skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the point I took away from it yes. Person posts image that they do not own and profits from it. That could be problematic. Imgur, YouTube, etc.. Aren't responsible for user generated content. That's their out. Once a "user" wants to profit from content that isn't theirs, I don't see that flying.
This is an extremely odd sentiment. Now, if said spouse is causing issues that interfere with work then by all means ban this person. But as a blanket rule that seems absurd.
I don't know if Nintendo has ever actually acted on its legal threats against hobby-ish projects. The threats might just be to show general "due diligence" for more serious legal scenarios that could arise elsewhere.
I guess that's a valid interpretation, but I'm still leaning toward the meaning that he was at her house.
I'm from the third world. I'd gladly pay double even triple of what you pay for a monthly Netflix subscription if only it was available.
> The older peers have already completed the first few files and thus aren't interested in younger peers who currently download the first file exclusively, thus no mutually beneficial relationship can be established between different "generations" of prioritizing peers, effectively splitting the swarm into sparsely connected sets.

I don't understand this. Why does it need to be mutually beneficial? The peers should "pay it forward" by uploading to younger peers, even if the ones they downloaded from are not benefitting.

> On a small swarm this behavior can lead to pieces drop to the 0 availability because some peers concentrate on the first few files while the last peer/seed that has the rare piece in one of the later file quits after doing his fair share, but he only uploaded data for the first few files because the prioritizing peers were interested in those only.

This could be mitigated by using excess bandwidth beyond that needed for streaming to download rare chunks, and ensuring that the streaming application keeps seeding for a while after the video has been watched.
There's no way to know unless someone comes out and says it explicitly, but it's not out of the realm of possibility that the aforementioned "spies" emailed specific chat logs to her. In a toxic environment, that kind of stuff gets passed around willy-nilly. That's the first conclusion I jumped to after reading the TechCrunch article, anyway.
In these types of situations, it's usually pretty difficult to come to solid conclusions about the chain of events this early. My initial take?

It's not uncommon for business owners to rely heavily on non-employees for advice, even in the day-to-day operations. Spouses are especially common. What confuses me is that the wife, as portrayed, seems a bit irrational--if not delusional. There's a big difference between even vocal trusted advisors, and the sort of power the wife described herself as having.

So much so that I think there's a third possible interpretation: the quotes are accurate, given by a wife that genuinely believes her statements even though they have no basis in reality. This sort of delusion, in varying degrees, is quite common across the population. We convince ourselves of something--in this case, the wife that she has power in the Github organization--and then attempt to reduce the cognitive dissonance that arrises from the belief and the evidence to the contrary. As time goes on, we try harder and harder to justify those irrational beliefs.

It's entirely possible that there's no truth whatsoever to the wife's words, but that the wife genuinely believed them in spite of it. And that Julie Horvath is entirely accurate in detailing the conversation and the implied hostility she felt from the founder and his wife. So now, not only do you have to determine whether the conversation took place, but also whether the power the wife alleged existed in the first place. Unfortunately for Github, even if the wife never had that power, the wife was still able to contribute to a hostile work environment and that can have significant legal ramifications even though she wasn't an employee.

Friends you go out for drinks with to talk about life and work slowly transform into "spies" who keep you informed of what's happening in the office under the guise of gossip. Curiously taking a peek at an open chat tab on the husband's laptop becomes "access." Commenting on whether you liked a potential hire you met earlier becomes "responsibility over hires." Love for your husband and concern for his work becomes an overprotective desire to shield him from harm.

Given how rapidly Github has grown, the idea that any trusted non-employee, wife or not, would have that sort of power and influence described seems absurd. Hell, for a while it seemed as though they announced a new hire daily. Far too many for one non-employee, no matter how often she went into the office, to have that sort of power. Especially when most were technical positions.

Time will tell, but for now, more information is needed. Anyhow, I suppose I took issue with the phrase "undocumented employee" and ran off on a tangent :). The wife needn't have been an employee at all to have helped cause a shitstorm.
My experience this year was exactly the opposite to yours. I too have been going for several years, and after a couple of "I'm done; not coming back next year", I decided to have change my approach.

This year I established 5 basic principles:

1. Absolutely no panels. Only solo or dual sessions.

2. No marketing sessions (nor sessions by marketing folks)

3. No keynotes (except for Snowden and Assange)

4. Go beyond the headline, and analyze the speaker. At minimum the person must have an interesting personal or professional story, regardless the talk.

5. The more technical or obscure the session, the better.

In the end this strategy paid off nicely. This was one of the best years, and the first to make me want to come back next year. I watched some gems like Philip Rosedale (Second Life, now High Fidelity), Pinterest engineers talking about their dev stack in a candid and informal conversation, Carl Bass from Autodesk, Print the Legend (the movie, and then the discussion with the film directors, plus Max from FormLabs and an ex-MakerBot), NASA, DARPA, nice demos at Startup Accelerator, and a lot more.

I certainly missed a few nice keynotes (like Neil deGrasse Tyson), but hopefully some of the sessions will be posted later.
Right, because gay people have civil rights but black people and women don't...

Then again "queer" these days often means "straight but wants tumblr oppression points," so your perspective might be different from an actual gay person's.
It's simple: discoverability of open source code. Good look getting attention on your self-hosted project.
The word "feminism" describes a lot more that just that one ideology. There are lots of feminist movements and "agendas" and the only thing they have in common is advocating equality for women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism
You should really try talkto http://talkto.com
What is the point of following the laws if they are increasingly just used to justify somebody else's paycheck?

Think very hard about your statement: if there is no practical way of reforming a system, disobedience becomes the only viable alternative.
Re-read it. He was careful not to actually apologize for anything in particular. It's worth noting that they have not admitted to any 'sexism' or whatever other accusations are floating around.
And the discussion, which is still on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408055
I'm confused, could you please elaborate on this? I successfully dual-booted a second-hand (wiped hdd, etc) Lenovo Carbon X1 w/ Ubuntu and Win8 from MSDN media. It picked up the pre-loaded Win8 license without issue.
The world is spinning out of control
The world is spinning out of control, here are links that prove it:

Software will take over the world:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/03/17/0133222/gates-warns-of-software-replacing-people-greenspan-says-h-1bs-fix-inequity

The bad guys make it rich?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/03/16/2139231/alibaba-confirms-plans-to-offer-ipo-in-us

The Kremlin gets DDOS'ed? The Kremlin?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/kremlin-gets-ddosd-by-anonymous-caucasus/

Google and Microsoft working together?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/03/google-and-microsoft-are-out-to-stop-dual-boot-windowsandroid-devices/

Animals killed the free market?
http://www.salon.com/2014/03/15/how_the_meat_industry_killed_the_free_market/
You are right. And there's literally no limit onto what you can do. I know about a kid, who at 13 (in 1993) wrote some 300kb of C code that controlled medical equipment :-o which had been installed in a bunch of hospitals. It was a fun project for that kid (his father's company had built the hardware). And the equipment worked pretty well too. Did a lot of good. Also, before he had finished high school, some code that was derived from his code was launched into space. So you see, there's no limit!

Unlike many other professions, your age is not a limiting factor.
Agreed. Some very popular malls in socal are of the open-air variety. I was replying to the parent, who mentioned "city center".
What has always puzzled me about this is why anyone would think that a local change in a gravitational field would not propagate as a wave. What the hell else could it do?

I do believe there are differential equations involved that make the field at one point dependent on the field at another point after a period of time and that's all that's required.
Planet Labs Set to Launch Largest Satellite Fleet in History
One thing he could have done better is to praise her contributions as a developer specifically or not call anything out specifically. One of her main complaints is having her pull requests reverted and Chris Wanstrath's post does nothing to support her in this matter.
Alternative DNS roots exist [1] but they're not going to receive widespread adoption as the current system is deeply ingrained into how the Internet works, and works well enough. Even if it was massively flawed, people would still be unlikely to change to something new in a timely manner due to network effect - just look at the poor adoption rate of IPv6 despite IPv4's inadequacies. Or our continued reliance on SMTP with all its problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
Is this supposed to stop people from registering using fake information? That's cute. Any criminal worth their salt will forge that info (including paper scans) in a jiffy. One more inconvenience for 95% of the users.
And bare in mind that the average mall was only able to be financed by the big tentpole retailers such as JC Penny, Sears, Best Buy, etc. So if Sbarro can't pay their rent... how much longer can the big boys?

Except the larger stores that anchor a mall actually pay less per square foot than the smaller stores. In order to get financing for a large mall, backers want to see big names signed on. So a mall developer goes out and lands a big fish and promises them a sweetheart deal. So right now you have the little guys paying full price not being able to pay. So it's only a matter of time before the discounted big boys can't. One of the big exceptions being sporting good stores such as Dick's.

Source: Worked on a very sad customer loyalty program for Simon Property Group, Inc.
"Boundaries in digital space will come to resemble boundaries in real space."

God I hope not!

There's very little reason that one should reflect the other.
MIT licensed source code: https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js

In case it's not clear, this allows you to generate a file from client-side JS, and allow the user to save the generated file without first having to upload the generated file to the server.
Both with regard to stuff like this and whistle-blowers more generally, I kind of wonder why more companies don't hire former whistle-blowers as a signal they've nothing to blow whistles about.
Agreed. Keep this handy for when you have an event such as this. If no attorneys were involved in drafting this, I would be surprised.

It admits no guilt, declares that individuals are the possible cause and that action is being taken to prevent their continued damage, notifies the community that a new HR head started very recently, and attempts to be as graceful as possible in acknowledging the points made by the victim.

If you get a chance, watch 'Wing Chun', an informative documentary on the same topic, and note the effectiveness of 'cotton belly'.
It's a good thing you aren't a manager. Which half is it that's good enough for termination? Reverting a commit, or what?
One of her claims was that she was told that the founder's wife had ALREADY been told not to enter the building.

Unless we see confirmation that it has actually happened, I'm not going to believe it. Statements are easy. That's just damage control. We need to see the actual action.

I predict that the founder in question stays away for a month or so, and then is exonerated and let back in.
From a customer point of view, I'll go for the phone call if phone is available on the website. Why ? Because it's much faster.
A simple example is to change a flight, I could do it by email but then if I call I have the immediate confirmation that my flight has been changed, that I have a correct seat and a confirmation by email (yeah I know those kind of stuff should be doable directly from the airlines website but Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines do not offer that for some of my flights). Of course those call center are in Asia, so staffing is not an issue.. Western company take so much time to deal with. Air France took 2-3 days to change a detail on a flight. Valve took 5 days to tell me that cross country checkout is disabled. It would have taken only 5 minutes on the phone.

And let's not talk about banks...
Okay, I am - for better or worse - not always known for my progressive views. But really, you're pulling the 'man-hating dyke' card here?
Exactly! She should never have been singled out by the wife, and that coworker shouldn't have had so much free reign to delete her code out of spite.
Funny how when certain words come up seemingly rational people go batshit crazy. Monsanto is one of those words.
This reminds me of what someone smart told me a while ago: If you're supposed to be the leader and no one comes to you with their problems you're not really the leader any more. This may cause people not to come to you with their problems any more.

I'm not saying your approach is always wrong but I would guess it would backfire around 50% of the time. Sometimes, B comes to you because he doesn't trust A. Getting A in the loop isn't going to restore that trust. If A and B could work it out together most likely they already would have. You need to do more in this case than simply getting them to talk. You need to understand why the trust was broken and work to repair it. Or, split them up.
They didn't actually apologize for anything in specific. This is very carefully crafted and is being very defensive by not admitting to anything. The only real meat is clarifying that the wife had no hiring/firing power.
That's interesting, I've never seen a single freestanding Apple store before.
If a CEO writes on his company's web site, it's usually understood to mean that he is speaking on behalf of the company.

In any case, the company did wrong her by allowing an environment to exist in which these kinds of behaviors were tolerated. The actions that the CEO took today should have been taken a long time ago.
It means suspended with pay.
It's never a good idea to pass judgement when you've only heard one side of a dispute. I see what you're saying, but I don't think it's the case here. This is a general rule.
>Well that pretty much confirms what Julie said was true

Except for anything regarding any sort of sexism.
By your logic, hiring managers should not be allowed to be married, lest they give a non-employee "defacto" hiring power.

Before we string up the cofounder's wife, let's actually let her and/or the cofounder defend themselves, OK? It's entirely possible Horvath is completely embellishing things and the cofounder's wife didn't do anything terribly out of line.
I do not consider the article in TechCrunch to have presented a balanced description of the matter. I will withhold any judgment until Github have carried out an investigation. I will not presume the founder in question, his wife or the other employee to be guilty of the allegations against them until we have more information. I hope Github will be fair and impartial in their investigation.
That's the standard advice, but things are changing after recent empirical work found that doctors who apologized for mistakes ended up paying out less in malpractice claims than those who didn't.

The cheapest way to win a lawsuit is for it never to be filed in the first place.
100% correct form from the media team at Andreesen Horowitz... er, I mean Github.
"How do you propose to allow those who engineered the value-addition to capture a share of the societal benefit they created?"

How about the fact that their kids are more likely to be able to eat some fucking food?

Or not to be lynched by the starving, unwashed masses?
From the gold times of the Internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_%28art_collective%29
The allegation that a co-worker made a sexual advance and then reverted code and generally created a hostile work environment is most definitely a "sexual harassment" claim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law strikes again.
That doesn't mean anything at all.

The company I work for often has spouses and significant others (including the CEO's) around either for drinks in the evening, or just for fun.

They don't have any power or influence in the company beyond the typical role of adviser that all spouses serve.
Both are.

https://twitter.com/pjhyett/status/89064336454201346
Please post a blog link to your Asus 1015E and Broadcom experiences. I want to reshare and help build community awareness.
I tried to make a cuter version of flappy bird, for kids, you know
I find "indoor" malls are great for working on code. Even in bad weather you can take a break and stretch your legs, do some window shopping and then get back down to work. It's nice to have a predictable environment like that. Also malls tend to have high, airy ceilings. I'm no architect but I find large open spaces to be pleasant, for lack of a better word, especially for cerebral work. IKEA is a great place to work on code too. Free coffee.
Oh god, the fire-escape-as-a-useless-tower-over-an-inaccessible-bridge trope... again. It's a stupid enormous waste of concrete and steel, and would actually be kind of OK if there were a way to get in there and survey the area without setting off alarms.
In the interests of transparency, please note that one of the four founders didn't complete fulfillment on his last maker-oriented Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1738994529/kikori-open-...
This is good, but I wonder what the plan B is Russian launch windows suddenly become unavailable.
For the common cases of "import foo" and "from foo import bar", having a keyword avoids repeating the module/function name, as in "foo = import('foo')" and "bar = import('foo').bar".

Ignoring this detail, "import" could be simply a function, like "print" and "exec" in Python 3. And with lazy evaluation, even statements could be made into function calls: "if(True, 42, 1/0)" would evaluate to 42 without causing a ZeroDivisionError. The same can be done for assignment: "locals().__setitem__('x', 3)" instead of "x = 3". Keep this up and programs might start to look like this:

define('fac', ('x',), product(range(1, x+1)))

Which is basically a copy of Lisp:

(defun fac (x) (product (range 1 (+ 1 x))))
Look on the bright side, at least it's not brostep culture.
Let's put the shoe on the other foot:

> The person writing the parent comment defined a founder's husband as "one of your most valuable business resources".

Nope, not offended. The husband is valuable, in no way does it state this is the only value of the husband.
AmForth (http://amforth.sourceforge.net/) is my current favorite, but like with Linux distros, my tastes are somewhat floating. So I'm writing my own little weekend Forth just for playing around ;)
In Texas at least the opposite will happen.
This is not what I'd normally identify as Steampunk - I'm thinking more Bioshock than Downton Abbey.
There's an Indian one in the same vein http://haptik.co
Someone making slides is trying so hard to be a hipster, it hurts my eyeballs.
Ask HN: What are some must read/watch papers/books/videos for java devs?
I've read through Effective Java, watched Joshua Blochs Performance Anxiety talk, and read his article "Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken". Now it's had me wondering what else I should be reading and watching to help me on my path as a java developer.
Of course gravitational waves have been detected. Detection was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993. It has not been directly detected, but BICEP2 will not directly detect it either.

The significance is that this would be an experimental observation of cosmic inflation. How it is observed (gravitational wave) is less important.
I think "causing issues" was implied by "to the extent that the CEO has to acknowledge it".
I like it. Really cool design and animations.
I don't blog.
So, if you hula hoop in public you are asking to be ogled?

Was she asking for it?
Was she asking nice?
Yeah, she was asking for it
Did she ask you twice?
- "Asking For It" Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson

"We had just gotten off tour with Mudhoney, and I decided to stage-dive. I was wearing a dress and I didn't realize what I was engendering in the audience. It was a huge audience and they were kind of going ape-shit. So I just dove off the stage, and suddenly, it was like my dress was being torn off of me, my underwear was being torn off of me, people were putting their fingers inside of me and grabbing my breasts really hard, screaming things in my ears like "pussy-whore-cunt". When I got back onstage I was naked. I felt like Karen Finley. But the worst thing of all was that I saw a photograph of it later. Someone took a picture of me right when this was happening, and I had this big smile on my face like I was pretending it wasn't happening. So later I wrote a song called "Asking For It" based on the whole experience. I can't compare it to rape because it's not the same. But in a way it was. I was raped by an audience, figuratively, literally, and yet, was I asking for it?" - Courtney Love
> Found the best, most comfortable chair at GitHub HQ. Office seems pretty empty today.

Hey, this chair seems to be facing that bitch Julie. Imagine that. Now I can give her the evil eye for 8 hours straight!
Well, the vacuum tubes have already been replaced. (I do agree with you though)
Most women (and men--Julie's story rang true to me--and also reminded me of persecution some guys I've worked with have endured) protest and, when nothing changes, quit to preserve their health and sanity. They don't sue. They don't get fanfare for it. They quietly resign and move to other pastures. And nothing changes for their coworkers (and other women and men in the industry) who are also harassed.

Resigning and talking about it is actually pretty courageous. She doesn't win, she gets a stigma. Her company doesn't win, it gets a stigma. But the spectators with their mouths agog realize that this kind of mismanagement/harassment is not only happening under noses, but also being noticed externally (it's endemic; while women and minorities likely deal with it a lot more, it's not just gender-based, it often happens to the lawful-good no matter what gender or race in small tech companies) and, for a brief time, these companies pull themselves together and become better places to work, if only because it's expensive and time-consuming and morale-killing to fuck this stuff up.
Well they kinda are. Because we have a lack of them.