skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are you making excuses for these people? What purpose does it serve?

Because I think people should question whether they're overreacting to the situation.

> I'm especially shocked to see you trivialise the actions of the jilted engineer

I edited to clarify this. Careful reading shows that:

(1) It is possible that there were legitimate technical reasons for the reverted commits.

(2) It is possible that Github did not respond to this part of the situation because they were unaware of the reversion or the context behind it.

(3) It is possible that Github took some action against the engineer in question.

(4) I'm not entirely sure that confessing romantic feelings for a co-worker is, by itself, inappropriate. Provided everyone stays cool and professional if the feelings aren't mutual (or just avoid each other if the org chart makes that possible).

(5) Reverting commits because someone rejected your romantic advances is unacceptable and unprofessional, and I edited my post to say so.

I think it is difficult to say that Github is at fault from the information given, and I fear that's the conclusion that many were jumping to. If you're such a person, you should think carefully about what the article actually said, what you are assuming, and whether those assumptions might be false.
It's not reasonable when you're making 200,000/year. I am not saying the guy should go out and eat caviar dinners or something. But living on Ramen and stuff 3 times a day on a 200K salary is a lifestyle choice I doubt many people would do longterm.
CSRF

http://homakov.github.io/#{"url":"https://anonyfish.com/api/...

also why not it snap-chat style and remove messages after 10 s?
Debt load isn't the same as the cost of school.
It's a covert form of ageism. The more questions you ask that are like undergraduate puzzles and less like real world situations, the more likely it is that your "objective" recruitment process will filter for recent graduates.
His location is listed as California, so that wouldn't make much sense.

The current top poster actually figured out the exact issue in this case.
You're being ridiculous. Emergency reverts are normal and expected when production systems are down.

I'm willing to stipulate this person's specific actions were probably hostile and unwarranted, but some sort of blanket "no revert without discussion" rule is just a way to cost your employer customers.

Context is important, and we don't have enough of it to be certain of what happened.
Certainly, not only do large open datasets about tragedies that need to be solved attract many curious minds, they tend to attract:

1) people with domain experience but in different specialties in that domain that may prove to have a different viewpoint or hypothesis to explore or may have access to technologies or useful knowledge that the current domain experts the Mayalasian government has employed do not.
2) people without domain expertise, but have a strong expertise in another field that could offer novel strategies. These people are probably already autodidacts and would just spending enough effort to learn about specific parts of the domain that allow them to apply their knowledge.

Both have a lot to offer in addition too (not instead of) what Mayalasia's own expert already are doing.
We are only hearing one side of the story, but it may be interesting to note the comment: " I even had to have a few of his commits reverted. ", it seems that there may have been some legitimacy to the other non-few if we are going to take a black and white view of things.

While the details on this matter seem very clear, the statement " I would work on something, go to bed, and wake up to find my work gone without any explanation." does not imply no discussion it implies that when she got up she had no idea of what was going on. It may be a case of a lazy co-worker, and/or a case that the co-worker discussed the issues with her at a latter stage.

She is very succinct in her description of the actions of others, and then describes her response in an emotional unclear way. In her own way in this example, she has used passive aggressiveness to mask the actual event.

TLDR; We do not know if there was no discussion, and we are only hearing one side.
Did you even read the article ? The point was not that someone asked her out (her current partner should've, at some point, for god's sake).

The coworker knew of her relationship, and after the rejection "started passive-aggressively ripping out my code."

That is a terrible thing to happen to anyone.
By being the one that control the UI's look and feel, the ability for power users to create arbitrary UI controls would simply materialize!
Does your Galaxy Nexus have a working GPS with Replicant?
So these fucking strangers turned out to be literally fucking strangers.
Space scenes
Absolutely. What she should have done is not resigned, but lawyered up, and started recording everything. When she resigned she lost her power. She did exactly what they wanted her to do. I know it can be the hardest thing to do in a situation like that. But the only thing people like that understand is power and money. And taking $250k from them in a lawsuit is certainly going to be noticed at the board level and by the investors.
My conjecture is that they (the board) will be trying to determine what the legal, PR and ultimately financial fallout will be from this. These will probably be the things that will drive any decisions on how Github addresses the situation.
No, but it's the same as the cost to the student, which is the point of reforming the student loan system.
I was thinking exactly this as I was reading the paper. Their scenario is that the "Elites" will consume everything and lead society into a collapse, but that's nowhere close to current reality. In fact, I'd say some "Elites" under-consume (Warren Buffett comes to mind, he's had the same house and crappy old car for decades, if I remember correctly).
60 Hz is working in 10.9.3 dev previews, from what I've read
I'd say 8k would be the minimum for that.

Unfortunately on many sites with a supposed tech savvy public "everyone" will start to yell that it's just a conspiracy of vendors and that even 4K is nonsense because your eyes can't possibly see it. They'll show fancy graphs and link to wikipedia articles that supposedly prove that 4k, let alone 8k on desktop screen sizes (roughly 20" to 30") is completely nonsense.

Maybe vendors are picking up some of these sentiments and maybe this is in part holding back progress.
I've been in this position as a co-founder, having to deal with a contractor who was also the spouse of a co-founder, and who managed to drive everybody crazy, including other contractors and employees, other co-founders, and their own spouse.
how is it supposed to work as I don't know the username of any anonymous user :)
sorry but i didn't understand this..
> I think it is difficult to say that Github is at fault from the information given, and I fear that's the conclusion that many were jumping to.

Don't worry. Read the whole thread on this discussion. The only people who are jumping to conclusions are those assuming there is something wrong with Horvath's story.

I have thought carefully about the article, and this is my conclusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408446 Reproduced here:

> GitHub are perfectly capable of defending themselves. They are the group in power here. Second-guessing the motives and truth of this woman's story does nothing but undermine her, and undermine the confidence of others who may have similar stories (at GitHub or elsewhere).
Sure, but reverting code is something that is highly visible and I can't picture an engineer reverting usable code and other engineers/leads not question it.

I'm willing to bet that it was reverted for other reasons.

I reverted code from master before because the guy wanted to play the 'okay but' game when we noticed issues with it.

Sorry but we can chat about issues later, it's not staying in production to be pushed out by a random engineer. Nothing to do with your race, gender, age, etc.
Check the thread for people mentioning their handles. :)
Those two also actively recruit Mormons for their very-above-average patriotism. Which is neither here nor there, but hey. As good a thread as any to go OT.
>My only wish is that OS X would get its act together and support DisplayPort MST (and 60Hz).

Judging by the latest beta, 10.9.3 will enable 60Hz on 2013 Retina MBPs.
It's crime only in retarded countries.
Hint: the answer for both companies lies somewhere between 0 and 0%.
App Basics for Firefox OS
I'd rather they fix the part where they don't sort displayed messages by time sent...it's kind of hard to follow conversations.
This is what so many websites do now. It causes me constant aggravation. It's nothing to do with your browser settings. They infer your language from your IP address, and for most cases that IS the right thing to do. However for me it isn't.
I really really wish there was a way to configure your browser to force websites to accept your language settings.

The only other option is to enable cookies so that the website language choice is saved - which also invites countless tracking cookies which I do NOT want.

Your web site does NOT know better than me which language I want to read.
See my comments earlier in this thread. It seems unfair to blame Github as a company for the actions of a couple individuals.
How would you realistically fix "inequal distribution of wealth"? Let's say you run a company, and it makes $1mil per year in revenue. Would you split that amount equally to all employees? Not everyone contributed equally, maybe one guy worked for 60hrs/week while another left at 4pm every day. Would you give the same amount of money to the janitor as to the CEO or engineers?

Also, what about people outside that company? Should they also get some money, even though some of them contributed exactly zero? You could argue that some government services did contribute, like cops and roads, but that still wouldn't include the majority of the population.

In short, I think there are no easy solutions to "inequal distribution of wealth". Whatever you pick is going to come with its own serious downsides.
You're right, context is important. But where I work we provide an explanation when a commit is reverted, emergency or not.
How common is it to have your significant other hanging around at your workplace for no apparent reason[1], harmful or not, because you're the founder ? I'm still trying to process that.

[1] IIUC github founder's wife had no role in his company right ?
I do agree that the bullies will be protected and promoted.

Unfortunately the legal action doesn't really solve the problem. Usually the companies just find loopholes around whatever they were sued for an it is business as usual.

For most companies once you get large enough the question is not if you will be sued, but when you will be sued. The incentives need to be changed to change the system.....which would mean a shift away from the winner takes all capitalism that we are in.
They should make a video on how they served a billion Facebook likes and where they came from for the people who bought them.
So far, I love Podio, flexible, free. CRM & Project Management.
Was Flight 370 hijacked for 9/11-type attack in India?
Yes, this person who can slander GitHub all over the twitterverse with the dreaded "sexist" label with no evidence is totally powerless. lol.
Ye, calling this sexism, is either an editorial edit by TC, for reasons I can only assume is high clickbait title, or JAH has some issues herself, which it seems like considering that she thought watching girls hulahoop is sexist.
I'm gladder still that I wasn't your student. You can't get creativity or love from bullying, only slavery.

P.S: I'm in a top CS Grad school, so no, thank you, for your offer of consdescension. I'm sure, you and your man-ly pals will have a happy time making more soldiers than mathematicians.
Slightly related, but does anyone know where to get the equivalent of news.google.com or news.yahoo.com, but with more than 30 days of history? Ideally several years worth.

Lexis/Nexis appears to only cover print news, and their articles aren't timestamped.
This is going to hurt Horvath more than it hurts GitHub.

She's going to receive a torrent of abuse for speaking out like this, whether her version of events is accurate or not.
I've turned down Google recruiters multiple times. The one time I started going down the interview process at Google for a position in London, the experience was so bad that the recruiter got the technical interview set aside (the guy interviewing me would have reported to me had I taken the position, and frankly based on our interaction, had I been interviewing him I wouldn't have hired him - that's not a good first impression), and invited me to do a second round interview.

I turned her down because I'd gotten a really bad impression of the whole process. No other company I've interviewed at have managed to be nearly as Kafkaesque in the hiring process, and several of the Google recruiters I've spoken to over the years have vented their frustrations about the process at me when I told them this, while non-Google recruiters have gleefully told me they hear this a lot and consequently see less and less competition from Google for candidates.

I'd consider a request from a Google recruiter for an interview again, but the threshold for me to bother starting down that route again has gotten higher each time - I don't feel Google is worth the hassle unless they were to approach me with something exceptional.
I assumed the videos were created lazily, on first view. This article makes it pretty clear that they decided from the beginning that they needed to render all the videos in advance. I wonder how many videos they rendered which were never viewed, and whether rendering on first demand would have been viable.
dalke: please Note that I mostly agree with the arguments in your other posts, but here you're disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing. Fine, let's consider 5-story zoning (I do love Haussmannian Paris after all). Nobody adds 2 stories to an existing wooden 3-story building, it is just not going to happen. Also, co-ops would be cool, but how would that happen in a block of individually owned houses? Especially in a city where subdividing (TICs) is common, you won't spontaneously get collectivization. The only way you can redevelop and densify a desirable low density neighborhood is with an emperor, a grand architect, and an even richer buyer. And even though google employees are rich enough, I don't see an architect around, let alone an emperor.

I'll tell you how the city will densify: very slowly. The 5-story apartment blocks in mission Bay will gentrify in 20-30 years, and by then decay and/or earthquake will take care of the nice neighborhoods we have now.

I'll end with another question: what is so wrong (I know it's unamerican, but I mean logically and morally wrong) with telling rich employees of faraway companies that others are currently living in and enjoying the neighborhoods that they covet, so they shouldn't move there (by upbidding rents and sales) even if their company provides them the transportation (and saying the company is wrong--or misguided if facesaving is required--for doing so)?
Are you claiming this is universal across societies?
UX needs work. Literally have no idea what's happening after I "log in". Description sounds like chat roulette bu the reality is being unable to talk to anyone.
> Men are worse than women at being able to effectively mediate conflicts between two members of the opposite sex.

The poor emotionally-unequipped male is powerless to do anything! Do you realise how absurd this sounds?
it lets you create a password with only one character. can the password can be updated?
Someone needs to make a chrome extension that automates this. i.e. it intercepts a click on the NYTimes, fires off a search query to google with details on the page and then redirect to the URL of the first result from Google.
Like the considerate people who keep importing loser attitudes into computing, telling everyone else how to behave, etc.
Can anybody confirm that it is still the case? That this kind of questions are still given to non-fresh-graduate (i.e. experienced) candidates? (sorting a balanced tree... ridiculous).
Doesn't work very well on Android Stock Browser.
She didn't give any names, so I don't think it counts as "publicly shaming him".

I don't think that she should have been the one to suggest he seek professional help, either. The guy professed his love to her, refused to leave her house (it sounds like they were alone), and then went on to act passive-aggressively and sabotage her work. I wouldn't blame her one bit if she felt uncomfortable or even unsafe working around him.
https://twitter.com/strobetalbott/status/444890319323406337

https://twitter.com/strobetalbott/status/445076167746674689
Your comment makes no sense to me. How would throwing out capitalism take sexual harassment with it?
Woo, Good Job Johan!
Just checked it out and unfortunately landed on The Times edition from 1804, the paper was filled with classfieds announcing awards for returning lost slaves, the casual manner of those ads made me lose my appetite for browsing further... very different times they were...
And yet, she initiated that chain of events. You should think more carefully about what the word "power" means.
> Your talk of "equality" requires a lot of clarification. If you are advocating different standards for people depending on membership in arbitrary groups, then you (or the feminists you are speaking of) are explicitly advocating against equality of individual humans. So what sort of equality are you advocating for?

Assuming you mean that not insulting people's identity and equality conflict:

Is it really so hard to not insult people's identities when you talk that the words you would use when you talk to other people would merely insult other identity groups? Perhaps you can talk to and about people without insulting anyone's identities?

> I've certainly never heard feminists advocate greater freedom for men to clearly say "sorry, you aren't smart enough for me to work with. But damn girl what an ass - wanna go out?"

Probably because you are sexually objectifying someone? And someone's appearance has nothing to do with work? To clarify, I meant that brutal honesty thing in reference to work. But if you want to say those things to people in public, feel free to do that (although I doubt many women enjoy being treated like sexual objects and called stupid in the same sentence, but there is nothing wrong with saying that).

But if at work you wanted to say, perhaps, "This code is wrong, your understanding of how this works is wrong, go read up on it", then that's the work environment you have, and there is still nothing wrong with that.

But commenting on someone's sexual attractiveness or identity at work isn't honesty related to work it's you being a nympho or a bigot. So saying: "sorry, you aren't smart enough for me to work with." is fine at work. And saying: "But damn girl what an ass - wanna go out?" is fine in public (if women who respond to that are your type). So while saying both in public would be strange, saying both in a workplace is unacceptable.
I, as a male, try to avoid staring at another female because I fear someone like Horvath accuses me of sexism.

This is, sadly, the best thing to do because you don't know who is going to take offense.

PS: To avoid looking one-sided and narrow (which I believe I'm not) I really feel bad about this whole situation and the lady who had to go through that. Personally liked a github as a company.
I think it's valid to ask questions like this. We get advice all the time warning us not to try to invent our own algorithms for certain things. Obviously if we all did that, though, we would make no progress as programmers.

I'm not really an expert but it looks like this algorithm does sorting in a way that doesn't require as much extra memory as others..? I could be wrong about that, but the point is that this algorithm likely has some certain situations where it performs better than others.
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Are you aware of how patronising this response is? If you want to make a comment about the nature of power, make it. Don't tell me to think more carefully.

I'm not sure precisely which event you're saying she initiated, but if you're talking about her quitting her job and then speaking out like this: you should think about why someone would put their reputation and livelihood on the line.
Monitor directories sizes and take an action if one of them exceeded
It's inconsiderate to other commenters to post a dramatic quit message, since it's effectively content free and massively generalising.
The Passion Projects site says that attendance is usually 50% male/50% female.

http://passion-projects.github.com/
Btw, what other keywords/b{uz,i}zwords are sed replaced on HN besides?

s/i18n/internationalization/
It seems to me that the following is liable to misclassify some pressure drop events as normal shutoffs:
> } else if ((statesChanged[2] == 1 && pinStates[2] == OFF) &&
> (statesChanged[3] == 1 && pinStates[3] == OFF)) {

We look at the relay outputs twice a second and expect to see two of them switch within the same half-second in some cases. Even if they were actually depowered at the same instant in time, you'd often get a tens of millis window when one of them is already off, but the other isn't; then (irrespective of which was off first) you'd get a "Pump stopped" notification instead of a "Pressure dropped" notification. Am I missing something obvious or is that case just rare enough that handling it isn't worth the complexity?
87k seems like a lot of money in damages. If the poster is already living the rich life, why be greedy and AirBNB for even more cash? Greed is the root of all evil. I do not feel any sympathy.
It seems YIFI Torrents is picking up the Popcorn Time ball and running with it.
To use a metaphor you might understand I think you're programming around the bug instead of debugging.

Maybe, shocking as it is, women are reacting to real injustices in these cases that you read about in "any article or blog post about sexism in tech". If your immediate reaction to someone being called out for sexism is to distance yourself from women, have you ever considered that perhaps your attitude is sexist? You're assuming in all scenarios that the man is right and being attacked unfairly, disregarding evidence.
Are you implying that black people are inherently violent and will murder you if you do them wrong?
It is true you have to trust that the native app is not tricking you into thinking that you're entering your password on Facebook.

But, at least if it's implemented correctly and not maliciously, the app doesn't ever see your password.
I try to avoid staring at people because my parents taught me that it's rude to stare.

That's not to say that I don't admire people that I find attractive. I just do it subtly to avoid making people feel uncomfortable.
It's not what or whether they were watching, it's how they were watching. It's a judgement call but pretty easy to tell if a group is leering or just watching friends have fun.
How do you sort by points in the new one?