skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem isn't sexism. It's corruption, and it's all throughout business. Most of "business" has nothing to do with discounted cash flows or customer needs or building new products, but about leveraging the emotional vulnerabilities and drives of corrupt humans with more power than they deserve. That's 95% of it. That's why more is learned in MBA school at the bar than in the courses.

Aside: the above also explains why being a non-drinker (like me, for health reasons) impedes your career. When you get sloshed, you see a much wider range of human behavior (some people hitting their worst) and you learn things that are otherwise impossible to learn about guarded, intelligent, 25+ year-old people with a lot to lose. You can read about that stuff (how to negotiate enormous deals with irrational humans) in books; or you can get hammered with 10 other people and interact with it, on a smaller scale where the points (unless you get severely fucked up in a bar fight) mostly don't matter.

The problem is that most of the work isn't hard, and doesn't require talented people. If the work is legitimately hard (i.e. someone might fail) that's viewed as a management failure. This means that anyone can be "groomed" to appear as a leader and as a success, which means that the whole process is already (justifiably) under suspicion. Ergo, the promotion of a woman (even if she's the most talented, because it's impossible to tell in most cases) raises doubts. People assume she was mentored because she was female and pretty, and not because she had the most potential. It's wrong, but you can expect those kinds of attacks in a system where everyone already knows that corruption is the norm. People will use whatever they have to discredit someone who rose faster than they did: female and pretty, boss's son, "had something" (i.e. extorted his way into the sun). It doesn't have to be true.

The sexism battle here is a minor one, really, in the much grander theater of corporate dysfunction. What's more obvious is that the corporate world is not a meritocracy. Most people are forced to work 3 levels below their ability and become deeply resentful, and anyone who gets promoted on potential is immediately thrown into suspicion.

The sad thing is that the companies that were coming closest to fixing this are the ones prominently using open allocation: Valve and Github, the latter now under attack. (To make it clear, I'm not taking sides because it's pretty clear that almost none of us have any real information at this point.) With managerial power being a major source of corruption in the past, it seems wise to get rid of it. But it's also clear that getting rid of all management functions is a non-starter. Even if you do everything right in a no-management company, people will distrust you (was HR asleep on this? you mean there was no HR?) as soon anything goes wrong.
Given her history of leaking company matters and trivia in such a detailed way to a public blog like tech crunch, any company hiring her next is taking a big chance.

The things that seem to have happened in this case happen all the time, everywhere.
And the sad thing is, I fear that other start ups read this story and now associate even more potential risk with hiring a woman.
Your analysis is overly scenario dependent. If someone is determined to take out a transformer they'd breach the wall or go over it. Or perhaps, staying outside the wall, cover it in a cloud of carbon fibers, we have warheads that release those instead of using a pure explosive charge to take out electrical installations like these.
> But that is exactly the problem, your support of it (even if mostly implicit by merely being present, is made explicit when you laugh along with the sexist jokes or nod in agreement) is what perpetuates your male privilege.

The choice, for me and him and maybe other people (men included) is very simple: we can either accept reality, conform to the "old boy's club" (you call that "supporting it"), and progress in our careers, or fight moral battles we cannot win and stagnate professionally or even be fired. It's easy to take the moral high ground from a position of power, but from a position of a young male, it's not very wise.

Personally, I find that all great employees I've worked with have also been great people, so I haven't had this problem myself. But I think that your position is not the most reasonable.
Hotels constantly deal with their rooms being a location for prostitution, drug dealing, porn films, and so on.

People who lend out their personal property are constantly lending it to people who are rude, lying, and destroy it -- often causing them great harm and psychological damages.

I'm not sure what part of this is AirBnB's problem. It's like blaming GMail for letting you meet that nice kid online who borrowed your car and then totaled it. Huh?

Now if the author had made some extended argument that AirBnB was somehow guaranteeing his property's safety? Might make a little more sense. But AirBnB isn't an insurance company, or a private security service. The most I'd expect from them would be 1) solid identification on who the person is looking for the room, and 2) dependable (non-fake) reviews from previous experiences.

You have to remember that even people who are great borrowers-of-things will, on occasion, really screw the pooch. You can go for ten years being the pillar of the community and then lose it all on a month-long drug binge. It happens. So I don't think you're ever going to get rid of the occasional bad experience. It would be interesting to see if something evolves in this area, perhaps an insurance policy or city-wide micro-term security service.
I'm not sure if that's meant to be "quit" or "quiet", but either works because upon becoming inanimate you're unlikely to do or say anything. b^)
Live Android Class in Bahasa Indonesia on Hangout Air happening now
> In addition, instead of window managers get 2 or 3 smaller high resolution screens.

Disclaimer: I haven't used a 4k display.)
It seems to me that unless you have a decent window manager, working on a 4k display will bring it's own set of (small) productivity hurdles. For example, Windows 7's DWM without any additional software works Well Enough on two/three smaller monitors, but how usable is it at 4k resolutions? Do you have to spend tons of time dragging windows around?
>But you want the air to be warm, not the walls.

No, you don't. Heating the structure is far more efficient, allows for proper ventilation, and is far more comfortable for the inhabitants.

>Also, passive houses do have proper ventilation:

Yes, but this is not a passive house, that's the point. This is just an airtight box of insulation. They have the least amount of ventilation allowed by code. The air quality in such houses is terrible, and they are very uncomfortable to live in.

>Without tricks like that, you'll have a hard time getting below 15 kWh/m² per year.

You can very easily get to 0 without "tricks" like that. South facing windows + thermal mass.
Do you leed an agile lifestyle?
Does you apply agile best practices to your daily life to help plan/manage you and your family? If so, which agile method(s) do you implement? Or have you devised a new one?
Indeed, and sometimes strange things happen:

ssh tunnel from Australia to server located in California. Geo IP tool [1] reports it's in Fremont, CA. But Google assigns Taiwanese locale..

Outdated/erroneous geolocation database? or did I take a wrong turn somewhere ;-)

[1] http://www.geoiptool.com
elementary OS, an Ubuntu based GNU/Linux distribution.
We use bala for the programming language which is very similar to C# but compiles to C.

Most of the contributers are students including me and we have a very welcoming environment.

Just drop I'm #elementary-Dev introduce yourself and join the effort.
Most of the changes now are to refining and fleshing out library APIs. The RFC process is also being refined to make more significant changes more disciplined as the language moves towards 1.0: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2014-March/00897...
accept-language is like any of 1000 other idealistic parts of Internet specs that has good intentions but is so poorly used (or misused) that almost no-one implements it correctly, instead simply doing the simplest thing that works best for 99% of the audience.
Violating the law doesn't automatically violate any random contracts you have entered into.
> Using EC2 for the purpose, deleting all vids afterwards

Facebook content isn't expected to disappear at some later point in time.
Is there a way to download all of it?
The reasoning goes like this:

"Meritocracy is all well and good as a theory. It's all about who decides what merit is. If it's a privileged group of people who decide the merit, then it's going to be biased. Thus championing meritocracy in this organisation means upholding a hierarchy which is unfair, biased and oppressive to those outside of the people at the top".

In other words, meritocracy = an aristocracy of white males, where if you do good according to white male values you progress. Therefore meritocracy is not progression based on good work.

In a less gender explanation - removing the rug equated to a statement of a lack of trust in the employers. The employers agreed to it being removed in an attempt to gather back some of that trust.

What the whole issue ignores is that the rug was about the platform - meritocracy - because all people see is code, where the better projects get the more stars. Now there is a valid argument here that popularity doesn't equal merit - but it does not negate the concept of meritocracy.

Anyhow, I'm just the messenger - I think that there are some serious problems with this reasoning. It's horrible to twist something good to something bad.
To be talked about as more than a misspelling of "human."
This is the best option.

"It looks like you are in Japan, but your computer's language is set to English. Which language would you prefer? [English][日本語]"
What's the point? Presumably they make similar announcements for many new hires, although I have to wonder if those are illustrated by such pore-stretchingly enormous head photos.
Now the question is what kind of slippage the seller of all those dogecoins will experience. I'm not sure how big the market depth for dogecoins is on the buy side.
An impressive engineering task, for sure. But this shows how far we are from the fundamental ideas of the internet and the web, and instead fall back to the good ol' feudalism.
The (most?) interesting part of this was the final 14,000,000 donation came from someone going by "savethemhood". They claim...

I take from the greedy to feed and blanket the poor.
I'm here today because I believe we are aligned.
I'm here to redistribute millions of Doge, from the
greedy, to you.

They appear to be (unconfirmed) responsible for theft of fiat and is converting it to dogecoin to "help" people. They also gave out 10,000 Doge to any redditor that asked for it. Here's their reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/20idcv/my_name_is_...
Well, I like to keep decent ratios (usually 3), which would keep my asymmetric home connection too busy - whereas my cheap VPS can do 1Gpbs (burst). And in my experience, the Pi doesn't handle well heavy random IO over the USB/ethernet bus - I had downloads with 20-40% of blocks corrupted upon verification.

And of course, while I don't consider it a problem where I live, removing the torrenting from your connection to a VPS in the Netherlands reduces the chances of having legal problems.

And the VPS isn't a dedicated seedbox - I'd still use it for my email server (Spamhaus' PBL prevents me from sending from my home connection), Tiny Tiny RSS hosting, website hosting, etc.
If AirBnB would like to formally institute a policy of "haha, WTF were you thinking letting us send people from the internet to stay in your house?", then they should be wholly unsurprised when numerous government bodies shut down their business completely. Soon.
This community is amazing. Not their first charitable donation and certainly not their last. It will be interesting to see in a few years what 40,000,000 Dogecoin will equate to in USD. Then looking back this will be unbelievably epic.

Congratulations to everyone who donated! Huge accomplishment!
> We should assume she is being truthful and accurate unless there is a reason to doubt her.

I come from a different school of thought. Firstly she only mentions a few people but the entire company and an entire industry are being brought into question.

Generally I have found what has been echoed by TechCrunch to be lacking in details and specifically from one persons point of view which shows a very self indulged narrative.

My response is not to suggest it did not happen, but given what has been said, how it has been said, and whom it is being said about, I suggest that before we tar people in such a way that more evidence should be presented.
I've noticed people having varying opinions based on varying pieces of information and misinformation.

But what I've also noticed is these blatantly populist comments like yours that attempt to preemptively discredit any pro-Russian opinion by blaming it all on Putin propaganda in a very handwavey fashion... Props to you for for stepping up the sophistication level by also including the possibility that it could also be attributed to "knee jerk contrarianism."

I don't think anyone is naive enough to believe that Russia doesn't have a propaganda machine at tries to protect its very pragmatic if unpopular interests. The difference between now and maybe 10-20 years ago is that more and more people aren't naive enough to think that they are only ones.
I agree that "one is too many" is unreasonable, if by "one" we mean "one person's house was violated". If we mean "one person's house was violated and AirBnB did nothing about it", then, no, I think that's fairly reasonable.

Either it happens often enough that AirBnB needs to be regulated or it's rare enough to chalk up to unpredictable freak events, in which case they ought to bend over backwards to spend the little bit of money to make people whole again.
This would be around 4% of the daily exchange I think. A water drop.
I'd probably ask for a go on the hula-hoop.
Reverting someone's commits "silently" (inasmuch as you can do anything silently in git!) is any of those? That's interesting, because my commits were once "silently" reverted at a previous workplace and then when I queried it, it was explained that I was the one in the wrong.

Because I had made a commit without discussing it first and without understanding what I was doing.

(I would have discussed it first, but the developer concerned was on holiday at the time.)

What I'm saying is, there's a possibility that it wasn't unprofessional.

Some might argue what was unprofessional at both employers (GitHub and my previous one) was not having an iron policy that all commits must be code reviewed by another person. But that's a policy issue.
Looks like the range of this car, 310mi, is the same as Tesla's Model S on a full charge [0], but according to Rimac's main Wikipedia page [1] the range is 600km (~373mi).

It is more than 10x the price of the Model S though. Perhaps, with time, Rimac will become a competitor to help the electric car market become more mainstream. EDIT: I kinda doubt it, though. With a price of $980,000 that's a long way to go.

Very cool indeed.

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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimac_Automobili
D3.js, Three.js and CSS 3D Transforms
While I can't read the article (paywall, and I'm not going to break the law by circumventing it), it would take many small scale attacks to cause a "national blackout". We have 3 grids, East, West and most of Texas (which is big enough to have a stable grid and avoids a lot of hassle by not crossing state lines).

And these grids aren't like you probably envision, a good description I came across is that they're a number of ponds with small streams between them. So it would take some cleverness to affect more than one "pond", it all depends on how the grid, or a subset of it is set up. E.g. taking out a lot of California, since at least as I gather it imports so much power, would be easier than many other areas.

Or take San Francisco (please! :-). I remember after one nasty blackout then Mayor Willie Brown, who's a bit more grounded, you might say ^_^, than many area politicians, saying, well, maybe we shouldn't shut down the last power plant in the city....
Companies rarely ever hand automotive engineers, or other types of engineers for that matter, manufacturing tools. Software is fairly unique in that the engineers are actually creating or modifying the actual production products.
Erich von Manstein may or may not have been an actual Nazi. The German ( Prussian, really ) Junkers ( pr. Yoonkurss ) class - and I do mean class in a hereditary sense - would have been more dependent on an honor code than on who happened to be Chancellor at the time.

Manstein was dismissed by Hitler at one point. He helped with the plausible deniability ... thing, the "myth of a clean Wermacht"[ Wikipedia ]. That was a Useful idea in resolving the legalities of the War. Whether it was true or not is almost moot.

No, there almost certainly can't be any stats to back this up. It's barely a just-so story.

The money shot is: "Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions." This statement is roughly descriptive and barely that. But it doubtless contains some measure of wisdom. Clarity is critical. Non delusional clarity is even better.

Another corollary aphorism is "a smart man wouldn't do that; a lazy man wouldn't do that." That's a "koan" about allowing that still small voice that nags you not to do something some credence. Especially in dynamic situations, allowing a situation to run to a critical state may be better than trying to anticipate something that's too complex to map in detail.

I suppose the deeper irony of the piece is assuming away ethics as a given when the subject was imprisoned for "war crimes". This being said, that's one whale of an ethical conundrum, to have been an ostensibly Prussian military officer in those times.
Like abolishing slavery?

Seriously, you're excluding the possibility of any legitimate government taking action in the public interest.
Hmmm..... I read this slowly and I see intimidation, but it is a little short on evidence of sexism. The evidence was a perception of sexism, but very little evidence of it. How much of that was in her mind vs in actual interactions with others (unless aggressive communication regarding pull requests applied evenly to both genders is inherently sexist).

What I do see is something else though. I see a nebulous, bossless organization where the founder's wife is effectively running the political show. Call me old fashioned but that seems totally at odds with allegations of sexism.

Reading between the lines I see something else going on. "I thought I could fix X" (where X is either an organization or a person) is something that never ends well.

I hate to say this but the article did not make me sympathetic to Horvath. I have seen even in myself the tendency to try to fix an organization which was working (just in ways I didn't understand) and causing issues in the process.
I'm not saying Russia is wrong on everything, and for someone who really dislikes US lately, it makes it very hard for me to try and be on US's side on this again, but Russia really isn't making it easy for itself when the only 2 options in the referendum for Crimea secession are:

1) Would you like to join Russia now?

2) Would you like autonomy from Ukraine?

I mean, come on! Where's the "No, go away!" option? Russia isn't giving Crimea a choice. It's forcing Crimea into a choice, that's only favorable to Russia.

Russia also didn't meet its quorum in Parliament when they decided to invade Crimea, making it illegal by its own laws. So this makes it more like Putin's own quest for more power, than "protecting Russia" or "giving Russia what's theirs" (which Crimea isn't - we settled this a long time ago). You can't come after decades and say "hey, you know that land that we lost decades ago? Yeah, that's ours. Give it back!

This combined with tyrannical leaders' "egoes" are what have always made for stupid and completely unnecessary wars.
Interesting how many aggressive comments there are on the TC article page...
Diversity Educator earns $658 a week on Gittip
I just moved continents again (about a month ago) and naturally brought my desktop... sans screen. I spent a day in a large Chinese computer market and finally settled on the 27" Philips 274E (~US$290) for its thin black low-gloss bevel and perceived clarity. I do a lot of work with photos, and it doesn't disappoint at 1920x1080. Even 27" is too big for me... Amazon says the Seikis are 39"... not something I'd enjoy.

Having tried both, I also see multi-screen setups at superfluous, though useful in horrible office environments for removing distractions (people moving in the background, random cheap ceiling light glare, etc... anyone else think the window glare in the article image must be horrible?) Instead of multiple screens, I use compiz-fusion (though this seemed to be dying at last check) to spin my screen between eight separate desktop spaces ctrl+alt+left/right. I also concur with other posters that full screen terminals for meditative focus are ideal. Thankfully I just hit a single extra function button I mapped on the keyboard to spin one up, alt+enter for full screen, ctrl+plus/minus to scale text as my eyesight/subject demand at the time. Not having to use the mouse is nice. I use a wacom tablet which travels everywhere with me for 90% of my mousing tasks as I've found it to reduce finger and wrist strain from clicking.
Yep, and therefore you want to create a completely unreasonably transparent organization. That'll solve everything. (Or, at least, that's what I got from the article.)

No mention about not creating huge hierarchies in the first place, and not concentrating decisions at the top.
My initial reaction was also "you've priced your risk at less than 1 in a trillion", but then I realized this is risk per movie pirated not per person.

I still think it is way too low an estimate, but it might be closer if we assume that people who pirate movies tend to do so with thousands of movies.

But yeah, your chance of "getting caught" is way way higher than the number implied here.
The term 'lazy' here is a bit misleading. In my view it's not meant in the sense of someone who slothful, but rather someone who aims to do things as efficiently as possible.

Sticking with the military context, one of the British Army's principles of war is 'economy of effort', which I think is a better description. Effective leaders focus on the high value activities, use resources well and delegate.
I've known (and know) a few doctors in my time and my wife was a nurse for a while and the answer is... lots. However, in most cases it tends to be short lived or contained to specific episodes due to the high levels of turnover in departments and the very well defined hierarchies and processes in place.
If you disable UEFI, you need to install your system again, and you cannot use your old license to install it, at least in Win8. So you either buy another Win8. So disabling UEFI is not an option, for dual boot.
Yep.

An additional issue is that there are lots of different administrative units making the rules, so a particular set of restrictive rules won't apply 1 mile away.