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Using 'girl' to mean 'someone to whom I am attracted' is a poor choice of words. For one, I assume they are adult women, not girls, that attract you. For another, it alienates a number of your readers who aren't attracted to women. I know you're speaking about your personal habits, but there is no loss of understanding if you generalize it and it comes off better as advice or a template for behaviors. For a third, the way it's written here it kind of implies that the purpose of talking to any girl (since you're choosing one at random) is to chat her up. I don't know if that's the statement you're going for- you could easily have meant "Try to meet people with a different life experience than you and become friends with them." It's just a good idea to be precise about what you mean.
It's a pejorative term that predisposes someone to a certain conclusion. Pretty easy to bust out the 'S' word and win the jury in .2 seconds. ;-)

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131130/15263725410/surpri...
This should do the job:
https://hn.algolia.io/#!/comment/forever/prefix/0/patio11
I don't imagine this is something that sits well with the entrepreneurial spirit of HN readers

Would that explain why this post moved from number 3 on HN to bottom of page 3 in a matter of minutes?
That is very interesting to me... When this first became a business a few years ago, I had hopped that we could get `laypeople` to review products, and then use a mass of consumer data to sell our services.

This has not paned-out in practice; doing reviews on our system is not difficult but it is involved - you have to care about flavor and what you're tasting to do it.

Also, going Standards/consumer route puts us into direct competition with many of the trade organizations that our clients belong to, like the SCAA and the BA - they try to sell their own sensory systems from 'partner companies' (that then donate money back to the organization...).

I think it is better for us to gain the trust of a set of clients who are looking for a better way to taste products for quality control (based on science), and charge them for a service than to gamble on general consumers in the short term. In the long term.... I would love to have 1M+ random people using our app to review beer, coffee, and etc.

[Do you still live in Kunming? // I use to live right around KNU!]
> The article unfortunately did not offer the specifics of what happened

Yes, we don't know who is right or wrong right now.

> I hope GitHub issues a public apology

How do you know they are in the wrong?
Interesting view. Essentially a vertically integrated firm from the days of yore plus a new integrated customer experience.

I like how he's thinking not about supply chain integration and customer experience in isolation. Plus, I totally agree with his comment about how this is difficult, but if mastered, provides a hard to replicate competitive advantage.
I understand your point now, I thought you were mainly referring to the stack space quick sort uses.

Edit: A comment above claims that without this bound, quicksort isn't even log n space.
Hm. Not sure I completely understand what's going on here. Is this supposed to be better than imgur?

I'm always a bit leery of something that immediately wants my credentials before making it perfectly clear what the product is. I actually got the most information from your terms page [1].

1 - https://surfer.io/terms.html
tl;dr

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2. GrabCAD: 3D Models Library

3. JotForm: Form Templates

4. LayerVault: Designer News

5. Hubspot: OnStartups

6. Moz: Inbound.org

7. Adobe Creative Cloud: Adobe Kuler

8. Evernote: Evernote Ambassadors

9. Google Docs: Document Templates

10. Airbnb: Neighborhoods

11. Shopify: Themes

12. Medium: Collections

13. Ride With GPS: Bike Maps

14. Goodreads: Book Lists

15. Github: Open Source Repos
You know, when if I had problems like that, I would show my discontent with the only meaningful way: I'd stop using the service. Like I do it with Google (aside from Youtube, where I can't comment any more), Facebook and many other things a lot of people keep complaining about but never do the one thing that matters. STOP USING THE DAMN THING.
Hulu's breaks are steadily increasing in length. First it was 30s, then 45-60s, now it's typically 120-145s. I avoid Hulu now if there's any other way to watch a show.
Many years ago when I was doing .NET programming, a helpful resource was http://systemwebmail.com/. Predictably, the firewall at $CORP blocked /webmail/. I had to print it at home and bring it into work.
If the domain name doesn't get forwarded over, you can also find the search engine at the bottom of the Hacker News main page.
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I am against harassment of any kind (race, sex, looks, etc), however as far as I can see, there has been no harassment...

All I ask for is evidence.

If there was some evidence I could believe it, all we have is someones (clearly hot headed) claims. I have worked with many women programmers in school and on the job and have never seen sexism. I have however heard multiple woman complain about not having enough women in tech, as well as complain about sexism.

Yet, they always seem to be treated fairly. If women did not complete her job on time she was forced to stay after, same with the men. If a woman didn't know how to answer a question she missed the points, same with a man.

Further, I fail to see any justification for sexism. Not only is there no evidence, but there is no reasoning as to WHY they were sexist (besides giving her bad performance reviews, which may or may not be deserved).
That episode was a very good example of an unwarranted accusation to the tech industry.
Maybe "hijacker" isn't the right term. I'd just never stopped to think how a pirate, or anyone interested in stealing a plane for whatever reason, could take control of a plane and force the pilot to disable all systems and nobody would ever find the plane again.
I came here completely expecting this diversion to be the top comment.

Congrats.
Why not? It worked in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_...
We don't need the specifics, do we? A woman was wronged, that means war!
If you are interested in investigating there has been quite a few articles I've seen over the past few years on Hacker News and Reddit by female devs highlighting their experiences with how they have been treated by the dev community. Here are a few interesting articles to get you started:

https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/6efcedf483bd

http://www.dailydot.com/business/hacker-news-justine-sexual-...

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/24/business/la-fi-tech-...
The "community" isn't a monolith. There is no central node where you can just snub out anyone you choose because of some arbitrary mob consensus. I am also curious as to how you would define a "welcome" member of a community.

Communities like Twitter are largely amorphous and chaotic. Akin to a huge bazaar where everyone is being loud. How would one go about to blacklist people? That's McCarthyist bullshit. Mob mentality is far too dangerous to pull off idiotic stunts like informal global blacklists, although many try.

Seriously, weev? Who the hell praises and welcomes weev? Everyone knows he's a despicable asshole and a troll, but nonetheless his charges over the AT&T incident are still unjust and based on a highly vague and harmful piece of legislation: the CFAA. So it is perfectly legitimate to defend him on that.
Perhaps it's a good thing that you have to read his whole piece to know what he's saying.
so don't pay for it you moron
Meh. Of course this is "worse", it isn't something from the Gods Who Are Named Apple.

> Amazon announced this week that it’s increasing the price of Amazon Prime from $80 to $100 per year, its first price change since its introduction in 2005.

> This has not been a popular decision, to put it lightly, but most Prime customers — which I’ve been since 2005 — aren’t really going anywhere. There’s nowhere to go. Amazon has either destroyed or bought every competitor that has ever come close to its retail business.

This sounds redundant. There is complaining about lack of competition, yet you still keep using the service (and are part of destroying that competition by using Amazon).

The addon program has added items which would have never been on the site previously, so that is a win, I'm sure other items which just can't be shipped by themselves cost effectively have been removed, but times change. Streaming videos are also an addition that are a win for those who use it. Also your bill is going up from $6.66 a month (the cost of one beer) to $8.33 (the cost of 1.5 beers) a month for streaming video and 2 day shipping on tons of items, I don't see a ton to complain about. I'm surprise the price hasn't been jacked up years ago just due to increasing shipping costs across the board.
The Steam controller gets less interesting with each new announcement.

Well, the twin touchpads were always the most exciting part, and they're still here for now. Hopefully they'll survive 'til the end, and not get replaced with another XBox pad clone.
Are you talking about Netflix? Amazon's video player uses Flash.
I believe it stands for Social Justice Warrior
Hey guys. I worked on this with a couple of friends. We were looking at the number of views posts on the front page of reddit get and trying to calculate ad revenue generated by this stuff. It seems crazy that top redditors can drive like 1M views and never see a penny--not to mention the fact that most image sharing sites basically claim ownership of your images. Even youtube gives users a cut of ad revenue.

This is an idea we had for making user-generated-content sites in a more user-friendly way.

Let us know what you think.

Edit: https://surfer.io/t1Uft
> Prominent GitHub Engineer

When I read the title (having never heard of Julie Horvath before), I expected the article to explain her technical contributions. However, there seem to be none that would make her a "prominent github engineer".

I think that singling out people as "prominent engineers" just because they are women is sexist and does a disservice to the equality cause.

Equality cuts both ways: people shouldn't be harassed because they are a minority. But they shouldn't be put on a pedestal just because of it, either. Because it defeats the whole purpose of equality by making them "more equal" than others.
It's pretty easy to boot Linux on a Mac.
from what i can tell.. just harassment. she tweeted the following: https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/444902730629271552
> And 90% of the time I find myself creating an override file to style it to my websites feel.

Isn't that kind of the point?
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The Samsung Galaxy back-door was bullshit. Really?
Who cares? I doubt he worries what HN commenters will think of his titles when he chooses them. It's a non-issue.
Sam Biddle and Nitasha Tiku are nothing more than glorified repost kids trying to squeeze out pageviews.

Agreed, to say nothing of the extreme left-wing bias that they bring to the table - wealth is automatically bad and suspect; startups are toxic, evil, and sexist; business needs to get out of San Francisco which would otherwise be a prosperous socialist paradise ...

It's getting harder and harder to read it on a full stomach.
Unskippable previews, menus, etc. can be more common in rental-only versions of DVDs and BDs. Try a Redbox or other major rental store (if any exist) if you want to increase your chances of finding such a disc.
The aforementioned situation this article is about? Or is this a case of, "Well, this one obviously doesn't count. And that one doesn't count. So I've seen no actual evidence!"
We are talking about this case, not other cases. Each case is unique, you cannot assume sexism because you have seen it before.
> I think it would be extremely positive for the developer community as a whole if there were more female developers

Why having more women would be extremely positive?
Then combined solution, arduino can be connected to computer and when someone clicks, arduino stops blinking image and notifies program, which does what it needs. Then when program is ready to blink another image, it shows blank screen, notifies arduino to start blinking again and then shows image. Cycle repeats. If you need better responses, you should provide more data about what is required, what you need to measure.
It doesn't sound like you've reserved judgement at all.
I also am mind-boggeled about this.

She said so many times how bad her employees were treating her but she never said exactly what they were doing.
See: http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction
I want this so bad, mainly just for laptops and phones
Interesting. I guess my usage of Amazon deviates from the norm then. I don't think I've ever struggled to put more than $25 in my cart, and I've never elected for a more expensive shipping option.

Aside: On Amazon.ca, the cheapest (free) shipping method has always outperformed the promise for express shipping. If they say 5-8 days, it's there in 2-3. My record was ordering a product on a Saturday afternoon, selecting free shipping, and getting it Monday morning. I was dumbfounded that was even possible.
Do you take a cut? How do you make money?
Why does it matter? He's writing this stuff for his blog, not for Hacker News. Anyone who reads his blog is going to read this article no matter what it's titled. The only problem here is Hacker News's insistence on using the original title even when it does provide enough context.
I've been fighting with print css for a while this week. I guess they just render it server side and show a pdf?

I wish print css was more supported. I'll read blog articles describing my plight, but from 10 years ago. It makes me sad.
Yeah, it's basically our first stab at making an imgur like site with distributed ownership. We're aiming mostly at the reddit crowd right now but they seem to be VERY loyal to imgur so we'll see how that pans out.

Thanks for taking a look!
> But I left HN for 18 months

I dont mean to sound rude but I was curious what made you come back.
That was actually a mistake in the article. I had exchanged 255 and 256 accidently. It's fixed now (and should hopefully make sense), thanks for the finding :)

EDIT: So uh, as a quick example of where things go REALLY wrong with the first equation - try value=-0.0000001 ;)
The title is unfortunate marketing. Fake is great for building a lot of stuff, not just .NET things.
Sorted by date, that just gives me a list of patio11 comments (with our patio11 mentions at the top).
If it takes off and becomes expensive to run we'll take a cut but right now we're just distributing all the adsense rev to users.
And yet, many popular console FPSes have optional "southpaw" layouts that switch the left and right sticks.
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Again, it might very well be that my observations are specific to myself and my body/brain.

What I'd like to add to my previous post is that the effect appears when I do both things under heavy load. Especially the language learning method I have is much more strenuous than what most people use.

Here's what I do: Obviously there are times where I learn the basics of the language and basic vocabulary. The main part of my learning effort, however, consists of watching movies/television.

What makes this so hard, is that I start doing so when I have only a very basic grip on the language, so that I understand very little of the language I'm trying to absorb. While watching, I force myself to actively try and understand/infer as much as I can. By this I mean that I touch my cognitive load limit.

When I'm "fresh", this is realy exhausting. When I mix it with complementary strenuous work (say, designing a numerical algoritm), it causes headaches and slight nausea.

I want to stress that this method I use is not suitable for everybody and I'd really recommend against trying to do it for the first foreign language. The reason I resort to it is that I am more of a speech person than a written text person and I am also somewhat lazy regarding textbook language study.

It might also be useful to note that, while my method takes less learning time than using a book or working with a tandem partner, it requires much more reconvalescence. So my net learning speed might be on par or even slower than the speed of somebody using duolingo or doing an advanced university course.
Are you just collecting gist submissions, or are you planning to provide some discussion infrastructure? If it's the latter, perhaps make it more open-ended so it can be used by everyone for reviews?
Maybe you could take a step back and examine your own hostility here in this comment?
No, it has not.

The future of computing is on apps coded against one of two proprietary platforms: Apple's or Google's.
My app is still a prototype. It's online, but not officially launched. So I didn't notice the missing results yet.
Or perhaps he chose a title appropriate for traditional blog/RSS reader format where readers are presented with the first paragraphs of the article, and the title is little more than decoration.

The article author can hardly be blamed for the HN policy of using article titles even when they aren't descriptive.
> So what exactly is the problem being decried?

The problem is that the price is being jacked up despite the other changes! He said it was reasonable without the other changes, but the other changes happened. These "other changes" are the variable (and often significantly higher) overnight shipping costs and the add-on program making it harder for you to buy a large amount of smaller items they used to offer (and yes, the add-on program means they offer items they didn't before, but that's irrelevant to this point).
The value is encoded as a fraction out of 256. So 1 is 1/256, up to 255 being 255/256.

It's still not completely correct, some values passed through that function come back as +/- 1e-16 and 255/256 becomes 0. Showing us again how floats are bloody hard to work with for the average programmer.

Edit: saw neobrain's comment, please disregard my post. Still, shouldn't there be a round in there too?
I would vote for letting users of HN put a custom title, so they can spin off an axis of study.
i did not find the comment rude, nor immature. In fact, i tend to agree with it.
I've given this some thought. Sadly, it seems the most logical conclusion is just that I'm no Da Vinci or Bacon. :)
Full stack = vertically integrated. No need for new terminology. This is one of the older stories in business.
Prior discussion (129 points, 130 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405325
I can criticize the way she's handling this without having to believe she's guilty.
I guess you missed:

"Apple’s Maps is still worse and has fewer features than Google Maps"

"Many of Apple’s other applications and services have suffered as well as they’ve spread themselves too thinly and competed on more fronts."
Astronomers know that as recently as a few hundred years
ago, the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole was
producing much more radiation.

Wow, what a near miss. Would that have been visible at all? To think that if human technology had kicked off a couple centuries earlier we might have observed a black hole eating something already, that the answers to our questions about black holes could be common knowledge... wow.
I have no idea if it affects which videos are available to watch free, but there is an option under settings to use Flash videos instead of Silverlight. I stumbled upon it the other day while doing some troubleshooting.
> Betas is a funny caricature of the startup life we all live.

It is? I tried watching the first episode and I couldn't even make it through the whole thing. That shows was the most cringe-worthy thing I've seen in a very long time.
Not exactly, tptacek is right; there is no simple way to find all items containing "patio11" not being written by "patio11" (both the text and the author name are indexed). Handling the "NOT" operator is pretty tricky as soon as you want to retrieve relevant results from the first keystroke in a few milliseconds (your query can match all documents).
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India has a cultural problem where cheating is expected.

You are condemning an entire country and its "culture" with a single sentence. What evidence can you provide?
she tweeted that she has been documenting this to github hr for 'years': https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/444887201935945729
So I guess we should get rid of the term "equality" as well, right?

In all seriousness though, entirely scrapping a noble idea because it isn't yet 100% realized is beyond ridiculous and is an example of why many people can't take modern feminists seriously.

You are supposed to work toward realizing goals, not destroying them.
I'd assume so, but it depends on pacemaker model, and the freq. WiTricity uses.
The new search doesn't appear to present any filtering or sorting options, at least on mobile. This surely can't be right. The old HNSearch with its quick toggles for submission/comment and date/points was extremely effective.
I don't use Prime video, but I'll support people who are happy to use it.
this might sound like a stupid question but what happens when you get sucked up by a black hole? what's in the other side of it.
Your job is to create
There's great Mexican food available in London too, maybe not quite like SoCal but still good
>All I ask for is evidence.

Maybe she is withholding it because she might want to take github to court?
No, they mean "analog," as in the Xbox 1 and PS2 controllers. You get different results when pressing a button lightly or firmly.
Chernobyl was a disaster waiting to happen. It had no containment, a design that caused a spike in output when the control rods were driven in to reduce output (the tips on the control rod were the issue), and even then, the accident only happened when the engineers deliberately caused a fault. It's like a car that was designed with no airbags or crumplezones had it's brake lines deliberately cut, and then it was driven into a wall at full speed to see what would happen. No surprise that someone got hurt.

And Fukushima? It had containment, but it was using a design that predated Chernobyl, and sacrificed safety for the ability to produce material that you could use to build bombs.

Nuclear is far from perfect, but compared to the damage we're doing with fossil fuels, I'd welcome a change to the relatively safe and clean nuclear power, especially with modern, safe designs.
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If there was something specific and genuine that happened, and the person in question wished to do something about it other than attract a lot of attention, I imagine they'd post a lot more detail other than "I was harassed, HR made up a story, GitHub has a sexist culture".

GitHub, like any company, wouldn't say anything about an individual HR case.

We should be reserving our judgement of what happened - personally, I'll wait a month or two and ask GitHubbers what they actually think when I see them - but this isn't a professional way to handle something.

The person is obviously angry, so:

- get off Twitter

- chill out for a week

- think about getting a lawyer

if you believe you were harassed.
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It is just not efficient enough. You lose a lot of energy. JB Straubel commented that Tesla was looking into smart conductive charging is going to win out.
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