skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found that episode terribly confused, and I never understood the rationale behind it. Isn't "meritocracy" a value and environment that feminists have told us over and over again is a positive development for women? Don't women want to work in a "meritocracy" precisely because their work will be valued and appreciated not because they are women but because excellence at work knows no sex, colour, or creed?
I mean, if you accept that the article is true, the company described is horribly dysfunctional, and will likely have difficulty going forward as it grows. You could call it an early warning (assuming you accept the truth of the allegations).
Considering how facebook has more than a billion users from all the corners of the world accessing it from literally every internet connected device, they had to make something that would work everywhere. Doing it the video way seems like a good decision in this case, at the scale of facebook.
Aggravated bleeding heart observed.

>suffer
>irrelevant anecdotes to contrast against OP's "battle"

Why do you think he cares about children dying? Is it really so hard to grasp the notion that we are emotionally compelled by things relevant to our own lives at any given time?

This may be his battle, or maybe it's not a battle at all. Maybe you should stop this hyperbolic nonsense, because you're the one making it a battle.

>suffer

cringe
> Most of the situations in the article are pretty much innocent, but feelings provoked in her aren't.

Huh? Pretty much none of them are remotely innocent. They range from unprofessional to gross misconduct to potentially illegal.
The artcle mentions one interview out of 3+ phone interviews 5+ personal ones, that didn't go so well.

It leaves me with the following impression:

What a ridiculous waste of this guy's time. Why on Earth do recruitment processes need to be so capricious? Of course the guy's going to get nervous when he fouls up, given the HUGE amount of his time that has already been wasted, and how much you are putting on the line for every single moment to be perfect. maybe if the stakes weren't ridiculous and so capricious, it wouldn't take you two recruiters, three phone interviews, and a day of wasting everyone's time, only to reject a perfect employee.

Makes me glad not to work for a huge organization. What a travesty. I have no idea why people feel it's okay to waste other people's time like that.
Crimean Crisis Sanctions: Russia's 19 Richest People Lose $18.3B in Two Weeks
There is so much crap like this on the internet that I use Multifox to simultaneously stay logged in to my personal fb/twitter and my fake fb/twitter for crap like this.

http://br.mozdev.org/multifox/

It's only 1 additional step of 'open in new identity profile' then these people can access my precious fake emails and non-existent friend lists :)
Can you elaborate on the issues you allude to? The "criticism" section on wikipedia is pretty thin.
Dignity for everyone?
The bloody associativity issue is unresolved...? Of course it should be right associative.

Otherwise ABx means (AB)x which is idiotic for numerical work. One would have to write A(Bx) to get reasonable performance which isn't far enough away from A.dot(B.dot(x)) to justify the implementation overhead.

Lastly, as awful as it sounds, it is nice when awfully expensive things like 10K by 10K matmats have some visual weight. It makes people think about how they're written down.
The Best Of Both Worlds: Hierarchical Linear Regression in PyMC3
What's wrong with all of you?

A year ago it was a woman, under almost the same circumstances that had her apartment vandalized. You all rallied behind her.

Now since it seems its a man and and ranted online under pretty much the same circumstances, but different type of people, you say its not airBnBs fault?

that's truly disappointing.
Same in Germany, price went up from 25 to 45 euros, but is definitely still worth it. Their video catalogue is not all that bad either, though lacking original language (non-dubbed) films. But then again, Netflix is not available in Germany so far.
We realized it's more sensible to sent display devices to standby when the user is afk. And we got screens that didn't need saving (from burn in), though I figure that was true of almost all monitors connected to computers running After Dark >3, anyway. And I guess the novelty effect wore off, too.
Please don't do this... I detest sites that try to be clever and serve me Simplified Chinese even though I only have zh-hk in Accept-Language:.
Gross attempt at rationalizing inappropriate behavior. Plus, the male developer in your story would also be considered unprofessional.
Good point, when we ask pictures not to show our ex, we're asking for a history rewrite, as if they never existed. It may be hard to face them but we may have to.
It seems from the parent like a recruiter just following up when they could. That seems smart - there was a level of interest so why not see if it's still there? A lot could happen in a year to make someone more (or equally, less) likely to decide to give it a go again.
Rimac Concept One
i'd like to see a source for that claim, regardless, pre-GCN GPUs had double precision support that wasn't purposefully knee-capped. 52 bits of mantissa would have been plenty.

as for nvidia knee-capping integer arithmetic on their GPUs.. i terribly doubt that is the case - pointer arithmetic (and hence memory access) requires integer operations, and i've seen very little evidence to suggest that there are any artificial issues with it.
Mostly it's because people don't know how to change that setting. Imagine walking up to a computer in a shared space (hotel lobby, library, etc.) and it's been configured to send out accept-language: <something you don't understand>.

Many of the people reading Hacker News will be able to find and change that setting. My mom never will. She'll just know she went to google.com, and saw Chinese.

If you're using a computer in a country, and websites seem to be showing you things in the language of that country, that's something you can probably understand. If you're using a computer and some websites insist on showing you some other language, you'll be confused.
Youtube: try something new
Got anything from airbnb yet? Very curious to know how is this going to end
Yes, if your legislative environment and HR department will let you fire someone without going through written warnings and improvement plans, I agree that sounds easier than inviting them to start looking for another job.
I recently interviewed for a position at twitter as a front end engineer (API stuff, HTML, CSS, etc). I failed out as well, but it was on, I think, much more nuanced terms.

The interviewer had me write a client jsonp API interface, that is a controller that would handle calls to and from a jsonp API. Embarrassingly, I knew little about jsonp except for that it has a callback parameter that correlates with a global function you have defined in the javascript of your page.

So as I was literally learning how JSONP worked during this interview, I also had to write an interface that would gracefully fail and queue multiple calls. I did pretty well, at that, having completed the essence of the exercise. Toward the end, I got mentally hung up on a scope issue and my brain was pretty much fried at that point so I ended up crashing out (it was the end of the interview time, anyway, so it's not like there was then 10 minutes of awkward silence).

Anyway, this sma hiccup, which in no way indicated I didn't know my craft, and opposing my seemed to indicate I was an extremely quick study, still managed to keep me from moving on in the process.

I'm not miffed or anything. In fact, out of that experience, I wrote a really cool lazy loading geolocation API that uses promises in conjunction with JSONP to deliver a really smooth API consumer experience, something I wouldn't have thought to do at my previous level of understanding.
> What about picking each-others noses?

Impossible. You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you cannot, however, pick your friends' nose.
I really don't understand all these people having issues booting in UEFI mode. Fine, disable Secure Boot (or boot Fedora/Ubuntu if you care about it), load a recent distro and get on with your work/play.
now now trolls shouldn't announce themselves as such, unless you are doing next level trolling as counter trolling!
Thanks. What would be a good resource to start learning marketing and conversion?
so then let's start ..
> to be converted to current value in USD

It'll be interesting to see what happens... but somehow the idea of expending huge amounts of computing power mining cryptocurrency for charity looks like an incredibly more wasteful process than just shutting off your machines when they're not in use and donating the difference in your power bill.
Food for everyone, diversify our habitable planets portfolio, higher education en masse, stop killing each other, prevention of diseases, keeping up with the Kardashians, a few others as well...
Work culture at lot of startups is toxic regardless of sexism or not.

Very inexperienced manager/founders running a company tends to be the cause, sometimes on powertrips.

Its ok if your in the inner circle, a world of hell if your not.
You're implying 50% of the startup population is female. That is obviously laughable and thus you should stop spreading erroneous statements.

Making HN a better place, thanks for your time!
1 meter = 3.28084 feet

1 square meter = 10.7639 square ft
You certainly _can_ buy insurance that covers damages from per-night rentals of an apartment. But it's likely going to be more expensive than your standard renters insurance, which is unlikely to cover such.

On the one hand, this is not AirBnB's "fault", the guy should have known that if you rent your apartment out to strangers there's risk involved, and additional risks if you are violating your lease and/or state law by doing so.

On the other hand, AirBnB's business model depends on people not really recognizing these risks.
I am still trying to get a handle on Lisp and Scheme, but blog posts and projects like this, and the Common Lisp OS posted here previously [0] make me really impressed and confused about why people, if you dislike the Lisp style and philosophy, cannot admire its bizarre powers. I mean, I see most languages from that paradigm (why hate when you can be entertained, either by the good or bad), but this is very cool and way over my head.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=146670
The manager was allowed to stay?
Steve Klabnik explains it well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405881

In short, it’s a not-really-present ideal that’s often used to mask the existing power relationships that are really responsible for people being promoted/demoted to where they are.
Topics will replace hash tags some day
The changes are generally changing in nature (from language to library changes) and scope (normally just renaming/moving).
Are you sure what you've read is "completely contrary to reality"? I don't know how the situation is where you live, but the Belgian media has repeated some half-truths or even outright lies. I've been reading up on myself, with which I don't mean checking RT, and I've found that the situation is not as clear as it seems.
Fair points aside I want to know why people still harp on Google+ at this point.

> Google, the geek world’s undeserved, unquestioned darling for well over a decade, has made all of its core products worse by forcefully shoving Google+ into them.

This sentiment is so frustrating to me. Yes, Google introduced an identity service so they no longer needed to tie everything to one of your Gmail accounts. This means you can now link your Gmail accounts together, this development is fantastic.

Along with it comes bundled a really good social network application. Which, hello everyone, don't use it if you don't want it. Allowing everyone with Google accounts to talk to each other in a social medium and aggregate content relevant to their interests. Youtube integration was arguably a detriment to Google+ because it caused an influx of terrible content from late Google+ adopters.

Youtube is a social product, Google+ was a newer much more powerful social product. Google had two social products so it merged them together. Inarguably (at least I don't see how you could argue) improving Youtube.

What is an example of Google+ making anything worse?

When will tech bloggers embrace Google's introduction of their identity service, they badly needed one and Google+ is amazing by any standard.
AirBnB's business model _depends_ on all those 'dense' people not recognizing the risks of what they're doing, not recognizing the added risks of violating the terms of their lease or local laws to do so.

No?
I still don't think that's actually the question that was being asked. It's not, "why do you think your spelling was preferred?" but rather "given that the complaint is how inflexible the senior tech was on the issue, why were you just as inflexible?"

Particularly given that it's a UK company, the request may be arguably wrong, but it's at least semi-reasonable. Why make such a huge deal over it from either side?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7401999
well, at the moment there is not much reason to use the system. if you register a ".bit" then you have to get your users to install complicated software and in the end what you are getting is very similar to ".com". There are major benefits, which are not explored yet. rolling out a world wide nameservice is not trivial. at the moment it's not even used by the underground. onename.io is the first application I have seen.
in college, I once stated in a 2 bed hotel room with 16 people. hotel regulations do not prevent this any more than airbnb stated limits
before everyone comes out with their russia hate here's old leaks of emails from the udar party[1].

a lot of people predicted that meddling with ukraine would lead to another split state, and that is precisely what we see unfolding.

it doesn't matter whether the west is right, or whether russia is right. the immense complacency that has grown in european, and us leadership with total disregard of russias interests is what brought the situation to the situation we have right now. when we do things it's justified. when others do them they're wrong.

what puzzles me, is that we're supposed to be on hacker news. people that decompose, and extend other people's works on a day to day basis sit here, and comment how it's "obviously" wrong to think putin is right. wait what? normally there is a bunch of people criticizing lack of objectivity or critical thought, but when it comes to territorial right, and sexism there is only one way. and what others say is dismissed as propaganda.

the group that made a political coup in the ukraine with the support of the west, to overthrow an elected leader - whether we like him or not is irrelevant -, directly, or indirectly(with money, threat of sanctions, threat of no economic cooperation), has now unanimously voted for creating a national guard to fight terrorists[2]. the terrorists? what?

heres a map of crimea[4]. have you ever thought about geopolitics? did you really think russia would completely distance itself from the situation? we didn't. we kept fueling the conflict. what on earth makes you think we're entitled to more than russia? what on earth made you think that russia wouldn't take advantage of it's influence like we took on ours?

according to a german politician the words the founder of the svoboda party were this: "Grab the guns, fight the Russian pigs, the Germans, the Jews pigs and others"(sadly, i am not entirely sure what the sources of his speech are, if you understand german you can listen to the speech here, he's been blasting both russia, AND the western leadership[3]).

the leader of the anti government riots is now the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. his deputy is the right sector leader yarosh.

I don't really care whether your think the current ukrainian government has legitimacy or not. that is your personal opinion, and may or may not be right. it's not really for me to judge. but completely disregarding the facts, and calling everyone that is not of your opinion a propagandatist or someone fed by russian propaganda is disgusting.

is that really the level we are discussing things on?

[1] http://pastebin.com/8mpTbTqY

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26558288

[3] http://youtu.be/pXLy0NGW9sM

[4] http://mkalty.org/crimea/
Its "impact on humanity" may not be positive http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-googl...
Why we do not have Internet users Association 
There is almost millions of associations to protect the rights of its members. But we do not have 'Internet users Association' that could protect our rights. It perhaps could be the strongest of all, due to its number of members worldwide.
User Contributed Communities for Web Apps: 15 Amazing Examples
> Especially as one can't force CSS to stop calling it color.

Actually... It's (jokingly) possible :)

http://spiffingcss.com/
Apparently they were as excited to have her onboard as with any other new hire at the time: https://github.com/blog/1082-julie-ann-horvath-is-a-githubbe...
> The hula hooping moment was important because it visibly demonstrated her male coworkers lack of respect for women as people. They were unabashedly staring at their female coworkers as "eyecandy" in that moment and even defended their doing so.

Totally disagree. If someone is hula hooping in a company that usually builds software to host version control repositories, they are doing something quite out of the ordinary, which is going to lead people to gawk. This does not necessarily imply sexual objectification, though it doesn't preclude it.

> They were unabashedly staring at their female coworkers as "eyecandy" in that moment and even defended their doing so.

Why should someone be "abashed" at staring at someone who is hula hooping in the office? This is slowly starting to lean towards 'thoughtcrime', as long as they don't make overtly sexual or lewd comments, they shouldn't be unnecessarily be accused of a "lack of respect for women as people".
It's still useful for fast, cheap international transactions. Miners help verify the transactions.
The sexism in this scenario is subtle and persistent, something that likely tainted all of the workplace interactions at github, allowing a female employee's problems at work to be continually ignored.

Lots of people of both sexes are impotent and disaffected at work, so it's not necessarily proof of anything when someone says "my opinion is not respected" and then finds superficials to explain it. If you can demonstrate a pattern, sure, but simply drawing from personal experience is very close to useless. In this case she is drawing from personal experience.

The hula hooping moment was important because it visibly demonstrated her male coworkers lack of respect for women as people.

What a gigantic jump. I mean, solar system crossing. Two people put on what sounds like a unique, if not artistic demonstration. People watch. It might actually be her own insecurities and hangups that led her to decry this, which is actually a perverse and rather incredible bit of sexism in itself ("women of Github...hide your shame. Don yon burkas and shroud yourself from the lusts of men").

This is not a clear story at all (clearly the founder's wife -- who is a significant owner of the company, fwiw -- got involved for something completely unspoken), and there is no reason for anyone to knee jerk to either side.

Further (and this comment is more general) it is toxic and repressive for the classic "Oh woe am I, look at all of the victim blaming in here! How offensive!". Github, and all of the players involved, are people too. Because one person yells the loudest and earliest doesn't mean that you can grab your torches with legitimacy without being the problem yourself.
>Imagine that black person says: "I am proud to be black!".
>Now imagine that the white person says "I am proud to be white".
>Now throw away you knee-jercky reaction and think about it.

I thought about it, and here's what I found: The different reactions which those two assertions may elicit depend crucially on different shades of meaning of the word "proud" which come into play, depending on the colour of the person who says it. These different meanings come into play because of the history of oppression associated with these colours; we don't (usually) think in a vacuum. To make this clearer, consider the following, slightly modified thought experiment:

Imagine that a black person says: "I am not ashamed to be black!".
Now imagine that a white person says "I am not ashamed to be white!".
How strong is the knee-jercky reaction now? Think about it.
What's the big deal? I am not a lawyer and I have no idea of the issues involved here, but surely if she was now made an employee and given a salary of $0, the fact that she was a significant investor (via her husband's shares) would make her relatively high-ranking within the company. So yes legally the fact that she didn't have that piece of paper (an employment contract) might matter, but why should it matter morally?
Ho, I remember having read this article, in 2008 or 2009, and agreed. I think it's part of a debate whether instantaneity is good or bad. Thanks for giving that link back.
Holy shit, that is fucking hilarious!! It's like you know it's going to be her before you open the article, in the back of your mind, "Wasnt there some other sexist nonsense generated by Github a few months back with crazy feminists involved?". Yes mind, yes there was, and it's the same fucking attention whore.

So, as with these outrageous stories there is always a highly commented /g/ thread.

http://boards.4chan.org/g/res/40840868

I'd say it supplies much needed contrast to this thread's aversion to calling this chick out on her flawed character.

Githubs image is being crushed. Schadenfreude. They only need to grow a backbone.
"If you are one of the people in this thread jumping to defend GitHub in this situation, ask yourself why."

"If you want to make a comment about [...], make it. Don't tell me to think more carefully."

Pot, meet kettle.
Yes. Atmosphere in the company was pretty toxic after
that event.
They're expensive, and I gather perhaps customized, e.g. at least sized to demand, even if upstream voltages might be somewhat standardized.

We in Joplin, MO lost a substation of perhaps this class in the 2011 EF5 tornado, and my father saw them delivering the replacement not too long ago, it was big. (Note the delay was due to the fact that there was no need to supply lots of power to an area that was wiped off the face of the earth prior to enough rebuilding.)
Sf is not a good place to be a n00b manager
Very interesting thread, even to this early 30s specimen. No great surprises for me personally, but it's always reassuring to see others sharing similar perspectives on subjects as potentially close to home as 'the rest of your life'. Thanks for sharing.
At least it's less wasteful than mining gold.
BugSense (now part of Splunk) uses Lisp for quick analytics.

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/11/26/bigdata-using-erl...
Sounds like mismanagement more than sexism.

Suppose I had a male coworker who had beef with me because his girlfriend broke up with him and started dating me. Suppose he started reverting my commits and interfering with my work in other ways. Essentially, the same situation with the sexes changed around. But the response should be exactly the same.

At that point a manager would need to step in and lay down the law - don't bring your personal conflicts in to work. And if you can't stop, then work somewhere else.
Sounds like two stubborn people. Unless you were taking a "stand" to make a point about a larger issue I don't see that you did anything better to fulfill the business goals.
Even if subletting were legal, I would imagine he would be responsible for anything that goes on in the unit. Disturbing the neighbors with an XXX party would be enough to evict on its own.