skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we really need to give a hardened criminal the ability to experience 1000 years worth of cognition in 8-9 hours of real time. It's not like anyone in this situation would hold a grudge or use the time to plot revenge.

/eyeroll
so long.
> Horvath then told her partner, also a GitHub employee...

Protip: don't dip your pen in the company ink.
The keyboard market makes me wonder if there would be a market for custom pcbs in customs shapes instead of just flat, or possible a 3D printer that can deposit both a polymer and conductive traces.
Two women are dancing to music at work in a tech company and the author compares this to a scene at a strip club as men are watching this. Unless this was a regular exercise, what was everybody expecting? Nobody taking notice?
I don't know, if the author's only experience of male coworkers is that they either don't want to work with her, or they want to get busy, then it basically sounds to me like she is surrounded by a bunch of arrested-development coworkers with poor boundaries.

Restricting this to heterosexual dynamics, a bonding platonic interaction with the opposite gender very well might feel different than a bonding interaction with the same gender. But that doesn't by definition mean that it has to be distracting, with the participants wondering whether they're about to shag.

That's what having boundaries is all about. It's what professionalism is about. It's erring towards the professional interpretation rather than the suggestive interpretation.

If some other coworker sees you laughing together and gets all gossipy about if something is going on, then that is simply an immature reaction, and it is not professional. I just can't quite fathom simply "tolerating" a gray zone when it really sounds like people need to do a better job of shutting it down and being professional.

I see snippets of this conversation and it's hard to wrap my hands around it because it just seems like the entire conversation is stuck in a paradigm from a few decades ago. It sounds like people in this industry just need some more experiences with having positive, bonding professional experiences with compatibly-gendered coworkers, without it getting all weird and dramatic, before they'll start to accept that it is actually normal and expected, and that there's no reason to get all distracted by whether or not there's any subtext there. Maybe that's all it is, just something where the community needs more experience and socialization...
True, but you can also witness the opposite on Twitter: Claims of sexism met with a deluge of trolls threatening to rape the claimant.
Seems to me that Haskell's ability to infix named functions is a much nicer solution over-all
This site has lots of sample interview questions:
http://www.careercup.com/
This sounds less like sexism and more just non-sexist batshit crazy people and incompetent HR. Somehow that isn't particularly better.
The stress and fear that a large band of “XXX Freak Fest” individuals have my address and keys to my home is unreal

Do they not have locksmiths in NYC?
HN really needs a reply bot that links to the appropriate wikipedia article on logical fallacies.
At big paranoid organizations (CIA, NSA, etc.), they actively encourage internal relationships and marriages, as it simplifies security modeling. But not really in the same group.
OK. I thought I could know what was inside her PR. but no, it's kind of like a TV show' story line now.
But why? Despite it's dubious origins, Github remains an excellent / superior product. One may not agree with the way they do things (and even that seems to be some, not everyone in the organization), but is that really a reason to stop using the product?

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic
Some geeky types will be tempted, upon founding a startup, to thus not have ANY women in significant roles in the company, and to keep it as guys-only as possible; outsourcing as needed and doing the other legal legwork as required to stay under the headcount (is it >50 people?) to avoid the EEOC.
Crazy how women can turn even canonically geeky/boring things like Github into soap operas like "General Hospital". You've got to wonder what kind of drama occurs in actual hospitals, with alpha-doctors and nurses side-by-side. I've heard stories.
Well here we go Github-gate. Sigh...

Regardless of the truth, just based on allegations, and what they'll stir, this will probably create a big mess.

I can't see who can possibly win in this case.
That's worse than disheartening to me. That's straight up disgusting. I haven't seen the threats yet but it doesn't surprise me.
This just sounds like plain old drama of the old fashioned sort, and not especially one that relies on sexism, but crazy people.

The difference being that sexism would be something ordinary citizens do naturally that is intolerable and is putting up with a discriminatory past or status quo and they are not being cognizant of what they are doing. This is just straight drama.

So far at least.
There's a world of difference between going "hello ("I hope I'm not interrupting" if you want to be courteous, maybe followed up by "I'm foo, what's your name? nice to meet you!"), what did you think of that talk" sitting in front of me or with some space next to me and leaving if I say I'm busy, compared to sitting right next to me with my thigh touching yours going "are you busy working? well whatever, you should check this out! and I'm going to keep talking to you!"

I don't mind the former at all in almost any situation, even if they ignored cues due to the nature of the event - being nice and respecting other people makes it okay and a few people did that just fine! I had to deal with the latter. It's the unwanted physical contact after interrupting without a care that's the problem. I have a sneaking suspicion most people don't want to be on the receiving end of that at a tech event, period, as it's (respectively) uncomfortable and rude. Or do people normally sit close enough to touch a stranger without an introduction and I'm making a big fuss about nothing?

With that out of the way, sure, I agree tech events are about socializing. I normally like socializing. I did socialize. I went to the event to go say hi to a couple people, watch the talks, maybe ask a question of the speakers in person, and then sat in a corner to wait for my fiancé to finish talking to friends...because I was tired and had a non-contagious but unpredictable cough from bronchitis and asthma flareups that would rear its ugly head if I talked for more than a couple sentences. So my lesson is learned. I'll just not even present an opportunity for people to creep?
A really bizarre story.
Unless the poster was registered as a licensed BnB in the city of New York with a lease that allowed said usage, they were violating their lease and the law. Under NY law, it is illegal to sublet your apartment without you being physically present. It's to prevent, among other things, situations like this, which are an annoyance and a danger to the other occupants of the building.
Well, there are only three Github founders, and a quick search seems to indicate that Tom Preston-Werner is the only one with a wife, Theresa: http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/27/omakase-charity-tech-indust...
This seems like a very common way to dismiss complaints of sexism, whether those complaints are valid or invalid. Could someone explain why?

I remember an similar complaint against a woman who said she was groped at a conference. What, is she expected to get a video of him groping her? There's a reason why so much sexism happens behind closed doors, off the record, or just in person when nobody else is nearby.

These things need to be public because that is required before we can discuss them. We are not putting GitHub on trial here.
There's been a few other comments that point out that a condition of the insurance is that you must own the property, or have permission to rent it out, which author didn't. To the policy as it's written, this would be an uncovered claim.
Exactly.

The reason this vertical hasn't been disrupted in this manner is the inherent liability of dealing with humans.

An institution like a hotel chain can both:

-React to a situation like this immediately instead of letting it play out.

-Take the losses in the event that damage occurs and the guests credentials were fake.

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To an individual renting out less than 5 properties a loss like this is crippling.

Also agree that the real victims here are the fellow tenants +landlord, they won't be seeing any of that 90k+ or their shitty past tenant.
"tall poppies"? Our system allowed these Poppies the to
flourish. These tall Poppies were never subject to shakedowns, or out right theft of their usually inherited
monies. Most never served their country. They lived
safe privileged lives. They didn't need to worry about
much; other than making money. If we don't start closing
the inequity gap, I wonder just how long this "cake walk"
for the wealthy will last. I hope we never become, well
like Mexico, where the wealthy need to be constantly on
alert for kidnapping, or getting shot? As to letting the
tall poppies do the right thing with there benevolent gifts; I believe they need some guidance. Bill Gates
comes to mind. Spending millions on expensive genetically
modified seeds--only to see one crop for some poor tribe
in Africa. I do admire he brought up the condom issue
though. I don't have any concrete answers, but "only
in America" could a lot of these rich dudes make their fortunes. What really irks me is is when they take advantage of all the thing most of us take for granted(like
an honest judicial system, right down to the cops on the streets), and then store their money offshore--all because
they want a few more shekels. And then when they get in
trouble they proudly proclaim,"I am an American.! I have
rights".
Wait, is it even legal to use AirBNB in NYC?

latest is this: http://www.thenewyorkworld.com/2013/10/24/airbnb/ ??
What a mess!

But it looks like sexism was not the number one problem.
Libel, not slander.
The entire larger point of the post seems to be being missed, which isn't specifically about Amazon Prime at all. The point is that the big players in the online services space are competing in a "my way or the highway" fashion that ends up making everything a little worse.

You may not agree with Arment's take on Amazon Instant Video -- personally, I'm a Prime customer but haven't been interested in Amazon's video service because it seemed to mostly overlap with Netflix and because until fairly recently getting it on my TV was more of a pain than I was willing to put up with, because I have an Apple TV and Amazon and Apple wouldn't cross the street to piss on each other if they were on fire. But Google Maps is no longer used for iOS's native map program in large part because Google wanted access to iOS customers Apple didn't want to give, and because of that iOS native maps are worse (and Google lost tens of millions of map users). Google is making all their services a little worse by trying to tie everything up with Google+. Amazon's refusal to support EPUB makes my Kindle a little worse. And so on and so on.

HN readers seem to engage in a lot of debate over whether Google and Amazon are "better" than Apple when it comes to ecosystem lock-in. But all of those services only work with approved devices using approved players with approved content. What you're arguing about is the size of the cage you're in.
He's not judging the product good or bad. He's just "voting" the company with his actions, as we all should.
Why Aren’t People Freaking Out About iBeacon?
It seems random with 4 directions works well more than 3.

http://imgur.com/u0Yws7T
Here is what I ran so far with random 3 directions. V shape emerges.
Er, it's not like she's anonymously accusing them. They can confront her any time they want.
I think she feels that the agreement was two ways: She would pay interested, but in return she would get a job.

I'm not entirely convinced on the ethics, but there is something to the argument.
Maybe you should look up the rash of hotel fires before some of those regulations were put on the books. Or consider the fact that many of our homes are in apartment buildings and we didn't sign on to have an illegal hotel in the apartment next door.
Of course, it's always the women that make things dramatic. Not the power fetish of the founder's wife, the unwanted advances of coworkers, or the reverting of legitimate contributions to the team's project.

Can't you see past the fact that she's a woman? Don't you see how demoralizing any of this would be?
I was shooting for a bit more pizazz than that :-).

Pizazz is fine, but not at the expense of truth.

You'd be just as dead though

Eventually, yes. Not at the horizon.

singularities on what most folks consider "normal" space-time.

There is a singularity at the "center" of the black hole, yes. (I put "center" in scare-quotes because a black hole doesn't have a "center" in the usual sense; but we don't have a better word for it.) But not at the horizon.
That hula hoops bit was a bit... strange. If it were a couple of attractive girls I probably would also find myself staring. I mean, its just not something you see everyday working at an office.
I understand being stared at is uncomfortable too, and they should feel free to do whatever they want of course. It just sounds like how unattractive people "stare creepily" while attractive people "look."
No, they're up to three different ads. It's just that it's the same three ads every break. :)
Calling family members and telling them you owe money is illegal under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the collection agency knows it. The author however is probably mistaken that no interest is accruing.
Any guess who this is? “well-liked at GitHub” and “popular in the community.”
It makes a lot of sense in such organizations, as it satisfies the employees' need for close human relationships without compromising the company's paranoid culture.

In this case--and likely in all for-profit companies--it only magnified the problem by adding another employee to the drama.
As usual, the people pushing logical fallacies are the ones making the most of it. You do not want to reward people of the origin product because they are mis-behaving, so you are hoping to create negative incentives/tradeoffs for such behavior.

In the cited example on that website, it says

Accused on the 6 o'clock news of corruption and taking bribes, the senator said that we should all be very wary of the things we hear in the media, because we all know how very unreliable the media can be." Except in this one it goes, 6oclockCorp->generality of media. In this one, it is Github->Github, especially cause 'founder' is here.

That said I think leaving github is a pretty dumb idea considering that comparatively they are the good kids overall.
But this happened in NYC...

AirBNB is not legally compatible with New York City's housing/hotel laws. It very easily could be fine elsewhere, just not NYC.
Show HN: My first startup – design your own case
Several months ago, I met a guy that's running phone cases business. He was interested to make a website that client can have their case with own designed graphics or photos as other competitors already does.

He showed how their competitors website is not so user friendly and to many restrictions on uploading images and making the case. We then try to figure it out the problems and develop a new one.

Few days ago, we soft launched for our potential customers and here their feedback, their feedback is good as far.

So today I would like you guys, to try and get some feedback for me. I am the only developer for this project and use my weekend time to do it. Really Really want to hear some voices here. Thank you!

url: https://design.ultra-case.com
I hope you understand that the truth is not simply a matter of if somebody is lying or not. Recollections can be flawed. Perceptions may be biased. Knowledge of other factors may be limited. Events or circumstances may be unintentionally unconsidered or mentioned. There is always value in hearing the take of other people, even when you are an involved party (and therefore able to be certain that you are not lying).
I think the implication is that none of this would have happened, or at least would not have been tolerated, if she was male. And it sound like the basis of her relationship with the founder's wife being "crazy" was that she was a female employee. So I'd say sexism played a significant role here.
The problem with the founder's wife sounds like a very one sided account of your standard interpersonal conflict. Everyone who has ever been in one of those has at some point claimed themselves to be a saint and their opponent a demon.

The alleged sexism seems to be primarily imaginary.

The anonymous posting that so upset her and precipitated all of this said:

> has a history of RAGINING against any professional criticism. Leadership has stood idly by while she lied about contributions and threw hardworking coworkers under the bus (again and again)[1]

To be honest, it seems to me that such could very well be true.

[1] https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/444646082857820160/phot...
Why did this become a blog post, and not a conversation with AirBnB's customer service and legal departments? Unnecessarily jumping that gap is what makes me seriously doubt the pure validity of his claims.
Carried forward, in a court-like environment, or throwing salvos over PR mediums?

I take it as a bad smell someone goes the PR route over a lawyer (perhaps a confidential legal threat?) to discuss things privately and settle thing amicably.
> AirBnB has an insurance policy to compensate for cases like this.

Not quite. AirBnb specifically excludes things you don't own. So, while they would be responsible for the original poster's stuff, any damage done to the apartment itself, paint, floors, appliances, walls, hallways, doors, bathroom, fixtures, any furnishings that were already in the apt, etc would not appear to be covered.

> PLEASE CAREFULLY REVIEW THE DEFINITIONS OF “COVERED ACCOMMODATION,” “COVERED LOSSES,” “EXCLUDED ACCOMMODATION,” AND “EXCLUDED PROPERTY” BELOW. THESE DEFINITIONS ARE ESPECIALLY SIGNIFICANT IF YOUR ACCOMMODATION IS A CONDOMINIUM, TOWNHOUSE, CO-OPERATIVE, APARTMENT, OR ANY OTHER UNIT IN A MULTIPLE-DWELLING STRUCTURE, COMPLEX, AND/OR DEVELOPMENT. TO THE EXTENT THIS HOST GUARANTEE COVERS REAL PROPERTY, IT COVERS ONLY REAL PROPERTY THAT YOU OWN.
Now do Daredevil Dan
My crypto knowledge is not really up to snuff but doesn't this not use any real end-to-end crypto when it easily could? SSL, AES, and blowfish could all be MITM'd, right?
If we accept the general outline of events thus far recounted, only one of two people has to be crazy, and the others can be merely blind/incompetent/weak. Unfortunately it is impossible at this stage for an outsider to be certain who the crazy party actually is.
That's how I read it as well. I mean, there's definitely some hints of sexist behavior. Though as I was reading, it felt like I was in the hallways of my high school years ago. Loads of gossip and craziness.

It's sad to see this story come out of GitHub though. Why can't we all just get along?
> but that can be solved by growing a pair

Really? There are like 5 other phrases you could use that don't exclude (more than) half the people on the planet.

> in the hypersensitive PC world that feminists are pushing on the bigger players in the tech world, you simply can't do that.

Ah, I fell for your trap didn't I (well I didn't, I added the above afterwards, but let's say I did).

First, not all feminists want the same things. It would be like saying: "libertarian utopia that conservatives", or "socialized business environment that liberals". Yes many of the people who espouse those views claim that political identity. But not everyone (or likely even a majority) of the people who claim those political identities espouse the given view. That's like 2 fallacies (false cause fallacy, genetic fallacy) and a misleading rhetorical device (poisoning the well) all in one.

Second, feminism isn't political correctness. It's about equality. And yes equality means you have to stop insulting people's identities, especially when you are part of the privileged group (i.e. you are part of the identity that the in question oppression generally favors). Especially when you are one of the leading companies in the world and you want every customer you can get (Hey lookie! market forces!).

I'm all for your total honesty, even if it's rude, as long as it isn't ridiculing someone's identity (if you can't state your perception of the truth without doing that, then your perception of the truth is flawed because it involves people's identity). Also, your job may require you to work with certain people, so being polite may be a requirement for your job and whatever. (As an example, the (initial) problem discussed here (the github employee) has to do with GitHub (apparently) not making a conducive work environment).
Well that doesn't make sense. Unless he's randomly voting without consideration, then of course he evaluated the various options and "judged" them. That's rather the point of voting, isn't it?
And worse, it's from tumblr.
That's an unqualified contention. What makes content hosted on tumblr less credible than what's on any other free blog site?

Most articles should receive a healthy dose of criticism, but on the whole, I really didn't see any suspect. The only basis for questioning is that AirBnB is the darling of the "OMG! DISRUPTING!" crowd, and thus any criticism against them must be a conspiracy from the evil industries.
But you want the air to be warm, not the walls.

Also, passive houses do have proper ventilation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house#Airtightness

> most of the air exchange with exterior is done by controlled ventilation through an heat-exchanger in order to minimize heat loss (or gain, depending on climate)

Without tricks like that, you'll have a hard time getting below 15 kWh/m² per year.
She don't need to lie, she can talk about her feelings. Most of the situations in the article are pretty much innocent, but feelings provoked in her aren't.

You cannot verify or falsify feelings. They can have different plausible origins. She present one origin, you say she is right. Yes, her side is plausible.

The worst thing here is that some of the origins can be offending to some of participants. You chose side that offends Github team.
As usual, another HN thread that perfectly exemplifies victim blaming and a collective burying of heads in the sand. There's a few people on here who seem to get it, but most don't. I'm sick of it. Goodbye, Hacker News.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to hear GitHub's response if this aspect of the story is true. Those are some pretty serious allegations - influence over business and personnel decisions, reads Campfire chat logs, has spies within the company to keep an eye on what's happening, and, of course, intimidates employees. Quite damaging things.
They called me back 6 month after first rejection.
Going for on-site to London in a week.
So, to download the few of these that I like, I either have to login with FB and allow access to all my friends, or use Twitter and allow the font owner to post tweets to my account. Sorry, but that's not exactly what most people expect when they read "free fonts."
I saw similar things happen with male employees. A spouse of a manager/founder (well, anyone really) having power without any official position is a disaster waiting to happen. The situation I experienced was with an all-male team. The result is people leaving, so having a small team really doesn't fix anything. Quite the opposite.
The only thing that sounds remotely related to sex or gender is the hula hoop incident, which sounds irrelevant to the main story other than providing a final straw for the woman to leave.