skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the nature of earth:

* General scientific opinion (it's generally roundish).

* Religious doctrine (it's flat, centre of universe, on the back of a turtle).

* And then this person: http://www.timecube.com/

Point is, only one of these sides is reasonable.
well, the founder's wife has some issue with Julia. The story sounds like a fight for a position of an alpha-female. That gives non-zero probability to the idea that either Julia's partner may have been of some interest to the wife, or Julia's behavior toward the founder looked like a challenge to the wife.
Just the fact that the wife of an employee was consistently allowed in the building, is already a serious matter. GitHub is not a scrappy startup anymore; it's a 1 billion dollar company. You do not allow strangers to walk around the office, and much less let them invite employees to dinners to discuss internal matters.

Having said that, seems that GitHub recognizes that they screwed up. The tone of their response seemed fair and balanced, and they acted fast by removing the folks involved. Too bad it got to this point, but it's a good sign.
If you see a CEO/Founder/Chairman focusing on a new, spin-off, company, this is generally the American way of handling a volatile situation when the offender is perceived as irreplaceable.

Gary Friedman is an excellent example (I'm lazy, so HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/17/gary-friedman-resto...) of a pro forma separation of a major shareholder/chairman/CEO from the company.
Text of any form is not good for support because it amplifies the back-and-forth duration required to actually determine the issue and walk them through the resolution. The key here is bi-directional conversation - that is, you can talk to them and they can talk to you at the same time.

Think of someone helping Grandpa with using his email. On the phone, most of the time is spent in back-and-forth, explaining a concept multiple ways until he understands the request. The information he gives back may be vague and incomplete, so you can discuss it with him to get instant further clarification and context. You can then walk him through the solution in a bi-directional conversation, whereby you say a step and then he asks for clarification about certain aspects, before you proceed to the next step.

Now consider email/text/etc. Focus even on the solution stage. You send 5 steps to perform to complete the task. He gets stuck on step 2, and so responds. He doesn't know if he'll get stuck on steps 3, 4 and 5 either because he can't get past step 2. That's potentially 8 emails back and forth to get the problem resolved.

By not having instantaneous bi-directional communication, it is a hell of a lot harder to debug and walk someone through the solution particularly if they're not technically adept. For us on HN it may be fine - we can stumble our way through blanks relatively easily - but for Grandpa, he has no hope of doing that and so phone support is by far the most time-efficient method.
As many others have said in this comment thread, Github's actions do NOT mean any claims are "likely to be true". It just means Github is taking proper steps to investigate the situation. The investigation may lead to them determining that Horvath, and not other employees, was in the wrong.

At the very least, she seems a bit...attention hungry. Knowing nothing about the situation or people involved I am taking her accusations with a huge grain of salt.
If you use EC2, you can use IAM roles and your server can fetch temporary credentials from AWS. There's no need for your application to even know your AWS credentials.

Read more: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/iam-roles...
Well. I have to be honest. I used to do just that. And it is not fun to worry about backups and server breaking down. Outsourcing this part to Github will probably save a lot of developer/IT headache if you are a small company.
Stupid article is stupid. You know what else I can't trace the prior owner's identity of? Every piece of cash I touch.
There's a good amount of preparation at Stanford astrophysics underway for discussion of the results from the BICEP2 collaboration tomorrow.
Heh. Favorited by Tom's wife.
Does Horvath's characterisation of the founder's wife remind anyone else of Lady MacBeth? The situation seems suitably dramatic for it.
This "feminism can be anything" stance is getting really old, is it really everything good and nothing bad?
Don't know what to make of this.

The founder getting his wife involved made a serious mistake. Agreed with most everyone else here, the CEO made the right call.

I'm now trying to understand though, what precipitated this whole mess. Julie talks about github as a "boys-club" culture and that her character was under attack in pull requests and issues, but doesn't give any more details.

Julie talks about passive aggressive behavior from a coworker, but this was while her ordeal with one of the founders was going on.

So what triggered this collapse?
(minor?) correction:

> more recently a la ArchLinux and Music Player Daemon
> (MPD) I have seen Mantis BT.

Arch Linux uses Flyspray, not Mantis.

Great post.
From the call center perspective, this is no different than live chat. Many, many customer service organizations handle that. Typically, a CS rep will juggle several concurrent requests because people are slow to type.

The biggest obstacle to SMS support IMHO is authentication.
> For me, two adult individual can do whatever the hack they want to do, if it is legal and they are both consent of doing it.

Not if you want to have an effective workplace. There's a reason this would be called an HR violation at most places.
A coworker showing up uninvited to her house and making an awkward and uninvited advance, or systematically reverting commits as vengeance.

I made a vague statement, but I think "reverting a commit" is definitely minimizing what she claims happened
I'd expect the founders to refrain from going to social media to speak about this until the internal investigation is done.
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You could ask "What Linux tools that you use can you not get for Windows?" too, since Windows has Cygwin, Mingw, etc., but it doesn't change that doing a lot of things on Windows or OS X is a lot more painful than on Linux, especially as it relates to development, debugging, etc.

It's exactly the same the other way around for e.g. audio and video editing on OS X vs. other platforms.
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> This could be mitigated by using excess bandwidth beyond that needed for streaming to download rare chunks, and ensuring that the streaming application keeps seeding for a while after the video has been watched.

That wouldn't be streaming then, would it?
ICANN is a mafia! They did this to actually force some old domains to get back into the market. ICANN as an organization will profit little from this, but the people bribing them (domainers, auction sites, domain escrows, etc.) will vastly profit from it. Imagine what would happen if somebody sends you a letter and they get back a letter saying that you cannot receive the letter as you didn't verify your name with USPS? It's 2014 and things like redemption period and fees are daylight legalized scams. I cannot believe that we allow ICANN to do whatever they want with us for so long!
What is your complaint, exactly? I'd be happy to know that someone cannot transfer my domain out nor change my contact information without verification. 15 days is more than ample time, assuming I initiated the action. And what the hell does DDos have to do with any of it?
Except, if the allegation is true, the wife goes around to employees claiming she can fire people if she wants to.
Keeping in mind I only brought this up because the OP seemed to imply it was a completely useless degree with which I disagree.

My point is and has been that there are a number of skills gained from studying say Russian literature that are highly useful but not immediately obvious.

If you identify a few skills required to succeed in that area of focus and look at them through the filter of a specific profession, in this case being a lawyer.

You can see how rightly applied the study of a seemingly narrow field can prepare you for a more general one.

>A math degree makes you very marketable--you can't argue that a math degree is vocational.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-Degree...

not sure how recent the data is but that point doesn't really hold its just something you are throwing out there based on truthiness. Math majors are, maybe, at best reasonably marketable, and well within the margin of error of say history majors.

But I agree with the thought that a math degree is not vocational but is more like Russian history in this regard.

>if like the vast majority of students, you are in college for financial reasons

Besides the fact that this is a fallacy of composition if this statement were true, then all students would study electrical engineering(per linked data).
You realize that with UEFI (ed: on x86... yes, Windows RT devices are different), you can either disable Secure Boot or (at least on some systems) replace the root key with your own, without any hardware modification?

On Chromebooks, which I'm a bit more familiar, you cannot, and disabling verification involves a 30 second delay on boot with beep, to prevent against evil maid attacks. However, apparently it's not too hard [1] to flash the ROM on some devices if you can open the thing.

[1] http://krblogs.com/post/63809988096/bootloader-unlock-on-sam...
The key difference between phone and email support is the expectations of the customer, not the underlying technology. When I send an email to support, I don't expect an answer for at least a few hours. When I call, I expect to get my issue resolved before hanging up. I may wait on hold for 30m, but I am going to resolve the problem before I get off the phone.

I don't believe this is due to technological limitations of email. I have had conversations via email that are essentially realtime chats. I think the real issue is that passive support simply gets a lot more support requests than non-passive support. Offering SMS sadly wouldn't resolve this, it would just be another support medium that gets flooded like email.

NOTE - By passive support I mean anything where you send a message and just wait for a response. Non-passive support would be something like a phone call where you wait on hold for someone to be available.
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Completely agree. The outrage over hula hooping triggers a giant warning siren that this is a person who is working very hard to be angered and offended.

I don't know the proper way to watch someone hula hoop, but if anyone in my office decided to hula hoop, I would likely watch. Apparently this means I have a terrible attitude towards women, or something.
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Thanks! I have never heard of these. Here is the complete list of Amazon's leadership principles:
http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?ie=UTF8&node...

If you are interested in more of this type of writing you might try Dalio's Principles:
http://blog.kablamo.org/2013/12/15/dalios-principles/
Yes, I just got one. It's extremely misleading.

There is print that says "this is not a bill" about 6-10 sentences in, but is hardly discoverable without careful consideration. Considering the whole page is covered by text, most people would skim and think "oh shit I owe money don't I?!"
people install satellite security systems on $200K cars. Couldn't airlines do the same on a $100M plane.
Actually of all of these the last one is the only one I think your counter is flat out wrong (all the others seem plausible enough). Why? Because gawking at other co-workers (regardless of genders) in a casual environment is not ok. In a casual work environment people often do light exercise, and they need to feel comfortable to do that without being turned into sex objects.

I would hope the men in question have enough self control to ignore women moving their bodies around. You are basically using the same logic as countries that require burqas in public. This has already been covered by feminist movements in this country. It is seriously a sign of how backwards the tech industry is in regards to social equality that this sort of basic stuff is missing from general knowledge.
> suspend/resume and hibernate and driver support is miles better

While it is not apple to apple reason, this part is why I actually moved away from Windows -- yes, resume and hibernate (mostly) works on Windows, but with a great pain of waiting forever for that process to complete.
On stray occasions I take garlic, vitamin-c, fish oil. The garlic and vitamin-c when I feel like a cold is inbound. Seems to help, but it's an entirely unscientific guess, and I don't get sick very often.

Occasionally metamucil tablets, because I don't get enough fiber in my diet.

I typically consume one five hour energy per day. Whether it's the b12 or b6 overload that produces the focus effect, I like it (could care less about the caffeine, have considered switching to a tab or liquid b12 to see if that produces the same effect, but haven't experimented).

Noticed my vision weakening a bit at a distance (thanks no doubt to sitting in front of a monitor for two decades). 45mg lutein improved that by a non-trivial amount after several months.

Kre-Alkalyn when working out.
A very good reason to move to a Linux distro instead.

Ubuntu/RedHat/SUSE abandoned the distro? Well, hire devs to support it. You have the code.
Ignoring for the sake of argument the tragedy of hundreds of people getting murdered / kidnapped, this is the most captivating news event we've had in a while.
> This is mentioned before anything else regarding the founder or the founder's wife. It sounds like (at least the way it's presented in the article) that some kind of animosity was felt even before any real interaction between the parties.

Speculating wildly here: perhaps they were/are swingers?
>Also, is there any way to route text messages through a call center ...

Yes; any number of providers offer inbound text messaging delivery to your webservice (or via SMPP or SMTP); routing could be relatively straight forward, subject to your other (important!) issues.

I don't think responsiveness is unsolvable, there are plenty of companies doing support via text chat with a browser, and in many cases, this is not a terrible experience.

You could also send an immediate reply to the first message with an expectation of response time to help the user know that they got the message; combined with a note next to the 'text for help' messaging to call if you don't hear back right away, this could help with the dropped SMS problems.

You still are likely to have communications issues when problems develop between your SMS provider and your user's carriers. Something were you say 'if we don't hear from you in a while, we'll give you a call to clear things up' could work here (provided sufficient staffing to place the calls in a timely fashion)
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people fit 239 passengers in a plane. Couldn't manufacturers do the same with cars?

Fallacy by analogy. It's a fair question (off hand), but it falls down when other factors are considered (cars don't normally drive for hours over water, for example).
>Regarding the strip-club comment, I don't know the best way to avoid it. I, as a male, try to avoid staring at another female because I fear someone like Horvath accuses me of sexism. Maybe the guy was just bored or thought that female worker was beautiful. Staring at someone shouldn't be counted as sexism. It's hard. Would a female staring at a beautiful male count as sexism?

The problem isn't sexism so much as objectification. It's just shitty to treat someone like meat. It's not going to help people feel like part of a team if they're gawked at. If it's men gawking at women, it's going to alienate the women. Like, seriously, can't people just control themselves and treat other people as people and not sexual objects?

As for the sexism part… historically, you know, men are allowed to stare at women and women aren't really allowed to (their traditional role is to be coy, y'know?). It's an action that is typically masculine, and it's an action that reminds women that they're different. That they don't quite belong. Etc. etc. It's just not positive, it's not helpful, it's just base instinct—and one that should probably be overpowered in the workplace.

It's one of those things that is going to be painfully obvious to someone who has experienced discrimination (eg. sexism, racism, homophobia, whatever) in their life, and not a big deal to those that haven't.
There isn't much precedent for this, and the vague stories which do exist are uncommon. Car theft is common and is a real risk.
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Yes, but due to regulations/training/maintenance/international standardization/etc. it's a major effort to do so.
Watching your co-workers playing hula hoop makes you feel unsafe? Even if it does, how would you present this to court? You think this is enough legal ground for sexual harassment? Come on... The world is the way how we shape it and I definitely don't want to live in a world when I can't do something silly with my co-workers without watching out for feminists or other frustrated hatred people around us.
Given that this site is dedicated to programmers, I'd expect you to realize that a new version of a program isn't a complete rewrite.
Possibly, but the story didn't mention any conflict over the person she is/was seeing.

The founder's wife definitely seems to have a problem with Julie, but it isn't clear from the tech crunch article why that was originally.
Seriously though, nearly every unlikely theory has ended up being the truth. That just doesn't happen very often.
As much of an overhaul there may have been, it seems unlikely that NT 6.0 was started from scratch. Is there no chance vulnerable sections of the codebase carried over?
Or she felt that the wife was the type to be jealous of her working closely with the founder. But yea, a lot of possible situations.

But in either case she shouldn't have to feel that way about people in the company. The reason she likely feels different is because of her gender, and the way the founder and his wife treated her because of her gender.

But there are potential explanations of situations in which anyone would be uncomfortable and not just Horvath.
The stigma is caused by the repeated unprofessional actions she did,

Allegedly did.
I wasn't trying to say that "gawking" is acceptable (sorry if that's the way it came across). My point is that one person's description of people "gawking" may very well have been simply the other people acknowledging their presence. It's pretty hard to prove one way or the other.
Yes, and they do. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Communications_Addres...

These systems were manually disabled.
You make it sound so simple, when in reality it is anything but simple. Every component in a plane is tested extensively before it can be installed and used. When it comes to electronic components in a plane, things like interference to other aircraft, other components on the plane, power usage and interference to ground devices (radio stations, emergency frequencies, etc) are all tested and considered.

Planes are massive powerhouses of technological wonder, adding something new into such a machine would take considerable amounts of time and even then once you've got it installed, who is going to maintain it? You've got to pay for access to a satellite for the data to be tracked, where is the data stored? Is the data encrypted? How do you make sure only the eyes intended to see the data see it and nobody else? What kind of redundancy is there if the satellite security system fails? Does the plane need bigger batteries to power such a device, where does the power come from?

There are rules and processes to follow in the aviation industry and they're very strict. And that's just the hardware, then you've got to write the software, make sure it doesn't interfere with anything else on the plane, then you've got to make it work for different planes, planes wired differently, different hardware/software, controls. You're testing two different halves that make a whole.

One does not simply just install a new piece of technology into a plane. There's no DIY kit you can buy from Tandy.

Then there is a cost vs risk calculation thrown into the equation here. How often does a plane just vanish like this? It doesn't happen very often and probably not enough to warrant spending hundreds of millions of dollars implementing a terrorist proof tracking/data collection system. Cars are stolen everyday, it's a common thing, for planes it is not.

If things were that easy, they would have already done so, trust me. Nobody wants to see their planes return more than the airline who paid for the plane, paid for the maintenance, paid for the staff & fuel and need it to help recoup the costs and make the business money.

Are we also not forgetting planes have quite good data capturing and positioning systems already? The transponder was disabled which was the easy one (a flick of a switch) but the ACARS maintenance tracker was also disabled and as already highlighted, without advanced knowledge of the planes internals, isn't something you can just disable with the flick of a switch. Other advanced fall-back tracking methods were disabled, this isn't something your standard pilot would know about.
Far as I know, if your car goes over the Indian Ocean you're gonna lose signal pretty quick, right?
This place sounds like highschool. People bored so music and hula hoops, coworkers dating, a principals office instead of managers, passive aggressive bullshit. I go to work, code, learn, improve and gtfo. No office parties, no cliques of bros, no boss trying to be my friend, no team events or forced 'fun'. Just professional work and money which is the only reason I'm there.
SMS is terrible for this. It is completely insecure. You can fake transmissions easily, and nothing is encrypted, so you can't discuss any private info. There are very good, and obvious, reasons why organization do not use SMS for support.

While it's great to have a simple text-based medium to do this, SMS is awful.

I agree with the sentiment, but it's hard to take this guy serious when he suggests something so obviously bad.
> Today, Reuters reports that the last words from the cockpit of missing MH370 – "all right, good night" – were uttered after someone on board had already begun disabling one of the plane's automatic tracking systems.
His (or hers?) comment was based on her story, not on the HR reactionary piece referenced here. Your read is skewed and angry.
No one cares what her gender is. She doesn't work for GitHub, yet she believed that she had hiring and firing power at GitHub and had the ability to read private chat logs. That is wrong, and she doesn't belong near the company anymore. It would be the same if she were male.
Out of curiosity, how are your terminal colors configured?
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I'm curious, is the possibility that the passengers are still alive being discussed by any major news outlet? I have read tons of coverage but the authors implicitly state the passengers are lost.
Russia invading Ukraine wasn't captivating?
> Pretty much a full admission that everything that Julie said is true.

Bullshit. It just means that they're looking into it.