skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how about this?

https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/harassment-i...

Note: Public shaming can be counter-productive to building a strong community. PyCon does not condone nor participate in such actions out of respect.

She violated such a code of conduct herself and didnt actually report to staff; even by her own admission. This was twitted out and an army of angry whiteknights informed someone on staff.
Almost anybody who associates great programming with things like super keyboarding skills and muscle memory is unfortunately degrading the status of programming to mere typing.

What is it that is so distracting and pulling you out of your zen when you use a mouse? Seriously you type so fast and code at the speed of thought that a little glitch here is like making a mistake with a Formula 1 car in the Monaco Grand Prix?

Let me tell you how real work happens and how productive people work. I am currently working with a very senior electronics guy in the night for some side projects. Watching him work shows me the path on how we programmers should be working. He will first build the base PCB with all his reusable designs and additional ones reading the documentation I rarely saw him Google anything in the past 15 days. If he has to ever get down to googling its generally to find some data sheet. Once that is done, he gets the components and meticulously builds the entire circuit on the PCB module by module. Every time he builds the module he tests if the inputs and outputs to it are as he designed on the PCB. It took a well whole month with each sitting spanning hours to get the whole PCB working. When he was done, the entire PCB worked like magic. The manufactured one's too. And there wasn't a single problem/bug. It was so spotlessly done. It looked like art work.

Yet the pace at which he solders, or used the CRO or multimeter hardly matters or is even relevant.

And yes, he hardly rushes or goes in a rash break neck speed in doing anything. So here is what I learned. Firstly learn to define the problem correctly, break the problem and establish a clear understanding of inputs and outputs to each module. Read documentation get a clear idea as to what it is done. Spend long hours trying to build/test each module. If possible automate testing(if its software). Spend time integrating.

Go slow, the biggest productivity leaks are not in going slow. Go slow but go steady. The biggest productivity problems are in problem definition, solution clarity, distraction and procrastination. For us programmers, let us be frank. Most of us don't RTFM. We jump to googling and then go down the time sink and end up reading all sorts of articles achieving nothing at the end of the day.

If possible work things out on the paper. Do use stuff like Mind Map for test cases. Learn to work things on the paper and by reading documentation. Learn good debugging tools, sound programming practices etc.

That is what counts guys. Not optimizing the 1 second delay needed to reach the mouse. That's not even relevant in the broad spectrum of things.
Ok - if you subscribe to the "happy degrowth" theory, that changes everything. But that has nothing to do with fiat money or gold standards; on the contrary, I would argue that fiat (ie, government controlled) money would make it much easier to make a transition to that new way of life.

But the transition to a happy degrowth FOR SURE can't happen with simple market mechanisms. At least you need to limit the working hours. At worst you need a completely controlled economy. Technological innovation + free market + degrowth = massive and unsustainable unemployment, that's for sure.
They obviously don't see much value in the casual seller.
Buyers have a better eBay experience when buying from an experienced seller, better descriptions, faster shipping and communication and less disputes.
eBay owns a lot of other auction site properties[1].
They probably want to differentiate their brands, have eBay focus on power sellers selling new products and have their other brands focus on the casual sellers selling used products.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_eBay
Isn't that why they're consolidating and trimming the business, to be more focused on that mission statement?

In itself, Reader could fit in (as the article by one of the original developers touched on). But for various reasons they never worked this out, or didn't put enough resources on it. So now they pull the plug. A stupid decision for many reasons, but not necessarily from a purely 'strategic' point of view.

One reason I can think of that they never invested deeply in Reader could be that the subset of people using it actively (geeks, information addicts) just wasn't interesting and broad enough to them.
Open source release of amendment authoring tool used at the European Parliament
What a terrible joke. We are talking about a company that if left unchallenged, would have destroyed everything free and open source stands for. For what? For utterly selfish domination. Microsoft is rotten to the core from the very beginning. They didn't started for making "better stuff". "That doesn't matters" to them. And they proved many times that they haven't changed at all.
Forget about "Reader" per se. Given that Google has sunsetted so many products recently, would you bet a key part of your small business infrastructure on an Evernote-killer by Google, or would you prefer to pay a company for Evernote?
It's kind of hard to figure out what to do. Harassment is obviously something I would speak out against. But when we define "harassment" to be whatever a minority member in earshot finds offensive things become murky. Perhaps I should constantly poll nearby women at a conference - "ma'am, has anybody said anything recently which you find offensive?"

There is such a thing as unacceptable behavior. But the measure of that is not whether some member of a protected group was offended. Nobody has the right to never be offended in a public place.
I especially like how he took the latest and greatest version of raid tools, compiled it by hand, and was surprised that something broke. He doesn't say it, but could it just possible be that it was a alpha build? a non-long term release?

There are reason why debian takes painful months to create releases. They don't just say "ooo, this Friday, lets just pull what ever the git repository has and use that". Windows has also gone down this road. When windows 8 was released, the software was actually a half-year old since beta. if ones is using beta windows 8 and its raid had broken down, would one blame windows or one self?
> Surely you're not leaving your career because last week somebody indirectly caused some poor schmuck to get fired for being a goober at a conference you didn't even attend.

I mean, if I were considering it with 30 units of determination and after this incident I'm considering it with 30.15 units of determination, it's certainly on the road. It wouldn't be the entire catalyst, but it's another let-down in a long line of being sad on Christmas from my chosen profession. Let's be serious, there are much worse potholes in our rear view.

I'm still not sure I agree that I'm desiring to be offensive with this line of thought, as my underlying goal. Just that I wish we'd talk to each other like, you know, adults. With words. In faces. I'm come to accept that I'm going to work with people that have terrible senses of humor. Shit, I do too. I'd rather we can work together instead of draw lines in the sand over feelings. We're all in this, learning, together. Cheesy song.

This will sound silly, but I just feel like the number of intolerable people in this industry is multiplying (sexist or otherwise; 'temperamental' is growing on my list, as is 'permanent contrarian', a couple rapid-growth archetype markets).

Thoughtful comment, thank you for replying so well.
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I always loved the strategy, and previously it didn't always bother me. When they cancelled Google/Gmail Labs, for example, I didn't like it, but I didn't care enough or rely on it enough to have a problem with it.

Perhaps they just had to learn the lesson that spaghetti that sticks is probably best left in place when it has a rabid fan-base.
Not sure, just pointing out that I think that writing and editing code faster has more benefits than you might suggest :)
> Why does this always happen at Python or Ruby conferences?

A cynic observer might say this is because you don't see that many juvenile 'superstar' dickheads and no education-free 'tech evangelists' at, say, an embedded development conference.
What they said could have been sexist or whatever. If it was in the form of a joke, and not directed at some woman, it's their bloody right to say anything they want. Jokes are not supposed to be tame or PC. Real life is not the Disney channel.

Being a snitch and getting people fired (and for something they merely said --in JEST!) is far worse. What she did is so much more morally repugnant than being "sexist" that it's not even funny.

The Puritan heritage of USA somehow always lives on, even in supposedly "progressive" forms.
Sorry, I missed the sentence: "With this in mind, and Ian Taylor’s bold assertion that "The C subset of C++ is as efficient as C", I wanted to test what had changed with some actual measurements."
Google Now is the future of Google search.
You are never in both modes. In another editor, as soon as you press Ctrl, you have flipped the mode. 'command' mode is a bit like having a 'ctrl-lock' key.
Unless you're building OpenOffice, everything is cached after the first compile finishes. Compiling hasn't been I/O bound for several years.
That the guy/gal reporting on this had to do it through Pastebin, in fear of something similar happening to him, it's telling.

It seems the tech world (or the corporate US) has its own "thought crimes", even "joke crimes".
I have Mountain Lion on early 2008 MBP, and it works really well.

What's funny any problems that I had with this computer (Wifi port permanently turning off), started with one of the Leopard upgrades, it was just fixed once when I upgraded to Mountain Lion (what a nice surprise) but it wasn't long, issue got back with one of the first ML updates.

Otherwise machine works really well, so it's not necessarily true that installing new OS on old hardware trashes it.
That's all true, but I find when the heavens open and the True Path to implementation shines down upon me, being able to get thought onto disk at roughly the speed I think is important, as is knowing my editor well enough to let me manipulate my code in much the same way I'm manipulating the abstract representation I'm thinking about.

In this instance I'm talking about vim, but it doesn't matter, being able to operate on code in a context that matches the way you're thinking about it is invaluable in my opinion.

That said, I felt this was a bit over the top. While I totally think that this pays dividends, I don't think it enough to write a novella like he has.
True, but I think there is a distinction to be made between designing a protocol like tor and actually providing the service of setting up tor sites for people who you suspect are using them to distribute child porn.
You use Puppet for that.
And now someone checks your profile, finds out where you work, and exposes you on the net as a "homophobic hater" and gets you fired.

How about THIS analogy?
Actually the cost to sell on ebay will be closer to 14% since paypal is practically mandatory and they take 3.3%

I wonder what they are going to do when all the bigger ticket items start disappearing from listings, except for those with $250 a year stores of course.
From my own anecdotal experience it is true. The ruby gem responsible for most point release breakages affecting me is probably activerecord.
My kernel compiles are definitely not I/O bound :) The CPU sits close to 100% for most of the compile, running cc1 as you'd expect.
Well it's a good job that only a guy and his family's life were ruined, but thank goodness she didn't have to consider the implications of shaming the offenders by asking the two guys to stop violating her moral righteousness first.
IPage deleted all my content, settings, emails, data - EVERYTHING
iPage.com is the worst web hosting service.
I had an account with them where I hosted all my a lot of stuff - my blogs, websites of my company and my friends' companies - mostly wordpress sites.
Their renewal date was 20th March 2013. However, on 19th March, they arbitrarily DELETED ALL MY STUFF - WEBSITES, DATABASES, EMAILS, DOMAIN SETTINGS - EVERYTHING.
Since then I have been struggling with them - trying to get my account restored.
Their service guy told me if I buy a new account, everything will be restored. So I bought a new account.
Then they said that it will cost additional 75$ to restore my stuff. I got that waived after fighting with them.
Now almost 2 days have passed. My settings have not been restored. A lot of our emails are bouncing - sites are inaccessible. :(
iPage is the absolutely WORST web hosting service - My advice to everyone is - DO NOT USE IT.
Plenty of businesses open and close much faster than Google Reader's life period. And many of them even ask you to pay for their stuff. And they still go bankrupt. Where's the outrage there, and how is this different, especially after using it for free for so many years. Google is not forced to offer a service for life because you "got used to it".
I have no experience with TeX ./. LaTeX, but one idea would be that LaTeX is simply not seen as performance-critical – whether your huge report takes two seconds or thirty seconds to compile is rather irrelevant if you do that once or twice a day. TeX being some sort of subset of LaTeX might simply make it faster due to a lack of features.

On the other hand, people spend ages trying to optimise HTML.
Irrelevant for all intents and purposes.
And what happens if that start-up dies 3 years from now? Will there be a similar outrage for closing it down and pissing you off because "you got used to it"?
Because there are only two stats of note in the post, and they are 0.3% and 0.1%. That kind of difference doesn't make for useful graphs, does it?
Any plans for an Android implementation?
It was certainly the case on the 2.3 "stable" branch two or three years ago: http://david.rothlis.net/rails/experience_report/#stable_bra...
> You could blame the guy for saying something inappropriate.

It wasn't inappropriate.
?? he can do, in Ctrl-F dialog box enable ". matches newline", I've done that more than once and never had any problem...?
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This is troubling, right?

There's sort of three options about tech facilitating <bad thing>: you hold the people behind the tech responsible, you hold the people behind the tech blameless, or you cherry-pick when they're at fault.

I'd argue that cherry-picking is what we currently do, and that it is troublesome in its inherent double-standards: if I show teenagers how to make pipebombs and they hurt someone, that's on me, but if I write tech manuals for special forces on the same subject, that's okay. If I write software that helps ensure messages are private, that's okay, but if the same software is used to carry child porn, that's awful. If I write software for recording customer information, that's okay, but if I provide it to the government, that's not okay.

Cherry-picking is rubbish in this way, because the same tech--particularly for tools and services!--can be used for both good and harm. It may be difficult to argue for peaceful uses of stealth fighters, but barring a few cases it would seem that all tech is dual-use. We can acknowledge this fact, and pick one extreme or the other.

If we take the view that all tech providers are culpable for the use of their tech, we stifle innovation and retard the pace of development--if the morass of patent claims is bad, consider what happens if every product has to go through a strict liability filter to make sure it can't hurt anyone. We don't even stop the bad uses of tech--we can still be saddened to find that someone has found an illegal use for our tools that simply had never occurred to us.

If we go the other way, and hold tech providers blameless, we don't slow innovation. We simplify the cases against people who do commit crimes, and streamline the justice process. We give up the ability to try and stop the spread of things like traps and weapons and whatnot, and can focus on actually going after the people that use them for ill, or deciding not to waste resources on things that become impractical to enforce.

None of this matters a hill of beans, though, because we seem to be hellbent on a justice system which doesn't even bother to make clear the inscrutable laws with which it will nail you to the wall. Brilliant.
Testing your database backups: the test environment database refresh pattern
Until you need to open a can of paint. HA!
Sorry for the confusion but was just answering your question, not talking about myself. I don't wear any uniforms. Interesting view though, considering we're talking about primary through high school students. Not sure how many children have the power to choose their own school. I'd imagine most don't have that choice and therefor are identified with groups they had no hand in choosing.

edit: just noticed the another commenter already pointed this out to you.
Google Plus came alive for me when I added a Fraser Cain's shared Science Circle: https://plus.google.com/110701307803962595019/posts/CcPsCorM...
There are similarly interesting circles focused on technology, futurism, etc.
I looked at it; very interesting.

But why does someone have to sign-in to buy? That is a major turn-off. I can't use something that people need to register an account for to buy. Just take a CC and shipping info and pass it to me.
Is that $150 a month in credit the electric company gives you to cover your bill or is that $150 straight up and no electric bill since the panels provide it?

If it's the former it's still a good investment. If it is the later it's a way better than any mutual fund in existence.
I guess I just assumed that considering that both compilers are part of the same compiler collection that their output, while not guaranteed to be the same, can be expected to be somewhat similar. And that the divergences should not have all that much of an impact on execution speed. But I guess I did jump to a conclusion there.
Those haven't just been withdrawn. Google just opened up the feed aggregator space.
Thanks! Glad you like it. We have a few cool features coming up... Can't wait to show them.
I believe I use html5 w/youtube, though not easy to tell. Is this javascript the only interface?
How do you get price data? Automatically somehow or manual?
It's more like if Walmart opened one of its big stores in your small home town and drove almost all of the smaller retailers for miles around out of business and a few years later said "Oh, this location sucks." and closed up shop.
You're right, I actually have it installed too, I should've just done that and moved on. This particular blog with the patterned/hypnotic background really hurt my eyes in the morning, and I guess I was cranky enough to take it as an insult :)
I heart the love in that thread, guys!
I'll use a call to authority. Amazon uses the email as identity. If it works for them, surely it can't be that bad a decision...
It's certainly not IO-bound. Think about the Linux kernel. It's compiling on the order of 100MB of source code into something of the same order of magnitude of binary objects, and it takes minutes. That is a not close to saturating any kind of disk device. Not to mention that the intermediate files will be cached in RAM by the file cache and can be used without them hitting the disk.
Get a good night's sleep and re-read that one in the morning. The very first sentence of that is about consequences for the business, and the rest of it is in response to that. Others have suggested that the SendGrid employee should be fired, but that's not what Karunamon is suggesting in the comment you link.
Sure, I suppose Freenet or some other P2P would have made for a better analogy.
Loved it. very useful
There's a massive difference between general innuendo and innuendo directed at someone. Yes the jokes are corny, but since when have corny jokes been grounds for complete humiliation and losing your job?
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So python is the fastest?
This is a good example of a bad attitude.

This person was someone who had the skills to plow through the frustrations and could have made a contribution by writing that missing tutorial, but instead chose to gripe.
I also play ignorant. But this is exactly what I am paying for. Make a booking online, turn up at a store, play ignorant. The last time I took advantage of the Apple Care warranty I had my claim completed with enough of my lunch break left to grab a quick lunch.

I've never had a bad Apple Store experience. I am sure there are bad staff. But there are bad staff everywhere in every business. I find it really perplexing that based on a single experience people swear off a product. 1 bad experience is not representative of the millions of interactions that happen everyday.
You are also welcome to stop using Google Search, Gmail (and contacts), Google Drive/Documents, Google+, Google Calendar, and YouTube, ...

Because, you know, they are from the same company responsbile for the demise of Google Reader, and the less you get DEPENDENT on them, the least you will suffer from the demise of another product as this.

Or you can move on.
Except that:
1. Email actually works quite well as an individual identifier. At any given time, an email account is probably linked to only one person.
2. No alternative exists, in real world use, that really looks better
Nah fuck that I'm going to treat men and women exactly the same.
PyCon must have been pretty boring, to have to create controversies such as this.

Unrelated, but I would definitely fork this guys repo: https://github.com/snsn/dongle
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It doesn't. Anyone who feels "uncomfortable" because of adjusting a bra or underwear or scratching feet is fucking stupid and should not be accommodated.
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I did not realize this either due to extensive email traffic but it makes sense. I took time and added a couple alerts the other day. If it is broken, why have us spend time and rely on it.
I obviously can take my RSS feeds elsewhere, but:
1) That elsewhere doesn't sync with my iOS Reeder app
2) RSS Caching! Google Reader cached the feeds, so after subscribing I can see older items, which are not in the current state of the feed. That "elsewhere" doesn't necessary have such a feature (especially if it is a new service).
"Users don’t like social login" should actually read "Some people don't like social login in some contexts - other people like it, or even prefer it, in others".

At least that's what I've seen in user testing... but that's not as interesting I guess.