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Thank you for teaching how to use WebGL. The internet could use more tutorials like these.

I think people are missing the point: it's not meant to look good, it's meant to teach people. So let's stop discouraging.
> The real major theme I see is, "I was treated poorly." Yes this happens

I agree absolutely, This article reads like gossip shrouded in the guise of an earnest discussion of gender issues.
I'm surely a rare exception. I don't buy stuff from Amazon (I might if they would tell me what carrier they were going to use before shipping. Where I live I have a different address for USPS than I do for other carriers.) But I did subscribe to Prime for the video. I'm not sure I will stick with them with the price increase, since I don't use them half as much as I use netflix.
I've been using GNU/Linux as my only OS for years, and honestly, I have never had any issues with it; of course I may have other use cases than you, I don't play video games or anything - but when working on a project, that for instance relies on gstreamer, it's better to use Linux natively. VM's have always been a pain for me, they're slow, IO issues, and you'd waste more battery having to run a VM anyway, so the trade off doesn't make sense. Also, how could you say the problem is from users? Why should installing another OS be so difficult? You should give GNU/Linux another try, and try fixing your kernel panics rather than giving up and switching to windows.
This is a good solution if you simply want to keep up with Ruby's development or you usually work with one version at a time, but not for projects where you mix and match. For instance, at my work we use multiple Rubies, including jruby, and a tool such as rvm is a must in this case.
So we are down to a "choose your favourite rapist" situation.
>It seems to be implied that life with bad credit isn't so bad(and it isn't), but we live in a material world. People want to buy shit, often-times shit that's more expensive then they can currently afford, it's why loans exist. I just think anyone acting on this advice without REALLY thinking about it, will regret it more often than not.

That is the mainstream culture you see in the USA. Other countries do not have that culture (in Mexico some people call it the "USAnd-throw"... and enjoy getting used stuff thrown away by Americans, in Germany [at least in the east] people do not value "stuff" as much as in the US).
This (Tyranny of Structurelessness) pamphlet was one of many diverse pamphlets on a board in an anarcho-communist activist/literature space where I used to volunteer. I'm more than surprised to see it posted here and it pleases me to see that there is a critique (Tyranny of tyranny).

Has there ever been a pole about the political leanings of HN or would it be impossible to enumerate the categories?

[] anarchist
[] socialist
[] republican
[] monarchist
[] libertarian
[] free market capitalist taxes are theft ayn rand is my god
[] conservative
[] democrat
[] i really couldn't tell you old boy
Because already means element-wise power. The reason we need a new operator (@) for matrix multiplication is precisely so we can all the same operators for arrays that we already use for scalars.
It's deeply frustrating that Bittorrent is still synonymous with piracy just like MP3 was in the 1990s. It's simply a protocol. One may use a technology like this for very good purposes, including independent film distribution. When I worked at Pearson, we could not convince network personnel to allow corporate Bittorrent for media content distribution to international sites because they were afraid auditors would balk at it for its connotations. It was clearly the best technology for the job and auditors have accepted it for similar uses at companies like Ebay and Paypal.
Yeah, I've been in a place where one founder's wife was the ex-gf of a second founder, and for no good reason whatsoever she was brought in to do the books, and kept on talking out loud about what the second founder was like in bed.

Some people use companies to work out their interpersonal problems.
>Has anyone noticed all the bizarrely pro-Putin comments on English language news sites over the past few weeks

I've noticed the opposite all over reddit -- people calling Russia an undeveloped dictator-ruled 3rd world country, saying that they should just get bombed by NATO, so on, so forth. It all just reminds me of the anti-Iraq comments from back in the day, and I'm sure the Cold War dialogue was not much different. The fact that we were so quick to recognize an independent ethnic-Albanian Kosovo in Russian-aligned Serbia but not an independent ethnic-Russian Crimea in EU-aligned Ukraine is one small evidence of that. Quite frankly, I'd wish the people of the US would keep their out-of-place views about East-European politics to themselves.

There is an orchestrated propaganda effort, no doubt about that, and it's from both sides.
Actually technology will make sure that your pants fit just perfectly from the 1000s of measurement taken by the full body scanner in the retail store you ordered them from.

The future of retail will be where it is fully integrated into the manufacturing chain to enable just in time manufacturing and delivery of the perfect item with the cost savings from such automation passed onto the consumer due to competition.
Brutalism is a style, not a term of abuse. It does often refer to high modernist 1960s and 1970s buildings which are expensive to operate, having been constructed before environmental friendliness was on the agenda. Some people don't like the rectilinear boxes and raw concrete, but that's not why the term brutalism is applied to a particular subset of the buildings of that period: it was the popular name of an aesthetic movement, for better or worse. The architects in question were influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of wabi sabi, as well as the notorious (but admittedly brilliant) Le Corbusier.
Degrees come with their own survivorship bias. Every level of the education system seeks to filter out those who are less capable in certain areas. This makes the "college graduates earn 30% more" meaningless, because most people are not capable of succeeding in college in the first place, and whatever causes that probably also prevents them from succeeding in the workplace, statistically speaking.

I think where the parent was going is, if you took two people who are equal in every single way, except for one acquiring a college degree, how would their lifetime earnings differ?
Ask HN: What happened to the GitHub mismanagement/sexism post?
This post [1] was #1 on HN an hour ago, now it's not even on the front page. Why did that happen?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408055
College isn't all that expensive. Private and out of state college is. There's a prejudice that you have to go to Stanford or Harvard or whatever to do well in life, and places like Google have perpetuated this problem for a long time by not only just hiring people who went to the more expensive options, they've only done job fairs and hiring outreach at these places. It's a vicious cycle.

So people who could be spending $40k on their local state university are spending $200k just to get a crack at a place like Google. $40k over 4 years is not that much, and the earning potential of people after that more than makes up for it.

And then guess what? Google, in a moment of stark reflection, looks at the data and realizes that the performance of the few folks who went to the cheaper school and still managed to get hired is about the same as the folks who sold a kidney to get through <preferred tier-1 school>.

This image, that you need to get into a top-20 school to make it in life perpetuates all the way down into high school and it needs to stop. Kids need to focus on just getting into college, not getting into an Ivy League school, and companies need to start hiring from the local state universities, not just the approved list of top schools the founders went to.
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A lot of discouragement in this thread. Nice one HN!

Thanks for this post, interesting read!
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Education and college aren't synonymous. People are learning to avoid college because it's just one inefficient method of education: it requires a large investment of time, a monumental investment of cash, and very often doesn't provide satisfactory instruction. You're not asking me, but I would say that contemporary colleges are less about education and more about unloading debt on students.
>"do I want to pay 5% more of my salary for the rest of my life". There are up- and down-sides to both options.

The main difference is that, if I do not have a job for 3 years, I don't get drowned on interests.
I agree that experience from doing does trump book knowledge. But it would also be a mistake to discard the basic foundation that book knowledge grants you. Lots of rookie mistakes can be avoided by having some foundational knowledge.
More and more colleges provide MOOCs : massive open online courses. It could be a good free alternative to college : just pick courses you are interested to and build a portfolio of certifications.

https://www.coursera.org/
https://www.edx.org/
http://moocs.epfl.ch/ (here we can find a good Scala course, the teacher is the language creator himself)
Only woff means no support for IE8 and the Android browser (<4.4). I checked on my Android 4.1.2 stock browser, the fallback is regular sans-serif. I guess, this type of progressive enhancement is acceptable.

That being said, this information should be explicitly presented (even highlighted) on the site, IMO.
The magnifying glass icon, while looks like a way to search the bookmarks, actually opens ALL bookmarks in separate tabs.
You know you are comparing apples to oranges? Google's archive is free and open.
This reminds me of Ray Dalio's principles by which he runs Bridgewater: http://www.bwater.com/home/culture--principles.aspx

"Radical openness" should reduce the amount of politics, in theory. I'd be interested in hearing how it works in practice.
Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale interviewed at Fluent 2014
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Thanks! (clickable: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/273/how-does-merg...)
The best parable of this I've seen was "Meditation Driven Development":

http://www.ckwop.me.uk/Meditation-driven-development.html
GitHub employs a handful of women.[1] Have any others ever spoken out about sexism internally? Out of all these women why was Horvath singled out? Maybe I'm missing something but it really seems that this isn't adding up...

[1] https://github.com/about/team
At no point did I take it as a personal attack.

Besides you were right!

I realize (perhaps in hindsight) that the comments were likely chose to be unacceptable. And you are right, I shouldn't have accepted the premise.

Is saying: "I find you attractive, would you like to go out on a date?" in the work place acceptable? Maybe. It depends on the company culture most likely. At Github it appears such a question can't be uttered, because a 'no' response will cause a person's code to be reverted by a scorned suitor (and management do nothing).

I also think that people in power (men in this case) could maybe learn some self control to not act differently around half the people in the world. And I realize it's a societal thing.

A more honest work environment may help the problem, but so would solving the root cause of the problem.
"But I suspect the changes to overnight rates and Add-On Items would have been enough to keep Prime’s shipping costs sustainable, and these haven’t been the only changes."

That's seems extremely speculative.
update: And it's pulled.
Or you're just developing libraries and are trying to be a good citizen of the ruby ecosystem - which includes that you'll try and support multiple interpreters and versions, if possible.
liberty and justice for all
Tysons is the suck. They're not restructuring it so much as trying to work around the piss-poor depressingly suburban "urban planning" of the place. Yes, it's got a metro line now, but it's a big concrete monstrosity along the middle of a huge multi-lane road, instead of the sleek, organic, integrated transit you see in places like Chicago or New York.[1] Most of the stops drop you off in a giant parking lot along side Route 7. The attempts to make Tyson's "pedestrian friendly" involve basically giving up on the existing street-level and building an elevated walking level connecting the mall and a few office buildings and apartment buildings.

A much better example is Atlantic Station in Atlanta: http://atlanticstation.com. They nuked the existing streets and put in a human-scale street grid: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Atlantic_.... All the parking is underground or at the periphery of the development. The only thing missing is a subway stop (the Arts Center stop is across that awful oppressive highway).

[1] Contrast http://wamu.org/sites/wamu.org/files/styles/headline_landsca... with http://mlmerillat.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/chicago-el1.jp....
Beauty | Amanda Peet | HallOfQuotes.com
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

Read more at http://www.hallofquotes.com/quote/3373.html
No, it's not a fine line at all. There is a huge chasm between ogling someone undertaking physical activity and excessively avoiding them. You probably behave toward your male colleagues in a way that would fit neatly somewhere between these two extremes. Is it particularly a US issue, this inability to behave like a grown-up at work? In the UK, in my experience, men and women tend to work together, on an equal footing, with no problem whatsoever.
Romantic and/or sexual.
Indeed. It's the only reason I stick with chrome even though I desperately want to find an alternative. I cringe every time mozilla launches yet another overly ambitious project while their market share in their core product continues to decline and glaring issues with their browser persist. I don't know how their strategy will play out for them but I'm not optimistic.
I think the thing is that the formal and informal structures need to be somewhat in alignment. A lot of countries have the form of institutions, but not the deep-rooted culture.

In theory the British Parliament could collectively lose its marbles and transform the UK into a totalitarian state in the space of a few weeks. In practice it's very unlikely to happen. The informal and formal are closely aligned in the political culture.

In theory Russia has the separation of powers and independent media. In practice, it doesn't. The informal and formal are misaligned, which in some ways is worse than never having the formal stuff in the first place.
That's the part I don't get. "Don't date coworkers" is a heuristic/warning for self-guidance, not a dogmatic rule for management to impose. Aside from the typical "chain of command," rule it's none of my business. This heuristic is to help people avoid any actual or apparent nepotism while in a relationship and petty jabs afterwards, both of which Horvath ironically faced from people who didn't respect her relationship.
So you have a sample size of one and you think you can draw conclusions from that? Sounds like maybe you should have gone college, or at least taken a stats class on Coursera... ;)

Literally no one reasonable is saying that it is impossible to be successful without college, that is clearly false. What they are saying is that it is more likely that someone will be successful if they attend college. For every Gates or Zuckerberg there are 100,000 kids who didn't, or couldn't, go to college and regretted it.

And yes, I am quite certain that you did get lucky. That is not to say that you didn't work your ass off, or that you aren't extremely smart and clever, but you almost certainly also got lucky in some ways, just like the rest of us.
https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/blob/master/LICEN... ?

That looks pretty open source to me. It's not the most permissive license, but neither is the GPL...
I've been using linux as my desktop OS for more that 8 years. It has ups and downs but there is no comparison in user experience to windows and thats why I have it changed.
That being said, drivers in linux are mostly painful, for instance I've spent several days and nights fighting with this ridiculous bluetooth stack and I'm still nowhere to go. It is not only linux fault because they are doing wonderful job but hardware manufacturers just don't give a shit. Almost every piece of hardware out there has 'Compatible with Windows XP,Vista,7,8!' and that's it...
The key point is that this is just another example of the Dogecoin community sharing wealth with those who have less.

Regardless of the circumstances of the final donation, 2/3 of the 40M DOGE goal had been achieved with a week to go. Considering that the demographics of the Dogecoin community are largely teenagers giving 100-1000 DOGE each, this is something to be commended.
> Use Markdown as the language of the Web

markdown is a fuzzy, fragmented, primitive light-markup.

but +1000 on the generalized suggestion for light-markup.

and instead of all the inane complexities of html-plus-css,
use a model to give a good default display of the content,
but let the user reformulate the display quickly and easily.
(the "zoom" nonsense is the wrong way to go about things.)

to sum up: it should be easy to put something on the web,
and easy for people to format viewing to their preference.

*

create collaborative-filtering to separate wheat from chaff.

it's more than slightly embarrassing that it's now 2014,
and we _still_ haven't done this obviously needed task.

once we saw we could store-and-forward everything freely,
it was immediately clear the haystack will grow infinitely,
and thus there is a huge need to be able to isolate needles.

*

people have always saved and treasured family photographs...
we need to facilitate that human need, and save our history.

*

build in an objective search engine and sharing modalities,
so that hundreds of billions of dollars -- literally! --
aren't siphoned out of our pockets to google and facebook.

*

put advertisers in their place -- i.e., the yellow pages.
keep their ugly noisy pollution out of our public spaces.

*

make those "public spaces" a collection of _private_ spaces,
so i'll retain ownership of, and control over, _my_ content.

*

build in the necessary mechanisms for intelligent discourse,
and reasoned public action, to deal with vital issues in the
social, political, economic, cultural, and ecology arenas.

*

automate hum-drum work to the greatest degree possible.

elevate societal appreciation for those doing hum-drum work
we are unable to automate. garbage-collectors are heroes,
just like fire-fighters; the internet can frame-and-praise.

encourage those who are so-inclined to become _artists_:
painters, poets, programmers, musicians, writers, whatever.
our _creativity_ is the only thing that can save us humans
from our extinction, which will soon stare us in the face.

*

strive to integrate the offline and online worlds, so we can
eliminate hunger, poverty, and homelessness. _yes,_we_can._

the rich can stay rich, but nobody should be poverty-ridden.

(and if you say these issues are unrelated to the internet,
you don't get it, and really should pay better attention.)

*

while i'm at it, stop letting the rich boys use the miracle
of the internet as another one of their weapons to wage war.

*

comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

(if the shoe fits, wear it, because this does mean you.)

-bowerbird
But if the founders/companies are selecting for people from top schools, regardless of whether or not that is rational in itself then it still makes sense for students to try and go to top schools.
For me precisely this was the final reason I needed to simply erase Windows 8 64bit Professional (which I paid for half a year earlier) and install Ubuntu 13.10.

I was worried about driver issues and spending too much time adminstering my system instead of using it for being productive. I cannot emphasize enough how unnecessary those worries were - I f love it! As an IT guy using R, Git, Python and further Linux tools this made actually a lot of tasks way easier!

My recommendation - f* dual boot - get rid of Windows and switch to Linux!
Thanks! There is a corollary to this that would have prevented all this - when I went back in the Chrome settings and set the settings to the same order, it reset my header to this: "en-US,en;q=0.8,ko;q=0.6" - which makes things work for all sites again. I haven't touched my language settings since ~2012, so it's possible Chrome "fixed" this a while back, but didn't change my existing settings.
I definitely agree. I think Target has positioned themselves as the low end place you go to shop if you don't want to be associated with the crowd that shops at Walmart. I'm not sure anyone even knew that that segment existed.

You can see this playing out in the airlines as well. JetBlue/Virgin America/EasyJet are all low cost alternatives to the majors, but more upscale than RyanAir, Allegiant or Southwest. Actually, in many cases they're even nicer than the majors, but they can't offer great connections or as comprehensive business travel.
Trying to correct someone else's grammar error exponentially increases the chances that you'll make your own.
I see this here often. Usually to less understandable.
> It's time people stop with their persecution complexes. The past is the past. No one owes you anything.

So really you are claiming that racism is over as a problem. Nice.
Rbenv and RVM provide a lot more than just four major revisions of Ruby. They provide explicit, exact version selection down to the exact patchlevel of the release, alternative interpreters like JRuby, Maglev, Rubinius, and Ruby EE. Plus, they are user-installable, and have tools for automatically managing selecting the correct Ruby for a project without having to issue special commands.

Certainly I'd prefer if popular Linux distributions made more versions of tools like Ruby available as packages, but just having Ruby 2.0 and 2.1 installed at the same time is not the only point.

Honestly, the rbenv model is looking pretty good these days given that there's also pyenv, nodenv, and plenv, all direct forks of rbenv. For the servers I take care of, I set up system-wide rbenv and pyenv installs as a non-root user to give our applications the flexibility of these tools without having to screw around with root access where it's unnecessary. It works great, and I'm planning to move Perl to the same model.
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Something else to consider: I'm not sure about the data from the USA, but in Canada, the university enrolment rate is 50%, but the graduation rate is closer to 25%. It is clear you can push large segments of the population into college, but that doesn't mean they will be successful at it. Is that still a gain for the individual and society?
Ah, stupid phrasing:

I meant that if you are going to ask someone out, from work, don't do it at work. And definitely don't combine work related stuff (like "you're fired") and personal stuff (like "you wanna date").

Don't contaminate the work place with personal romantic problems. The gray zone is a result of personal romantic problems: you can't talk to and work with a person because they are attractive? Grow a pair. (and the only reason I'm using that is because you used it ;p.)
Not being a rubyist at all, are they similar to python's virtualenv?
"On no one's word."
Indeed. Didn't one noble in the 30 years war switch sides at what amounts to the prompting of his girlfriend?