skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we've seen n+1 examples of that, some right here on HN. The airbnb saga was a shaming so vociferous that it made them change parts of their business plan. Ditto on just about any torch that reddit or consumerism (hell even /b/ or Anonymous) takes up. Sure, there's more than just shaming when Anonymous does the various things they do, but I think that publicly pointing out wrongdoings is like shining a light on it. The cockroaches will scatter and the mess will be cleaned.
Bingo. I'm originally from Northern Michigan - technically Northern Lower Michigan, to distance ourselves from the crazy backwoods folk in the UP, and from the run-down big city craziness of Detroit and Lansing.
What people are noticing is perceived intent. Dropbox is clear what their intent is. Google is less clear. People like clarity, especially ewhen dealing with personal items.
See, but the problem is that women, particularly in startups, have to walk a fine line of not letting themselves be objectified and not being labeled a bitch. The article even mentions that there isn't really much of a robust HR policy at small start ups.

When women in these situations make it clear that some behavior is not acceptable, they'll inevitably be met by "Woah don't be so serious, it's just a joke! Lighten up!" And the more upset and determined that woman is to make it clear that something isn't acceptable, the more likely they are to be labeled a bitch.

Because I'd bet you that 90% of the bad behavior you see in that type of situation isn't blatant sexism; it's small "jokes" and "jabs" that all add up to a bad workplace environment for women. And it makes it that much harder to defend yourself when there isn't just one glaring offense that people can blatantly see.

I think making this behavior unacceptable would be helped a lot more if men in the workplace stood up against it. It's not so easy for a woman to do it alone.
We don't wanna replace them as the end goal. We simply have repetitive tasks that could be automated. Whether that automation will, in fact, replace journalists or assist them. Is another problem that depends on your specific implementation details and economics.

For our company specific use. Hiring a writer to be assisted by our robots would just add unnecessary cost to the process and delay to the end user experience. Versus pretty much little to no gain in quality. We only need a simple transformation from structured data to narrated english, and we want lots of it to be delivered instantly to our users.

It just makes more sense for applications like ours to have robots replace humans.
I don't think he should feel obligated to deliver. But, I think comments should generally add to the conversation. If they don't, I tend to down vote them.
That's _entirely_ different from "If you do anything that will make anyone of {these protected classes} uncomfortable by saying/doing something relating to {their protected class} membership, we could be sued for hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, and you will be disciplined".

HR lawsuits are a _huge_ risk, _especially_ for a small company, it seems like a no brainer for people smart enough to run an internet company not to know that a piece of paper and a clear set of instructions, and dealing with this stuff appropriately could save them millions down the road.
TC volume needs to be unmounted in order for gDrive/Dropbox to be able to sync it. For that you need to close all apps that are currently using any files on that volume. That's not exactly easy-breezy. In fact, it's a major pain in the ass, so - no, this is not a practical option.
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As someone who has been a member of the program committee for a large tech conference, I can say that in my personal opinion, I'd have very little problem rejecting a talk from someone whose track record clearly demonstrated a style and set of values that significantly diverged from the culture and explicitly stated values of the community I was trying to serve. My job, as a program committee member was to find speakers who could deliver great content in a great way – both matter, both produce value for the conference attendees and organizers.

At a minimum, if the talk proposal was overwhelmingly compelling from a content angle, I'd have little issue with being explicit, up front and individually direct with said person about the expectations for how speakers conduct themselves.

Choosing to reject a talk from someone because of who the presenter is or how they have handled themselves in the past is completely legitimate and it is not "censorship" – a conference is a curated event and someone has the job to make sure the content fits the conference.

If you want a brogrammer conference, go start one, but don't demand that we accept that sort of crap at ours just because you think you're hot shit and can offend anyone you want because "it's funny".
But math isn't. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion; mine just happened to result from the mathematical proofs I was forced to study and write for the postulations of that "bullshit field." I would also submit that your argument ignores the law of leaky abstractions (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...) ... All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. Finally, economics doesn't assume people "[act] at all times to consume as much as possible without regard to relationships." It assumes that individual actors make decisions that maximize their utility. Utility can result from completely selfless acts -- it's whatever makes you happy. "Selfishness" does not rule out actions that benefit others or society at large. This argument exemplifies the misunderstanding of "basic economic principles" referenced in my original comment.
It's not controversial that aggression scares away the less aggressive as far as I know...

Are women less agressive than men on average? Maybe. Are women less aggressive than the kinds of guys who come up with "Gangbang Interviews"? Probably. Is a sociologist going to get funding for a study that obviously stupid? Probably not.
Essay Typer (Wikipedia + magic)
please do not change the title of posts
Why not explain what's going on here and how it's not defrauding markets: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/step-right-its-hft-whack-mole-...
Let's say Mark Zuck. wants to use Google Drive, and upload all Facebook code on it. Using this TOS, it allows Google to go through the Facebook code, and use it to improve Google+.

As a programmer that uses Dropbox to backup all my code, I find this a little bit scary.
> Nursing and teaching used to be men's work. Women weren't thought to be capable of it. Too weak. Too sensitive. Too illogical.

Do you have any citations for that? My impression is that nursing and teaching were considered women's work before they even existed as distinct professions. Nursing was originally done by women's religious orders, and was founded in its modern form by a woman, Florence Nightingale. And teaching was open to women in America since at least colonial times.

Better examples might be law and medicine, high-status professions that were once all-male but now are considerably more gender-balanced than software development. I don't know the reason for the disparity, but I doubt it's because software engineers on average act more fratty than lawyers.
I'd say this in the original article's comments, but apparently it does not allow anonymous comments:

I found this article to be really inspiring. I guess I can see how some people may think Chris is just stroking his own ego, but I did not read it that way at all. First and foremost, I took from this article that a key to feeling great about yourself and your accomplishments is to actually do stuff, all the time. It's a simple concept that I'm sure we're all aware of, but this article really hit it home for me.

As a direct result of this article, I am inspired to do stuff, even if that stuff is considerably less awesome than what Chris accomplished last year.

I start with a personal response via blog post: http://epixa.com/2012/04/on-inspiration-chains-and-being-awe...
But NAT is way too useful and taken for granted to be removed.

Eh? NAT is a bloody miserable sodding hack that should be taken out back and shot. Getting rid of NAT and restoring the end-to-end principle is, IMO, one of the best reasons to support ipv6 adoption.
I am not so quick to blame the people who call themselves that. Sure, some 'brogrammers' are sexist pigs who lack self awareness, but I get a strong feeling that the majority of them are just regular smoes who are looking to avoid the alternative programmer stereotype that is thrust upon them by society at large: 'doesn't shower, and likes science fiction a bit too much'.
> what happens is the content keeps being pushed down

What happens is that the browser is re-flowing and re-painting part or all of the page, rather than updating just the area the image is known to occupy. Reflows are expensive, particularly on mobile.

https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/best-practices/rend...

Also of note is that in some circumstances (as mentioned in the link above,) the browser may have to delay rendering some parts of the page until it knows the dimensions of either the image or one of its containing elements, which means rendering the container might have to wait until it fetches enough of the image to calculate the height and width.
Thanks, I think it's fixed. Unless I introduced another bug.
Depends, one is a short term investment and the other is a long term investment. Which is more giving and selfless: giving a man a fish, or investing time in learning how to be a great fishing teacher, then teaching men to fish?
Fantastic idea, really like the idea of a micro-investment. I have a ton of ideas that I'd love to get off the ground, and could do so in a month or two, but I can't afford to stop taking freelance work. $5,000 is enough to keep the lights on. I'll probably try submitting an idea or two, see what happens.

And, as a guy who spent my first 20 years in Michigan, happy to see this sort of thing sprouting there! Flying to Grand Rapids from Boston isn't very expensive, and I could even hop north and sneak in a quick visit with my family.
Is SWSX the kind of centralized conference that approves/disapproves/arranges presenters? I've never attended but my impression was it was pretty free-form.
Excited to see what we can all create together!
When he says "Bush Administration" and you say "Clinton's...Community Reinvestment Act" I think you mean to say legistlation like Roosevelt's New Deal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal
I have really mixed feelings about this idea. The single biggest impediment to startups in Michigan is lack of angel investors.

I wish them luck, but have to think if that much money was invested in Michigan startups through a mechanism such as angel list the overall benefit would be much, much greater.
This is true. I hesitate to call it a diet simply because then people ask what I think is going to happen when I stop, and because saying that you're on a diet has certain connotations that I don't identify with and don't feel like explaining.

Plus then I don't feel like I've "blown my diet" when I eat pizza or drink beer.
Unification of Google's privacy policies was done for Google's benefit.

Furthermore, as an explanation for why these policies should apply to drive, it begs the question.
>... discussed with guy students which of the female profs were 'bang-able' and which 'needed to be laid' so someone would 'have to take one for the team.'

That's just fratboy behaviour. It doesn't have anything to do with the class or the department itself.

It goes the other way often enough as well.
Peak oil doesn't mean we run out of oil, it just means that the cost rises to the point that it's no longer affordable for most uses. Production is unlikely to decline for many decades, it's just that demand for energy is growing rapidly while production is static.

At $20 or $30 a gallon, oil is completely unaffordable as a fuel but still perfectly viable as a raw material. Obviously we'll substitute out other materials for the least important use-cases, but we won't have to radically rethink the manufactured world. According to the DoE, plastic production accounted for just 4.6% of petroleum consumption and 1.5% of natural gas consumption in the US.

The costs of all raw materials are rising, many of them much faster than the price of oil. Many metals have doubled or tripled in price over the past few years. Commodity foodstuffs have surged in price. Quality hardwood is increasingly scarce. We fetishise oil, but we have a generalised resource problem due to the rapid improvements of living standards in the developing world. There are only three plausible scenarios - people getting used to consuming much less, the development of nuclear fusion, or a third world war.
I don't think you'd be able to take down a website with this strategy. The OPs site never went down, it just cost him a lot of money. Even pretty small webservers should be able to serve up static image files pretty easily.

But you could do a denial of service by making the service too expensive and all of your work would be hidden behind the anonymity of the google bot.
like hackertyper, but with plagiarism!
Living in Public: What Happens When You Throw Privacy Out the Window
No, he's saying "the chips are in the switches, but networking vendors may not have mature support in the operating system". Think Cisco IOS as an example of the software that has to support the protocol in addition to what the silicon can do.
Life-extending properties of buckyballs questioned
Google Kils Google Reader

Probably people who are using RSS will switch to some alternative client/reader and learn an important lesson about relying on "free" services.

why would you build RSS into your product at all?

The problem RSS is trying to solve, being informed about new articles (and remembering which ones you've already read), still needs some alternative solution. Neither twitter nor facebook are providing one.

I think as long as there is no superior way to keep up with different sources of information, RSS will stay alive.
her unacknowledged Nietzschean influence is quite strong

Can you point to one actual claim made by AR that is in common with Nietzche? I seriously doubt there is one.

Going away from actual claims to mere generalities, yes, AR and Nietzche were both "individualists" in a sense - but in a totally different one. Nietzche in a predatory way, AR in a "mutual trade for mutual benefit" way.

she does not deduce principles from reality, but from metaphysical first principles

She doesn't decduce, she induces, and she does not do it from metaphysical first principles at all. Her core metaphysics is axiomatic, but the rest of her philosophy is inducted from reality. Most of her philosophical essays are just summaries of the results of this process. There is no work that "competely induces" Objectivism. There are a couple of works by Leonard Peikoff that talk about the Objective process of doing this. Until recently, they were only recorded lectures, but "Understanding Objectivism" was just released as a book.

That there is really no nuance or context in her novels

A lot of people don't "get" the novels. Just a few days ago an Objectivist was telling me how mind-blowing Atlas Shrugged is, because there are about "12 layers" (quoting him) of meaning in any given chapter. You would be surprised. It does not appear to be this way on the surface.
I've often seen recommended protein intake while lifting weights as 1g per lb of lean body mass.
Yes there is a problem this is obvious. However... as long as women make up such a tiny minority of CS graduates there is no short-term financial incentive for companies to not just market directly to men.

For example, if a certain recruiting tactic would double the number of qualified male applicants, but halve the number of qualified female applicants, it is clearly a short-term gain for a company.

That's why the statement quoted in the grandparent post is wrong.

Obviously it's bad for the industry to have a culture that is so exclusionary of 50% of the population, but that's more of a long-term goal. There is very little any company can do to e.g. increase the number of women graduating from CS programs in the next 3 years, since that number is more-or-less fixed now.
Just want to say - I am not that Matt Van Horn. (I've met him, though, and I think the article is intentionally trying to show him in the worst possible light to drive more page views.)
> "Gender is irrelevant to logical analysis"

Brain chemistry is relevant to logical analysis. Gender has significant effects on brain chemistry.

There are also social problems that contribute. But the gender ratio would not be 50-50 even in a completely egalitarian society. Women like my wife [0] are rare, partly because of "brogrammers" chasing them off, but also because a smaller proportion of women are interested in the particular types of analysis that are relevant to programming.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Dove
Worked fine for me
To me, it's good to have a disk with the last version of ubuntu in case I need it. So if I download the disk and boot from it, I'll only download it once, versus downloading the iso + downloading the upgrade.

Also, the upgrade to a new version famously have many problems. I just tried it and it crashed in the middle :S
I'm not so sure about that. Use, host, store, reproduce are no-brainers. Modify and create derivative works are for thumbnails, OCRing, converting to other formats for displaying. The rest are for sharing with friends, or the world, right?

Edit: Read stuartmemo's The Verge article if you're interested, it's pretty insightful.
There's not enough women for people to worry about it.
"It's all a big joke that some people just don't get."

You could say the same thing about hipsters, but they are still a real part of the culture.
The Problem With Marc Andreessen
I don't understand why you feel the need to post this link everyday. How about you try advertising elsewhere and see if that helps?
Could DuckDuckGo Be The Biggest Long-Term Threat To Google?
Google: "The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones."

Dropbox: "You give us the permissions we need to do those things solely to provide the Services."

I'm not sure there's any difference in intent or clarity here. I think it's clear that Dropbox is nicer about it. And because their product is smaller in scope maybe the rights they reserve seem less scary.

But really, I think this is a giant kerfuffle over nothing (fueled in no small part by the "Dropbox is on the HN team" feeling here). These licenses look almost 100% equivalent to me.
So, you're not granting them ownership, just a perpetual right to publish, display, modify and publicly perform anything you upload so long as the use has to do with "operating [or] promoting" Google's services? I guess the difference is significant in that they can't prevent you from using your property, but I still feel like you're kind of being obtuse if you think this negates people's concerns.
To be fair, other Michiganders call it West Michigan to distance themselves from West Michigan as well.
Notify HN: CISPA et al Debates and Hearings on C-SPAN
Congress (specifically ATM, the house) is having debates on CISPA, right now being aired on the main C-SPAN channel (although it was on C-SPAN2 earlier this morning). Governmental ignorance is on full display.
That's plausibly true, but I for one think it's a bit sad if isolated blogs are seen as a problem rather than valuable decentralization.
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Magic the Gathering creator seeks Kickstarter funding for mobile game
The onload event fires after the page has fully loaded - all scripts, image files, etc. I would say that it is more effective than your snippet for waiting until "essential work" has been finished.
Three things:

1) I don't think it makes sense to scare away any potentially awesome developers. My experience is that the problem is getting enough qualified and motivated people to apply, not sorting through too many applicants. (But I suppose YMMV)

2) Look at the other comments here. I'd estimate that 50%+ of developers are offended by this behavior, regardless of their own gender. I'm a guy, but I would not work for a company that is openly hostile towards women.

3) I think getting the office culture right is critically important for a startup. I think promoting a frat culture among developers is bad for business. If nothing else, imagine what effect it would have on your ability to hire and retain non-developer staff.
Here's the thing - It doesn't matter.

If you run {startup X}, and your business guy puts out a presentation with women in bikinis that makes one of your female employees uncomfortable, and you don't do something about it immediately, she has a potential sexual harassment claim that is going to cost {startup X} _years_ worth of funding in legal fees and damages. The "oh {business guy} is just a bit awkward and didn't know any better" defense is NOT going to go far in court.

If you thought some piece of software had a chance of failing and costing you millions of dollars and hundreds of hours of distraction, wouldn't you do _everything_ possible to fix it? Legal policy needs to be treated the same way.
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I have no objection to the provision of liquidity. That said, the flash crash seems to me to be a perfect example of a danger created when liquidity is provided largely by algorithms.

We ran into a situation where the market was already volatile, and a bad trade exacerbated the issue by causing a number of HFTs to take unexpected losses and withdraw from their markets, consuming further liquidity while driving prices down, which created more losses for the remaining market-makers, who had to close their positions, consuming further liquidity, driving prices further down; all of those also negatively affecting long-term investors.

This also seemed to me an example of the opportunism of HFT, where the HFT shaves the spread by a penny or two during calm markets, but withdraws (and exacerbates issues) during volatile and troubled markets, which seems to me the point in time at which liquidity provision is most valuable.

I'm not suggesting that HFT should be outlawed, nor that HFT firms should be forced to register, act, and be regulated as official market-makers, with the associated duties.

But I do note the benefits seem to come with costs.

Long-term, I doubt it matters. It seems inevitable that the provision of liquidity will become commoditized, and that the days of concerns about flash crashes will eventually disappear into the past along with $50 retail trades, and $0.50 bid/ask spreads.
There's a significant benefit to users from having fewer policies applying to Google's many services.
"For startups, having large numbers of investors is bad"

But isn't investment about spreading risk? The more risk you spread, the less founders would have to a) give up in ownership and b) answer to anyone but their own vision.

I think the reason why kiva (and even prosper) works is that risk is spread widely to individuals with common vested interest and enough skin in the game to make it sting but not be completely in-shambles devastating; as opposed to rich people trusting a richer VC to make them foo% return and putting it all in Color.

"The right way to get money from large numbers of people is to sell them your product, like Inpulse did, not to sell them your stock."

What if the product isn't one? What if it's a service like Facebook or (gasp!) Instagram? If you believe in a vision, and you want to contribute to it monetarily -- perhaps even see a return on that money -- why is that bad?
Under Google's TOS they can promote their service by posting my pictures in advertisements on other pages, under the title, "Look what other people are storing on Google Drive."