skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can be, to your computer, like any other USB device. So you can set it up to be a USB keyboard, USB joystick, USB storage device, etc. So, when you plug it in, you can have it set up that configuring the device, or getting logs, works like any other file operation, similar to how the wifly looks to a camera like just another sd card. Or have it enumerate as a usb input device, and use it to control and be controlled by a pdp 11 front panel ( http://retrocmp.com/projects/pdp-1170-panel/25-pdp-1170-cons... ). In short, it lets you tie whatever real-world interface device you've made to whatever pre-existing computing metaphor makes the most sense...or creating your own driver to let the sky be the limit.
Saying it's agism is ridiculous. Google SDEs here, the amount of time I spend on whiteboards solving design problems with my teammates very often out weights my coding time. Whiteboards are incredibly powerful tool.

You don't hand a car engineer manufacturing tools on day one of making a car, you need him to produce a design/blueprint first.
Never had a problem. I use a plugin for auto deleting regular cookies and evercookie requires javascript, which I have disabled by default.

That being said, I probably wouldn't read more than 20 articles a month on the NYTimes either - just the occasional one posted to HN that catches my interest.
Yes, not a production one though. The image has been used before.

http://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/180o19/my_local_newspa...

http://coffeebean2.deviantart.com/journal/Project-toaster-Fi...

http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm-netbsd-toaster.php
There are no excessive programming hours at Facebook. I assume most of those people worked on the massive backend challenge, not on making the videos (but that's my guess).
Unrelated with the accept-language issue, but somehow related:

I needed to create a yahoo account, and I registered it selecting the kimo.com domain (kimo.com is a Chinese domain owned by yahoo). Since the first moment I set my language preferences to English.

No matter which yahoo service I'm visiting, I always get welcomed by at least the login prompt in Chinese, I can't really complain, because I was the one who looked for a rare domain, but it's an annoyance for me, because yahoo assumes that I understand Chinese because of the domain.
In practice, though, it makes sense in this case to assume integers representing array indices are constant-space and arithmetic on them takes constant time. The computers we're running these algorithms on use base 2 and the size of integer they can operate on in a single operation has scaled nicely with the amount of storage they have access to.
Nope. But when an individual claims to have been wronged by a large organization they should receive the benefit of the doubt.
There are 28" 4K Samsung displays on eBay if you are willing to wait for delivery from South Korea.

Works out around 600 GBP with VAT. So around $750 for US customers.
If you mean cloud providers, it would be very expensive for Facebook scale, cloud is not that cheap, having own infrastructure would be more efficient
This article has more citations per sentence than anything I have ever seen on Wikipedia.
Summary seems to be :

- Hire people who want the company to succeed and trust that they will be rewarded when it does
- Keep the upper management "political pain points" under clear transparent and fair rules. never ever deviate.

Sensible but it misses one utterly vital thing - the iron clad trust that must must exist from the employees to the CEO - that they will only and ever be evaluated on clear criteria, that the company has their back and will not fire them because it just needed to. I do not remember trusting any employer except one to that level.

Look at Facebook " You can either be good at hiring of good at firing. I'm good at firing"

We glibly talk about the death of the job for life, even in Japan. But without that contract everything Ben talks about here is words written on the wind.

When you hire someone be sure that you will keep them through Hell, reward them with your daughters hand in marriage and half your kingdom. Then you can believe they might trust you back.
More like Second Life 2.0, and still as graphically taxing, horrendously slow and poorly designed.

SL's problem is it is a game-like product written by people who have no idea how to make games.
HR, legal, finance and IT are all unpopular for the same reason: it's part of their job to stop you doing things that may get the company in trouble later.

Of course, this means they may be at times too conservative in the interests of having an easy life. Doesn't mean they're not useful at all.
Perhaps they liked it, I would even say it's the most likely variant.
Does anyone know how to submit a newspaper to this archive? I have all 51 editions of a now closed newspaper in PDF format and it would be lovely to find them a home here...
That was the reason. A user uploaded a photo Google didn't like, and since they were showing their own AdSense 50% of the time their own AdSense got tagged for the content as well.
I've think they've updated it since then. You can now go through and manually select the photos and statuses that you want to include in the video.
Perhaps they liked being stared at as eyecandy.
It's easy to forget given some of the press they get just how active their users are, 720m users who care enough about your product to watch a video about how they use it must be incredible. The algorithm seemed fairly naive but it certainly seemed to work well for some I saw, and really impressive engineering too.
The people from Statigram[1] came up with this idea last year. I have always been interested in how they did it. It wasn't the same scale as Facebook, but I assume it was a big challenge for them, especially not having the resources.

The feature consisted in generating a 15 second video with your most liked Instagram photos and sending it to you as and MPEG email attachments. They had to do this because third party apps cannot post to Instagram.

I initiated my video generation probably at their peak, and still, in less than five minutes, the generated video was in my inbox. If someone from Statigram is reading this, I would really love to hear your side of the story, being able to compare it to facebook's approach now will make it even more interesting to me.

Here's an example of the generated video: http://instagram.com/p/ibh7zXmvqm/

[1] http://statigr.am
how is it different than Flippa?
I like the idea of namecoin -- uncensorability is pretty cool from a technological standpoint -- however the other flaws of bitcoin make me wary of basing any sort of serious DNS replacement on it. Given that there's no plans to increase the number of namecoins in circulation, and that creating a domain by its very definition destroys namecoins, that 50nmc cost to buy a domain becomes increasingly expensive over time as people buy namecoins, peoples' wallets get lost, fraud occurs, etc. I'd be more interested if they did something like dogecoin and reated some sort of inflationary method to counteract this, so that we don't end up with the same mess DNS is in, only with slightly different bad actors.
It could be a top comment on reddit. Here, we (me in particular, and I think several other posters as well) prefer thoughtful discussion over emotional overreaction.
The "last straw" literally means a last small thing, FYI.
Elapsed time: 118922 ms
To me, spreading this out in public is a nice way to tag onself as unemployable / HR-risk.
That's called Monopoly. It has nothing to do with Access. OpenSource Alternatives exist since Star Office days so it can't be said some alternative of Access don't exist
> (despite the fact that the situations described would have been an order of magnitude less likely to arise if she were a man).

How and why is this a fact? Could really none of this happen to a male employee?

Crazy boss? Check. Workplace relationship? Check. "Enemies" reverting your code? Check. Management non-reactive to complaints? Check. I think a lot of this goes on regularly on many companies, an concerns many employees. In particular, what seems sexist here is trying to make this a women's problem, not an employee's problem.
Yes, that's what is being implied, and it's certainly something that happens, in degrees. People generally enjoy attention from those they themselves find attractive - obviously up to a limit, but that limit is much different than when you don't find the other person attractive.

And that is why the "making a woman feel uncomfortable constitutes sexual harassment" standard is problematic. And of course it's not entirely wrong either because it certainly can be done on purpose.
Ex-girlfriends are part of your past whether you like it or not. I can speak with most of my ex-girlfriends, and it was a nice trip down memory-lane to watch the pictures of me and them.

I am not running from my past, and I appreciate the time that we had together.
A monthly checkup for your parents computer is a very minor hassle, and it's made much easier when you can use remote desktop software.

It's worth while to you also, it would negatively affect you if your parents did something dumb or there was a virus on their computer that uploaded all of their banking information, or if they kept a desktop file with their passwords rather than using a secure password manager. If their identify got stolen or someone stole money from them, or their names got tarnished, that would harm you, correct?
Can someone please explain to me why-the-f was a non-employee granted full and free access to other company employees, each and every day, on company premises, without mutual consent?

What were the other co-founders thinking? This was a darn time-bomb waiting to explode. Just because you are a fancy-pants, hotshot startup and not a bigco, does not mean the same laws and liabilities don't apply to you.

Founders, all that blood, sweat and tears will go down the drain if you ignore the stodgy, boring, beuraucratic 'nonsense' that was designed to protect humans from other humans, as soon as you have more than one human in your beloved startup.

Humans will be humans, sooner or later; so you need to cover the proverbial mattress in waterproof covering, for there will be piss, eventually.
> Your characterisation of my position betrays your sexist bias.

If you accuse someone of something so serious and cringe-inducing, you should at least try to argument/substantiate it.
Apparently, organizational freedom for a bunch of young guys tends to breed sexism and abuse. I've always thought there's trouble ahead for a company whose blog is mostly a drinking journal (although this appears to no longer be the case).
Seems to me the issues are less with her stories than with her interpretation of sexism. I haven't seen anybody claim "she's lying" yet.
This gets very fun once you start using a vpn from another country.
looks like GitHub is in need of this article!!
Which makes you a victim-blaming sexist.
Great, as if this morning hasn't fulfilled the daily dose of irrelevant, ad-hominem insults.
After reading the article, it became pretty clear to me that whatever manner of "culture" github appears to be permeating internally, she was very far from it. This indicates she was a bad hire from the get-go. Hiring isn't just about talent, it's also about cultural fit, and while it's difficult to know with precision who fits a cultural dynamic, 1) such an issue is bound to arise as a company grows and 2) there had to be indications that she was incredibly sensitive early on.
(Particular, individual) regular expressions can be implemented with O(1) space. Regular expressions can do lots of useful things.
Why I am jumping from PHD Engineer to Greeting Card Salesman
Big-Oh notation deals with theory, and in theory the cost of a variable is fixed.

Furthermore, an array of size N is normally storing N variables (pointers) not N bits, so calculating storage required in bits relative to the input size (without a unit) is disingenuous.
Simple inverse Tetris like game implemented in JavaScript
The hula hooping event simply took on a symbolic meaning for her, give what she went through. I don't think the act itself was dangerous or so terrible, but through her eyes, at that moment, it was the last straw.
At the risk of hijacking yet another cryptocurrency thread, this is an opportunity to note how valuable I believe HN to be when it highlights primary sources.

Secondary sources - whether it's lazy journalism, blog-jacking, or Wikipedia, engages us here in a discussion already framed through another person's or group of people's editorial eyes. Is there no better overview of Namecoin than its Wikipedia page?
because in an office environment you can at least expect your coworkers to show a bit of respect?
> We had anticipated that about 10% of the people who saw their video would share it. Instead, to our surprise, well over 40% of the viewers were sharing.

That 10% estimate seems way too low to me. If something like this catches on, it catches on big time. If they didnt expect it to catch on, then why even bother. That said, I never had a problem with videos loading etc during this look back craze. And hardly ever any other time for that matter - it is remarkable how stable that site is.
Only sensible comment I've seen so far. Nicely put @dbloom.
Reminds me of that annoyingly pious vanilla-js site from a while back.

Yes, HTML is 100% responsive out of the box, something so well understood, it nary even warrants mention. We are so far past that part of understanding that our conversations surround polishing appearance to the nth level. We don't fiddle with CSS because we don't need to; we do it for the 1% of cases HTML alone isn't enough. So congrats on writing your first reset, something literally every web developer has already done in their lifetime.
The article, strangely, begins with JAH already having an unspecified grievance against GitHub and the founder's wife pleading with her not to leave GitHub and blog publicly about it. It's strange that at no time has JAH specified what this grievance was, but my educated guess based on her tweets and her blog post from a year ago would be, previous additional incidents of sexism or perceived sexism.
Women are a lot more orientated towards relationships and the nuances of such. Lots of reasons why, but basically it is due to the basic psychological differences between the sexes, and society's reinforcement of them through imposed social norms. A very general statement of course, and you certainly can find exceptions... And things are changing, and have been changing ever since 1960s and feminism kicked off.

but it still is a difference - males under 40 (in general) are more orientated towards their status aka power aka wealth aka etc - in order to acquire the prime females... So to expect semi-arrogant king of the world 20-something men who are typically hyperlogical and socially inept (yes, lot of generalization) and who are hell bent on making a mark for themselves to really grok the subtle aspects of social behaviors.... I remember when I was 20-something and I was CLUELESS.

So in other words, yet another story about an extremely immature industry too full of themselves and soaked with money.
Is Github even that important in the largest sense of the word? no, it isn't. At this point in my life, I realize how IT sucks so hard and is in some sense a detriment to the future of humanity. I want to go back to school to become an English major, BTW... the humanities are far more important than this uber-hyper-capitalism we've created likes to admit.
The way this is written up in the Guardian makes it sound like NASA's all seeing eye has evaluated everything that is happening in the world and made a prediction. The actual paper (early draft here apparently http://metosrv2.umd.edu/~ekalnay/pubs/handy-paper-for-submis... ) is all about a fairly simple model which has been run through a bunch of scenarios as a way of studying civilisation collapse in general:

Based on the long history of collapse of civilizations discussed in the introduction, we separated the population into 'Elites' and 'Commoners', and introduced a variable for accumulated wealth ... We have also added a di fferent dimension of predation whereby Elites 'prey' on the production of wealth by Commoners. As a result, HANDY consists of just four prediction equations: two for the two classes of population, Elites and Commoners, denoted by xE and xC, respectively, one for the natural resources or Nature, y, and one for the accumulated Wealth, w, referred to hereafter as 'Wealth'. This minimal set of four equation seems to capture essential features of the human-nature interaction and is capable of producing major potential scenarios of collapse or transition to steady state.

This definitely has some uses but is being misreported. A four equation model that splits people into two polarised classes doesn't really tell us much about the real world. There are lots of reasons to feel gloomy about the future for sure, but this little model isn't really adding to the evidence in any substantial way.
When a line manager decides to make sure an employee stops doing something, it's actually several conversations:

1. A friendly conversation in which the manager points out the problem, establishes that they expect it to stop, but that if it stops immediately it'll all be forgotten.

2. A less friendly conversation in which the manager says I thought we were clear that you aren't supposed to do it. You're still doing it, WTF? Depending on the problem maybe the employee has some reason/excuse and you need to do something to help them with it/remove it as an excuse.

If the employee is the cynical type, the aim is to establish that while you have an incentive to keep him (because you want good employees on your team), now you've taken a stance on his behaviour, letting him walk all over you would harm your reputation as a competent manager, so the incentive to keep him isn't the only one.

3. A conversation where you tell them you've started the ball rolling on getting rid of them. It's nothing personal, but the employee's actions mean your hands are tied. You've already cleared it with political allies they have at the company who could stop it. Here are the numbers of some recruiters if they'd prefer to jump before they're pushed.

4. A conversation where they are fired.
Even with a specialized social network (like cofounderslab.com) - I would say finding a co-founder is extremely tough and needs equal dollops of luck & hard work. The worse part is that if you do not find the right person, not only will you not make any progress but will also be wasting your own time/motivation/resources.

So yes, I would say do not look at a co-founder as a user acquisition person at this stage (especially if you have zero traffic). Learn the basics of marketing & conversion - they are not tough at all. Take your startup to a position where potential co-founders would atleast be interested in investing their time. Or combine this with a paid intern as you mentioned.

I do work with startups a bit, so if you want to brainstorm this with someone - feel free to send me an email. deepak at withstartups dot com

Good Luck!
And now we come full circle to IE's ActiveDesktop?
It's a good thing to let your manager take credit for your work--if you like them. If they don't, all they're left with is the blame when things go wrong. (I find it a little strange to see people in this thread saying they've had managers who successfully blamed everything on their subordinates: they must never have been managers, or worked at very strange companies. A manager generally gets a higher salary and some perks, but they are extremely dispensable if they don't produce results--it doesn't matter who's not producing them; it's their job to facilitate it.)

As long as they're not an asshole about it, and you enjoy working with them, you should do what you can to make your manager look good, otherwise you might get another one. Once your manager moves up the ranks or joins another company, they will invite you (why wouldn't they? You make them look good.)
...so instead of small and lean businesses (and why not employee-owned too if we're at it), that integrate well with both existing technology and economic landscape, that provide nice integration points both at the business level (partnerships etc.) and technical (APIs made for more than just consumption etc.), let's build startups that fueled by VC money evolve into monolithic monsters that ferociously guard their walled gardens and do their best to entrap customers in them, because ..."nice, polished and integrated and user-friendly experiences"?

Let's at least be frank about it: it's because... PROFIT! ...and OWN the (l)users! ...and to rule the world!

Am I the only one that instead of this, dreams of an utopical business landscape created in the image of the "UNIX philosophy": swarms of small, targeted, few-persons businesses that each solve specific problems and integrate well with one another? And of teaching the customers about the benefits of integrating the best solutions from a large number of boutique providers, all able to provide bespoke solutions for their needs, and all highly motivated to provided the best services because each small customer is really important for them?

Please, stop trying to be "full stack", do what you're best at and learn to integrate with others (yes, integration is really really hard, sometimes even harder than delivering a great product/service, but it's better than forcing the customer to accept a crappy service/product at one level of the stack just because he needs to use the "star product/service" at some other level of your stack). We don't need more Apple-like companies! A few of them are great for setting some quality and "quality of integration" and "polish" standards, but more of them are bad for all!
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Sonus – hackathon app, find out what people are listening to in your area
Sonus was built at the facebook london hacakthon. We want to make it very easy for you to discover what people are listening to around you. Whether you want to see what track is popular in Central London, or Manhattan, New York. Sonus will tell you.

Sonus' data is gathered by users listening to music on the site. So, if there isn't any data in your area yet, you just don't have users on Sonus just yet.
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Unfortunately, should you ever be attracted to a female coworker, it will still be accounted for as sexism on your part.
At my previous job I thought the same thing. They didn't stop people being bullied by superiors and basically did nothing but exit interviews and layoffs. The entire company was really dysfunctional.
At my current job HR is _supremely_ competent. The entire organization is more functional and a joy to work for. I think there are subtle but significant effects when people know that it is not okay to behave in a bullying or discriminatory manner because HR takes those things seriously.
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