot and phone the complainant to encourage her to press charges.

But above all I'd wait to hear both sides of the story before passing any judgement.
If the story was proven to be correct I would, in an industry where it's hard enough to attract females what sort of message does it send if this guy doesn't have repercussions. Especially being at a tech related event where some females are intimidated to attend and get involved already.
So this delay has been due to delays in being approved as hardware for the iPhone?

I remember being excited that Apple was opening the 30-pin dock to 3rd parties, but it seems like that was over a year ago and the only things released that I can name are Square and Pedal Brain. Am I right to assume that hardware approval is much more difficult than normal app store approval.
It looks like the sparsity of the matrix is going to be a much bigger challenge than the scale.

Sparsity is good. The sparsity is the only reason that you can keep a matrix with this many dimensions in memory.

I understand about the focus being primarily on the approach, that makes sense; how are you intending to evaluate the results files?

For any submission, I will post for a random subset of vocab words each entry's 10 related terms. I'll then ask people to vote blind.
I'm assuming Mitchell hasn't seen this yet, but I'm sure I speak for both of us when I say thank you for including Vagrant in your post.

I would like to point out a few things.

1. Another thing to set up.

Streamlining project setup is one of Vagrant's primary goals. Instead of putting someone, who potentially has no background with the app, through a 20 step process installing all the application dependencies you can simply tell them to run a few commands.

2. It's a "Ruby tool".

While I don't think your intention was to pigeon hole it, Vagrant is really meant for any development environment/language/setup. Its just unfortunate that the only supported provisioning tool uses Ruby for its DSL (are there similar tools in other languages?)

(NOTE: its been a while since I contributed meaningfully to the project)
I'm curious -- do you run around posting in every thread that concerns potentially criminal behavior that people shouldn't rush to judgement? And if not, what in particular makes this case prompt you to jump in with that story? And people wonder why more women don't come forward.
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It's AT-WILL in California. I don't know why the above person below me who pointed this out is getting downvoted.
See TweetFreq:

TweetFreq: Visualizing Twitter Update Behavior

TweetFreq is an application written in the Processing enviornment that visualizes the twitter update frequency of various collections of twitter users (for example, influential journalists, celebrities, CEOs, politicians, and news organizations

The collection of TweetFreq visualizations can be found in this Flickr Set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajstarks/sets/72157618491647464...

More on TweetFreq Design, Implementation, Examples and Usage:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22231126/TweetFreq-Visualizing-Twi...

There's also the Twitter Search Grid:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajstarks/sets/72157622763006024...
How is it clear to any 'right thinking person what happened'?

Until there is corroborating evidence (witness, confession, etc) I see no reason to believe anything about events that took place. It seems incredibly dangerous and irresponsible to default to believing one person's (as of yet) unsubstantiated tale.

I can think of half a dozen scenarios in which the accused was innocent. Everything from mistaken identity (that has happened to me!), to drunken mis-remembering, to flat out lying is still on the table.
Thats right. It happens and sometimes it even gets national publicity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_lacrosse_case.

Look, no one knows anything right now apart from what appears to be a credible accusation on a blog. People rightly want to believe that the truth is simple and want to see the accused held accountable; however, in cases like these one must take a measured approach to fully understand the situation.

It's easy to jump in with the lynch mob, but making an informed decision based on gathered data and collected facts is the right thing to do.
What's worse is that isn't really an outlier. Hard numbers are tough to come by, but sexual assault really is that common.
Yeah, it's not like a large number of guys got the wrong impression here, just the one. If the rest of us can be sensible and respectful why should the outlier force females to act a different way. It's the same as not taking trains because maybe 1 in every 1000 guys late at night cause trouble.
So the fireball would still engulf the buildings? Doesn't that still seem too close?
Name and shame is a perfectly reasonable response to such behavior, in addition to contacting a DA at her discretion.
Why Pyramid is not called Pylons 2?
Kind of interesting, but "Wakelytics", come on.
At-will employment doesn't matter. The suit can easily be filed based on grounds that the employees future work capacity has been materially damaged because the firing gave implicit truth to the accusations, whether they be true or not.

In the United States of America anyone can sue anyone for anything. Once it gets to the court, everything is open to interpretation. Thats why most legal documents are written with vague language that leaves intent and outcome up to the interpretation of the court.
I _love_ the design. I noticed that the font for "Just buy this one" inside the orange badge is aliasing, both on the main page and when it appears smaller on other pages. I find it detracts from the shear prettiness of the pages.

Edit: I'm using IE8 on WinXP.
How big is the market segment you serve in terms of total dollars?

What percentage of it are you currently servicing?
alright everybody: tonight, drinks are on Ballmer!
I can't share the specifics to protect the privacy of the people involved. But, I help out with a lot of conferences and speak at dozens more every year. I've heard at least 3 accounts similar to this, just this year, at other conferences.

Very often they end with a minor hero, like Bill in this case, acting as a chaperone for someone who should never need one at all.

It frustrates me greatly that despite the effort that many conferences do to make conference going more egalitarian, welcoming and safe for women some men are still as ignorant, offensive, and disgusting as to treat women this way.
Vagrant automates the shared folders through nfs to work around VirtualBox's abysmal performance.
I'd find it pretty objectionable in that case as well. I guess the main difference is that I'd find it objectionable and very surprising/unusual, which sadly isn't really the case with this story. As a guy, I don't feel at all apprehensive about attending tech-conference afterparties for fear that someone's going to grope me, because I estimate the chances of that happening as very small.

I guess for me the interesting part of this post is discussing what we can do about the tech community's culture / conference arrangements / whatever to make these incidents very uncommon for all genders, as opposed to how to handle this particular incident. I suppose that could've been done without naming the person, and the post would've still been interesting to me.
At-will employment doesn't provide a blanket exemption from wrongful termination suits. The fact that you can fire someone for no reason doesn't mean that you can fire them for a bad reason -- and if, for example, a whistle-blower is fired, there will be a strong presumption that the whistle-blowing was the cause of the firing.

(Obviously this is not a whistle-blower case here, and I don't know if there would be any grounds on which to sue for wrongful termination; I'm not a California employment lawyer.)
The whole thing plays out like banning sharp knives for chefs' safety. It's a useless, infuriating gesture, but it probably looked good for someone on paper. Politics is an ugly beast.
While I don't condone at all this kind of behavior on behalf of men, I have also seen the other side of the story on various occasions. One specific incident actually comes to mind. A friend of mine had been dating a woman I was friends with from high school and used to keep in touch with. At this point I didn't know they where dating each other. One day he terminated the 'relationship' and the woman while seeking my advice made the comment that she could 'fuck up his life by saying he raped her'. I tried to convince her not to do so and though that she had desisted of such idea. A week later I was informed that my friend was being detained and charged with sexual assault, at that moment I actually put everything together, made a few calls and realized what had happened. I ended up telling everything she told to the police and my friend's lawyer and a week later the charges had been dropped.

I even had a closer to home to home experience with this in highschool, I was a girl's scape goat in a plot to make a boyfriend jealous while I was actually still a virgin. She told everyone that she had sex with me, when it wasn't true and it almost became a problem.

I'm not trying to say that this is the case here and that the author is lying though, but with lack of proof (and that certainly seems to be the case by reading the blog post) it is a very slippery slope to name the person on your blog. This could most probably ruin the guys life, the same way my friends life was on the verge of being ruined by someone with a bone to pick. Again, I'm not saying this is the case here, nor that I don't believe her, nor that I condone some men's behavior. As a matter of fact I'd rather side with the author on this one, but naming a person publicly like this, can easily destroy his and his family's life and future.
I use a similar setup.

- Base: OSX (3.06 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD)

- Guest 1: Windows 7 3 GB RAM, for VS 2010, for Silverlight development

- Guest 2: Win XP 512 MB RAM - for testing with IE6

- Guest 3: Ubuntu 9.04 (need to update)

This works really well, and Win 7 is snappy and VS 2010 works flawlessly. On OSX I always have Chrome, AntiRSI, Things, TextMate, Terminal, NetNewsWire and iTunes open.

A big advantage is that I can fearlessly install things on Windows, I simply back up the VM before any installs/updates.

This config does work pretty well, except 8GB RAM does fall short sometimes. In my experience, VM performance takes a nose dive the moment OSX starts swapping, this is something I watch and now have to re-boot almost everyday (gone are the month long sessions).
You are misreading the GP. The sentiment, as I understand it, is that the legal framework is most important when one is personally involved, even if the case seems very clear to oneself and even other observers.
Let's assume he denies this, which is a likely scenario. This puts me in a tough spot. The logician in me wants to agree with you. From her description, it was a secluded section of the bar so no one else probably saw. It would be her word against his.

On the other hand, I believe her. As far as I know she has no motive to falsely claim this against him. Also important, tens of thousands will read this story and most of them will believe her too. The company may face pressure for me to act. Do I throw my employee under the bus, on the basis of my judgment of her statement?

I still don't know the answer but I don't think it's clear cut either way.
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Apologies for the poor formatting. I forgot that I have to use \n\n instead of just \n to get new paragraphs, and ran into maxvisit so I couldn't change it before the editing window closed.
Startup Quote: Thomas Edison, co-founder, General Electric
I think this is an excellent point. Rape is a very difficult crime in this respect. Many victims don't want to report it and deal with the emotions associated with having it be public knowledge.

That doesn't mean it's ok to assume anyone accused of it is guilty.
Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is a proof of utility, and utility is success.

- Thomas Edison

http://startupquote.com/post/1493433006
I really hoped to see a better argument than "trust me" ..

People are terrible at identifying what is responsible for improving their lives, and are all too readily willing to credit something else, just as they are to blame; instead of identifying and acknowledging their own efforts, or the lack of them.

I picked religion as an example because it's something people credit for their well-being almost everywhere.

And I am certain "placebo" is a well studied phenomenon, and proven to exist.
Yep - there just isn't enough information to jump to any conclusion.

I personally know girls who have been assaulted at parties, and girls who have grossly exaggerated or comletely made up accusations. No way of knowing which this is yet ... Sadly, both are more common than I would have expected a few years ago.
It's too bad you can't expunge lawyers' fees. Yikes.

And no blame, but it's probably a good idea to say, "We're scanning for weak passwords" first. The sysadmin at the library I used to work at ran password crackers occasionally, and sent out an e-mail once saying that he suddenly knew a lot of staffs' boyfriends names. It's a delicate issue.
And give them voting rights.
Very impressed the the quality of the results. Excellent work.
I think that the most appropriate way to deal this is with consistent and timely enforcement of rules: if someone gropes you or worse, call him or her out in front of the group and ask for help from bystanders to remove the person from the place, or, if appropriate, hold him or her and call the police.

There's no shame in asking other people for help when there's a situation to be dealt with, and I'd be surprised if a bunch of ApacheCon attendees were less than helpful in this regard, even in an after-several-beers state. Independently of whether someone barfed on you, stole your wallet, sexually assaulted you or wanted to start a boxing fight.
With corroboration, I'd fire him in a second. You're opening your company up to a world of pain if one of your execs has a proven history of sexual assault. Furthermore, I know me personally would be looking for work elsewhere. I'm male, but I wouldn't want anything to do with someone I know has sexually assaulted a woman.
I'm in no way trying to say it's her fault. But if there is some pattern to the situation perhaps it would be worthwhile to analyze in the hopes that it didn't happen again? It's unfair and unjust that in doing so she might uncover something she could change to help prevent some pervert from doing something atrocious... but if it did prevent it, wouldn't it be worth it?

It seems logical to me... but I guess in being logical I'm somehow being sexist or something (which is why my original comment is getting downvoted?)?
How is the 5K/month earned? Adsense? Affiliates?

Valuations for stable websites with those earnings are usually anywhere from 1x-4x annual earnings. Depends on a lot of factors of course. If you'd like a more in-depth review, send me an e-mail (myhackernewsname @ gmail.com)
"Even though this is a personal financial matter, I want to be clear about this to avoid any confusion. I am excited about our new products and the potential for our technology to change people's lives, and I remain fully committed to Microsoft and its success," said Ballmer, from an undisclosed island in the South Pacific.
Is it possible that this happens more than you've observed or heard about at the parties you attend? One of the disadvantages of being male (which I'm assuming you are from your username, forgive me if you're not) is that we're often much less aware of this sort of thing going on than we should be.

Also keep in mind, there's a big difference between this happening (no matter the frequency) and it being accepted. It sounded like she was able to enlist the help of several other people to break in and stop it. The fact that this shit didn't fly with what was likely a vast majority of the people there didn't prevent the assault from happening.

Seriously, what percentage of the people who attended do you think were actually aware of this happening at the time?
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if that's what it takes, give me a fuckin' placebo.
Yeah, PPC = Pay Per Click. Advertising on Google or Bing/Yahoo usually.
Yes, it does matter. I'd love for you to send us a link that says it doesn't matter, or cite a victorious case in California that has been "filed based on grounds that the employees future work capacity has been materially damaged because the firing gave implicit truth to the accusations" under an at-will employment.
I like "Ads" much better, it conveys the same information more succinctly, and without the cheesy euphemism.
The two people at the heart of the matter:
Noirin Plunket Shirley - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiM6_pCyvMI
Florian Liebert - http://vimeo.com/4211288

I'd like them to concentrate on tech stuff more and this stuff less.
This is why "right thinking person" is generally supposed to be read as an ironic marker: it is a subrosa way to say "the meaning of my words is different than than their literal import."

You will virtually never hear those words meant literally.
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As the father of two daughters I am somewhat appalled by the responses here. I'm not taking anyone's side, but the responses here are shocking to me. I don't know what to say, but, WOW! Maybe I need to rethink the advice I am giving my daughters.
As someone pointed out, this is still an allegation. If the allegation alone leads to firing, then another way to look at it is : the best way to have someone fired, is to make an allegation like that against them.

Also, since the developer is still representing your company at a conference. Accusing the developer of an assault is also a good way to tarnish the company's image.
... It would be her word against his.

At that point you'd have to make a judgement call. If someone is being publicly accused of a sexual assault which he denies too place but doesn't show any interest in launching a libel suit, that makes me rather suspicious. On the other hand, if he files a libel suit, or if criminal charges are filed against him, it seems reasonable to step back and let the courts decide what happened.

I'm not saying that I have a good answer for all possible situations, only that I know that I'd start by listening to both sides.

The company may face pressure for me to act. Do I throw my employee under the bus, on the basis of my judgment of her statement?

You're really asking two questions there. Is it reasonable to fire someone based on your judgement of what happened? Quite possibly. Is it reasonable to fire someone based on public pressure alone? I would say absolutely not -- but I come from an academic background, and I feel the greatest moments of academic history have been when universities have defended their faculty against public opinion. Most CEOs would probably throw an employee under a bus at the first hint of public pressure.
That is the problem. It is somewhat being obscured by arguments about her having named the alleged assailant, as now evidenced by some 1/3 of this thread.

Edit: The currently top-rated comments would likely be nonexistent or with very low scores if the alleged assailant had not been named.
If the internet has taught us anything, it's that anonymity makes people comfortable doing things they otherwise wouldn't dream of.
but with lack of proof (and that certainly seems to be the case by reading the blog post) it is a very slippery slope to name the person on your blog.

Let me get this clear: it's your opinion that unless somebody videotapes every moment of their life, that they should not publicly state negative things that happen to them?

edit: for the downvoters, which part of that question is inappropriate?
Very good points, and the subject of Sam Harris' recent book, "The Moral Landscape", which gets into that idea in some detail. This Q&A provides a good overview of the arguments:

http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/the-moral-landscape-...
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anyone knows of a good windows XSLT processor to run transformations in Windows in batch mode (many XML to CSV file transformations at once) like Xalan does it from the commend line with Java?