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"Who can access private company data, why, and for what reason?"

This seems to me to be the major takeaway for organisations outside github from this sorry affair. I'm sort of surprised you are the only person to raise this so far.

In the UK, the employee who resigned could have a successful day in an employment tribunal. And one aspect of the hearing would be privacy and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act provisions.
http://bit.ly/1obz7o0

or

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=U.S.+Risks+National+Blackout+From+Small...

should work though :D
Totally agree. Plus, the article didn't mention (and it shouldn't), whether she met her partner at Github or not. They may as well be a couple since college.

I'd prefer not to be in a relationship with a co-worker, since I fear, it would be more difficult to keep the job out of our personal life than visa versa.
But, if I'm really attracted to a single co-worker more than physically, I'd just ask her out for a coffee or drink and happily deal with whatever positive or negative things might happen.

Not doing anything, just because you think its unprofessional or inappropriate is way more unreasonable in my opinion.
The law forbids a landlord from unreasonably refusing permission to sublet, which is quite a bit different from not requiring permission in the first place.

N.Y. RPP. LAW § 226-b : NY Code - Section 226-B: Right to sublease or assign
- See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/nycode/RPP/7/226-b#sthash.y9ORKJ...

2. (a) A tenant renting a residence pursuant to an existing lease in a dwelling having four or more residential units shall have the right to sublease his premises subject to the written consent of the landlord in advance of the subletting. Such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(b) The tenant shall inform the landlord of his intent to sublease by mailing a notice of such intent by certified mail, return receipt requested. Such request shall be accompanied by the following information: (i) the term of the sublease, (ii) the name of the proposed sublessee, (iii) the business and permanent home address of the proposed sublessee, (iv) the tenant's reason for subletting, (v) the tenant's address for the term of the sublease, (vi) the written consent of any cotenant or guarantor of the lease, and (vii) a copy of the proposed sublease, to which a copy of the tenant's lease shall be attached if available, acknowledged by the tenant and proposed subtenant as being a true copy of such sublease. ...

(c) Within ten days after the mailing of such request, the landlord ...

...

5. Any sublet or assignment which does not comply with the provisions of this section shall constitute a substantial breach of lease or tenancy.

6. Any provision of a lease or rental agreement purporting to waive a provision of this section is null and void.
BTW, it's not sexism at all, the main issue here is between two girls...
The thing I'm most concerned about is that a non-employee has access to private records. Will GitHub confirm that the founders wife didn't have access to information that is restricted?

This sounds awful!
The buzz from the wine is wearing off, and I remembered that I do think the AirBnB model (but not modus operandi) has 2 legitimate purposes: 1) occasional subletting during occupant absence and 2) satisfying temporary demand.

Case 1) is essentially making vacation home exchange totally fungible. By definition (at least for most people), a vacation is infrequent and has significant cost, in part due to paying for 2 dwellings concurrently (the vacant home, and the vacation accommodation). AirBnB solves this by having a large market of people who may want to pay you for your empty home.

Examples of case 2) would be huge conventions and university graduations. These are cases where it would be inefficient to build hotels to satisfy peak demand, and sometimes it becomes impossible to find (conventional) lodging at any price. AirBnB solves this by providing elasticity in the form of non-conventional lodging only available during the peak.

In both cases, the difference with the current situation is that these cases are limited in time. I think AirBnB would be a good thing if it limited the rental of any property to a maximum of 1 month per year, with a limit of 4 guests per year. That would eliminate people running residential businesses, which is my main objection (and probably the company's whole profit and growth strategy). In other words, AirBnB would be a great but small niche player.
Correct, I apply the no staring rule without discretion and take it to an extreme in all areas of my life. I'm even known to tape my eyes closed.
Would assuming that the default language is English be valid? I know a large percentage of the Internet probably doesn't "know English", but if they can connect to the Internet, would they at least recognise enough words (like "language"") that they can choose a different language?
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That's actually impossible at GitHub (as far as I understand their working practices) because they are not a traditional company. They use Open Allocation, which means that employees decide which projects to work on, and specifically, project leads cannot veto that.
The site uses Google APIs. I'd rather prefer Google not knowing every time I want to chat anonymously.
Firstly, fairly sure it's way less likely than 1 in 1000 - ptmoee like 1 in 100,000, but even if it wasn't: really? If we take the decision to let our apartment when we 're away in the summer and something happens then, well,that's my shout. Everyone here is adult, and the platform's reasonably symmetrical in terms of contracting ability. No one forced the guy, although yeah, there's a clear case of fraud/ deception here. "One is too many" type stuff is just histrionic.
You're basically operating a business when you rent out your home. Unless AirBNB has a large amount of assurances that you will be protected then you need to do your own due diligence and ensure that you have insurance, gather identification, and that what you are doing is legal. As far as I know, operating as a hotel without a license is not legal in NYC.

Just like walking a tightrope across two building in NYC is illegal without sufficient permits and people to ensure it's done safely and responsibly.

Your landlord might not evict you if you explain the situation and ensure them that there is no way this will happen again, you've learned your lesson.

If that doesn't work, sue the people who stayed in your place. If that doesn't work, sue AirBNB. They might both claim that acting as a hotel in NYC was illegal and you're screwed for taking that risk, if so, you've learned an expensive lesson.

What kind of contract does AirBNB make people renting sign? I would hope that it explicitly prohibits large gatherings, destroying personal property, and disturbing neighbors, if it doesn't, then it should.

Has AirBNB attempted to pass any laws in NYC (and other cities) that provide some type of protection for people renting out their places for a limited period of time? Would it really be that difficult to allow inspections of private residences? There could also be something that requires the home be used by the owner for X months out of the year or that there is a maximum of X separate renters during a year (which might be hard to enforce / prove).

Is there a minimum amount of time someone has to rent a residence before it can be considered a sublease? Maybe you should only do that until laws protecting you are passed.
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While I understand they want their own server farms, it is interesting that Facebook does not use any cloud compute. This is almost the perfect usage example and pattern for cloud compute.
Really awesome, fix the broken images for articles, I am in.
Thanks for creating this.
Latin square type design I presume. Thanks for posting this and spending the time.

Given the record in your second reference, I'd imagine the lead author would want to have the data out there and eye-balled by as many as possible to improve reputation.
... doing things that might be nice to look at is not an invitation to check them out doing it

Then why do any of those things in a non-private setting with reasonable expectation of gawkers being present?
Yes, yes it did. Possibly because of my comment. Either way, good job on the changes OP.
> to me it makes sense why this scene would be triggering for her

It makes sense to me as well, but if I were her boss, I would ask her to take a more professional and less emotional perspective of the workplace (of course, after (hopefully having her problems presented in a clear manner and) solving the other issues that were causing her to feel unwelcome).
The Register has a piece at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/12/windows_xp_atms/ , where they report this:

"NCR – which supplies 60 per cent of the UK’s cash points – believes 95 per cent of Britain’s ATMs are today still running Windows XP with less than a month to go.

NCR told The Reg it has been working with Microsoft for nearly three years through workshops and sales camps to persuade banks to upgrade their ATMs."

Then they go into costs, etc., including "Microsoft is charging users who want extended support for custom agreements $200 per PC in the first year of a contract, $400 in year two and $800 for year three."

So it seems that Microsoft is selling support, just not to the public in general, and rather more expensive than John Dvorak suggested.
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Well, for one they just acquired eight of the worlds best robotics/AI teams. You don't see Kraft trying to bring the singularity nearer.
> but you also can't blame the rich person for being born rich.

I don't. But I don't want to idealize his luck either. If it all comes down to luck, I see little difference between giving power to those lucky enough to be born relatively rich as well as intelligent so that they can cure cancer, vs to those even luckier to be born extremely rich. If luck is your ideology, discriminating between different kinds of luck seems sheer jealousy.
>How many actors can you say are great ? How many screen-writers write really well ? How long have you not seen a movie as The Godfather ?
Extend that to music, too .. How many artists there are, really ? Most music is junk, it sounds exactly the same and you wouldn't be able to make a difference between two tracks (and I have a good musical ear, I mean, I can sometimes recognize a song playing in somone's headphones by its beat).
Furthermore, a lot of "artists" look the frigging same. Lyrics ? Where are the Queens ? And I'm not biased.

I'm sorry but this is a load of bull and it's a sentiment that people have been relaying for centuries and it's always ignorant. "This generation's _____ lacks substance but look at ____ and ____ from the past generation and how great it was!"

You can look back on any time period and point out the best of entertainment, just like you can pick out the worst. There was as many awful actors, movies and music when the Godfather was released as there is now, and there is just as much great entertainment being put out right now.

Just because YOU haven't looked past top-40 music and the most popular movies doesn't mean great ones don't exist, and just because YOU only point out the highlights of past entertainment doesn't mean the shitty stuff went away.

This is a ridiculous way of thinking.
> > Voters aren't rational

i think that's generally taken to mean that the voters do the most optimal thing for themselves, but the whole system ends up being sub-optimal. Some call it the tragedy of the commons.
Try getting sternly lectured for 10 minutes because because you held the door open for a stranger to be polite. That's when you know shit gotten real.

For the record, I routinely hold open doors for people that I know are behind me and are leaving/entering a building. It surprised me to know end to get yelled at for it.
European could either be French or Italian standard. Not sure if it's useful for a comeback though, since they are both in circa the same range.
I've always been broadly under the impression that the HR department was a waste of air, but I suppose conflict resolution is perhaps something they'd be useful for.

...maybe.
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Why is it so hard to provide a nice sample sheet for fonts? Just a paragraph (or just a sentence for display fonts) in the various weights would be a huge step forward in most cases.

Just compare the samples of Hallo Sans (the first font in this list): https://www.behance.net/gallery/Hallo-Sans-Free-typeface/132...

To that of The Enschede Font Foundry's Trinité: http://www.teff.nl/fonts/trinite/pdf/trinite_a3_print-600.pd...
If that pixel then also reflects light like most materials, then yes indeed, it would be the holy grail.

But for the next couple of hundred years or so I think we'll be more than happy with 32k~64k displays or something in that range.

Displays with pixels the size of molecules would effectively be a kind of real-time matter duplicator. Bound to happen one day, but not today ;)
I think it's really a huge stretch to go from oogling of hula hoopers to "feeling unsafe". What, after watching some women do hoola hoop men suddenly turn into rapists? That's 100% in her head and sounds slightly crazy to me, to be honest. Not even going to strip clubs turns men into rapists on a regular basis...

I think that accusation is completely unwarranted (from the sounds of it).
A question I've been mulling about Airbnb since it started: who TF allows total strangers to stay at their home????
If both are straight and male looking on.

If both are gay and male looking on.

If both are straight and female looking on.

If both are straight and male is hoola hooping with female watching looking on.

If both are straight and female is hoola hooping with male looking on gawking.

Is this not obvious, We are all uncontrollable messes of hormones and the self-control of a 15 year old boy apparently.

If I was at work and women where hoola hooping I'd just go get on with my work (but then I hate goofing off at work, work is work).
Translation: NYPD's lawyer said they don't need to release it. There was no ruling of any kind.
This explains it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408938

Basically, you can't just sublet. You still have to inform the landlord. And in the case of informing him that you are operating through Airbnb, illegal in NYC, an objection would be reasonable.
you'll still need electricity for your laptop, microwave, fridge etc.
Also not even going to a strip club turns men into rapists, so "feeling unsafe" because of such an event sounds rather crazy to me.
I completely agree.

I don't have any insights into start up culture (the only one I've actually been involved in is mine, There are two of us.) but I have worked for massive companies where management was pretty evenly divided by gender and have never personally witnessed anything untoward (or actually heard about and that place was a gossip mill).
Indeed, especially as the functions that are + and * can vary based on type too, as you can have them defined over any ring.
There have been some (shockingly expensive) keyboards in that format. I thought they were from Kinesis or Maltron, but I can't find them on either company's website atm. There are also ergonomic steno keyboards which can be placed in that configuration http://geminiwriter.com/ProductdetailsV1.aspx?ID=24
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I think the "verified" thing just means they've provided a certain amount of id - as it does on most sites.
It sounds like Julie decided to start banging a coworker and then suddenly became surprised when drama arises in the workplace ?! Isn't she the one who obviously crossed the line first ? It would be one thing if she was with the guy before she got hired, but she met him at work.
I definitely won't be the one to hire her next.
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So whoever has less money is always in the right?
No. The verified status means that the person provided an
"offline ID, online ID, profile photo, email address, and phone number. "

It doesn't verify against people lying about their intentions.
> and Google's especially bad about this

Google is a Royal Pain in the Ass on this point. They completely disregard any request configuration and decide on output language based on IP geolocation (which is pretty much always Not What I Want, even more so in multilingual countries such as Belgium or Switzerland[0]), then Chrome "helpfully" suggests translating documents.

[0] where it won't even send you something matching your actual geographical location's language, usually sending the country's most common language — dutch in Belgium and german in Switzerland
I just wouldn't think he'd want to compare his car to a shitty DeLorean.
Traditionally concrete really wasn't that much stronger without rebar and is much more dangerous if something does collapse.

Wood use to be much cheaper because it requires special knowledge to create strong concrete.

The wooden walls also allow for pipes and utilities to be easily ran. How do you run utilities into concrete homes? The ones I've seen are either exposed or behind a wooden wall.

The US has a large amount of brick homes, but it's usually wooden walls on the insides so it ends up costing more.

It's also more difficult to make a concrete block home look good, and since there aren't too many major storms in many parts of the US, cheap wooden homes work fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London might also be a reason why Europe prefers concrete to wood.
> I mean, someone reverting your code because of a personal vendetta?

I laughed out loud when I read this and several other specific details in the story. It sounded very familiar.

I have several friends and many acquaintances who work at Valve. One very senior engineer initially worked on Source 2 about three years ago but had to quickly switch projects because another, more tenured engineer was expressing his disagreements by silently reverting some of my friend's check-ins.

The founder's wife story also reminds me of episodes I've heard involving the wife cabal. It's nothing as sinister as the GitHub story, but I see a lot of the same structural issues reflected in these telling anecdotes. The lack of an overt chain of command means that power asserts itself covertly. If you are unhappy, you have little recourse but to express your own power by indirect passive-aggressive means. That's bad enough when it happens in any corporate structure, but here it is almost the only possible course of action.

Valve might have been a lot like GitHub if it had hired inexperienced, smart, cocky web programmers in their early twenties. In both cases the companies also boast a level of success that makes it hard for them to evaluate whether elements of their company culture is detrimental to their continued development at this stage of their existence. It's probably hardest for Valve because of the inexhaustible money faucet that is Steam. There is so much squandered potential at that company, which is a weird thing to say considering how much they've done and are still doing.

I'm waiting for a hip rebranding of the term 'management' once these no-management companies realize they have issues that cannot be resolved by hiring supposedly perfect people.
Ask HN: What is the average salary for an iOS Developer at a UK startup?
I'm posted this using a throwaway account but I've been an active HN member for several years. I've been an iOS developer for several years and although I wouldn't describe myself as a 'rockstar programmer' I'm competent and a quick learner.

I'm considering job opportunities (I've worked freelance until now) and I am trying to work out the average salary an iOS developer should expect working at a small but fast growing startup in the UK.

Can anyone help? I know it's only one thing I should be considering but I've no idea what a 'fair' salary offer is.

tl;dr What is the average iOS developer salary at a startup in the UK?
No, it is all implicit, ie the library function is doing the yield for you, it is invisible in the code you write. Obviously if you are writing new blocking primitives you need to deal with it, but you rarely are as most of these are the socket, timer calls provided by core.
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> or you trust them to send you JavaScript that does the encryption in the browser

I don't need to give trust in that case, as I could verify the encryption myself.
Not the readership - assuming similar statistics to reddit, the vast majority don't comment, so we can't know - but it's certainly reasonable to draw that conclusion about the commenters from the comments on majority of threads regarding social issues.

Of course, there's a feedback loop in that people won't comment where the majority seem to disagree heavily with their morals, so that doesn't help with what threads like these look like. The sheer amount of personal attacks against people who disagree with victim-blaming views of this in this thread serve as a warning not to speak up.
I work for Google, and no, we do not think our process is infallible since we understand there is a large chance for false negatives and even a small chance for false positives.

We do not hire at random, each hiring goes through multiple interviews and the results of each of those interviews are also reviewed by multiple people (interviewers are required to record all notes/code produced during the interview). Then a decision is made. If we feel not super certain we err on the cautious side and turn down the candidate, even though we know there is a good chance for false negatives.

As far as I can tell, our false positives rates are very low, and everyone I've worked with here at Google are incredibly qualified at their job. Are there people who don't perform? For a company this size that's an obvious yes, but I think if you judge interview's goal of eliminating false positives at the expense of producing false negatives, then we've been pretty successful.
I think the first modern "full stack startup" was the iPod/iTunes launch, combining hardware and software into one new disruptive product.
The link is the same as the one Google takes me to, but apparently they check the referrer. If you come from Google: no paywall.
You won't though.
Ask HN: How do you monitor your (Akka) Actors?
We're starting to enjoy working with Akka and the Actor model, but we still have not foud a way to monitor what's going on inside and app with many actors doing stuff.
Maybe not technically, but he is a founder and I think he should take some responsibility. The wife's power came from his position in the company, and she was able to get away with that only because she was his wife. If my partner was coming into the office and intimidating employees at my company that is something we'd be having serious conversations about the minute I heard out about it. Of course I also like to think I wouldn't marry a psychopath, but that's neither here nor there, because if I left something like this for HR to deal with I'd feel like an impotent twit.
Speaking of the cache and download sizes, when I reload the Google specimen the font files return a 304 (not modified) status while the Brick ones return a 200 code and have me download the files all over each time.

So for me it's 300k each time the page loads (Brick) vs 92k for the first page load and ~0 each time after that (Google).

Is this just me?
The Twiddler3 https://plus.google.com/105804767481830727070/posts/j4M9fmRr... will be a physical keyboard suitable for mobile users. If you want a software keyboard then ASETNIOP http://asetniop.com/ looks fairly promising, but it's probably only suitable for large tablet-size screens and hasn't been released yet.
I had that happen, so I laughed. Then she got really angry... doesn't stop me, though. I hold the door for everyone, because it's polite, not because someone is whatever gender.