skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's certainly one way to frame the reference classes involved. Let me try an alternate one:

> HackerNews seems, in general, to have a very low standard of evidence for "[large organizational structure] is doing something evil", and tends to be quite credulous on such things. It seems to have a very, very, _very_ high standard of evidence for "[individual] is doing something evil" though.

I think this succinctly predicts more of HN's behavior, personally. HN is just generally afraid to condemn individuals for much at all.

That doesn't exclude your conclusion from also being true, though: HN can be both resistant to condemning individuals, while also being biased against believing that bigotry is a thing that exists. But assuming that either one is the "whole cause" of any particular effect, will cause effects to seem weirdly large, because of the confounding effect of the other.
"If you come to me and talk about someone, I will make you say that to his/her face."

Ya, this doesn't really work. It's like a lawyer asking a question in court: You had better know what the answer is before you ask the question. If you are the CEO and you set up this meeting to "ask/answer" such a question, you've already lost game. You've already been manipulated into a high-stakes "false dichotomy" problem with assymetric information, to your dis-advantage. Or maybe I'm mis-understanding your proposal?
OK not a Macbook Pro, but I got hold of a 2012 Macbook Air recently . Installing Ubuntu was a pain in the arse (and the reason I am with Ubunutu rather than another version of Linux - they do make it a bit easier with the secure boot nonsense). Its a work machine, so I can't just wipe OSX.

One button mouse is crap as well. You can emulate a right click by tapping with two fingers, but it sometimes doesn't work well with certain applications. I miss having a third button and pasting the highlighted buffer. Some keys are missing - no delete, only backspace. Loads of little quirks like this - you can work around but why should I need to?

Hardware wise it seems to work well though.And no real issues with Ubunutu recognising stuff.

Some other really annoying stuff like no HDMI, lack of ethernet port (who needs that you say? I did when I went to a boarding house in Germany, and that is how the internet was supplied. Plus its the easiest way to get into the secure network at work).

If I was paying out of my own pocket, I would not recommend this.
Doesn't surprise me at all, it's one of the main selling points for Apple.

It's fine on my laptop (Arch Linux), same as in Windows, but with an i7, GTX 660M and no optimus, and a 15.6" screen there's not much power to save.
No shit, Sherlock?!
Why do we hold the door [video]
Hey JazCE,

Thanks for your note! For a few pics check out my other video about the rover. At 1:29 you see some close-up pictures under the laptop.
http://youtu.be/IQVQTn1E3lY

I intend to provide building instructions, soon.

Are you a robotic enthusiast?

Would you be interested in a software stack for localization, mapping and image processing?
I personally don't care if some repos with one watcher are full of idiocy, but I think opening pull requests is the wrong way to go about this. The old advice is, "Praise in public, criticize in private." If someone doesn't understand that they're offending others, a short e-mail will probably solve the problem. Pull requests and public "discussion" will just feed trolls.
Communists never aspired to be structureless, definitely not in the short term. Even utopia they promised in long term had element of forced conformity with system aka oppression. Path towards that utopia was supposed to go through strong party discipline and obeisance. That is how communist party survived oppression in Russia.

It was not supposed to be "free" or "structureless" in any current meaning of the word.

I now much less about French revolution, but what I know suggests it was very complicated event. Describing it as simple attempt to move towards structureless society is simplifying it too much.
Maybe at the same time people realize that writing operating systems in a language like C is not a good idea if you're semi-serious about security.

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This was a much deeper look than the simple tutorial I was expecting. Very nice!
The purpose of Rust is to be as efficient and deterministic as C++ while being as memory-safe as high-level languages, and while also being designed from the ground-up to support concurrency in a way that is lightweight and safe (i.e. guarantees that you cannot race on data).
It's good that people will use their freedom of speech to voice their dissatisfaction with what other people wrote.

I just hope those who join this project don't eventually make it a them vs. us thing: "look at these disgusting dudebros who refuse to change these words!"
I've been running Ubuntu 13.10 on an 2012 XPS 13 for a while now. The only time I have noticed that the laptop runs hot is when I have it in my lap, because it's pretty easy to cover up the fan inlets on a non-uniform surface. On a flat surface I haven't had any issues though.

Overall I really like it for web development. Everything I've tried works out of the box (volume control, brightness, webcam, etc) with Ubuntu. Before that I was running Arch, with limited success in getting brightness and resume from suspend to work.
I think all the methods listed by mc_hammer are great but nothing beats talking with your target customers and figuring out whether what you are building is a real problem. I will admit this is a lot easier for a B2B startup than a consumer startup but it has worked great for us.
11th Commandment: Thou shalt not write for old browsers
I once heard the idea that marijuana is a more insidious drug than heroin; a junkie knows that they're addicted, while a pothead can more easily convince themselves that it's "only pot". The former might seek help, but the latter seldom does.

Similarly, I don't think anyone contends that the "Tyranny of Structurelessness" is morally or functionally equivalent to real-deal tyranny, whether in the context of patriarchy, corporate politics, or corrupt governments. Rather, unstructured tyranny is simply more subtle and insidious; there are no votes, titles or edicts, and yet there are still ongoing struggles for social capital, perception and political will. It's endemic to the human animal.

Obviously, office politics is vastly superior to violent oppression. But we shouldn't succumb to the fantasy that casting down hierarchies is going to magically end the struggle for power; for better or worse, it merely sends that struggle underground.
Right, exactly. The lender is basically sucking it up and taking a loss (which will be spread to the rest of us who -do- maintain our agreements) in the hope that will allow them to recoup any of their money.

And the author is proud of herself for that.
I think you underestimate how far things have already escalated. Even if you ask somebody out just once, chances are you are one of many and eventually you will be a data point in the "I was constantly being harassed" claim.
Retaliation in response to rejected sexual overtures is one of the basic forms of sexual harassment. It's arguably a quid pro quo situation and absolutely qualifies as the kind of conduct that can lead to a hostile work environment.
Wireless cards used to be an issue 7 or 8 year back. Are they still? I haven't seen any problems for a while....
I dual boot Ubuntu 13.04 and OSX on my 13" rMBP. The hi-dpi issue really doesn't bother me at all. (I run the display at 1680x1050 - the only thing that shows up really tiny is the splash screen)

The install was easy enough. Setting up refit was pretty easy. The only slightly complicated issue was putting the wifi and other proprietary drivers on a thumb drive because the rMBP doesn't have an ethernet port.

My only gripe with this setup is, because I run it about 60% OSX/40% Ubuntu, is that I'm really only happy in Ubuntu when I have a USB mouse plugged in. I haven't figured out how to make ctrl-click equal right click and I'm one of those who likes to two finger scroll inverted (like an iPad), but use the scroll wheel on a mouse in the traditional direction. If anyone has figured out a magic solution to MBP trackpads in Linux, I'd love to hear it.
I thought it was cool. Similar aesthetic to the effect in Teleglitch.
The problems you are talking are much bigger than executive vs executive issues and probably fall in the "Complaints about an executive’s competency or performance" where Ben suggest that you shouldn't, indeed, solve this with a meeting as it may imply many actions on your side.

What I can add to Ben's advices is: assume everybody lies and work on facts only.

You don't want someone innocent to be slandered and you certainly don't want someone guilty to get away with it.

Fortunately, this is extremely rare, unless there is something very wrong with your company.
> I'm offended at your offence to being offended by the word "fuck" in a comment someone else wrote.

I think you missed the entire point of this article. While I agree with you that it shouldn't be up to a group of people to decide what should and shouldn't be allowed, the entire idea of this campaign isn't to rid github of swearwords.

What they're wanting to achieve is to clean up the blatant/pointless derogatory terms. I mean why does someone think a commit message "What kind of massive faggot tries to use gayQuery with node" is acceptable.
Music doubled funniness for me.
Murder doesn't commit itself, copyright violation doesn't commit itself. Plants to seed and grow by themselves, without any outside help.

Whether or not a farmer encourages a particular seed to grow, the seeds would have sprouted and grown of their own accord. That is the fundamental difference between copyright violation and gene patent violation.
color refers to the foreground color, not just the font color, so it makes sense to me. For example, if no border-color is supplied, a border's color will default to the value of color.
Show HN: echowaves – micro photo blogging, not your typical social network
They also omit the fact that the 4 digit code in the transponder is entered by the pilot. When I've flown with friends typically the transponder is set to 1200 until ATC tells them what number they want them to emit, and then the pilot sets that number and from then on they know who they are.
It's harassment, regardless.
Homes constructed from standardized shipping containers make a lot of sense on a lot of levels. First, size and spec are standardized. Second, construction is rugged. Third, the size of most containers lends itself to multiple-container configurations and thus to design flexibility. Fourth, they last a long time if maintained. There are a number of excellent web-based resources available through a simple search.
Your point was not lost on anyone over the age of 12.
For those who would like to know more about this, I can't recommend De Waal's Chimpanzee Politics enough. I read this as a young nerd and suddenly people made a lot more sense to me. First things about society (especially companies). Then things about individual people. And, most recently, things about myself.
I'd suggest that EMET users should add the Flash plugin to EMET's list, as it's a common target that isn't protected by default. Unfortunately the Flash exe's name changes with every version, so it's not set-and-forget.

Adding an application to EMET is simple for a user with some amount of Windows knowledge. Its main window has a list of running processes. Just right-click the one you want to protect and choose "configure process."
I dunno, for those of us who had no idea that it was possible to be provably memory-safe with zero runtime overhead, Rust is pretty amazing. :P
You're right, we don't know enough from the original story to say for sure. It's not productive to argue over incomplete stories.
Cost mostly if I got it right? The value in knowing the position doesn't justify equipping all airplanes with some kind of satellite position update system (the two-way part that is), and there is almost no value in that information outside freak incidents like this.
There was reputed to be a secret Nazi submarine base on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands that operated way after the war finished under the knowledge of Franco, that allowed prominent Nazis to escape to South America. It wouldn't surprise me if he did escape.
'photograph' => 'image',

If your $LANG is en-uk do you really refer to all graphics as photographs?
What, in your opinion, is the best way to structure a market and incentivize agricultural R&D?
Sounds like github needs a de facto employee grievance officer like a union shop steward who can sit in on HR meetings and advocate for the employee, or mediate petty personal disputes without involving the heavy and often unfair hand of management and go to the founder about issues with his batshit crazy wife.
Saying that Rust and Go are better than C++ seems like an extreme stretch, when Rust isn't even finished yet and is changing significantly on a week-by-week basis and the go compiler is still written in C and every benchmark I have seen puts Go at 2x to 5x slower than C++.

I have high hopes for Rust in the future, but Go just does not seem like a replacement for C++ in the places where it excels (although many people do use C++ in places where they could probably have used say python, and Go is a reasonable alternative to Python).
Having a dongle is annoying. I need something small that can go everywhere with me, that will fit in my small-ish bag that I can quickly pull out and do stuff with. A dongle gets in the way.

If I knew my current ThinkPad required proprietary wifi drivers I wouldn't have bought it.
I went ahead and drew up a petition to include these changes in CSS4. Please add your sig!!! http://bit.ly/1kzxheU
We also have this account of the incident, by somebody who claims they were present, has put their name behind their account, and may or may not be a github employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408466

This particular account isn't even filtered through a journalist!
Well if you take away dividends and voting rights, what remains? I can think of two things:

One, money for Google, at least when they were distributed shares (I don't know if they distribute more from time to time).

Two, a tradeable product. Price determined by supply and demand, supply / demand generated by people wanting to bet the price goes up and people cashing in. Think Bitcoins.
Lenovo laptops will boot the beta/new Clonezilla fine. Just disable Secure Boot. Debian will boot in about 5 seconds with UEFI and an SSD.
3D interfaces on a two-dimensional plane doesn't make much sense, but new hardware like Oculus Rift has the potential to revive the concept.
"Men tend to organise the way they fuck - one big rush and then that "wham, slam, thank you maam", as it were. Women should be building our movement the way we make love - gradually, with sustained involvement, limitless endurance - and of course, multiple orgasms."

I reached this bit and gave up.
Thanks for your contribution..

This , vs . is often a problem, because my bank will issue tables with , used as decimal separator, but copying that into some tool everything breaks because it expects . to be used.
What's the book where one character is dating an artist and she decides that binary - the phalic 1 and the yonic 0 - is symbolic of the patriarchy and so she has a team re-write software to invert the digits?

I think it was Neal Stephenson?

Because while I am in favour of carefuy chosing your language when picking names for stuff and leaving messages I worry that this kind of thing in the wrong hands can go too far.

I'm not sure what the research says about effective methods of asking people to make a change. I'm going to need something substantial to persuade me that this is a good method.
Generally speaking, GMO crops are lower-yielding than heirloom varieties, unless you apply the requisite fertiliser, pesticides and herbicides. With the addition of those chemicals the GMO crops perform better since they are more tolerant of excess nutrients, and better able to convert the excess nutrients into the desired product.
Suits me. I've always wanted a second passport to play with.

Of course, I don't actually live there. I just happened to be born there. jus solis 'n' all that.
So the inner interpreter is a VM of some sort?

Outer interpreter looks like exactly that, an interpreter (as opposed to a compiler)
Another site that doesn't support anymore IE-8
On a related note... I can report that Trilobyte Games just inked an agreement with Angel Valley Media of Sun Valley, CA for a one-year license for film/TV rights to "The 7th Guest."
I'd say it's not even that common in the programming world either. But the internet collects cases from all over the world, and the programming sites blow them out of proportion (is there a Hacker News for bio chemical engineering?).

There are sites that try to list all such incidents. If you compare them to the number of people and companies in the field, you realize not that much is actually happening...

I think feminists have also set a special sight on programming. I suspect it is because it is one of the few engineering jobs that seem compatible with women. Sorry for the stereotypes - I don't speak for all women, but consider that with programming you don't get oil on your clothes, you don't have to walk through mud all day, etc. That's why feminists think women should have more part in programming (at least it's a theory...).
I think you mean "the more radioactive nuclear waste is, as a rule, the faster it decays". "Danger" is function of half-life, decay mode, and pharmacokinetics, and some longer-lived isotopes are more dangerous than some shorter-lived isotopes.

It's a minor detail which doesn't really distract from your major point.
The problem with iniciatives like these is that they make it hard for me to know that someone is the kind of person who would write "faggot" and "gayQuery" unironically.

When toxic or just obnoxious people are instructed to hide behind crisp language, you only find out about their toxicity or obnoxiousness in person.
some turn out really nice :)

couple bad features IMO:

- sometimes painted with toxic paint
- have to insulate anyway
- have to frame the interior walls with wood and then drywall tape & paint anyway
- have to weld them together
- worse energy efficiency than concrete (IMO)
- can be hard to find

IMO the 9 - 10' ceilings are cool though, and the 40' length is really great.

I'm still leaning towards concrete -- With a simple roof one end higher than the other. Concrete and tile seems to be insanely efficient to keep cool in hot weather. I'd love to use ICF but it seems to just add 10k to the price without any other benefits that I can save 10K by doing the work myself.

these look really cool also:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/SmartBlock-Twenty-8-in-Insulated-...
Years ago, I lost quite some time debugging a site where some borders just wouldn't render in IE. Turned out Firefox recognized both, grey and gray, IE did not.
Won't somebody think of the racists and homophobes!
The risk of potentially ending your company? Not unless you view those unique capabilities as being a 10x force multiplier.
Sugru the new wonder material
That's why evil github exists, GitTor where all your low orbit ion cannon dev trees can be uploaded without metadata.

You can also use Tor to sync small github projects through ssh. Employee internal communications should all be done away from Github and encrypted if you're working on something like p2p software and worried your flippant piracy jokes might be held up in a court room one day as "proof" your project is criminal. I would always assume all comms are stored forever and available to anybody who requests them, like lawyers looking to sue you and would like all your HipChat logs.
Yeah will probably be blacklisted soon.
How much traffic in visits?
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Rules for the digital world
Does anyone know the exact information that the Rolls Royce engines would have transmitted if the airline had paid for the "basic plan"?
Let's work from an example:

B comes to me and says

"- Well, I can't work with A, s/he's always voting against my proposals.

- I'm sorry to hear that. Did you talk to her/him about this problem?

- No, you know how s/he is

- So why do you come to me?

- Well, could you talk to her/him?

- No. You will. I will be in the room as a neutral observer."

If B wanted to slander A, the problem is that now A will know about it and will have an opportunity to defend him/herself. Also, B might be less aggressive when complaining directly to A.

In your company you really want to have a culture of "let's fix minor people problems before they become big problems", and as a CEO you can do that by promoting a direct communication culture.

Does my method make more sense now?
For the same reason we should listen to Jenny McCarthy about how to prevent autism .. oh wait.
Again, I'm affraid you're being incredibly naive.

What the OP reported was that a business fronted its way into a residential building (using AirBnB) to hold a commercial event in an un-sanctioned venue.

This is exactly why places like NYC have regulations of various types, of which a multitude are applicable.

It is incredibly inefficient economically to have consumers "due dilligence" every potentially manipulative market exchange with a limited liability c-corp. So, we can either ban limited liability c-corps outright (forcing liability onto biz owners) or we can allow them within a regulatory framework that forces "structured" liability onto them.

The idea that this is some kind of logical fallacy is hillarious. It is quite sound, and is in general acceptable trade-off. It allows capital concentration/formation which is required for MES projects, whist not allowing abuse of power driven by such scale variance.
Not to mention it consumes a precious USB slot.
Boston has it nailed, though Boston also used to have one of the most prestigious high streets on the planet.

Although they've gotten increasingly commercially commoditized, Quincy Market/Faneuil Hall, Newbury Street and the Prudential Center are mostly done right. The Prudential Center is the most "gray box" of them all, but the skylight that cuts through nearly the entire structure opens it up quite a bit.
I just got a Lenovo Thinkpad T540p with a 15" 2880x1620 display. Despite all the changes in this generation's Thinkpad line, I really like my purchase. The keyboard is very good and I'm okay with the trackpad, since I tap rather than click. I'm running XFCE, which works well for the most part with my HiDPI display. I've got Bumblebee installed to switch between my discrete Nvidia and Intel GPUs. For $1200 I got this amazing screen, Intel i5-4200M CPU, 4gb memory (added another 4gb), 500gb disk (swapped for SSD), dual band Intel wifi with support for AC, and 9 cell battery.
Maybe. It depends on what you consider "foundational".

The Lean Manufacturing people, for example, have very different foundations than traditional American MBAs. Not opposite, really; more orthogonal. For example, MBAs focus on cost reduction and profit increase; in the Lean world you focus on reducing waste and increasing customer value. This leads to different accounting systems, different management structures, different outcomes.

Reading about the history of Toyota, where Lean ideas were developed, I suspect it's not accidental that they were both physically and culturally very distant from American business thinking. And that the background of Toyotas leaders was in engineering, not commerce.

Often when you ignore received wisdom, you are just forced to relearn it. But sometimes, you end up somewhere that nobody's been before.
Yes, it was taken in a parking lot in Boise.
What is "evil github" ?
I can't see this going bad!
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...any reason for posting this now? It isn't new. Is HN a new conspiracy theory hideout?