skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interviewed there (didn't get an offer, but agreed with the decision, felt too limiting technically).

In practice, it's a company wide pissing match that seeks to incubate and accelerate growth for hyper-achievers with hard heads that can openly give and receive criticism. This actually works extremely well for a certain type of personality (think Type A), especially if you are early on in your career. The growth potential was why I interviewed in the first place. I'd say the most accurate summary is:

http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-bridgewater-what-emplo...

Inherently, this type of culture results in one major drawback; lack of diversity. If you need a specific type of personality in order to join a company of others who have very similar personalities, what happens to innovation? Where do new ideas come from? How do you evolve? How do you understand different markets and audiences? etc etc. The best teams I've seen have had very diverse sets of backgrounds, level of experience, and personality.

While BW has worked out much of this (being in finance helps), that was my burning thought throughout the process. My conclusion was that such a culture would be an excellent place to be for some time, but staying too long would only serve to pigeonhole you.
> from time to time planes crash over ocean and search for black boxes may take years like Air France 447 ...

Yes, and in that case, they knew within narrow limits where the plane went down -- the crew were doing what they could to let their position be known. No effort to sneak away with an airliner, as in the present case.
Please - I would like to ask all the commenters to respect the privacy and feelings of all the people affected, their loved ones, and friends. The only productive or good thing you can do is express sympathy for the victims and hope they reach an amicable resolution.

Most of you probably have no idea how some thoughtless comments on a forum can cause grief, pain and fear to intensify. Making hurtful comments, making assumptions, and taking sides does nothing to help anyone involved. It can only hurt someone, and is completely unnecessary (other than for sating a debased wish to feed on the suffering of others). Whatever happens does not concern you and will not be affected by you in any positive way.

So, pretty please, for the sake of all the people who are directly and indirectly affected by this story, STOP. SPECULATING.
I try to avoid these topics, but it's almost sad to see how easily you've all rushed to her side. It seems the magic word of the 2010s is "sexism": utter that word, and people will defend you no matter how little evidence there is, no matter how full of shit you are -- assuming, of course, you are a female.

Is what she described accurate? Maybe so, maybe not. No one fucking knows, and that is the point. Stop being assholes about it until someone, if anyone, has been proven to have done wrong. It's not uncommon for someone to feel sourgrapes about a situation and use "sexism" as a way to manipulate it in their favor. Most of you act like that isn't even a fucking possibility.
Thanks for this update and clarification.
I don't think it's a "sexual threat." I think it's more that we're only a couple of decades out (less in some places) from office women mostly being for typing and for looking at. Women being watched hula-hooping just feels regressive.
If you're interested in learning more about digital art like this, here's a website I remember reading in a college class: https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Medi...

It references Jodi as well.
The sad thing about Popcorn Time is the way it shows how little people actually care about AV quality. One of the biggest reasons why I personally resort to illegal options (especially with video material) is because of the higher quality they offer compared to legal alternatives, but this aspect is not present in Popcorn Time at all since it sources all the video and audio from YIFY.

YIFY is basically a bunch of morons producing nothing but total garbage who would be better off encoding things in SD with the low bitrates they use. Sadly, since their fork is likely going to be considered the "main" one for Popcorn Time, decent AV quality will probably never be a thing with it. (I found a couple issues on various GitHub forks about this subject and ran into this image[1] which demonstrates the problem quite well.)

EDIT: Well, I guess there's some hope for the future[2]. Not holding my breath, though.

[1] https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/1736009/2426834/15aa358e-a...

[2] https://github.com/Yify/popcorn-app/issues/51
It sounds like a pretty good apoligy for something they (claim) to know nothing about.

It's hard to apologise for something specific before you know what that actually is.
Yes. Comments on the original TechCrunch article were equally vindicating even though that article offered no actual evidence. It's unfortunate TechCrunch and Valley Wag posted the story without first corroborating at least some piece of it.

GitHub's response neither confirms nor denies any part of the story. It does say the founder's wife will no longer be allowed in the office, but that is not an admission of wrongdoing nor of her ever having been in the office.

Edit: The only thing this response proves is that GitHub is taking these allegations seriously, which hopefully means there will be more information after they have time to investigate. Try not to jump to the many other conclusions already posted in HN comments.
Better written version of the story: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/9836664/Malaysian-jet-avoi...
How this usually works is someone comes up with an entirely new way of accomplishing the task. Someone young or from outside the industry who doesn't know what they're trying to accomplish is impossible.

When I look at how fast the 3D printer industry is going you never know. If you can currently print a house using concrete and in the near future print out a kidney who is to say you won't be able to make an 8086?

http://www.wimp.com/printerhouse/

http://www.livescience.com/41480-3d-printed-kidneys-take-sma...
"Descended 1500 meters, or even lower" has less substantive meaning than "descended to 1500 meters, or even lower". The same is true of the other phrase containing the 1500 metre measure. Bad construction, but I'll assume they simply left out the 'to' in both instances.
I don't think it is defeatist.

The whole point of security is risk management. You address your most common risks first, and then the less common risks later. Electrical fires are more common than hijackings, especially after you figure in airport security. Therefore in plane design you worry about electrical fires far more than you do hijackings.

Additionally this is the first incident of its kind. This is not a typical hijacking. In fact it is entirely unprecedented. For this reason it is a game changer, and I think you are right to point that out. But electrical fires are orders of magnitude more common so you aren't going to ever risk one based on a much less likely possibility here.

To be honest, I have faith that investigators will eventually track the culprits down. Then once we know who and why we can decide what to do about it. However consider what is required to pull this off:

1. Having an airport capable of landing a 777 that nobody knows about

2. Having refuling equipment and fuel.

3. Having a hangar capable of storing the 777 out of the eyes of satellites.

These are not small requirements. Whoever did this was quite prepared. It was not pilot suicide based on the data we have. Whoever did this was large, organized, and had tons of resources (we are talking about a large drug ring or a small country here). Against a determined enemy like that I don't know that you really can stop them at the plane. Instead you need real defence in depth, and we can't even talk about that until we know more.
And I'm saying it's perfectly OK to "spend a prolonged time watching it".

If women are doing something that involves a lot of pelvic gyrations, then yes, it is absolutely understandable AND acceptable that men will stare. It's not the men turning them into "sex objects" or whatever, the women already did that. And it's healthy, and normal, and most red-blooded men and women not only find it acceptable, they enjoy it. If you have the mindset that if women are dancing a man may only glance at it for a few seconds, I pity you and whatever caused you to turn out that way.

And this was at a party. If someone is so repressed that watching men stare at dancing women at a party makes them uncomfortable, they should stay home. Or move to a burqa-wearing country.
Having read the article, I think the journalist got confused – what is stressful and requires insane skills is flying very low, following the terrain between mountains/hills.

However, flying a mile high is only slightly different from flying 6 miles high in terms of stress experienced or skill required.
Military-style nap-of-the-earth flying, à la the raid on the bin Laden compound. Those SOAR pilots surely have practiced this stuff for years. How would a civilian pilot (or hijacker pilot) acquire these skills? Flight simulator perhaps?

The pilot had a fancy flight simulator at home.

Now, there are plenty of legitimate reasons that a pilot would have a simulator at home, so we can't pin too much to this discovery. Lots of pilots buy small planes after they retire because they still love flying and he might have built this simulator because it was fun. Other articles describe him as a hardware geek and mention his YouTube videos demonstrating his homebrew simulator consoles. Still, it seems suspicious to me, especially in context of the recent revelation that the transponder and tracking systems were disabled prior to MH370 signing off with Malaysian ATC.

Four days ago, I thought that a Central Asian hijacking scenario was next to impossible. Today, I'm not so sure.
Maybe I just have wider interests, but I never lacked for interesting reading on usenet. And the trolling was better.

I still think gopher was a better way to distribute information. Also, I miss talkd. I'll show my nostalgic self out now.
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Explain to me why you would admit to anything if you haven't got to the bottom of it yourself? As they explained, they're investigating the issue currently.

So...doesn't their response then make sense?
Can someone not on an iPhone post a screenshot?
Memory management in C programs
Another possibility is that the tech industry is currently a desirable place to work. People generally don't care if you exclude them from jobs that they wouldn't want anyway, but if other people are having a lot of fun, changing the world, and getting paid for it, it really sucks if you're excluded from that because you lack a Y chromosome. Hence when stories appear about "software eating the world" or Google engineers getting paid $300K/year with $6M retention bonuses or startups getting sold for $19B after 4 years of work, everybody wants a piece of that, and any hint that it may not be a perfect meritocracy is problematic.
There used to be a page on jodi.org that would crash your browser by constantly opening up new popup windows, without stopping. Ahh high school pranks in the computer lab.
I don't know how they'd track it when it's not the same account.

I pledged to the Kikori Kickstarter (which, btw, means I've got some bias in this although I wasn't up for any rewards) so I knew who the guy was, and I happened to notice that he was involved in this one. Even a human reviewer wouldn't have caught that. Well, you could do simple name matching but I don't think that's good enough -- compare this to the no-fly list, for example.

So I'm OK with word of mouth being the governor here. It's also a good indicator that you should research before you pledge. I do a quick web search if I'm backing something from someone I don't know. It helps set my expectations.
I can see there being a happy medium here as no all support requests are task oriented. Either a) asynchronous support for support inquiries like "When will product x be in stock?" or "What does policy y mean to me?" where as "How do I setup email on my phone?" could be handle synchronously. or b) begin asynchronously and move to synchronous communication as needed.

At the very least both options should be offered. I almost exclusively use text-based communication unless it's a time-restricted request. This works well for Simple (the bank) where I tend to have a lot of financial questions that I don't need answered -right now- so I shoot off a quick message and follow up if needed; however I've had a couple of situations that required immediate answers and response and those times I absolutely picked up the phone.

Having worked in tech support for two major telecomm companies though, I'm convinced it's most commonly a problem of formatting. The discrepancy between instruction and reality is what throws non-technical people off. Given accurate instructions your grandpa could figure it out at least 75% of the time. One of the companies placed extreme emphasis on their resources with the reasoning "They'll figure it out." and according to them and their metrics they seemed to think most people did figure it out by braille if you will.

Just my two (or more) cents.
And the vote in a public referendum?
> The sad thing about Popcorn Time is the way it shows how little people actually care about AV quality.

What's sad about the fact that different consumers value different things?
Eh, I think you missed my point.

The point of talking to the women isn't to help the men exercise better restraint (which extrapolated to an extreme would require a niqab).

It's that if the women are doing something in the office, out in the open that people stopping to watch would make other people feel uncomfortable, then perhaps it shouldn't be done out in plain view of everyone.

Like, if you are trying to have a private conversation with your Dr on the phone about your recent herpes outbreak, don't talk in the lunchroom and get pissed that I listened in.

We can come up with counter examples, and/or take things to the extreme, however my point is that exercising some restraint and a little professionalism would make situations like this non existent.
>You can see how rightly applied the study of a seemingly narrow field can prepare you for a more general one.

Studying Russian literature to prepare you for a job not involving Russian literature is the most roundabout way of preparing yourself for a career I can imagine. Given the opportunity costs (as well as the direct costs), I highly doubt it's worth it financially.

Again, if you're goal isn't money, then Russian literature is great.

>Math majors are, maybe, at best reasonably marketable, and well within the margin of error of say history majors.

That's not true at all. Look at that chart again. Math majors ranked 18th by starting salary History Majors are 30th. If you sort by salary mid career the difference is even greater--math majors are 10th, making over 20k a year more than history majors. If you look at 90th percentile mid career salary Math majors are number 4.

>But I agree with the thought that a math degree is not vocational but is more like Russian history in this regard.

How then is CS vocational? Because you take a few programming classes? In many programs (like mine which split off from the math department about 10 years ago), you take more math classes than programming classes (5 total required programming classes out of about 40 unless you specifically took more as electives.)

>Besides the fact that this is a fallacy of composition

How is that a fallacy of composition? Most students are going to college so that they can make more money. Therefore any given college student is likely to be in college so that he can make more money.

If that is the case Russian literature doesn't make much sense.

>if this statement were true, then all students would study electrical engineering(per linked data).

First, where did you get electrical engineering from, it wasn't the highest ranked for any of the columns?

Second, not all students choose the optimal path to reach their goals. That doesn't mean it's not the optimal path.

In addition most students aren't prepared for the math involved in engineering. Engineering is also much more time intensive than most other majors and has an insanely high failure rate.
That's quite the straw man.

The key here is that the founder's wife has a regular presence in the office. Plus, a founder is in a vastly higher position of authority than an employee (be it a manager, or else).

So it's not too far to imagine that she could exert some influence towards her husband's decision at work, e.g. hiring and firing of someone.
It's so sad to see things like this twisted around by people with too much time and an axe to grind. I don't think anyone expects to put down a mat and claim 'Mission Accomplished' on building a meritocracy. Or any other vision statement from a company or person.

The whole purpose of these statements is to represent an ideal to strive for. Things like this are exactly what give militant feminists and other PC groups a bad name.
> Which means that EVENTUALLY, these companies will either pay dividends or their stocks are worthless.

Yes, And that is false. IT IS FALSE. There are companies that never pay dividends, but because of continuous growth, are regarded as attractive investments (Berkshire Hathaway is just one of many examples). To avoid any possible confusion, I posted a list of such companies. And I have just added another list below.

A company must either grow, or pay dividends. Investors don't much care which it is, because both grow the investor's capital.

> The second thing is that I usually hate downvoting people, but you were incredibly aggressive rather than calmly attempting to understand (or be understood by the person) you were conversing with.

Yes, which means you downvoted based on the fact that you disagreed with the views I expressed, not based on whether I contributed to the conversation, a violation of HN's voting guidelines.

There is something very simple you need to understand -- the OP was flat wrong, and I was flat right. I posted my views, then I posted my proof. The OP posted his annoyance at my way of expressing the truth, which is, among other things, off-topic.

And now you have done the same.

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http://seekingalpha.com/article/1939371-no-dividend-stocks-c...

Quote: "Having delivered an average of one-third of stock returns since, (it was more than 50% in the '70s and 14% for the '90s) the case for dividends is clear. But there is no free lunch here. In periods of economic and market growth, dividend payers typically trail the performance of non-payers. Like now. According to S&P Dow Jones Indices, for the 12 months through November dividend payers in the S&P 500 delivered a 39.6% total return. No need to apologize for that. But the non-dividend payers clocked in with a 46.4% total return.

Ranking the entire S&P 500 by 12-month price gains, seven of the top 10 are dividend holdouts, led by Netflix (NFLX) which has quadrupled in price this year. The others: Micron Technology (MU), E*TRADE (ETFC). Genworth Financial (GNW), Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), Celgene (CELG) and Boston Scientific (BSX), all of which have at least doubled in price over the past 12 months."

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So tell me -- which part of this trivial economic fact are you confused about?
Yeah, is there one on the west coast? I know Seattle and Portland's Apple Stores are all in malls.
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I wouldn't call it fancy. I mean, it was Microsoft Flight Simulator running on a box with a joystick and four monitors hooked up and placed to look like a 777 cockpit.

Total cost should be less than 1000 bucks.
> Emergency geolocation doesn’t affect flight safety,

I am not sure of that. Consider the implications of an electrical fire. If the system can be turned off it wouldn't have helped here. If it couldn't be turned on then you have electrical fires killing people.

I am not sure the problem of this incident can be fixed by looking at the plane. I think we need to know more about who, why, and how first.
>female co-workers hula-hooping while sitting in a couch

That sounds like a spectacle. I'd watch it regardless of male or female doing it.
My guess is that the US, Russian, and Chinese militaries have the interest, and operational ability, to track every in-flight commercial jet all over the world. The IR signature alone makes a commercial jet obvious at any altitude as long as the engines are running. So MH370 is probably not lost; its final position is just being concealed by military protocol to avoid confirming satellite capabilities that have, in all likelihood, existed since the 1960s.
These guys were also incredibly prepared it seems. I would suggest that it would be unlikely that passengers, if they were still alive, would be allowed to just move about and grab things. They could be blindfolded and told not to move, for example, during landing, refueling, and so forth (though blindfolds may not be as relevant at night.
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Domains are required to be attached to an email address that can actually receive emails.

An email address is not an individual person.
And where was his salary coming from at the time?
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There is malloc and free.

Anything you do above that to make your life easier is up to you.

C is pretty darn simple in terms of memory management -- you own it, deal with it. If that is too hard, find a higher level language.
In the various discussions about Popcorn Time here and elsewhere, the technical quality of the content has been the subject of discussion multiple times, along with mentions of illegal alternatives offering higher quality than legal ones. By sourcing from YIFY, we're talking about the opposite, though - legal options like Netflix will most definitely offer higher video/audio quality than Popcorn Time.

It's certainly true that different consumers value different things, though. Which is why it's sad that with Popcorn Time my only choices are shit quality or nothing.
"offered no actual evidence"

First hand testimony might be imperfect, but It is evidence.

Whether or not its conclusive remains to be seen.

That's the larger point.

Certainly, the above linked article lends at least some credibility to some claims.

The fact that the wife of a founder needed to <even be mentioned> in this type of PR damage controll manouvre...is a huge red flag by itself.
Edit: when I originally posted this, it was a fork of https://github.com/aekaplan/grid -- which I did not write (tried to express that via "when I first saw it", but in hindsight was not clear). I've since changed it at the original author's request. Apologies for any confusion!
Ask HN: Should users be allowed to disagree with the ToS?
In every program I've used, clicking Disagree meant that the program would refuse to install, or refuse to allow me to proceed.

Or, I just assumed that's what not accepting the ToS would result in, so I felt like Accepting the ToS wasn't really making a choice beyond double-clicking the app was 'making a choice'.

But what if clicking 'decline' meant that you could actually state a rational reason, and expect some sort of human response?

And in the time it took to get that response, you could use the software?
This seems to be the same YIFY group that releases shitty video transcodes. I wouldn't recomment using the software they offer.