skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, anywhere from unwarranted sexual touching (ass slaps), to coming up from behind and cozying up to a woman at her cubicle. These were all after the women had made it clear that this was inappropriate, though this shouldn't be required. Language was often beyond condescending, and often abusive and dismissive. One individual was particularly bad, he would get really upset if his advances (which could only have been learned from bad porno, they were so clueless and inappropriate), he would travel straight to verbal abuse and threats. The language was simply degrading.

This same individual, was in the elevator when my friend who worked at another company, but same building. He got into the elevator with his wife, and the individual said something along the lines of "I bet you'd like it if I bent you over now. Let everyone here have a turn" to his wife. My buddy showed far more restraint than I would have.
As the commit author here, I must confess that it was so painful to write that story that I had to stop coding and go out for a walk. I was devastated...
Let's try it out. Here is an excellent photo of two snails that I've titled "Slow Romance"

https://surfer.io/BkJ3L
> there are quite a lot of people who simply don trust Google.

while I agree with you in principle, there's also quite a lot more people who simply are happy (relieved, even) that they can make the computer help them perform the task they want to accomplish. I'm not even saying that Dropbox or Google is better at this, just that I see people use every day just what's right in front of them and they know they can make work. and because of that they don't seem to have the luxury (even if they have the foresight) of considering what will stick around for longest (or perhaps what's idealistically "right" to choose).

again, I'm not defending this situation. but it does seem (to me) that the majority of people are motivated by this, and cannot afford or consider decisions like whether or not to "simply not trust Google".
Our benchmarks consistently show Tim sort as the fastest -stable- sort, But intro sort consistently beats it.
Yes, as it happens, I am against both negative and positive discrimination. But until I have a better alternative to the latter for improving access to our industry then I have to accept it as a mechanism to help overcome the legacy of the former.
This is a great idea. The domain name is not the best, but the intent is. Best of luck to you, and I hope to be able to share photos on it one day, if I ever think I can make money off of one.
Coming soon, a double phishing attack. For anyone who clicks through, they'll be told its a security check, and then be instructed to click through for a study or something. It will work especially well with uniformed people if you start with enough data, because they can be "ordered" to "participate" in the follow on.
What annoys me most about the war on Bittorrent is that it comes at such a tremendous cost. There used to be a time when you could find all kinds of _rare_ data in the Bittorrent swarm.

Now, between all the banning, blocking, slowing down and taking down of trackers, a lot of the richness is gone.

Sure, all the holywood crap is still there, but what about the sitedumps of now-offline web plattforms and the like?
Forgetting is a valuable skill.
Plants don't help when we choose to incorporate their radiation into our bodies: Tobacco pulls radioactive polonium-210 from the soil and air[0]. It has been found to accumulate in the lungs and continue to emit alpha-particles.

[0] http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2008/08/29/radioacti...
>The problem is so many programmers don't take the time (or care to take the time) to learn to use the well thought out design of Unix tools opting instead to see every problem as a nail corresponding to the latest trend in hammers (programming languages).

Unix tools are the arguably the best tools available to a modern user. That, however does not mean that the Unix tools are well designed; many would argue that the Unix tools are extremely poorly designed or have no discernible design at all. S-expression are a much more powerful and useful abstraction than a "stream of bytes". POSIX was hacked on many years later in attempt to make sense out of the mess that shell commands had become. Shell scripts are very fragile and have never been truly portable across various *nixes, although the situation is better than it was twenty years ago, when it was enormously difficult to port scripts across the various commercial Unix installations, because they would break in many different and subtle ways.

I recommend reading the out of date but still useful Unix Haters Handbook:
http://pdf.textfiles.com/books/ugh.pdf
Seriously? Are you implying that there's one and only one type of Android device?

My Galaxy S4 is rooted and flashed to semi-vanilla Android with no extra application bundled. I charge my phone every 3 days. Using my preference of keyboard software makes typing much faster and easier and my keyboard is more efficient than keyboard on iOS 7.

Regarding your latency issue, this is probably the hardware fault. It's not a "known" issue with Android.

However what you were saying might make sense if the last time you tried Android device was 4+ years ago, in this case, Android has really improved greatly lately.
And avra kadabra to you also.
Thanks! I'm checking it out.

I've come to a similar conclusion that using @media incantations only covers the basic cases, so any advanced web layout would need a mix of CSS and JS anyway (so we might as well have a solid JS toolkit help us keep things flexible and tidy).
If an organization's purpose is to serve the general public, any and all information they create should have a reasonable timeline applied to it where it eventually becomes public information. Otherwise, it's simply information someone is using for their own purposes, and perhaps gain.
I don't know what his problem with Amazon is, but he's way off base in my opinion.

His problem with Amazon is that they aren't Apple.

In all fairness, he does call out Apple (a little bit), but I do think that the issues with Amazon or Google are nothing compared to the lock-down you get with Apple (or used to with Microsoft).
Look into "DMCA safe harbor registration" if you want protection.
Thanks a lot github. This is why we can't have nice things.
There was no battle and there is no war. Different methodologies and philosophies surrounding software development have different pros and cons, which themselves change over time as the tech industry changes.

If people want to choose to view the tech world through a filter that projects everything into some open source vs. proprietary software conflict, fine. There are many such filters though.

Someone could have a similar filter that only cares about vertical vs. horizontal integration. It might even be instructive! Microsoft was on top of their game in the '80s and '90s because they had the right business model (horizontal integration- sell the OS and have everyone else make the hardware it runs on and the apps that run on top of it). Other companies have more recently had more success with a more vertically integrated approach, where the hardware and the software are explicitly designed with each other in mind to maximize things like performance, power management, size, shape, and UX of the resultant products.

As things like the mobile industry continue to evolve, we may be moving back into an era where horizontal integration becomes dominant again. And maybe that will lead to another era where it goes back to being dominated by vertical. Who knows. But at no point did vertical or horizontal ever "win" (although plenty of pundits said it did in the '90s), and there is no endgame where one does. It's just a pendulum that swings back and forth. If it ever stops, that means that the entire industry has ground to a halt.

The exact same things can be said about open source vs. proprietary, including the fact that the two are not mutually exclusive. Plenty of things have open source as well as proprietary components, and plenty of companies have some mix of vertical and horizontal integration. I'm not saying these perceived dualities in our industry are comparable, as they describe very different things, only that describing it as a war with an ultimate winner or loser is futile for the exact same reasons.

People should absolutely love open source and be inspired to be proponents of it wherever possible, but I always take great exception to philosophies like RMS', which seem less about emphasizing a particular set of virtues (freedom, openness, sharing, etc.) and much more about demonizing something else. RMS' life goal is not to promote free software, it's to destroy proprietary software. Do what you do because you love something, not because you hate the opposite of that thing. That always leads down very unfruitful paths, including casting everything in binary terms and thinking about things like imaginary battles and wars instead of simply doing great things in the manner that most inspires you and encourages others.
The DMCA is the policy, and the first step to following that policy is registering an agent to receive infringement notices with the copyright office. That's an actual paper filing, mailed in, with a fee.

Here's the form: http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agent.pdf

HN's, for example: http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/n/news_ycomb.pdf
How does one incorporate this into a webpage?
I've been using Tunnelbear for several months and never had a problem with SSH. Just SSHed to a couple servers to verify and had no problem.
The DOD did everything a phishing campaign does. Why isn't that illegal?
Distributed Exchange is Live P2P Trading for BTC, MSC, soon more coins
Brick is a free and open source webfont service that serves fonts in their original form for beautiful rendering and full feature sets (kerning, ligatures, etc.)

Site: http://brick.im

GitHub: https://github.com/alfredxing/brick

Usage: https://github.com/alfredxing/brick/wiki/Usage
Any functionality that provides scrolling or zooming is completely whacked with it. Google Maps, for example.
The common type of bulbs in a few years will be led lights. How much power does an led light bulb draw? Certainly less than 10W I'm guessing.
Not sure what android phone you were using, but my Nexus 4 has definitely provided an amazing android experience. Your phone must of been $50 because my latency close to none. Be smart and download apps that are trusted, not one of the thousand "flappy bird" clones that just give you ads. Also bloatware only gets on your phone if you put it there. I've removed all the carrier apps on my family's T-Mobile phones(all android). Giving permissions up? I believe I can tell apps what to use from me, just edit their permissions in the settings. Pick a phone that's reliable and then complain.
Usage is at https://github.com/alfredxing/brick/wiki/Usage
Organizing talks is now Engineering? Okay..
I have no idea whether her claim is true or not, and what the culture is like at Github. But from even reading the title, I do know one thing - Julie is about to get a lot of negative attention directed at her personally, both publicly (e.g. on Twitter) and privately (e.g. email). I don't envy what she's about to go through[0].

Ignore for a moment the company (whether it's Github, Google, or Gawker). Isn't it sad that speaking out about (perceived) harassment carries a near 100% chance of inciting exponentially more harassment?

[0] Perhaps I'll be proven wrong; I'd like to be. Unfortunately, reading the article and then the comments, that's looking less likely.
Get started with Continuous Deployment
If you read Stephen Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time" you will see that a variant on this question is what started him on the path of reasoning about black holes in the first place.

The question does not currently have a definitive answer. Although current mathematical analysis has in falling matter being dismantled at the sub-atomic level as it undergoes the tidal stresses associated with gravity. Basically if you were standing at the event horizon the pull on your feet would be several billion times the pull on your head.

The confounding factor is that if you're falling into a black hole the acceleration can get your velocity to nearly light speed, and at that velocity your perception of time slows, to the point of nearly stopping. So while people watching you fall in might see a burst of xrays as your physical being converted into energy, "you" might perceive nothing at all, simply that time stopped (which is really not something you can perceive) followed by your non-existence (which depending on your theology either has you returning you energy to the entropy of the universe or a visit with your deity and/or anti-deity if there a judgement step.)

Most theories do not currently postulate a 'far side' of a black hole, mostly because "hole" is a metaphor rather than a physical description of the object. In theory its really just a point where the numbers go out of whack because the equations have a divide by zero error there. This too is what fascinates a lot of people, the universe sets up this problem where it gets to divide by zero. A bit of calculus, a bit of fudging with infinities of both the positive and negative variety, and your guess is as good as anyone else's at this point.

Fun to think about though.
Those are inapt comparisons. How about this: I go to Costco and see a 24-pack of toilet paper. The price displayed is $7.99. I go to the checkout and pay $7.99 and take the toilet paper home.

I wouldn't have been able to make the purchase without having previously paid for a Costco membership, so the "true" cost of the toilet paper is more than $7.99. That said, would anyone reasonably contend with the statement "I got this toilet paper for $7.99"?

Similarly, those videos are free _for members_, in the sense that they can be used at no further cost.
It only mentions the very biggest players. While Rails is popular on HN, it doesn't surprise me that compared to PHP, ASP, and Java, it doesn't have much market share.
Amazon could raise the price of Prime by 2x and I would still keep it. I buy so much shit through Amazon. I kinda wish I could spread my dollars out among more online retailers, but Amazon and Newegg are the only ones (based on lots of experience) who I can trust on the shipping front. If they say the package is going to be there on day XYZ, there is a 99.999% chance (in my experience) of it appearing on day XYZ. Of course this only applies when bought from them directly (or if 'fulfilled by Amazon', I try to avoid the 3rd party sellers who don't fulfill through Amazon as much as any other store I can't trust to get shipping right).

Every other retailer I've dealt with online will do stupid shit like allow me to pay for 2 day shipping and then send the package out 3 days after I order it.

Nail completely consistent and predictable shipping and I might buy stuff from you, otherwise you're at best 4th in line behind Amazon, Newegg and every brick and mortar store within 20 miles.
This shows why it is best to ignore women's complaining from the start.

Github has bent over backwards for Horvath, and it only fueled and enabled her delusions.

This "gender based harassment" was most likely someone disagreeing with her that Github did not need to be feminism 24x7.
The fact that feminists still rally behind Adria discredits the movement.

Meanwhile, all sane male engineers will be walking the other way when they see Adria at a tech conference.
I posted from my laptop and used Aurora (Firefox) running on Ubuntu so... technically, yes but in a rather unsatisfying way.
I think Amazon needs to get into the delivery business soon.

Planet Money (an NPR show) created a t-shirt for fans and broke down the cost of each shirt. The biggest line item was shipping the finished shirts to customers.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/12/13/250747279/episode-...

Out of the total cost of $12.42, it cost $2.26 to ship. It cost $1.04 to accept payments. Compare these costs with the actual cost of the product: $0.60 for the cotton, $0.40 to spin the cotton into yarn, $1.00 for sewing.

It seems unlikely that Amazon as it exists today will ever rival Walmart in volume and price since they avoid these last-mile delivery costs.

Amazon should take on FedEx and UPS and try to disrupt the industry one key city at a time. They've already started delivering groceries in Seattle, so perhaps that's the first step to Amazon Delivery Service.
What kind of Android device did you have? What version of Android was it running?
I'm interested to know why are you a subscriber of Netflix if you think Amazon has similar streaming catalog? Do you think what Netflix has extra is worth paying $10/mo for?

I use an Apple TV. I'm a Netflix subscriber and use iTunes like you use Amazon (for the paid streaming catalog). I think Marco is in the same situation - and why I would rather pay less for Amazon Prime than to have video included.
There's HN which is MIT licensed.

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=HN&fdid=com....

And HN Droid which is "unlicensed."

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=HN&fdid=com....
I think it would be amazing if there was a constitutional amendment forcing all government information to be disclosed within an extremely short period. Someone sues the NYPD, the amendment gets incorporated, bada bing, bada boom, government transparency.
I am sorry, you are probably right. Then my words are for the product owners!
Status is irrelevant, but arguments are relevant.
Oh, that's cool. It makes GAE a lot more appealing.
Indeed... everything you posted is the exact opposite of my experience with stock Nexus 5 and my non-techie friends with their S5's and Galaxy Notes.
So, $/views isn't a simple calculation because it depends on the quality of traffic. Basically I just look at my adsense account every day and divvy that between users.
Women not being harassed at the workplace is an entirely possible goal. Meritocracy is impossible.

The very first question that comes into play is "who defines and measures merit?" Consider another failed opportunity at 'meritocracy': eugenics. It was once believed that we could determine some kind of 'genetic quality' and, well, have a meritocracy in human breeding, in a way. Turns out that whole idea is totally broken. At one point in time, people thought IQ was a reasonable way to measure merit. Turns out that it's not.

"Women (and others) do not feel unsafe in their work environment" is reasonably quantifiable, and someday, achievable. 'Merit' is not.
If he can't provide good arguments then his opinion is all but irrelevant.
"They want to lock everyone into everything. Just like everyone else. And we’re all worse off for it."

dat. every company mankind has produced. every ruler, too. Meh.
Wine will just translate the DirectX calls to OpenGL.
Don't we need to also ensure that the information isn't tempered as well?
http://hn.algolia.com/api
Is there a 1-click deploy for a VPN on DigitalOcean that just works? SSTP prefered.
I mentioned one reason above. The Apache developers are far from incompetent, and all the changes in Apache since 1.3 have been because somebody (usually a lot of people) needed or wanted those changes.

In most things I agree with you; I use vim, bash, shell scripts for automation, Perl, etc. All things that get the ancient vs. modern argument used against them...but, when it comes to software security old nearly always means "exploitable". Since Apache 1.3 became EOL in 2010, OpenBSD developers have been solely responsible for finding and fixing 1.3 security issues. That's a lot of work. If I were responsible for Apache packages (and I am; we ship a custom build of Apache for some of our supported operating systems in Virtualmin repos), I would want to leverage the knowledge and efforts of the people who primarily work on Apache.

To continue...

There have been major architectural changes in Apache from 1.3 to 2.x. Performance on a number of use cases has nearly doubled in those 15 years, for example.

Modern web standards are more widely supported by recent versions, as well, either through modules or core HTTP protocol support changes. Wanna use SPDY? Yeah...gotta have 2.x.

A ton of security and QoS oriented capabilities are also "new" in 2.x. Given OpenBSDs security focus, I believe tools to help prevent exploits and DoS of web apps should also be considered...not just whether the web server has any directly exploitable bugs. Very few people are just serving flat files with their web server today. The code interacting with clients is often mostly in Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, etc. Those are as much potential attack vectors as the web server itself, and 2.x has better tools for managing that risk.
Something something signing gems.

It's a good idea, but wow, super thin on documentation.
You can't replace something that doesn't exist. ;)

If your question is "what is the best way to organize a workplace," well, there are a ton of answers. But it's been repeatedly demonstrated that trying to do it based on some kind of 'merit' system leads to gaming the system, and does not actually reflect any sort of 'merit' whatsoever, while the 'fact' that the system is based on merit is used to reinforce those at the top of the pile at the expense of those at the bottom.
A. There are only two impossibly simplistic solutions to the problem.

Can you think of a solution that doesn't fall into either of the categories I suggested?

B. Neither of them are workable in practice, so clearly the problem is intractable.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Many of them have conducted research and published on the topic.

This is exactly what you would expect when there's an illegal but obviously workable solution. Nobody ever got a job for saying "let companies hire whomever they please", so researchers have an incentive to make the impossible solution seem possible—if only we would listen to (and fund the research of) people like them. The results simply involve increasingly complicated ways of purging (or converting) assholes.
It may be closer to what is sometimes called the "Whole Product"[1]. In either case, what he's talking about isn't really anything new. And it's not necessarily good for anybody involved either. There are a lot of people, for example, who don't want "Apple style end to end integration" if it means being tied to Apple for everything.

A customer who truly wants "best in class" up and down the stack still wants suppliers to adhere to something somewhat akin to the "Unix philosophy" or the idea of "small pieces, loosely joined".

This "whole product", "full stack", "vertical integration" stuff has a role to play for sure, but let's not pretend like it's some earth shatteringly new strategic idea, or the be all end all.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_product