skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time he was viewed as critical to the project. They indulged him. A very steady stream of very good devs leaving the company occurred because of such invented rules and irrational behaviour. He was a truly great dev, but a fairly insane architect and gatekeeper.
Here's another take on a custom keyboard: http://blog.keyboard.io/
It's certainly not a catch-all, but it can help. It strikes me as the very least you can do. And there are other measures you can take, like having a neighbour (or hell, if you're actually doing it legally, your super) keep an eye on things.

The point is simply that if you abdicate all effort to ensure your house is kept well to a corporation that barely knows either of you are people, you're more likely to get this stuff happening. No one makes anyone be an airbnb host.

And if you met a potential guest and thought they might be planning to host an orgy in your house as soon as you left, I'm gonna say you might want to risk getting kicked off airbnb rather than risk having your house trashed. That's just me, though.
Right. This is my point. In ten years, working across three or four continents, and many countries, I have never actually seen this 'need'.
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Please don't bring politics into HN. Sigh

P.S. You need read the article, "Lungescu noted the statement by "a group of hacktivists" but said that, due to the complexities involved in attributing the attacks, NATO would not speculate about who was responsible or their motives."
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If I access Google using and European IP it will show the Google page for the Country I am in, regardless of my accept-language

(I don't have an accept-language for Dutch, Italian, German, French but in all these cases I was shown the local page)
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VR worlds are the ultimate skeuomorphism, yes.
Otherwise, why did you put it there?

Because I am not going to discount a skill someone might find valuable, even if it's only by oft-repeated social wisdom and never borne out in practice.

Your argument is true in the sense that it's impossible to disprove. However, it's pretty weak. Generally, if someone hires you with an interest in your language skills, they will at least mention it in the interview.
This looks bad:

S = (H.dot(beta) - r).T.dot(inv(H.dot(V).dot(H.T))).dot(H.dot(beta) - r)

but this:

S = (( (H) .dot (beta) - (r) ).T) .dot (inv( (H) .dot (V) .dot ((H).T) )) .dot ( (H) .dot (beta) - (r) )

is close enough to:

S = (H @ beta - r).T @ inv(H @ V @ H.T) @ (H @ beta - r)

although bit less readable due to being bit longer.
Hmm. I suppose that's a disadvantage of having a less formal code-review process, compared to one in which the reverter would have to specify a reason for each reversion, making it easier to detect spurious reversions.
Seems interesting, will definitelly use this coin
Sock-puppet accounts are hard to prevent. If you employ an entire army to influence social media and news comments, it can be a powerful force.

Unfortunately, the superpowers have been doing it for a while.
Google may shut it down, but it won't throw away the data. Nobody would do this.
it does in some sense. look up merged mining. however putting namecoin into bitcoin would have implied major changes for bitcoin (much larger blockchain for instance). because namecoin is barely used such an integration would have made not much sense.
Ouch, right in the faith in humanity >_<

Thanks for the info though :)
There are two sides two every story. The average HN reader is very likely to be in an echo chamber that by its own nature as well as by controlled intervention spins a view against the Russian position. As am I. Certain things feel so obvious to me and seemingly everyone else, I can't help being suspicious. Of course the same is true for the other side.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 -> 112866 ms

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.117 Safari/537.36 -> 111761 ms

Chrome wins, though I was cheering to Firefox.
It would be nice if the US/EU sanctions against Soviet includes cutting them of the net. 99.99999% of everything thats comes over the wire from Russia is just crap anyway.
Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of good Russians out there, but if you're a good Russian you don't stay in Russia.
silicon valley found out about it. several tweets of major figures last week.
My comment may appear incredibly naive, I'm sorry about that.

But I wonder if this gray zone is not simply the symptom of massive loneliness.

I often say to friends that I'm surprised how much, when I'm in a relationship, I see all (other) women as men. Even when other women try to engage me into seduction play, it just makes me laugh or mocking them, just like I would with men (providing they know I'm with someone, of course, or else I try to be less rude).

This gray zone seems to me like people are incredibly lonely and craving for sexual activity, and I think we can spot that in our societies way beyond those "sexism at work" problems (the "dating" thing where you meet people you hardly know, "social" activities like facebook, etc).

It could be also a thing for people that are prone to cheat, but I can't think it's a majority of people.
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As someone who makes every effort to appear so under-educated, I'd think you of all people would not like to be judged on pure merit. On the other hand, you claimed to think that a juvenile carpet flaunting a very well known political parody as an actual ideal (and not ironically, mind you) was "cool", so I'm not sure what's real and what's a joke any more. If you were being sarcastic, please forgive me for not getting that, but issues such as this are quite serious, so I sometimes miss humor in comments.

If, like me, you thought that carpet was funny because GitHub mistook a parody for real life, then I'm sorry for the misunderstanding.
I can't believe that no one has spotted that she is exactly the same annoying feminist that forced the company to get rid of a rug because it used the term "meritocracy".
http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug#awesm...
Tbfh, she sounds like Adria Richards v2.0
> I'm pretty sure Google search, for instance, has had a huge impact on humanity.

Actually, I am not so sure about this. Sure, it's convenient and saves time, but I wouldn't call it "a huge impact on humanity". It has been more than ten years since it has been around, and I haven't noticed a massive change. I would say, it appears to me that people are more connected, and slightly more aware of the news, which is due to a conjunction of the massive penetration of Internet, the social networks, and the improvement of the search. Google has an important part for sure, but again, for me it's not "a huge impact on humanity", like would be, say, the colonization of Mars or the end of the poverty (where Google search may or may not play a role).
GP asked the converse.
Please stop writing such sexist nonsense. You are part of the problem here.
Google? Evil? You have no idea
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The comment is earnest. The fact that people on HN make similar comments and believe what they say is proof that sexism is a problem.

It's also why people flag submissions like this - the comments are full of vile hateful idiocy.
Just don't forget that there is propaganda from both sides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKU6fKhYpYw
From the account, he wasn't just not "taking charge in both his workplace and his home", but he was conspiring with his wife to actually undertake these actions, at least at the beginning. It doesn't even need to have these undertones of "the man needed to keep his woman in line". Github is a business, the office is a place of work. If you're not an employee, or a prospective employee, you don't belong past the lobby.
Was it that way before you worked on the code? If so" that's perfectly reasonable.
I think the scenario would be caos. Lots of governments have invested in this, if you suddenly make a "erase and reset" I expect a really financial caos.

Then, probably a very big regression in terms of technology: no data, no services. We have to start gathering them all over again. To exemplify: no Google Maps, no Weather data, phone directories, etc. Think all these things we must gather again.

Assuming what's installed on personal computers is not erased as well, we have a pretty serious dilema in front.

In this escenario, I suspect companies would start over, and everyone will fight to be the first Google, building all those technologies that were successful for the company. And so on.
Yes, I am aware of merged mining. While that adds some incentive for miners to mine for namecoins, it's still optional, so it won't help namecoin much unless a lot of people opt-in.

Technically, why not piggy-back namecoin on bitcoin. As far as I know there's some kind of 'comment' field in the transaction where you can put arbitrary data.
That's a nice sentiment but do you think your wife or their new beaus feel similarly?

What exactly is the value of the "social graph" if it is never applied by the one company in the prime position to do so?
Isn't that how I used it?
keep pumping it op
I have blogged about this several times. Google are one of the worst offenders. I'm not sure if it is insular non-travelled US developers with a deep love of IP-to-geolication databases, or an anally retentive legal department, but it really sucks as a user experience.

From an advertising perspective this is a major market that is being overlooked, because guess what, I don't look at ads that much, but you can bet your bottom advertising dollar that I'm definitely not going to read it in a language that isn't my mother tongue.

IP address != language preference

It is about time that developers got that through their thick skulls.

Finally, over here in Europe we can live in whichever EU country we want to. This means that we can move countries easily. I've already been in four of them. I don't think I'm an edge case by any means. People migrate.
Why not Sender and Receiver? TX and RX are obviously equivalent, but i take it there are downsides that I'm missing?
And it was tangentially relevant.
It's based on the reception of the pings at the IMMARSAT geosync satellite. Look at a picture, e.g., here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MH370_last_ping_corridors....

The "corridors" are actually geometrically symmetrical arcs as you suspect, somewhere around which it's believed the plane traveled until the pings stopped, presumably because the engines stopped running.
That rug was ridiculous.
If I found out that a manager was undermining me in this
way, I'd strike back and it probably wouldn't be good for
me or him.

Allow me to clarify: Before you make a threat (such as to fire someone) you need to make sure the threat is credible.

This is for exactly the reason you say: If you openly try but fail to get rid of someone, they may take it personally and try to "fuck up your shit".

If there's someone who can stop your threat (e.g. the employee is buddies with your boss) you go to that someone, lay out the problem and what you see as the options for solving it, and ask them for their advice. This advice will either be "go ahead" or "I'll take care of it"; in the latter case you should allow some time for them to take care of it.
Yeah. Look Back isn't a compilation of your current life. It's about the last few years of your life on FB. Of course it includes ex-girlfriends.
If the money supply is fixed, then people will have a harder time acquiring namecoin after all the namecoin is generated. People will have to buy it, and since it's a scarce resource, it may become extremely expensive. Especially if namecoin exploded in popularity.

I suppose if it becomes expensive then the namecoin admins could lower the cost of database inserts/updates. But it seems like that would prompt the price per namecoin to rise accordingly, because the value of namecoin is a single database insert or update.
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I wonder if there is an easy of downloading this and OCRing it. I would love to use this as training material for some ML algos.
To avoid such problems in Rack/Rails Ruby project I suggest the rack-i18n_best_langs gem (regardless of the name, it does not depend on the i18n gem) I wrote:

https://github.com/gioele/rack-i18n_best_langs

> Differently from other similar Rack middleware components, rack-i18n_best_langs returns a list of languages in order of guessed importance, not a single language.

> Language discovery is done using three clues:

> * the presences of language tags in paths (e.g. /service/warranty/ita),

> * the content of the HTTP Accept-Language header,

> * the content of the rack.i18n_best_langs cookie when set.
wow, thanks for posting this. throws some cold water on the situation.

not saying she is right or wrong about how things went down with the founder's wife etc.

but she clearly is insane.
From what I've heard and seen: £60,000 and above is a decent salary if you're a mid tier developer in London.

Working at a start up should also mean you get some equity in the company but that depends on how early stage they are.
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Bye bye Brazil
I think it's obvious that it's good to "get things right" as much as possible before deciding to limit further changes.

However, at some point it needs to be realized that perfection will never be achieved. This is especially true for a programming language that aims to be a "practical language" (as it prominently states on its web page). Practicality requires usability. Usability requires stability.

We keep hearing about how Rust 1.0 is supposedly going to be released sometime later this year. Yet instead of seeing things stabilize, we're still seeing breaking changes like the one mentioned here. It starts to make some people skeptical about when Rust will actually be seriously usable.
I wonder if they financial benefit they gained from keeping him around was greater than the financial loss due to continuously losing good devs...
In summary: you are an idiot.

This kind of comment does not belong here. Please remember, this is not Slashdot or Reddit. We try to keep the level of discourse a little higher here at HN.
I'd really like to see user-defined infix operators such as those in Haskell. There are some baked into the standard library (*+-/ etc), but you can also roll your own, so people could make do until this gets accepted.
Well, the Adword value of your visit is considerably higher in the primary language of your location.
Let's post it on whatif.xkcd.com :).
My takeaway is that the most important aspect is process. Conservative or progressive may be less important (although it is probably easier to come up with a conservative process that is workable, simply because that's where the hive-mind will be). But if you don't even have documented process, you won't even be able to know where the problems really are when they arise.
The bitcoin protocol is an extremely important advancement as it solved the double spending[1] problem and can be used for all sorts of interesting community and business applications. Especially for systems used by organizations (e.g. DNS) that need to be public, uncensored and accessible from everyone (institutions, countries and individuals).

Here are just a few ideas: http://www.convalesco.org/#31

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Double-spending
Good spot (I missed it).

I spelled it in consistency with everything else in the source code at that time... US English. It was a British company, and I understood that the UI should be UK English, but did not comprehend/believe that variables should be too. Especially as one can't force CSS to stop calling it color.
What's the business justification for using "dialog" when the project leader(s) have requested "dialogue", however?
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iPhone 5 - 7.0.6 - Safari: 144036 ms

Motorola Moto G - 4.4.2 XT1032 - Chrome 33: 157173 ms

Nexus 4 - 4.4.2 - Chrome 34: 169032 ms

Nexus 4 - 4.4.2 - Opera 20: 163980 ms

Nexus 3 - 4.3 - Chrome 33: 175682 ms

Nexus 4 - 4.4.2 - Firefox 28: 262957 ms

Nexus 4 - 4.4.2 - Opera Classic 12.1: I gave up :)
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>If programmers with a Y-chromosome are exponentially less likely to either sue us or get us labelled sexist jerks in the press, then that's who we're hiring.

One for @shit_hn_says
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Before I answer this, let me state that I'm a tactician, not a judge or a god. I don't know who's right and wrong in this mess, nor who's good and who's bad.

Can someone explain how does one gets a job after inflicting so much public damage on his previous workplace?

It's hard. She may need a professional to rework her public image (even if her account is 100% accurate) and she'll want to settle for positive reference (i.e. not sue Github, agree to a non-disparagement contract in which they publicly state that she was an excellent employee, and that they've terminated all responsible parties-- if the truth is that no one did anything wrong, then they don't terminate anyone and that statement's vacuously true). She might want to brand herself as an authority on workplace harassment and on what light-management cultures need to do to protect themselves from bullying, and maybe consult for a little while on how to make tech companies more accepting of women. All the while, she'll have to paint a positive image of Github, even if she dislikes the place (and may have a reason to). It'll probably be 4-5 years before she can get conventional employment at an appropriate professional level.

At this point, she's made some serious tactical mistakes. For example, mentioning the hula nonincident dilutes/weakens her case dramatically. The bit about the founder's wife (if true) is utterly damning. The hula hoop? People stare at anything out of the ordinary. If it were men flying quadcopters, there'd be a group of people hanging to watch. Not sexist. When you take a story of someone (or a company) doing bad and flower it with irrelevant petty insults (they employ guys who stare at women!) it actually undermines the case that one is trying to make.

If she can get Github to come out with a public story that makes her look good but also saves its face, that's what she wants. She shouldn't play for cash IMO. Considering taxes, attorney contingency, and the high risk that she doesn't get anything, she's better off putting her energy into getting her reputation fixed. Reputation repair and lawsuits are both exhausting processes that may conflict and certainly compete for one's time and energy, and so it's hard to do both.
What do you mean? What did I say that is either "vile and hateful" or "proves sexism is a problem"?
This will get me downvoted, but: some women are just crazy. Some men, too, of course.

I know it's shocking if something like the door thing happens to you, but I wouldn't assume it reflects the general attitude of women.
in the original thread, which I linked above, this possibility was discussed. however it would have meant tying bitcoin to a project which has a lot of uncertainty and is not the core use case. miners/stakeholders have to agree with (major) changes so it's up to them making decisions. so the devs are really very much constrained to the original design. how this will play out is not quite clear. advanced features (payment protocol) are pending for quite a while.
technically the integration is easy to do. the namecoin source has very few original lines of code. it is rather a question of consensus I think. Mike Hearn discussed this here: https://medium.com/p/b64cf5912aa7 "It’s not a bad idea, but it’s not practical for our needs right now because it has no users. "
Eh, these formal review processes with 0 outside discussion can REALLY hose you though if you have the pay scale at some tier off. You'll basically force that tier to leave to get the compensation they deserve. And when the economy in that area opens up, it will not necessarily just be one person who leaves at that time.
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It's not disrespecting people to consider them attractive.
- Obtain enough computing capacity

- Stay within the electrical power limits of our data centers

Somehow it feels like the world is so backwards. Here you have all these smart hard working people with billions of dollars of resources at their disposal and they made a load of kooky videos that people could 'like'.

The videos I'm sure are cool, and I realise that it was quite an achievement, but still, our priorities as a Hunan race are pretty much fucked up.
Wow. Those are some strong allegations for someone who admits they are completely unfounded.
Astroturf everywhere.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2903802...
Replace people with robots.

I'm only partially joking.
I really hope Dodgecoin turns into a Ponzi scheme for philanthropic deeds. :)
I don't get that behavior in Firefox. I have 'en-US' and 'en' as my preferred languages (in that order), set via Preferences->Content->Languages. But when I go to google.com in incognito, I get google.dk in Danish.

I guess English is preferred here commonly enough that it's at least listed as one of the two alternate google.dk languages in an easy-to-find place under the search box, along with Faroese. "Google.dk på: Føroyskt English". And if you click "English" it stays with it for the session. No luck if you wanted something else like German, though.
Wow, what an absolute train wreck. I've only worked for medium and large companies with a borderline fantasy of hacking on a startup at some point. Seeing the dark side of what happens when you rip out the bigco controls that people tend to dislike really makes me think twice though. Sounds like you just wind up with an out of control frat house.
> This can look like "victim-blaming", but it's really more-than-anything a yearning for people to keep their standards of evidence high, and to avoid jumping to conclusions.

That really depends, now, doesn't it, on what the subject is? :) HackerNews seems, in general, to have a very low standard of evidence for things like "the NSA is doing something evil", and tends to be quite credulous on such things. It seems to have a very, very, _very_ high standard of evidence for "bigotry exists" though.
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What's the best way to translate a meeting with one executive complaining about the behaviour of another executive into a meeting with both executives? Even if you schedule the meeting, aren't you admitting that you can be swayed by the influence of the first executive whispering in your ear?
My point is that you should never threaten to fire someone. Once the decision is made, you should do it.

Yes, this means you'll have to pay a severance because there is no paper trail. A typical severance (enough to cover the expected length of a job search) is a small cost, considering what you're getting in the deal: non-litigation, non-disparagement, minimal drama, and the employee moved out the same day.
It makes sense to question the company's structure/policy/organization if it allows destructive behavior to run wild.
Lets add brain computer interface and Oculus Rift to get Matrix 0.1.

I am a bit worried about the efficiency of using "internet 2.0" instead of today's internet.

Imagine controlling your character to find that video, you cannot recall the name of on some video server. In 3D.

Although it sounds like a very tasty project to work on.
Useless in the this case, because the fuckwits sounded like the founders/founders wife/
What are the priorities of the Hunan race?