skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter seems to be new talking.
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I don't have access to Google Plus in office. Can someone post it here? I am very curious.
I believe if you're a human being of any gender, if you cannot handle innuendo (whether intended or unintended) then you shouldn't be in a job. And if you're not a party in that conversation you have no right to complain to other non-parties. just ask the people you are uncomfortable with directly if you must. learn humour.
I respect women like youself so I will reply in the same way I would reply to any male poster on this forum. What reality do you live in? Do you honestly think it is only prepubescent teens who make jokes involving sex and reproductive organs? Do you further deny that such jokes can actually be funny? I'm not going to debate what is work appropriate. But I think you grossly mischaracterize the nature of people and humor in a very broad way.
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I agree that it's amazing and interesting stuff, but both (storage) principles actually seem rather possible when scaled down.

My point really was that one is to this day made of a disk coated in magnetic material (with the read/write head and electronics getting more sophisticated over the years) while the other uses billions upon billions of transistors that are "etched" out of silicon wafers using an ever more complicated process.
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There's a couple of things that really suck about this. One, the misogynistic reaction from the masked avengers of the internet is shameful, and has actually made the situation much worse now. The second being, how did we end up here at all? I get that someone might feel uncomfortable about dick jokes, but given dick and fart jokes have been staples of low brow humour for a pretty long time it's pretty petty to name and shame over it.

We all should be concerned about sexism in the industry, in this case it seems like it's been taken too far and Playhaven should be ashamed to have not had some faith in their member of staff. The last time a discussion on sexism came out I made a comment about how we need to have responsible disclosure about these issues, for this exact reason. It's turned into a witchhunt, and it's turned nasty and vicious.
It's important to note that the names on the patent are Jack Dorsey and Chris "Biz" Stone, not the ordinary staff/engineers at Twitter, at which the IPA was aimed.

Also note that nothing in the IPA prevents the use of patents offensively if the named inventors agree.

In effect, the IPA isn't relevant to this patent, as the named inventors haven't (and probably won't) make a commitment not to use it to protect their business/personal interests.
> 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.

Being bug free is nice, but not really the general case. I agree however that PCBs do need fewer iterations than software to become practically bug free.

I am unsure whether, in the general case, this is due to the quality of the people doing PCB design or due to the quality of the PCB design process (and associated tooling).

Another point is that in PCB design, there is (from my limited experience) a much stronger correlation between quality of the design and the quality of the implementation than in software projects. I attribute this to the lack of hand-off between the design and implementation stages, i.e. in PCB design the designer of the circuit is usually (not always) also involved in the routing process.
Surely most people in that kind of situation would move to gmail/hotmail/yahoo or similar, though? I'm sure my ISP offers me a free email, but I can't say I've ever used it (or even asked after it...)
With which right did she anyway take picture of the guys and posted them on the internet without permit? Hypothetically she could just have built up the entire story. What scares me the most is how having a wide (social) audience can give you a position of power: the followers become your minions and you can easily start your personal battles.
Managers at Playheaven rushed too much, IMO.
Is someone who doesn't know what life was like as a Victorian.
That's not the point though. If anything is worth the respect of your peers there it's what you do to earn the money, not shiny rocks that you spend the cash on.
I'd like her to justify:

- in what way her accusation is not the moral equivalent of a false rape claim
- why it is alright to publish the photo of two people with non-verifiable accusations on a public site, before any form of trial or hard facts have been provided
Less liberal with the comma character, please.
They did 40 runs of compilations (10 each, twice). At the very least, a scatter or bar graph would be helpful, as it would let you see the data distribution (those numbers are good as uninterpretable on their own).

Saying that, 40 isn't very many times to draw statistical conclusions so you'd probably need more data.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with that woman? She could've turned around and told them to stop making these kind of jokes. That she made a similar joke before is even weirder.
He's obviously talking about these people challenging social norms careerwise.
SMS pobably, and twitter like the original incident.
I was searching for what sexual language is. I found this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9356287/Crude-...
Not sure what to think about this so I'll just leave it here.
But we have laws that are (on the whole) more liberal than the Victorians.
This woman saw an opportunity to pick up some Twitter followers, knowing that at least one or two people would be upset by her embellished explanation of what happened. In the process she took away someone's livelihood, which is despicable in my opinion. She would have simply asked them to be quiet if she were truly offended. Instead she smiled, photographed them, and let them continue their private conversation. It's pretty clear that she wanted publicity - nothing more.
#FameWhore
Well you get to a point where reaching for the mouse does get annoying. And it does happen, when reaching for the mouse distracts you from your "zen" state.
My kernel directory is 13GB, most of that is intermediate build products. Linus has written somewhere on how much faster kernel compilation is with an SSD.
The case here is wether or not she should have posted a public twitter message and picture of the two guys offending her (and women in general). Imho she shouldn't have done that, it was wrong and she should apologise for it.

The fact that the guy got fired is another mater. Since the conference organisation kicked them out during the conference he would have had to explain his actions to his employer anyway (who probably paid for the conference) and held accountable for it. Wether or not that resulted in him getting fired is up to his employer.

But ... Adria's actions made it a public discussion which directly affected Playhaven's reputation and thus made the mater far worse for all parties involved. That's on Adria.
The man got a point!
I am working with cpra-lcoffe,and looking forward to testing this out. https://github.com/cpr-mbelarbi
Nuclear power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Power
Although even that will come to an end in around 2025.
I'm offended by that. Please smile while I take a photo of you, post it on the Internet, and get you fired.
This sounds like a subset of what Mercurial's ACL extension ( http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/AclExtension ) supports. ACL allows you to restrict by branch, but also by file path within the repository (so you can, say, reject any changeset that touches conf/security.ini on the default branch, or any changeset that touches authors/tom.jpg on any branch).

Sadly, ACL is not widely used or supported. It works on a machine where team members work as their own unix users, but it doesn't work under a shared login setup out of the box (although it's not hard to make that work). Bitbucket doesn't support it. I'm not aware of any installable repository managers that support it. This is a shame, because it's basically really good.
Where I live conferences are considered a workplace so our strict equal opportunity and sex discrimination acts apply. Under these acts, crude conversation and jokes are considered to contribute to a hostile working environment. In the event the someone (male or female) is offended, intimidated, or humiliated they are at liberty to file a sexual harassment claim. The intent of the harasser is irrelevant. It can be a single incident or repeated behaviour and the victim is not required confront their harasser. The parties need not even be employed by the same entity.

Of course these very same laws require that the claim is filed confidentially, and the kind of public shaming we've seen here is itself considered harassment.

If PyCon had been held here the only party with their noses clean would the conference organisers.
Was going to signup, and then I saw Facebook login and Twitter login, so left.

Edit: then I went back to double check and saw the little "sign up with email" link. Hurrah!

Edit2: it would be nice to view things near me. How do I search by geographic location?
I would argue, as others have done, that the author is correct in his points, but a rewrite would throw away the main advantages of using Wordpress over alternatives.

There are tons of successful initiatives to create a 'better' CMS. But they suffer from a lack of ready-made modules and a lack of developers 'fluent' in these systems.

In the end, it's about the right tool for the job, and unfortunately Wordpress is often the right tool despite all its issues. If we are caught in the Wordpress ecosystem, then perhaps the best thing to do is to 1) contribute to making it (slightly) less bad, and 2) create best practices for theme and module development, improve documentation, etc.

Why anyone would want to do that is beyond me though, but I deeply respect those who do so, instead of writing their own shiny and clean solution.

As for me, I started with Wordpress, no clue what I was doing, and very basic knowledge of programming. Wordpress worked, and I made a living.

Then I 'upgraded' to Drupal, and loved its flexibility and powerful modules, worked out my own 'admin interface' and happily used this base system for many complex sites. I made a slightly better living.

Then I got into Rails development. I learned about 'environments', TDD, MVC, and so on, and soon realized that Drupal has many, many drawbacks.

(And, as an aside, to configure and maintain these Drupal sites and the interaction of its powerful modules requires a skill and mindset that is about equal to writing (basic) Rails sites or using other frameworks. Except that in Drupal, instead of version-controlled code, you have one giant database and you click click click forever instead of writing a few lines of code.)

Now, I'm doing (in the eyes of many front-enders) weird shit like learning Clojure and Node.js to see what I can do with it, playing with a bunch of different frameworks and CMS offerings, and trying out these new-fangled front-end-heavy buzzwords like Angular, Backbone and Ember.

And yet, if a client has little money, or if I need something quick, I often still opt for Wordpress. It hits the sweet spot. If a client has more money later, well, then I could look into using a framework and rolling out something myself. Drupal, despite it's deceptive initial attractiveness, is almost never a good solution.

I use Wordpress mostly for the client. In the same way that I've inherited Wordpress sites after a developer disappeared, or if a designer couldn't figure it out, I assume others might inherit my projects. If the client has little budget, I really don't want them to be forced to hire expensive Drupal developers, or 'proper' developers who can figure out 'obscure CMS <x>'.

But generally I try to stay away from those clients, if I can help it.
What is the alternative, then? That's the million dollar question. Even phone numbers, which have a large personal switching cost are ephemeral for many people. SSNs or other government mandated IDs are not acceptable. I see no better alternative.
Visual Studio also has this with the MultiEditing plugin: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/2beb9705-b568-...
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I sincerely doubt this will happen, but lets run with the scenario. In a totally deflationary world, more people try to hold bitcoins, I agree. The complementary effect is that the value of real goods, land and labour is reducing.

People earn to consume. The bitcoin rich, if they apply the Kelly criterion to their own portfolios, will diversify into whatever assets will provide them a regular real dividend. That is, farms yielding grain, orchard yielding fruit, NG wells yielding NG, wind farms yielding electricity. They will not be buying any investment for the purpose of money, but for the purpose of CONSUMPTION.

There lies the negative feedback that will stabilize any new currency as it conquers the world.
Hey matt,If its a problem with one link alone then just take action on that one page alone, then it could be considered as action otherwise it can be taken as overaction. On the name of quality one should not take the whole site down for a day,This action of yours is completely wrong..
I'd also add that a lot (most?) of the programmers outside of academia that started 20-30-40 years ago have been promoted out of coding jobs - the culture's changing, slowly, but previously the decent salaries were reserved for management, not programmers, and assuming you want to earn more...
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> dedicated to gender equality and values honorable behavior

Linking a sexual comment (‘big dongles’, possibly forking) to gender equality implies the assumption of a necessary link between sexuality and different genders since ‘gender equality’ wouldn’t make sense otherwise. You are hence grossly discriminating against homosexuals and dismissing the efforts of the gay community not to be oppressed at the workplace. In other words, you are not only against freedom of speech in private circles, but also utterly homophobic.

If you find slight exaggerations, please feel free to reuse and recycle them :-)
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Their website does not have any prices listed.

Based on your experience, how do they charge (per employee, per transaction, etc) and how much does it cost, roughly?
Branch? Fork? With a decent DVCS, they're the same.

Did you just clone your team's repository in order to work on it? Congratulations, you just forked. Even a checkout from a non-DVCS like svn is really a fork, if you think about it.

The best tooling passes this equivalence all the way to the user. git does an excellent job of it.

Then all you have left are semantics and namespacing.
>One can see the fact that the unit lasted long enough for resale as an extended QC cycle at the reseller's expense.

What does this mean?
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Who said that PyCon organizers kicked him out? Aren't you getting your stories mixed up?
Of course not. The only logical course of action is to post pictures of them on twitter and get them fired.
Same question on Trinet - since they also have no prices on their website - based on your experience, how do they charge (per employee, per transaction, etc) and how much does it cost, roughly? 100$/empl/mth, 1'000$/empl/mth?
Good and quick Linux kernel configuration creation
When i have a moment I"lk try to find a source.. In the eanwhile, this is the book to get by the ultimate wine scientist http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275195
That is very spot on. However, forking downsides are very real - more repositories to maintain, which results in harder to setup infrastructure (kicking off builds of 30 repositories is more work to setup than kicking off builds of branches in 1 repository). Installing webhooks or server-side hooks is also a bigger pain in a fork network.
Everyone can make mistakes. And everyone can make things that get out of hands (especially today, with Twitter and co).

What kills me most is when people that make those mistakes don't try to makes things right back when it explodes. . . .

And BTW, since when a tweet from a random guy is enough of a proof to get someone else fired?

I am deeply saddened by what happened :S.
> logic board

I'm not an apple user so I had to google what that means. Apparently it is a synonym for mainboard and it seems to be mainly used for apple computers. Is there a reason to use "logic board" instead of "mainboard"?
She posted a picture of people online without their consent.

I know people do that all the time, and I don't know if it's legal in US, but it's illegal in most countries.
Without going into the whole debate of 'why should I use it when they're just going to Reader it?', does anyone else think this is a massive PR strategy failure? Seriously, the worst time to announce a product must be just after you've decided to shut one down that has a, granted not overwhelmingly large, vocal user base currently flogging the company on all platforms.

Super bad timing, the product is tainted with negativity already, if they'd given it even a fortnight to die off it'd be a much better play.
Guys: Haha! Dongle! Haha!

Adria (of thousands friends and iPhone): Those guys are not cool!

PyCon: Let's resolve the matter. Guys, apologize! That's good! Now let's continue.

Playhaven: Huh? Somebody mentioned us? That's bad! Our reputation is at stake! Let's trash it thoroughly by firing father of three for something he said!

I'm probably lacking proper sensitivity but for me it's obvious when it got all messed up. It's when the exchange of information unnecessarily triggered harsh physical action.
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The problem seems to be that the text is both very small and uses very low-contrast colors (dark brown on black or something?). The almost per-word variation in text color for emphasis also seems to make the text harder to read (given that it's already hovering on the edge of readability).

Given that the text in that bar is mostly noise text, it's not all that important, but it'd be nice if the more useful search box stood out a bit more...

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> 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?

Please, don't take it to the other extreme.

The way I use vim, I still use arrow keys instead of hjkl. I usually don't do 8k or 3j. Yet daW, cs"', cit, /foo<CR>whateveroperationnn.nnn.n., /bar<CR>qawhateverbutmorecomplexqn@ann@a are part of my daily routine†.

Clicking around or moving with arrow keys to operate on well defined text objects feels like hunt-and-peck typing, while the argument is that the only true way to vim is knowing it, similar to touch typing. Yet between hunt-and-peck and touch typing, there's a continuous world.

I type at a reasonable speed, and I use vim at a reasonable speed. I'm not aiming for purity, I'm aiming for usefulness.

In general, Sublime Text does a vast and extensible yet at any given point in time fixed number of things well, while vim allows for composability, and hence even with a default setup and few things known, a great deal can be done already. This is what empowers me, not the home row touch typing stuff, not the navigation speed, but the quality of the dialog I can have with the editor.

† I know about multi-cursors in Sublime Text, and Ctrl+D, but Ctrl+D doesn't allow you to skip, and the whatever_operation you want may or may not operate on the search itself (which could actually be an ack search), and can operate on objects ST doesn't even know about. This allows me to do free-form refactoring without relying on fixed-form refactoring routines and plugins (i.e not just a glorified search and replace).
9gag was immensely popular and profitable before joining YC. They joined YC for the experience.

They monetize the service by ad impressions. I can't think of any other ways they can more deeply engage with the audience while monetizing at the same time.
I reacted to this as well:

> Well, as someone who helped found Gentoo Linux, fuck Linux. It’s the absolute best thing for servers, AND NOTHING ELSE. If you’re running Linux on the desktop, you’re a person who would rather fix his computer than use it.

He even mentions Windows 8 as a more viable option. WTH?

As someone who actually uses Linux on the desktop I have to very much disagree. I install it. It works. Every time.

Ofcourse he came from Gentoo Linux which has been rideculed internet-wide time and time again for their incessant need to über-optimize ever single little thing way beyond pointlessness.

His error in is generalizing this onto the rest of the Linux-world, and guess what? That's just so extremely wrong and not even close to a normal user these days. I haven't even bothered compiling my own "optimized" kernel the last 5 years. Shocking! I know!

This guy is a hardcore Linux geek converted into hardcore Mac-fanboy (polar opposite), sold on the "it just works" idea, because things didn't use to just work in the world of Linux.

The transition must have been wonderfully liberating. But now he finds that his newfound hero has abondoned him and that it was not the saviour he had hoped for and he is lost.

Had he only known he could return to his roots and find everything he wanted right there.
"Spammers hate him because of one simple trick..." :)
All things being equal, working together with women puts you at risk (they might get accidentally offended, go ballistic and ruin your life), working with men much less so (harrassment claims much less likely). Conclusion: it is prerferrable to not work with women. Just saying how it is, rationally. To be honest, it sometimes felt weird to work at places with 100% guys as developers. But at the end of the day, I just want to get my job done then get home to wife+ kids. Exactly why should I care about getting more women into IT?

Honest question - I see the appeal of lower wages for employers (more devs- they get cheaper). That would lower my wages, too. As for nicer atmosphere at work - flirting and being nice is too dangerous, so having women around would actually make things worse.

Note: I don't really have a problem with women in IT, just wondering about the future.
I know many guys (including me) that could possibly have said the same things joking around.
I also know alot of girls that like to joke around in similar ways about guys.
Is that sexcism ? Should people loose their job about stuff like that ? Absolutely not.

I get that it might be hard to draw the line, but come on, we're all human after all, this clearly didnt overstep the border and the guy apologized.
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Thanks for posting this. I'm the author and I would be very grateful if you could give me a bit more details about what wasn't working about the videos so I can fix the problem.
Woman complains of feeling uncomfortable in a tech conference due to juvenile jokes. Hacker News commenters ranging from indifferent to hostile to that notion. Number of people surprised by this outcome: miniscule.
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