skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you were there, you can't possible know what happened. We are receiving a third-hand accounting--a TechCrunch journalist relating what Horvath told them--of events we didn't experience. For all we know, the journalist editted out a part where the "gawkers" were wolf-whistling and throwing dollar bills. The point is not that they may or many not have done that, the point is that Horvath's (diluted) account is the only one we have to go by, and to dismiss it is literally nothing but marginalizing her opinion just because she's a woman.

She says it was inappropriate, and more importantly, that it made her feel uncomfortable. You have to either accept that, or you have to call her a liar.

If you choose to call her a liar, your basis for calling her a liar is what defines you as sexist. If it's "my vast and varied dealings with the Github staff at all levels never suggested anything unprofessional ever went on there"[0], then you are not sexist. If it's because "women overreact to stuff like this", you're sexist.

And it's one way or the other. You can't say "I am not calling her a liar, but I don't believe her". That's just mealy-mouth calling her a liar. And you can't say, "I didn't experience any of the involved facts for myself, but I'm not basing it on prejudices", because again, that's just speaking out of both sides of your mouth.

[0] which, given how shitty their code is, I can't see how anyone could ever make such a claim.
Thank you! I did not know about SBCL, or Paul Khuong, before. This is the most interesting thing I've read this week. This kind of article is why I come to Hacker News.
Is that required by hotel regulations?
Meh. You want to do imperative stuff in the repl, and you can't do that at the top-level in Haskell. The way ghci works is solid. When you are in the ghci repl, you are coding inside the do-notation for the IO monad.

Really, IMHO, jumping back and forth between the editor and the REPL with constant reloading is a better approach than pasting things into the REPL. I remember when I was playing with Common Lisp, I would always have trouble keeping the code on disk and the code loaded into the REPL synced.
windows as a desktop? you reminded me of that torture :) all installers and updaters popping out in front of you, taskbar icons filling up for no reason, quickly degrading file system/launch performance, no package management, no workspace or tiling window managers, no sane ruby, python dev environments.. i gave up dual boot long time ago, and erase completely any remnants of windows. when i need windows (seldom), i open it on aws.
Ow, my eyes.
Eric might think that college is worth it but the guys who are running those colleges (Deans) think otherwise.

=> UC Berkeley B-School Dean:"Half of the business schools in this country could be out of business in 10 years - or five. Source: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-14/online-progr...

Problems with college is not only HIGH college tuition fees but also number of years wasted in the institution. If you are 'self motivated learner' then you can learn on web. This is especially true for software courses. Other courses like electrical and mechanical engineering might -still- need college education as colleges have requisite infrastructure for those fields.
Original source (on the author's web site) is here: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
strangely enough there are a million people who know about this project and 1-2 actually participate. it's a wiki and opensource project, so everyone in the world is free to contribute. same with bitcoin. roughly 5 active developers at the moment, working mostly in their spare time.
you live in the UK where people are still people that have rights

The right to be sued for libel whenever they write something that someone else doesn't like?
To an extent, yes, and more importantly it's civilly enforceable, because neighboring guests can chargeback the room if they're not moved (or even they are), and will almost certainly win the dispute.
>One advantage from most of the US malls...is that cars are parked under the malls, not around them...

Thanks for bringing this up. Dealing with parking is a much more complex problem than was assumed for the last 50 years or so. Better modeling should improve the situation going forward though, and could help effectively redevelop some of these megamall wastelands too.
I've always been suspicious of that guy because of his hyphenated name.
Probably the climate? I'd imagine in summer Singapore and KL are ferociously humid and hot?
> Massive profitability allows you to get away with just about anything.

> [...]

> For every Valve and Github, there is a Microsoft or an Oracle.

You are absolutely correct that a company that has stumbled on a gold mine can survive problems in its structure that would have been fatal if money were tighter.

However, it goes both ways. Some large, old companies have byzantine corporate hierarchies that would make Kafka blush. Yet money keeps flowing in, and props up this excessive architecture.

Streams of money flowing in can allow for out of the norm flat structures, but they can just as well prop up redundant hierarchies, TPS reports etc.
Doesn't that apply equally to any shared hosting?
Either way, this highlights that the founders of GitHub had every intent to run a conducive and inclusive environment. I mean, obviously they failed, but I doubt it was for lack of trying.
The point is, on average you will fare better with a college degree than without. If you pick 18th century Russian literature as your degree, well that's a different story...
Native of Rio, spent my life around the world - Iran, Japan, US, France; had a "national identity" crisis, came back to Rio in my mid 30's and became very disenchanted with people's lack of civility, exorbitant prices being charged for low quality public and private services, and the omnipresent violence.

In the mean time, I am working on my online data ETL company and I'll be getting the hell out of here on 9/7/2014,the country's independence day.

Bye Bye Brazil!
In many marriages, there's one spouse who keeps the other in line and then there is the spouse who is kept in line. One does not simply reverse these roles.
My mistake (noticed when I went back to quote the article), I misread:

> What I did have a problem with is the line of men sitting on one bench facing the hoopers and gawking at them

as

> What I did have a problem with is the line of men sitting on one bench facing them, hollering and gawking at them

But the point remains. Although it's a bit less in severity than I first realized.
This is pretty accurate, I would not have commented at all in here until I read this and just wanted to back you up on this point.

I read these type of threads on HN constantly and every time I walk away absolutely disgusted with what I see said in them. I don't have the will to comment myself because it just would not change anyones opinion and they would instantly go into attack mode.
they're good ,but can be better. Seamless video transmissions would help.
I understand what you mean when you say that it "doesn't constitute sexism", and that's true for a definition of sexism as "acts or speech denigrating women on the basis of their gender."

I think what the prior poster is trying to express is that this is a situation, with the founder's wife, that could only occur to a female employee. The covert power of the wife over the complainant is based on gender, and her success in intimidating the complainant with bizarre behaviour -- to which the complainant had an entirely passive response -- is largely due to the social expectations that the complainant perceives, that as a woman she should not be confrontational nor assertive.

Given that I didn't see the hula-hooping incident myself, and only have the complainant's description of it, I cannot adequately address the question of whether or not the men involved were behaving improperly, or aggressively, or in a fashion such that I am sympathetic to the complainant's feeling that their attitude was demeaning to her female colleagues. Personally, I could happily watch attractive young women exercise for hours. But I would also sympathize completely with a young woman whom felt uncomfortable with that. From the complainant's description, it seems that her colleagues were hula-hooping together for fun, and that there was an abnormal number of male engineers sitting and watching them. The hula-hoopers were presumably aware of this. It spoiled the fun for the complainant, but how the hula-hoopers felt about it is still an open question.

I think you are absolutely right that the focus of discussion should be the founder and his wife. The situation sounds completely inappropriate, the HR response seems powerless and ineffectual, and whatever the other side of the story is, her resignation/dismissal occurred under entirely improper circumstances, and she probably deserves compensation for this.
It applies to any shared hosting with servers in in the US that operates above a certain scale; yes. What that certain scale is who knows, but github the most visible hosting service so is certain to be above it.

Github is great for my open source work. Everyone's allowed to see that code, even the NSA. However you can find source to LOIC on github. I'm sure that who put that there and who worked on it when would be of interest to them and form a suitable pretext for a dragnet.
It's not resolved, but it has improved drastically. There's still barriers, primarily in socioeconomic status and tendencies to cluster in ghettos as a result, but it is still far better than one could have ever imagined.

If you want a crippling issue, go for homophobia. Homophobia is still very much rampant in the USA and it is still completely fine for politicians to be openly homophobic for reasons like "preserving family values".

Yet when was the last time you heard a US politician make openly racist and white supremacist statements? When has a white supremacist been elected? David Duke is the most recent example I can name of, and he was reviled.

Racism for US politicians is an instant career killer, no question. Race is a touchy issue and the moment a representative says something unfavorable concerning race, they get annihilated by press and public advocacy. Not the same for homophobia.

It's time people stop with their persecution complexes. The past is the past. No one owes you anything.
In some cases this is already happening. The best known example I can think of is Tyson's Corner in Northern Virginia. Already a shopping and commercial area, they're building the a new metro line out to it. This is coinciding with a restructuring of the entire area to be pedestrian friendly instead of car focused and it's absolutely transforming the entire city. It's probably the largest restructuring program in the U.S. at present. Each metro stop is either a shopping paradise or near a bunch of professional offices. All new residential complexes are being planned and the area is absolutely exploding with activity.

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/tysons/
Ask HN: Stable Change or Unstable Same?
I have one of the best complicated decisions I've experience in my life and I am not sure how to weigh all the options. I know the end decision ultimately lies in what I want, but I am curious to get some opinions from those here.

Quick background - I am 26, always lived on the east coast, progressed through my career in information security quite well. For the past two years, I have traveled all over the world (love doing this), spoken at different conferences and shared my research with others. My focus on cyber threats has wained a bit in the past few months and data analysis has started to become a larger interest.

The two scenarios can be summed up like this:

Stable Change - I move to the west coast, head over to another commercial-based job (albeit one that has A LOT of data and a lot of smart people) where I still work with cyber threats, but with more data analysis and in a small team described as an "internal startup". The plan would be to stay there for a few years and maybe come back to the east coast depending on life circumstances.

Unstable Same - I remain on the east coast, forgo a salary for a period of time to do a cyber threat startup with some friends. Equity is offered, though transparency has been an issue while working out the details of joining. The basis for the company is nothing game-changing, but would do well in the current market. Moving to the west coast could be an option, but it would be 1.5-2 years out and depend on where the company was at the time. My work with this company would mostly be spent doing anything and everything, but also developing products and items to sell.

Either way, I am bound to learn a lot and both opportunities provide a different career path than what I have been on. My fear with not doing the startup company now is that I may not have the chance to do it later though the same is true for living on the west coast.
Security researcher.
Which is why you combine shopping, residential spaces, and transit hubs so that owning a car becomes optional rather than required.

For a bonus you add employment spaces so that people can live, work, and shop in their communities.
Most implementations of Javascript give you a REPL (assuming that JIT counts) in the sense that there's no hard distinction between code loaded from a file and code typed at the console prompt.
I have another analogy I sometimes use. If you're floating down a Mississippi made of money, it seems like everything works. Navigate, don't navigate. Tight ship, loose ship. Expensive paddle boat or a few planks lashed together. Everything moves in the right direction. So long as you manage not to find the edges of a famously wide river, you will move swiftly and effortlessly.

When the river of cash begins to dry up, or if you started in a creek and stayed in a creek, things are a bit harder.
I'm in the midwest and I agree. You need a certain critical mass of population density and enough common destinations for mass transit to work. From what I can tell, this is a lot higher than the population needed to sustain a mall.

Our town does have a bus system but most of them drive around empty or nearly so most of the time. We also have a decent indoor mall and several outdoor "big box store" shopping centers which all seem to be surviving if not thriving.
Exactly. Union Square has better places to eat and drink near by that are way better than a standard, factory mall box. You can also just walk around or hang out in the small park. Stanford Mall has this in a different style as well as Milbrae, Burlingame, and Santana Row. They all have 'character'.
At the same time, outdoor car-centric outlet-malls are still plentiful if not gaining steam, and they have all the hideous disadvantages of the traditional mall plus the problem that people drive from store to store and you're not even protected from the elements if you choose to walk from one store to the next.
The main thing I use a REPL for is playing around with defining/redefining functions and then using them in various ways, and the different syntax plus the weird :{ :} business made that tedious in GHCi. So I ditched it and just moved to the old-school C-style "edit a file, save, compile, run" cycle.
You use TaskPaper or a text editor. Doing isn't designed for full management, just a fast way to log.
How about giving us a clue rather than just being cryptic.
I think your input should come with a map then. Integrate google maps into your application, then save the latitude and longitude values, then before saving the object, validate the address, if its not within the city then don't save it, flash a message.
Then enlighten us, O Enlightened One. Absolve us of our shame for our knowledge is inferior to your grand mind. Perhaps those factions of Ukrainian politics that are self-described nationalists were misunderstood by those of us too cautious to throw our meaningless hats into the ring of warring propagandists. Please, oh wise bluekeybox, please teach us your ways. If I were of the power and stature to spread my own influence using shills (a descriptor I rarely use) I would have them appeal to emotion the way you did and end their contribution there.

So please, do go on -- there is always time for objectivity.
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If you lease is written on the back of a napkin, maybe, but most landlords use boilerplate leases, and every boilerplate lease has a sublet clause. It's one of the most important clauses in the lease; why bother with the rest of the terms if the lease simply delegates all authority to the renter?
I agree. That's the point I was trying to make: the presence of massive profits is not an objective, meritorious endorsement of any system of organising your company. It merely ensures its continued existence.
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If the allegations are true, I'd like to see a Kickstarter project to fund her litigation.
> To draw a parallel, if 7 out of 10 people at the office were having nerf gun fights, and it was disrupting other peoples work (because they are reflexively duck, etc) to the point where they can't work when there aren’t big nerf gun fights (but still one or two shots every now and then), then it's a problem, and destructive to a good work environment. This is where management needs to step in and say, "ok guys, I know we are pretty lax around here, but seriously cut this shit out". Obviously it isn't a perfect parallel.

If 7 out of 10 people at the office are having an epic nerf gun fight, who's to say the three outliers are in the right? I'm not sure what you're trying to illustrate with this analogy.
That still doesn't cover cases where you want to use multiple 1.9 versions, or if you want to test different patches, or if you want to use the latest version before your OS packages it. It's still the same basic problem as on Ubuntu.
It should be obvious that that's a false equality.
in college, I once...
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The real answer is not so simple.

Overall, for society, it's always better to have an education.

But if the price goes up, it means you won't get the education you might want, so you'll get something less expensive, but if you go for it, it's hard to say that might suit you, and if it doesn't, you will lose interest and drop out.

It's always better to keep on, but if you get an education because of economic pressure, it has its ups and downs. It fulfills the concept of supply and demand, but not your dreams.

I don't think education, like healthcare, should be applied the principles of a market. And again, education is a very tricky social problem to solve.

You want it, but it's not distributed in the best fashion.
Why has the title been changed?
Or the system we have in Mexico: You can choose between several very good public University (costing around $200 USD per year) or some really expensive $8,000 per semester.

Both of them will teach you exactly the same, but enrolling in the expensive ones will give you "social status".
giving out these loans without social responsability

In other words, you think student loans should only be given out by entities who will guarantee a job to the student after graduation? Then there would be a lot fewer such loans. That might not necessarily be a bad thing; but I don't think you can say it's a requirement for giving out such loans.

saying that something is illegal is almost completely beside the point

I didn't say what she did was illegal. I just said it wasn't right.

In this case Y is nothing.

No, it isn't. She's suffering a number of consequences, as others in this thread have pointed out. But those consequences aren't being imposed by the legal system; they're being imposed by private entities.

this makes violating the law a strategy.

I would say it makes exploiting loopholes in the law a strategy. But again, I wasn't talking about legality; I was talking about whether what she did was right. You would appear to agree that those are not the same thing.

And please don't think only poor students use it as a strategy.

Where did I say that?
I haven't read War and Peace, so I don't know the context of this excerpt. Despite that, I'd like to suggest that if you have a formal structure in an organisation, then you're still able to use it to do something about the informal structures that you don't like (assuming you can recognise them). If you've explicitly eschewed any kind of formal structure, then changing it becomes very difficult [1].

In this example, Boris could have decided that he would try and support the formal structures and wrest control (over time) from the informal leaders (perhaps by playing both sides for a while).

[1] Edit: The reverse is also true. You can adapt a formal structure by the use of informal power. This is more often talked about (c.f. every 'influence' book ever written), so I didn't think to mention it.
On Linux I use dual 4K configuration with a tiling window manager. I'm curious what your total screen estate, and resolutions are.
>what about a random software developer with a degree vs one without?

Maybe I'm misinterpreting your question, but the way you phrased it, there's already some survivorship bias -- the ones who don't have a degree but got a job have been through some sort of selection filter; this ignores people who don't have a degree but want to get a job in programming.
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Did you not read what I said? Conforming is supporting it! It's a hard choice to not to, but it is still a choice to conform.

So it may hurt your career. Many people don't have careers to advance because of the assholes you are "conforming" with. And so you perpetuate it. Well done! So brave! And people wonder how people who aren’t white or male (or straight, or christian) make less money.
This is also wrapped up with the notion of cargo-culting, which is common in tech. If you examine a successful company or team to try and work out why they're successful, you tend to focus on the most obvious factors: Their structure (or lack of it) and the tools and processes they use. But there is no way to know which if any of these factors are key to their success, or incidental, and getting a different team to use the same structure, or to apply the same tools and processes may produce a very different result.

Discussions about software development methodologies, programming languages and frameworks often fall into this trap. A developer will advocate a particular approach based on anecdotal experience where it has been effective for a different company or team. A mass of these anecdotes, strongly influenced by survivor bias, becomes the macro dev culture in which different ideological "movements" rise and fall. But there's very little attempt to thoroughly and scientifically research the effect of varying factors independent of others with the mainstream.
While I agree well-established knowledge is useful (don't get me started about NoSQL, for one thing), I'm not seeing any disdain for business know-how. What I'm seeing is the well-founded belief that you get business know-how from being in business, not from sitting in a classroom and coming out with a piece of paper.
> We need to destigmatize vocational education.

This is a little off-topic, but back in high school, there was a vocational education program clearly considered to be somewhat remedial, tailored for those who had no hope of going to college or otherwise having much success. (Poor minorities, in other words.) Students would spend about half their time in this program, and half their time with the rest of the school. I was not in it, but I eventually learned that the brightest students in many of my classes were in this program. Stigmatized as it was, it worked, and quite well. In fact, it was probably better preparation for college than the regular-track courses (which were actually meant for people who might go to college).

I don't pay much attention to education policy (one can't spend time on everything), so I'm not too sure what lessons ought to be drawn from this.