skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they were trying to appeal to me. Knowing that I'd be working with women and people from different cultures holds great appeal to someone who is sick of and uncomfortable in 100% bro environments. I lean towards thinking that was actually their intention, due to the mention of "frontend/backend" making sure that we know that the women they have are not all designers.

Of course, it's as inappropriate to advertise explicitly as "we have three blacks, and two hispanics!" would be. How do you advertise and get credit for creating a diverse workplace? Maybe a collaborative blog w/pictures above every blogpost? A tiny company can't get away with sponsoring "cultural" events, like the large ones do.
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No, you really can't. The women are being sold as if they are kegerators or ping pong tables. This is not appropriate.
Before that point, it should theoretically be possible to have an intervention for Linus.
Fragmenting what? There were no solid ecosystem, ever, nor there's any.

There's Linux kernel, GNU base userspace (although some replace it with BSD or Solaris one, huh) and bunch of various software running above those. After this there were nothing common in those software since the very beginning. Just more and less popular software.

Edit: removed X11 as possibly common component, because I totally forgot about DirectFB, huh.
The tech behind it is ROR, Backbone, jQuery, Coffee Script, Redis
"We could all do with a lot more of number two, don't take anything personally."

This is really a Postel's Law situation. Yes, your life will be improved if you can receive bad behavior and not take it personally. But it would be a shitty world to live in if this burden was only on recipients. The only robust way to maintain a worthwhile society is to expect, in the general case, that adults will have control of their impulses. Enabling this kind of behavior from celebrities is a loophole we might try harder to close, but fortunately, most of us don't have to deal with celebrities.

I can't control what kinds of behavior that others will tolerate, and I won't lose sleep over the existence of name-calling among adults in the world, but there's no way I'd keep a job where I was treated that way, let alone continue to volunteer my time in that situation.
On what basis do you decide to contribute to one open-source project over another? On what basis do you decide to work for one business over another? Are your answers to those two questions the same? No? Then there's the difference.

>Also, you're wrong, because Linus's job and greatest skill is in managing people.

He doesn't manage people. He manages their contributions. Why are they contributing? Because they want to make it better.

In general, businesses don't have volunteer employees who work there solely on the basis of wanting to make the product better. Their decision to work there is also based factors like the salary, the benefits, the culture, whether they like the people they work with/for, etc., some or all of which will vary from person to person.
I also come from a windows background and I love unity. To me the stale concept of drop down/up menuing systems has always been less than usable.

They work ok for individual applications but for running a desktop, it's a lot of wasted effort. I much rather just type the first few letters of an app and go.

I do not get why the big desktop distros are just supposed to repeat M$ style menus. It seems a lot to me that people just want to stay stuck in the past using a less optimized system because it feel comfortable.

Unity is hardly metro.
'Modern' interface a little extra Melodyne-like functionality with flex pitch, everything else just seems like it was already there but is now easier to access (ie arpeggiator without having to use the environment window)... Am I missing anything major?
Yep, it seems like this is Apple's "solution" to the Mac App Store not providing any discounts to previous purchasers. They did the same on several other products, reducing their prices dramatically when they went to the MAS.
Buddy, your in the wrong place to make spot on observations.

Expect to be downvoted by the "marketing hackers"...
IIUC, there's a project aiming to solve some of the problems with code dependencies, packaging the data with the code etc:

http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.html

(the author hangs occasionally here on HN, but thought I'll plug this anyway, in case he misses this post)
toastman builds have been solid for me: http://www.4shared.com/dir/v1BuINP3/Toastman_Builds.html

also great: http://tomato.groov.pl/download/
What does it explore?
Love it. I see that the UI and design is well thought through. Interesting pricing model too. Client gets to change their designs when they want and you end up getting more in the long run.
I think this is true for most definitions of "better". Our definitions of good, in the first place, are learned, reinforced, and enforced, from observing social norms. In their absence (as we get on Freenet, Tor, 4chan, etc.) we see people behaving much more anti-socially much more often.

Society, culture, and cooperation are almost entirely responsible for the wealth we've accumulated and were born into. (Potential) social scrutiny and the internalization of social norms are required for ensuring that people behave in ways that don't hurt others. When this scrutiny comes from Big Brother then, yes, we have horrible tyranny. When it emerges, messily, from the intersecting interests and values of the crowd, then the outcome tends to be pretty good.
It's yet to be confirmed that the UK government (or any other echelon government) can/has compelled corporations to hand over user data en mass and then lie about it.

Monitoring the pipes is also pretty greasy, but people consider those 'public' anyway and encrypt if necessary.
"How about a harem?" may not be what he wrote, but it's definitely the tone. That says "sexist", not "fun and diverse".
Yes, they almost always control something important. In VST/AU instruments they're often assigned to crossfade volume so that you get a natural tone colour change across the dynamic range.
Why can't the LibreOffice and OpenOffice guys work together and give us an Office solution that is a real answer to MS Office?
Sometimes I wonder if all this shit directed towards Rubyists is actually caused by asshole MBAs.
Richard Green isn't a developer.

Business Development
Global Partnership
Sales & Marketing
Strategist
Business Analyst
European Sales

Besides, his entire fuck post smells of asshole MBA.
That style has merit. Whomever submitted that code, which obviously resulted in creating extra work to waste Linus' time, that person has many choices, such as leaving and never contributing again, or improving their code before next submit which might actually help the project. If they choose to tough it out improve their code in future submissions, then they will likely also have improved themselves in a lot of ways. Otherwise, they can just go away, and at least in this popular project, there is a chance they will be replaced by a much better talent.
The average paid time off in Germany is about 30 days, whereas it is about 12 days in the US. That's something to factor in as a difference. I would happily take the extra time off over the $.
"Hey, this looks a little funny, any ideas what you could do to clean it up?" is ambiguous and doesn't help you.

"Hey! This is broken. It doesn't do X, Y, or Z. Please make sure to check code thoroughly (refer to $DOCUMENT) before committing." is direct, tells people what's wrong, and isn't hostile. People will be offended by it, but those people can be made to understand that they are being given useful direct advice.
The article doesn't claim that the design was original. The title of the article is actually: "Thinking inside the box: The Christiania cargo bike".

(edit: The article is very specifically about the Christiana cargo bike. Sadly there's not much detail about it's development.)
Richard Green isn't tech. He's MBA - we already know what their schtick is.
Lost what? Sorry, lump me into the camp of linux die-hards who don't much care for Ubuntu. I grudgingly use it at OSI[1] because it's our standard, but I much prefer Fedora or CentOS. Although, once I muster up the time and energy to switch this Ubuntu box to KDE, I'll probably like it a lot more.

Anyway, having used Ubuntu on my work desktop for the past year and a half, I don't see what all the hype is about. It isn't "better" than Fedora in any way that is particularly noticeable to me, and the much vaunted "apt-get" seems to do exactly what yum does for me on Fedora. If it's better, it's such an incremental level of "better" that I find it hardly distinguishable.

But Unity... uuugggghhhhhh....

[1]: http://www.osintegrators.com
You need to think of this from the point of view of the women. How would you feel if someone put you up as a perk, based only on your gender? I would feel like meat.

Edit: I'm not saying this was intended. Maybe they were actually trying to appeal to women (or men) who didn't want to work in a "bro environment", as pessimizer put it. Lots of explanations but they need an actual apology for messing up so bad.
The drum stuff seems new, but at first glance looks quite gimmicky. As a professional composer, the last thing I want to see is a picture of a drumkit and various performers in the middle of my DAW interface.
I remember an interview with Mateschitz who retold the humble beginnings of the company and said once they brought the drink back from Thailand, and tried to sell it, it was a horrible failure. This was mainly because the drink in Thailand wasn't actually carbonated. It was more of an "elixir" than a soda.

Mateschitz said he finally realized it needed to be lightly carbonated. Not like most pops on the market which were heavily carbonated, but just enough to give it some fizz and tingle when you drink it.

He didn't say how long it took before they figured out the carbonation was the key, but I'm pretty sure it didn't happen overnight.
This seems like a misunderstanding to me. People saying that it's comparing women to eclairs need to read the rest of the list. If that's the case they're also comparing "commission from online sales" to eclairs and "30 days paid holiday" to a coffee machine.

There are serious gender inequality issues in our industry that need to be addressed. This isn't it.
I hope so as well given it wasn't made by a developer.
>Fragmenting what?

I can't quite figure that out from the article either, but from the language, I guess they're insinuating that the architecture changes ( in the Ubuntu way as opposed to the traditional "Linux way" ) will mean different approaches to software.

Daniel Stone, contributor to X.Org (one of the base technologies
without which we'd still be staring at blinking green text on a
black background), put in: "I'm not worried about Wayland's
future at all. I'm just irritated that this means more work for
us, more work for upstream developers, more work for toolkits,
and more work for hardware vendors."
There is no person who can do literally anything just "because their put their mind to it", and the world is nobodies oyster because it's not an oyster. Also, because it has other people in it.

"Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer." --- Bertrand Russell, "Autobiography"

Unless you're arguing that devoted work doesn't lead to excelling

I'm not arguing it doesn't, why wouldn't it. I just don't see how that makes anyone a god, whatever that's even supposed to mean other than "epic" or "awesome" or other nonsense. No, that's simply being a human. Heck, it even applies to plants.

As I just said, it's not about YOU putting your mind about something, it's about someone ELSE putting your mind to something. That this crucial distinction keeps getting missed is kinda creepy :/
Oh please. You signal that by saying "we have a fun and diverse team", not "Which do you want, beer at your desk or your own team of European women?"
Implied by "this is not just about me, or other minorities".
Thanks, I haven't heard of Leanpub. Will take a look. Thanks again.
> Expresso

people still do this?
> Smalltalk was actually getting a foothold in the enterprise when Java happened and everyone switched to it.

Actually, Smalltalk projects failed hard in the enterprise during the 90-ies which lead to Smalltalk's demise. 'Java killed Smalltalk' is a myth.
are you serious? It's a free software dude.
And it looks like the finally removed the Environment completely!

[EDIT] Nope, the Environment is still there, my bad!
You've described my experience as a developer quite accurately, though all of my development experience (8+ years) has been in Canada. I'd say that here, the separation between developers and managers is very clear, and the derogatory jabs at developers was prevalent in 3 out of 4 of the development gigs that I've had over the years.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a strong tech/development culture here, or at least I haven't been exposed to it if it does exist. Most developers are content to see themselves as peons and want no part of the decision making process, which isn't doing much for those that do.

I've resigned to the fact that if I want to attain some autonomy in my career, at least in Canada, my only option is entrepreneurship.
The linked post does not even suggest that Ruby name or the Ruby community is in any way the issue here. It just happened on a Ruby mailing list. Period.

So why is this posted under this title?
No 32-bit plugins is an interesting choice. Logic 9 can be launched in 64-bit mode with a 32-bit bridge that opens/closes based on whether or not you have any 32-bit VST/AU plugins trying to run. I've got a couple of Sonnox plugins that aren't available in 64-bit which is going to keep me off Logic X until they [Sonnox] get their act together.

Edit: Clarifying a poor use of a pronoun.
Screaming at somebody's funeral should be punishable without the need of referring the content of screams in question.
Very happy about this, although probably means I'm going to redo all the tracks I've been making in the last few months while getting to grips with Logic Pro 9...
When you include the women as a perk in an effort to tempt engineering talent, it's easy to interpret the mindset of the author of using women as objects. Even if the author ISN'T authoring the list that way, they are not being cognizant of the pervasive problem of viewing women as objects and acting to prevent it.

Everything else on the list is proffered as transactional compensations of talented engineers renting their labor to the CEO. Highlighting the youth of these engineers while including them on a list of perks implies specific things about how they are valued.

If he had separately described the work environment, and had included these engineers in that description, and had not focused SOLELY on the young female engineers, then this wouldn't be a story.
The article uses the word "fugitive" five times and the name "Snowden" seven times.
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Need to rent/buy some wheels to hit the road? This could be for you.
It's a good lesson. Rather than sponsoring someone else's event create your own event and sponsor that.
A diverse workplace is a perk, and belongs on a list of perks like the one given. "4X female developers" are not perks, they're people. When you put them on a list of perks alongside paid vacation, free chocolates and a keg of beer, you're objectifying them for use as bargaining chips.
A fine ad. I don't see a crime here. Except the sensational title maybe...

Oh noooes! Ruby sucks! How dare they!!! Sexist community!
You need a new area. :(
True story: a CMM Level 5 software organization had precisely the exact same issue. There was a PM, who would literally spend the entire day wasting time and start real work around 5 PM. Then work till late night.

Once he advised me, "Always make sure that you send an e-mail, late at night to anybody in the organization, before you call it day."

"Why?"

To make it short, per his advise, the single most important thing about those e-mails, wasn't the contents, but just the timestamp.
For everyone trying to gloss this as a flawed attempt to establish a diverse workplace, here's how to do it:

1. Take it out of the list that is captioned "Let me know which of the following would tempt you from you desk…"

2. Instead, try something like "We are committed to a diverse workplace sharing in the strengths of many points of view."
I learned this on a trip to Nepal many years ago. Turn on the overhead fan in your room and the mosquitos never get a chance to land. Of course you wake up with cotton mouth and eyes, but it was worth it.
Aanand Prasad's excellent response to Richard Green's apology: http://lists.lrug.org/pipermail/chat-lrug.org/2013-July/0091...
Virtualbox ubuntu.
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Interpreting this to mean that it's a "fun and diverse work place" is pretty tortured exegesis.

The reason this is a problem is that it's alienating to women to describe them as job perks. Like, look. Empathize a little. What if you're a straight lady dev looking for a job? Why would "female" devs be a job perk? Many women take being massive issue with being described as "female." Further, describing them by nationality has an element of exoticizing them. More fundamentally though, the line signals that this environment is a male environment. Its boys club signaling, even if you don't want it to be. Even if it doesn't bother you personally.
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While I'm inclined to agree with you that this was probably the intent, it probably should have been in an "about us" section rather than in the big list of perks (captioned by "which of the following would tempt you away from where you work").

These things do matter, even if the apologists would rather live in a world where they wouldn't. Frankly, the best evidence to me that this is an endemic problem is that we have one of these every three months and they seem to keep happening. There's always someone who missed the last memo, it seems.
Thinking about doing something similar, would you care to do a writeup? I'm deeply scared of iptables.
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Yes CDE looks very good though I haven't investigated in depth. The main limitation I think is that you need to have a recentish linux kernel installed. But if somebody distributes a CDE package then it will probably be easy to run it.
Yeah, that's what I mean - we already have the ability to easily create drum kits in Ultrabeat, that just seems like a simple interface for new users. Not sure if it's worth upgrading, personally.
Could you build the next-gen mobile network using Kickstarter and Indiegogo?
Canonical is making a huge difference for thousands of newbies, thanks to them they can use a Desktop Linux without the fear of complexity.

It's bravery to be willing to take those risks, not everybody have to follow that direction and the diversity of the linux ecosystem is what made his strength. Some will succeed some will fails, but at the end, the whole Linux community will get better!
This has to be the awesomest reply ever:

> MS. PSAKI: Well, Matt, I think we broadly believe in free speech, as you know.

Broadly believing in free speech tends to be a trait of regimes that are, well, broadly speaking, democratic...
Windows 3.0 also runs on 8 and 16 bit CPUs, while NT is 32 bit only.

There isn't a version of Windows for any 8-bit CPU. It did, however, run on an Intel 8088 which is a 16-bit CPU with an 8-bit external data bus. (Until Windows 3.1 came along which dropped real address mode support.)
Or put a dryer sheet in your pocket. Have it hang half-way out. Skeeters hate the stuff. And you smell good.
I'm sure their existing female developers enjoy being objectified like that, no doubt a horrid place to work...
> no compensation?
It's more than a compensation that your commit gets accepted. It's a privilege.
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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there aren't people out to get you.
Microsoft's tooling is easier to use and they've got a massive training/certification programme.

Because it's so easy, there are a factor more Microsoft admins around than there are Linux admins. And they're fairly productive.

Plus, Microsoft software works really well together. Windows + Windows Server + SQL Server. Works great.

Linux is great if you have highly skilled technicians to support it. There's way more tweaking involved than with Windows; this makes it ideal for anyone running a centralised model where they're deploying thousands of identical machines (like the web). It's not so great for corporate environments where there's a high level of variance..

It's basically the Ford vs Ferrari argument: Microsoft enables companies to employ average quality labour to produce a "good enough" result. Ferrari employ top engineers to produce an extremely high quality result.

Ford scales, Ferrari doesn't.
Exactly this. I'm not exactly sure what makes people in the UK (and disclosure: I spent 30 years of my 34-year life there) think that their country is somehow going to be more ethical. There are zero positive signals that this is going to be the case, as far as I can see, and particularly not now with the healthcare system being ripped apart. Unfortunately, I think there's a certain amount of patriotism at play here.
I'm running into issues. After a while it starts tearing holes in the sphere. Also the performance seems to die off. But I don't know much about 3D sculpting so maybe I'm abusing it.

Running on Chrome under Arch.
Thanks!

It's a pity Amazon USA doesn't ship electronics to Spain (and while Amazon UK does, the price is much higher). I'll search the 2nd hand market, because it looks like a really great device for that price for little hacks and such :)
Another way of wording that would have been to say that window manipulation (including scroll and resize) have always existed on the right side of the window and moving some of those controls to the left is not only a flaw in Unity, but in OSX as well.

Granted, the paradigm is shifting with touch, but it has been an established guideline in window design for quite some time.

Perhaps Unity should have been designed with this in mind, instead of altering established behavior.
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.... or more commonly known as ice cream vendor bicycles. Not a new idea at all.
You would think that PM would have learned about the feature that quite a few email systems have to send an email at a particular time! (e.g. Outlook has "Do not deliver before" option).
There are vulnerabilities and weaknesses in everything. Your operating system, your apartment's gate lock, your car's firmware. If you worry about things that are outside of your control you'll never stop worrying. Focus on what you have control of. Put an open source firmware on your router.
I love laughing at self righteous people like you. You see the world as though people of different sexes and skin colors all think differently but at the same time think all white males think exactly the same without even realizing how ridiculous that is. What, do all white males in their mid 20s grow up in expensive suburbs? Get over yourself already. You're like that white guy that goes to Bubble Tea places and acts like he's into "ethnic" food.