skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> give employees time and incentive to get exercise

Isn't this specifically what they are talking about? Giving all employees time / subsiding gyms doesn't pay off.

Plus this concept, if it was easier suddenly I'd do yoga or gym more probably isn't true. It's an excuse employees use, but make it easier then they'd find another excuse.

And Gym/Yoga isn't for everyone. Many offices / organisations have gyms and wellness programs with yoga and very little of the staff use them. And those that do are as the article points out probably people who don't need the help as much anyway.
This comment is the essence of the problem. SXSW was first and foremost a music festival. For me, the interactive emphasis signaled the impending decline. When my tech company employer started launching major products at SXSW, I knew that the music festival was fucked.

I really don't mean to come across as some curmudgeonly asshole but I just don't understand why every great festival ends up getting ruined by people who want to make it into something else. Why can't we be happy with simple excellence? Sundance Film Festival, for example, used to be about movies. The movies are still there but the private parties and the celebrity product giveaways and Main St. celebrity interviews on the E! channel are what most tourists come to SFF these days. It's tragic.
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According to this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408466

it was at a party, with many non-Githubbers in attendance, and the onlookers were not only guys.

So basically the article's description may be totally inaccurate.
It's a gossipy story involving sexual attraction. How isn't it relevant? If you feel it's none of your business, then the whole story is none of your business either.
> Most of the interesting SRE work and innovation that I see today is happening at startups.

Can you give some examples of some pieces of interesting SRE work that is happening at startups ? I'm curious.

I think the SRE role is still misunderstood a bit outside Google. Few startups that I'm aware of (there are a few, mind) care enough about "Reliability" to make a dedicated reliability engineer among the first 50 employees.
tangent: there's a nice mouse position based shimmer effect on failoverflow's logo here: http://fail0verflow.com/

it's pretty clever how it actually works, in my opinion.
There isn't any humanity anymore.
The most important thing you can do now is establish clear roles if you have identified your solution to the problem you guys are tackling. For example you both may code but one of you can take on the Role of Execution, meaning you will be in charge of executing any ideas the two of you come up with. And your other Co-Founder can take on the role of Strategy or Technical, meaning although he might not be the best at executing the idea or sales he can definitely understand how to get there. It really depends on your relationship and both of ya'll strengths and weakness. Anyhow I would suggest taking on these specific roles for now until you can validate the solution you are creating and gain some traction.
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They didn't punish anyone yet.
No they're not. Check the major version numbers. Windows 2000, 2003 and XP were build on version 5 of the NT kernel/architecture. Vista involved a major overhaul and was version 6. Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 are versions 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3, respectively.
HN is only a year and a half younger than Reddit itself. I don't think that theory holds.
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> just as you can see the remains of failed fast food chains

There was an interesting recent episode of 99% Invisible about re-using old Pizza Huts: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/u-t-b-a-p-h/
>If that was acceptable by her, then this logic about it being "totally inappropriate and unprofessional" is moot.

It's inappropriate for your other coworkers to hit on you if they know you are in a relationship, regardless of whether that relationship happens to be with a coworker. Where her and her partner actually hit on each other may not have been at work.
It looks like the infinite scroll only loads two times and then has a button to "load more" on the third time. Infinite scroll with a footer is generally a bad idea though. I would suggest either using a sticky footer so it's always at the bottom or moving the information to someplace that wont be moved by the infinite scroll.

That being said this will definitely be an interesting experiment and I look forward to seeing the results in 6 months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can't_fix_stupid
I work for a large, bureaucratic company. The only restrictions on dating (and we have a ton of HR rules) is about reports. As long as you neither of you report to each other or have any influence on position etc., corporate has no problem with dating.

I can't imagine a startup caring unless you actually cause the drama, and this doesn't sound like that case.

Grow up.
Yup. Retail stores and banks as well. There's plenty of large institutions that are using XP for day-to-day operations.

And people wonder how "easy" it is for those darn hackers to "steal info." It's easy to steal from a house with the door wide open.
Have you considered the possibility that both parties are in the wrong? That Horvath does have something of a point, but she's massively overblown her experiences and read the wrong meaning into things?

Life is stickier than tabloids lead you to believe, and in such a case as I've suggested, it's not hard to see the founders talking about how 'bob' should take a brief sabbatical while the Internet Hate Machine looks for another target. The other founders might love 'bob' and want to spare him from internet fury. Or they might loathe him and were looking for a way to put him in his place. Or they might be taking a pragmatic PR-smart move. Or 'bob' might have said "I was looking to take leave and go to Europe for a holiday, this would be a good time, eh?". Or a dozen other situations. We just don't know.

And that's just fire-fighting - if you want Github to do a meaningful investigation, then you need to have the investigators being as dispassionate as possible, rather than doing it while fending off the hordes at the gate. And since a founder is involved, the investigators pretty much have to be the other founders. And that meaningful investigation includes talking to staff outside of the bubble of hysteria that's currently going on. And that meaningful investigation may indeed largely exonerate Github.

The thing is that you don't have enough information to pre-convict the way you have.

And, frankly, on a personal note: fuck this automatic calling for the sacking of someone when thing go awry. It's truly fucked up. Re-evaluate? No. Retrain? No. Reassign? No. "Someone has to suffer" for the mob's one-eyed rage. Fuck that shit. Sometimes a sacking is the appropriate course of action, but that's not for the mob to decide, because the mob doesn't have anything like close access to the story.
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You're right - the TechCrunch article didn't mention access to private repos - only private employee chatrooms. But the question was raised here on HN, asking if she did have access to private employee chatrooms what else might she or others have access to? If the security is lax in one area, one might assume it's lax in others as well. But it's just speculation - but it has merit non the less

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Beforehand. The contestants work on finding exploits before coming to the event.
Since these were variable names they didn't have to be real words. So you should have explained that your "dialog" was not the American spelling of "dialogue", but a nonsense non-word that you made up (that happened to be spelled the same way as the American version of "dialogue").
I can't find anything on PJ Hyett's family but Tom Preston-Werner is married.
already submitted in the past week. Different source (it was Wikipedia).
Allegedly, Tom Preston-Werner. FTFY.
I personally just read the quote as meaning the wife knew her husband's passwords (and where to find company chat logs). Theoretically, this might give her access to private repositories, but only to the extent the founder in question does. A problem, to be sure, but its not like they were giving away credentials to people.
Bullshit. I can boot Windows 8 from legacy (BIOS) mode on two machines.
I think I found a bug: On level 23, "orange:last-of-type, apple:last-of-type" doesn't advance you to the next level but "apple:last-of-type, orange:last-of-type" does.

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> This narrows down the choices: the "founder" who is the cause for all this drama is either PJ Hyett or Tom Preston-Werner.

https://twitter.com/tpdubs2/status/415224900782014464

> TheresaPrestonWerner @tpdubs2

> Found the best, most comfortable chair at GitHub HQ. Office seems pretty empty today.

Among several other tweets here:

https://twitter.com/search?q=github%20from%3Atpdubs2&src=typ...
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From their license:

> Any redistribution or use is for noncommercial purposes only and is not redistributed or used in connection with any application that is substantially similar to the Selected App Idea.

From the open source definition [1]:

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

This is "visible source", not open source.

[1] http://opensource.org/osd
This response suggests that ...

Disagree. The situtation is highly ambiguous. HR is a game of "the best victories are wars not fought". And so in some regards, its too late.

On the other-hand, if HR was on the right...they were "over-ruled" by more than one of CEO/founders/sr execs. This surely means this person has diminished capacity to act. If not due to competence, than due to "lack of formiddableness".

Because it shouldn't take a public PR nightmare to convince (ie, show some leadership) that following HR101 is a good idea.

It is only the rare edge case that this person was in perfect pitch (and ignored) yesterday and will be held in higher regard tomorrow.

So, this is why things are not clear cut here for anyone.
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MH370 flew as low as 1,500m to avoid detection, says paper
I read it (without skimming even). But allow me to be surprised that, considering what I remember about human populations impact (heavy and deadly mutations in children), even with reduced organs, there are living animals near the site.
Most people still turn their phones off before a flight to save power or because they think it will keep them safe. If they are dead, they can't turn the phones back on and the hijackers can go around searching for phones if they really want to. So it's pretty unlikely that phones will attempt to make contact with cell towers.

But assuming that a phone does make contact, there would be massive cooperation required to detect it. The airline and victims' families would have to give a list of phone numbers that could be on the flight, and all the carriers in the region would search through their towers' logs to see if any of those IMEIs (assuming they keep those logs for at least a week).
Well, it sounds like they tried to sweep things under the rug.
No they won't. The government will pay Microsoft lots of money to get patches just for themselves.
The other part that really bugs me is that I cannot buy laptops without Windows from a lot of vendors.

First thing I do is wipe any Windows/Recovery partition from the drive and install Linux. Yet, I know that Microsoft got their cut and there is nothing I can do about it.

How this passes any reasonable antitrust test is beyond my comprehension; on the other hand what we call capitalism these days has not much to do with actual capitalism, so maybe I should not be surprised.
I do consider advertising in and of itself to be distasteful. But of course some implementations are better than others, and yes many people are ok with some types/amounts.
Appears this was created as an art/media installation by Ubermorgen in 2005 [1] that ran for a few years. Some believe it was a hoax [2], although it may have just been a brief but curious experiment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubermorgen#Life_and_career

[2] http://linearfix.tumblr.com/post/21838753641/is-google-will-...
The attitude adopted by the HR department on this matter reminded me of this: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-11-26/

It's good to see that things are changing in GH.
Again ... you are jumping to conclusions. The statement did not specify when the person was put on leave.
CDA was probably invented in Vancouver, FWIW. http://www.newschoolbeer.com/2012/11/who-owns-cascadian-dark...
Things like this should be formalised though. Its very unusual for a spouse to prance around any organisation handing out directives/advice.
Maybe its a sign that the founder in question doesn't have the people skills to handle her possibly dominant personality.
Off topic: I thought the post would be a plea for tty support replacements since no one TTYs but everyone TXTs or IMs or emails.

My experiences: I don't know if others will chime in with their experiences, but Rogers in Canada has textual/live chat support channels in place and you can even contact a manager by chat. For background, Rogers is Comcast plus Verizon for Canada. Yeah. But I'm actually quite pleased by the chat service. As a customer I could copy and paste what I would otherwise repeat laboriously from agent to agent. The only weakness was that not everyone I needed to speak with had signed up for the chat service. Many departments then required me to call in, reference the chat, then get transferred. It would be nice to integrate the touch points between chat and call. Better still? Assume that I'm in the middle of an existing issue at the start by asking for a previous ticket number or having the right people call me back in a timely manner. Apple has done a few of these things but could use improvements, specifically in the disconnect between store and phone services or online. Microsoft... is still working on their Store processes, they've quite a few kinks as it took weeks of hour-long calls to finally place and receive an order -- and they asked me to call to place it from an email they sent me. Yeah, not calling or having others call me? Way better than calling and wasting both my and your time, service providers. If we both know time is limited, working asynchronously with the ability for escalations and status notifications is just what we need.
Bingo!, the lawsuit is coming regardless, Horvath made sure to leave enough of a paper trail for it.

I think this whole situation looks like a misunderstanding snowballing into a tsunami. Founder's wife takes her for drinks, gets drunk, talks of her ass and says inappropriate stuff. I would just chalk it to drunkenness and forget the whole episode. It would've ended right there.
> We are awaiting comment from GitHub regarding these allegations, and GitHub says it is looking into it.

> We are waiting for comment from GitHub about these allegations.

> GitHub says it is investigating the matter: “We’re looking into this.”

This post might be entirely true, but for now it is an expanded personal blog post posing as news. I will hold judgement on both parties until there is evidence, but I doubt most readers skimming headlines will.

It is unfortunate this was posted before TechCrunch or any other "news" site got corroboration from other parties or evidence of any of it. The post offers no evidence outside what was created by Ms. Horvath herself.
Ms. Horvath's act of taking this directly to the press was obviously intended to inflict the maximum possible harm on Github and is, in itself, unprofessional and harms her credibility. The right way for her to have handled this would have been to document everything, and then resign and sue them without fanfare. Nobody wins when dirty laundry is aired.
Death by a thousand cuts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality
Female developers are not special.
Nothing sucks more or wastes more company time and resources than playing Game of Thrones with all the assertive personalities in your company.

The answer is not to put a rigid organizational structure. It's to avoid hiring people you wouldn't trust to have your back, or, if one has been hired, to avoid promoting him or her into a position of leadership.
The more interesting lapse will be that all those bank ATMs that run XP will also be vulnerable. Presumably some folks are saving their bestest zero day for April 9th. That said, its an effect that software has that isn't well managed yet. Companies go out of business all the time and their software which is running control processes or lumber mills or what have you stops being supported. Basically the costs get paid in bulk a bit later as computer is taken offline and the operation halted while a replacement is developed. Its going to be a very 21st century sort of phenomena. Computers with out of date software that touched everyone really only became ubiquitous around the turn of the century.
And as a Canadian I find it generally a little weird that the Canadian flag often means Canadian French, and I have to click the US flag to get English (which is of course a slightly different English than Canadian English which is probably unavailable).

I guess it's something like "language most unique to that country", no but that's not right either... I don't know.
I used to think managers were worthless ... And then I had a bad one, and figured out the hard way how much bullshit a good manager insulates his developers from.
Tesla Debate – New Laws to Protect Old Practices
I am curious to see what a few of you think about the challenges Tesla Motors is facing with selling their cars directly to consumers through their stores, rather than going throughout the Dealers Association.

Personally I feel that the Cars sales business while not stagnant, is also not booming. These new laws are protecting these old business simply because they fear they will take away jobs; but won't these new practices create new jobs and even stimulate our economy more profoundly than these current business practice.

Why do you think these States are so against these Direct Sales? Do we as innovators need to tackle old business practices in our new companies?
Also wrong because in many states convicted felons are disenfranchised. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement#Unite... . "As of 2010, all the various state felony disenfranchisement laws added together block an estimated 5.9 million Americans from voting."
I don't think we will know unless this ends in some ugly lawsuit, but they can confirm the story by analysing multiple commit logs from same dude reverting Horvath's work.
just because the behavior in question is coming from a woman and directed to a woman doesn't mean it isn't sexist.

This article gives me some hope that we are reaching the next phase of most eschatological movements, wherein the true believers begin casting one another out for being insufficiently ideologically pure.
I am curious to see what a few of you think about the challenges Tesla Motors is facing with selling their cars directly to consumers through their stores, rather than going throughout the Dealers Association.

Personally I feel that the Cars sales business while not stagnant, is also not booming. These new laws are protecting these old business simply because they fear they will take away jobs; but won't these new practices create new jobs and even stimulate our economy more profoundly than these current business practice.

Why do you think these States are so against these Direct Sales? Do we as innovators need to tackle old business practices in our new companies?
It can be both true that the situation called for having a co-founder put on leave, and his wife banned from the premises because a first look shows Horvath's claims are likely to be true and that Github's management deserves respect for prompt action, candor, and open communication.

They could have been completely opaque and done nothing but investigate the matter, without any disclosure. It's a brave choice to be open because, even implicitly, admitting a problem can taken as admitting liability.
From uTorrent's website [1]:

"If everyone streamed every file at the same time, the ecosystem would be negatively affected. That’s why we’ve put in safeguards to protect the ecosystem such as disallowing streaming when there aren’t enough seeders for a file, and preventing users from streaming more than a single file at a time. With these protections, we’ve tested and found no negative effect on the ecosystem. This is a property we’ll continue to monitor and adjust for as streaming becomes more widely used."

[1]: http://www.utorrent.com/help/faq/ut3
Intriguing... is that really so much of a factor? To torrent-stream successfully you have to have eventually loaded all snippets from beginning to end of a file and could potentially be offering them for download at most only a couple of hours later than if you downloaded it first snippet.
That helps but invariably you want to use both OS's at the same time. It sucks to have to reboot every time you want to shift data about. Much easier to have both machines running at the same time. VM's also have tools for the guest to share clipboards.
Here is an article that I found on TechCrunch. Posting the link here just for sharing. No, I am still trying to make out what is happening, so I hold no opinion for now.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes...
There's a whole industry in Eeastern Europe that does just this and resells the link-space. It's nothing new but don't be surprised when your whole domain gets deindexed.
Sure, but how does hula-hooping poison the environment? As far as we can tell, the women doing the hula-hooping were doing it for fun/exercise with no sexual intent, and the men watching just thought it was entertaining and not sexual. Then Julie comes along and complains that it's like a strip joint!?

Now I wasn't there and I have nothing to do with github, but that is just my take on it. It just sounds like Julie has some very strange ideas about sexual harassment. It seems to be her that is causing sexual harassment in the workplace if anything.

The whole thing is very weird, and neither Julie nor the Github management look very good.
This is the best response that could have ever been made, ever.
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Google probably have a real live person they can call if this gets messed up, or even has the potential to get messed up a few months from now.
Spot on sir!
Sure, but it's really hard to find a company that just wants me to be there for 4-5 hours and that's it as a full time job.
>> We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation. While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the relevant founder has been put on leave, as has the referenced GitHub engineer.

>Pretty much a full admission that everything that Julie said is true.

Then I dub you Sir Bedemir, Knight of the Round Table.
This isn't a 3d effect. RTFA
I don't think it's fair to point to her relationship as the cause of this. I also think that, referring to her relationship as "banging a co-worker", may be an example of the kind of behaviour that creates an uncomfortable atmosphere for women in I.T.
There were no sexual harassment claims.
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Makes me really hopeful for Tidbit to succeed and become more widely adopted and accepted...I know that I plan to implement it on my sites (default off with opt in of course).

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