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Exactly. This is what I needed to hear, as a 3rd-party fan of Github's product, who is concerned by Julie's allegations. I don't know who is in the wrong, and I want to know the truth, and I hope Github can solve these problems. This statement doesn't downplay; this statement doesn't evade, and that's what this situation warrants: a serious and sincere investigation.
One way or another, an employee has to be part of the workplace - it's their job. An non-employee doesn't have to be there, so access to the workplace is a privilege (and one that not all employers permit). When a non-employee misuses that privilege (e.g. by getting the the way of employees doing their work), it can and should be revoked.

Moreover, making mistakes in the context of misusing a privilege can and should carry greater stigma than making those same mistakes in some other contexts.
But you're just converting one time to another. If you know their reported UTC time and their reported offset to local, isn't that all you need? For greater precision, ask for their geolocation or use an IP address to narrow down the possibilities, though offset obvious helps.

Now that I think about it, you could auto-suggest based on offset and embed a list of locations per option if they needed to pick between daylight savings or not, for instance. There's room for an interesting widget or service, but it would need to be updated almost as much as a US sales tax calculation widget ;-)
The latter. Interested in accountability and transparency.
"At the end of the day, all they have is their brand to protect."

They also need to protect their company from a potential lawsuit.
>It's no use trying to be clever with words when you aren't being clever with facts.

Funny that you're bringing up cleverness with words. You're engaging in wordplay to avoid the obvious inferences ascribable to the very facts you're acknowledging.

That is, you're using "facts" to mislead in very much the same way that Monsanto does. What's your affiliation with them or related companies?

Forget about the term "dose dependence". I misused it in an effort to be concise. I should have used "volume-dependence". The point is that it is patently true that the more of a pesticide we use in aggregate, the higher the rate of resistance to that pesticide and the more we have to use. You seem to have acknowledged that, but now you are attempting to obfuscate it.

Obviously, this does not mean that if we use X volume of any given pesticide, then we will get Y resistance to that pesticide. Nowhere did I state that. Actual resistance rates are obviously dependent on the properties of the specific herbicide. But, for each pesticide, the more we use, the higher the risk of resistance. Again, you seem to be acknowledging this at least tacitly via your acknowledgment where Roundup is concerned.

But, you are flailing about between arguments and contradicting each. On the one hand, you're saying that GMOs such as Roundup Ready do lead to higher resistance. OTOH, this is OK because we are decreasing use of other herbicides and thus decreasing resistance there. So you are arguing both sides. To see this, answer the following: what happens when we have herbicide-resistant GMOs for every herbicide in significant use?

And, BTW, beyond resistance, we are using more roundup because GMOs allow the crops to tolerate more.

>The introduction of herbicide resistant GMOs has led to a reduction in the rate of herbicides applied for most crops, or approximately similar rates of less harmful herbicides applied in other crops.

Again, this is misleading because you are vascillating between discrete herbicides/GMOs and aggregate. Bottom line is that humans are consuming more glyphosate than in pre-Roundup Ready times because more of it is being used. You keep calling it safe but, as is often the case with chemicals meant to kill, the independent research is calling these safety claims into serious question. When the dose we receive from any given herbicide keeps going up, we eventually cross a threshold wherein even the industry-sponsored research is little more than a wild guess. The result is that we just don't know when we've reached a tipping point until it's too late.

It boggles my mind when scientists, of all people, show little regard for the complexity of the human organism and make such cavalier statements about the safety of consuming chemicals that are intended to kill. If their presumably increased understanding of the delicate balance and complex chemical processes within the human body isn't enough to warrant a bit more respect, it seems that history should be.
Precisely, it "looks like" HR was involved. Can you say with certainty this person, hired in Jan. 2014, was involved? And can you say with certainty that this person could have prevented this? Again, unless you're a GitHub insider (are you?), the answer is no. At the moment, no one on HN knows anything. It's entirely possible this was an HR issue, but specifically calling for the HR person to be suspended or fired, given our collective total ignorance, is a spiteful and bizarre declaration directed at someone the original poster does not know. These are real people, and HN comments – particularly top comments – can influence decisions.
That non-employee spouses are allowed on company property to the extent that the CEO has to acknowledge it (and put an end to it) smacks of an unprofessional environment. Ugh.
Might want to tighten that logic up a bit.

Plenty of founder's spouses are allowed in and have been allowed in our offices. None of them had any hiring or firing power.
Julie made two sets of allegations against Github. The first has to do with her personal dealings with the founder and his wife and the HR department. The second with general harassment of women at Github. Github so colossally screwed up the former, they may have to concede, by default, the latter.
I think any conflict later on will be disastrous. So why not decide beforehand. Decision can be altered but atleast there will not be any confusion for the initial period.
It was past 2003. I think I registered jrock.us in 2004.

But yes, they may have mentioned "this is not a bill", but if they did, the font was so small as to be unreadable. I knew it wasn't a bill because I knew that my domain was registered through someone else.
Here in Seattle we like IPA so much, we invented a dark faux-IPA style called CDA (Cascadian Dark Ale). And no one listens to grunge anymore.
Fun fact: White Nationalists define themselves as a movement to end the genocide of white people. Therefore, if you oppose White Nationalism, you support the genocide of white people. That's how definitions work, right?
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I've been playing with this same setup for the last two weeks at work. I've got our full dev server config in ansible and stored in a repo that has a post receive hook that self-runs the playbook, and an instance of git lab running in a container and routed via nginx.

Gitolite is pretty robust, but after setting it up I kept on thinking of features I would like or need and I realized I was just rewriting git lab :) there are some docker images that make setting it up cake, and a full installer available for centos and Ubuntu.

Also I think I've used some of your roles off galaxy :) thanks for writing them haha
The links to downloads 404 for me.
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That's a staffing issue. If reading and writing is an issue, then I seriously doubt the phone support experience will be of any quality, so there's really nothing lost.
Maybe the founder chose to go on leave to allow for the investigation? Or at least was involved?
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I appreciate the advance warning, but I'm not sure App.net should be doing this.
he's trying to say bro-grammer with the bro-gram.
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The largest issue, for myself, really was the lapse in HR policy specifically around the founder and the wife. It is a huge lapse in common sense on behalf of said founder and should not have come to pass.

A smaller family run business, maybe I could see such policies happening (not necessarily right), but a venture backed company with a board and a trio of cofounders? Bad, bad form.
She's like the Spinal Tap member's girlfriend...
How? Easily. If you're investigating the matter you want to distance all parties involved from the situation, so that they cannot influence the outcome. If Julie was still employed there, she would have certainly been put on leave as well.
What is to prevent an open source DNS server to be deployed all around the world by various people? And browser makers would just add it to the list of servers once it gets big enough.

Until then, people could download a program or instructions that would add it, similarly to Google's DNS or OpenDNS

Except it would not use the regular DNS system on the back end, but supplement it with its own rules eg not taking a domain offline when registrars do.
I can confirm almost everything written in link. And here it's me trying to find my way out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7412930
This study is so flawed as to be scientifically worthless.

The experimenter who was interacting with the babies and measuring the time they spent staring at faces knew the gender of each baby - in other words, it wasn't double blind. This is a well known recipe for allowing the experimenter's bias to influence their recording of the results. This is just one of several basic flaws in the study; see the analysis starting on page 113 of Cordelia Fine's "Delusions of Gender."

"Delusions of Gender" has lots of similar analyses of the research "proving" innate gender differences. The takedown of Louann Brizendine's references starting on page 158 and the one about the frozen salmon MRIs on page 150 are particularly hilarious. One example:

"Casually, Brizendine notes, 'All of the therapists who showed these responses happened to be women.' For some reason, she fails to mention that this is because only female therapists, selected from phone directories, happened to be recruited for the study."
Unfortunately I doubt the sparse uploading of most older TV shows means it will be a long time before we see a full-blown netflix competitor.

Moderately popular TV shows that aired last year are fairly difficult to find a complete season of via torrent for example.
It's pretty odd for women to be hula hooping, I've never seen that, but Julia's reaction to is is bananas. How does that make her feel threatened? Can't she just ignore it, of course men are going to look, did the women think nobody would notice? To me this belittles any legitimate claim she might have, if she's this irrational about this event, then it clouds my view of other things she says.

She also sounds confused, unless the women doing hula hooping were also taking off their clothes then I fail to see how she thinks this looks like anything at a strip club. If the hula women were stripping then she has a legitimate claim that this is inappropriate in the workplace, otherwise I don't see how this is any different to table tennis or air hockey etc.
FTA: "Here's the central point: just because the behavior in question is coming from a woman and directed to a woman doesn't mean it isn't sexist."

Let's not forgot it goes both ways - just because the victim is a woman, doesn't mean it's sexism.
I mean non-commercial in the sense that the person doing the downloading (or uploading) isn't doing so to generate a commercial benefit, not whether or not the product being pirated is commercial in nature.

>which can be categorized into criminal matter.

Of course it can be categorised into criminal matter, that's the point: it is, but it shouldn't be.
If anything, "I would like to personally apologize to Julie" would mean that defunkt personally wronged her, not the company.

Maybe he's just sorry because she's obviously hurt and things didn't work out for the best?
>Depends. If it's a felony where you are, then yes.

Lawrence Kohlburg classifies this kind of reasoning at the fourth of six stages of moral development. [1] Laws are created by people - no, even worse: by committee. Do you think people who have committed no violence on others ought to be stripped of their education and opportunities?

>The upside is people in power have to obey the laws just like everyone else.

This principle is violated time and time again by people in power. Consider the recent fines imposed on HSBC for facilitating money laundering in latin america. A pittance. A slap on the wrist. The consequences for them didn't even come close to the profits they made.

1. http://brianwilliamson.id.au/cit/level1/psych1/kohlberg.pdf
A "full investigation" is the law in California when sexual harassment claims are made. It's not an admission of anything, it's just literally the law.
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It seems like it has been, but it's basic. http://norbertlindenberg.com/2012/12/ecmascript-internationa... A more complete version might look like goog.i18n's timezone support in closure, though I'm sure you can link the two.
They mention productivity.

It's pretty hard to measure rate of work output and wellness programs effectiveness on this so they are kinda doing it by proxy.

The point they are making is people are consistently lying about this issue. Wellness programs don't pay for them selves according to their figures even though many organisations claim they do.

And if we are going to go forward on this issue we need to start talking about the real facts.

Such as they suggest targeting people who have serious issues rather than everyone.

Make real change not token change for the sake of it.
Oh, I don't doubt. Probably he saw the wisdom in stepping back while this is investigated, as any rational person would, guilty or not. Nonetheless, I cannot recall a situation where a founder of a company large enough to make the news has put themselves into a position where it would be necessary.
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> I found it a little strange that they expected a director level position to know how many bits were in a mac address

All (or the overwhelming majority) of the engineering directors I know of at google are very technical. Maybe it's silly, but I think it increases their credibility with their transitive reports.
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Where are you reading that the coworker visited her at home? All I saw is, 'asked himself over to “talk"' in a context which implied to me that it took place at the office.
From a legal standpoint, an employee's status as a founder or owner/shareholder is largely irrelevant. There's no basis for special treatment--in fact, depending on how it's handled, such special treatment would, at a minimum, place the company in a potentially perilous legal situation with future cases.

One of the major ideas behind suspending employees for investigations is to eliminate their ability to influence the investigation. Also, it's a immediate precautionary measure to prevent the behavior from continuing should the complaint be found to be valid. In that sense, it protects the employer by keeping them at a distance in the short-term. They can also point to it in the press and in future legal proceedings (if any) as part of a strategy of showing that they took the complaint seriously from the beginning.
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>> We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation. While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the relevant founder has been put on leave, as has the referenced GitHub engineer.
> Pretty much a full admission that everything that Julie said is true.

Wow - if anyone wants to see an example of an article being overanalyzed and then terrible conclusions being made out of it, this is a model comment for that.

Each of your supposed inferences is critical and harsh. Stop being so cynical - it will help you. The world is still a nice place..
>Everyone gets to vote. Granted, we can't all make large campaign contributions, but ultimately the vote is what actually matters.

Wrong, on the most basic level. [1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_State...
Meh :/ I started with the techrights link, and first looked at the 3rd link, "Installing GNU/Linux is Still Hard Due to UEFI" to learn, and the source article it was based on actually had the writer saying there was no problem at all with uefi+secure boot on, his linux just installed and worked fine on his new laptop. The other two february links weren't much better, at worst an already fixed bug, that did not originate at Microsoft... The FSF link seems more technically accurate as far as I can tell as a non-linux, non-uefi user, but most of their problems are hypothetical and not so much practical problems for now.

Are there better sources to read up on this, or is the controversy a bit over blown?
I don't get it. They're paying for the servers for their websites and the content on the websites. They could just as easily keep the money from the ads. So essentially they're just buying the shares out of pocket.
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The apology could be interpreted in a lot of ways. It could be we fucked up and we are sorry. Or it could be, Julie really blew things out of proportion/overreacted/misinterpreted things and we wish we were better able to react to her hysteria, and we apologize for not being able to.

GitHub is a business and they aren't dumb enough to not consult one or more lawyers before releasing their statement. If they are in the wrong, I would have to imagine their best play would be to compensate Julie behind the scene and have her formally come out and say GitHub is doing everything they can to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Absent a time machine, how could a hire in January have been working to clean up this mess "months ago"?

Blame the CEO and the rest of the management team for not hiring a good HR person sooner if you want, but I don't see how you fault the person who just walked into this mess. Unless you're blaming them for not seeing the mess or walking into it with their eyes open. To me, that seems counterproductive. Having people with the appropriate skills take on the difficult work of improving these cultures is part of how things get better.
It's always been fashionable. The cause is a chronic deficit of genuine moral leadership across all strata of society.
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I think the fact that he went as far as to give a personal shout out to her at the end says that they're doing more than the bare minimum to keep from getting skinned alive, I think they must at least be taking it genuinely seriously.
I still don't understand why you even need to have an 'identity' to register a domain. They should be happy with a valid email address and leave it at that.
OT: "We call brunettes with straight noses bitchy."

?

I really don't understand... Can anyone explain?
They did not punish anybody. Not letting a non-employee into their offices does not qualify as punishment. Put on leave for a president also not. It is more to the media and wait to let the dust settle. The culture of Github needs some fix can be interpreted many ways it does not say anything concrete. This is all politics. :)
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you're right; my phrasing is not clear. there were financially successful video game based movies and thanks for reminding me of that.

i really am interested if any of them got good reviews, though.
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It's particularly frightening to me because it appears that GitHub is attempting to do the right thing here -- investigate the allegations without the influence of potentially involved parties.

Yet, if such a thing is construed as an admission of guilt in the greater "court of public opinion" then there's an incentive to actively avoid any attempt at transparency.
I worked somewhere where a female co-worker hired a "stripper-gram" or something for another male co-worker's birthday in the office. I was single and not even dating at the time, but felt extremely uncomfortable with an actual stripper in the office, myself. So, even though they seemed to be consenting, I didn't appreciate having a stripper in the office, and neither did several of my (also male) coworkers.

I can imagine any amount of ogling would be uncomfortable, regardless of consent of the participants, to an observer.
Is that a coincidence:
https://twitter.com/tpdubs2/status/444509011522891776

Just last Friday his wife's startup is accepted to Techstars NYC, and she is going to be at NYC. It may be a good timing for Tom to take a leave to be with his wife.

Just guessing here. I could totally be wrong. No offense to Tom; I looked up to him.
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The Gitprint error is cute. I did not have that when I tried. I guess more indication I will stick to my own tools. As for everything else, thanks for the clarification.
Everything you said is, sadly, so true for most countries in the world.