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I've worked in healthy and unhealthy work environments, the healthy ones have ample diversity, and the unhealthy ones were heavily male dominant. When I worked for Dell, it was so heavily skewed that several of the female workers felt unsafe, and I would walk them to their cars. Little boys who would otherwise sit in the corner at the bar and completely avoid actual interaction with women get very brave when they have 30 of their friends backing them. It was disgusting. You do what you can, but senior leadership is ultimately responsible for the tone and the hiring/firing. I on several occasions brought complaints from what I had seen, I know the women had as well, and not a single person was ever fired for this.
But, but, .. what do you mean? Just yesterday, that nice founder of GitHub showed us all of their mobile-first bring-your-life-into-work-and-never-leave tools for communication! It was all open and stuff!

You mean there are still informal networks? Power gradients? Alliances? They lied to us!
Thinking like this is why we have so much crappy software out there.
How is she starting trouble? I suppose not being harassed at work is not too much to ask for, is it? What does programming even have to do with it?
I think rds2000's comment about her not being an engineer was responding to the origin article referring to nrrdcore as variously, "prominent github engineer" and "influential engineer".
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The merge step[0] can be parallelized -

- take the two sorted arrays A & B (assume both are of size n) and make partitions of size log n in one of them, let's say A

- Now considering there are n/logn processors, assign each partition to a processor. On each partition take the last element (l) and do a binary search to find a cut point in the other array B such that all elements in B are <= l. Cut points of two such partitions in A correspond to a partition in B which can then be sequentially merged by the processor.

Span is O(log n); Work is O(n); so parallelism is O(n/logn)
Detailed information here [1]

[0] https://github.com/BonzaiThePenguin/WikiSort/blob/master/Cha...

[1] http://electures.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/portal/download/...
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But that's an unfair implication, not one you should be looking to imitate.

Edit: I see from your profile that you're an undergrad. Hopefully you'll grow out of the attitude that only super-coders are valuable to a project, like I did.
Only women have to prove that they are engineers enough to matter to HN. Men get that for free.
An accusation is not a proof, at least not in any civilized country. As for your other question, it's hard to prove a negative but if you want reasons, well, github doesn't have any past record of sexism and no one has ever quit from github. So the least we can do is give them the benefit of the doubt, right? Or shall we grab our pitchforks?
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The worst part about this whole ordeal (other than 200+ people disappearing, of course) seems to be that all sorts of people are getting airtime now that they otherwise wouldn't get while spreading their far-fetched theories.
Because by definition it's not. You need to corroborate with other views before making a conclusion. So far we only have some bite-sized anecdotes.

What's more is her testimony thus far has been very vague. She hasn't described any concrete event.
You mean people who are productive don't have time to harass other people? That does not sound convincing, because there a plenty or documented events were that happened.

Or do you mean, people who are productive don't have time to defend themselves against harassment? In this case you are definitely blaming the wrong people because you should blame those who still don't manage to keep the workplace, and the rest of society, free of sexism, racism and so on.
I reckon these are the same problems Paypal faced early on. Why take good old USD out of your bank account and put them into an account you can only use for certain payment processing? They figured it out, but maybe it's too late now? I'd like to think it isn't
The article calls her an engineer, she describes herself as a designer and front-end developer. And just because someone doesn't have many publicly available repositories doesn't mean they don't contribute to private repositories. This isn't even the controversy, what she does for a living is of little consequence, it's the alleged harassment that's up for discussion – we shouldn't be judging how good she is at programming.
It's also not a relevant distinction. What job she did there has no relevance to whether or not harassment is worth investigating.
Valleywag did a more neutral job IMHO: http://valleywag.gawker.com/github-engineer-quits-after-alle... .. just a shame they are permanently shitlisted on HN because their quality has really gone up in the past six months.
Saturn tried the "no-haggle" new car buying experience. People generally liked this, though Saturn doesn't exist anymore.

That's mostly due to internal politics at GM when they were going bankrupt. Even though Saturn was one of the divisions making a profit, they got the axe.

Once again, internal company politics being a terrible proxy for rational decision making.
If you don't compare the rich and the poor within countries but on a global scale the situation looks a bit different. I have no source at hand to prove my point but if I remember correctly the first world wastes enough food that we could almost feed every human on earth if we would stop that and redistribute the food instead.
The entire point of the clickable touchscreen, as I recall, was that resting your finger on it would bring up an overlay on the monitor, mirroring what was shown on the touchscreen.

You would then move your finger to hover over what you wanted to select, then click down the touchscreen. All without ever having to look at the actual touchscreen, since it was all mirrored up on the monitor.
It seems increasingly clear to me that there is a concerted effort to paint some tech companies as more sexist than they are. Don't get me wrong, there is definitely a problem of gender imbalance and harassment in our industry that needs to be addressed. But I have heard this "Github is sexist" meme in half a dozen of different contexts, but every time I investigate an incident it's some semantic squabbling about the word "meritocracy" or some idiot reporter who searched for racial slurs on a huge public corpus of user-submitted content, forgetting that the exact same argument could be applied to Youtube, Facebook, or literally any website.

It's equally frustrating because if Github (and others) actually do engage in despicable sexist behavior, I want to hear about it and adjust my views of them accordingly. However, when reporters, bloggers, and commentators flood the internet with harassment stories accompanied with such vitriolic language, it's harder for me to tell the actual stories apart from the bombastic linkbait.
Well, but everyone could try guessing the names then, something they probably don't want. After all, it's just speculation what they have hidden there.
Not judging her story as truthful does not imply judging it as not (or "anything less than") truthful either.

Her story as far as the article describes, is not an account, it's an accusation without much factual, actionable data. You normally don't judge on accusations until you have tried within reason to obtain factual data from both parties involved.
Or, possibly, that each Virtual Console ROM ships with a set of shims or plugins to the emulator, to add extra logic and workarounds specific to each game.

Which is pretty much exactly how NES and SNES cartridges worked, come to think of it—except that the console they were patching was hardware, so they had to add new physical chips to do it. (Speaking of, I've always wondered why no console just ships with some FPGAs inside that are free for each game to program on startup.)
To be pedantic, in-place sorting algorithms (typically?) take O(log n) space, not O(1). They don't copy the data to be sorted, but they do need some temporary space that isn't fixed, but scales (slowly) with the size of the array being sorted. The usual sources of the log-n space growth come from either a stack recursing on things (explicitly or implicitly) and/or the array indices.

This particular implementation (looking at the C version) uses fixed-size 'long ints' for its temporary data storage, which means it only works on arrays up to LONG_MAX elements. If you had larger arrays, your need for temporary data would grow, e.g. you could upgrade all those long ints to long long ints and accommodate arrays up to LLONG_MAX. Of course, logarithmic growth is very slow.
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>This [is] about workplace abuse

Alleged workplace abuse. Let's wait for a statement from GitHub before we grab our pitchforks.
> I think the reason you included modal forms in your article is the same reason people are posting in this thread about them: you personally don't like them.

People not liking them is a form of qualitative data. That's the feedback we received from enough people to decide that it was damaging our brand long-term.
Technically there may be no "safe distance" at all, depending on how much time you're talking about. The whole galaxy seems to be caught in the spiral of a super massive blackhole, and it's just a matter of time before everything falls into it, although most stars will probably die out before they do. So I guess you could consider that "safe", since the time it takes to fall into the blackhole is longer than the time the object itself exists. Whole galaxies are probably drawn to each other, too, like we are to Andromeda and Andromeda to us.
If I tweet that Github once kicked my puppy, is that "solid proof"?

There's even the possibility that she's being completely truthful, but GitHub's side of the situation is relevant and changes the full picture.
(routine service maintenance was $450 to keep up the warranty Mercedes does something similar)

Mercedes in Houston charged you something like $175 or $250 just for bringing your car in.
Everyone understands that not all the content in Youtube is written by Google employees. Same case in Google+, Facebook, Yahoo! Answers, ... It's the same idea applied to the Github repos.
A total order is a consistent objective decisionmaking function.

I'm assuming that consistency and objectivity are obvious properties that any reasonable process must have. If you want to argue against consistency and/or objectivity, go ahead and do so. It'll certainly be interesting.
> But hey, at least they have a Turing-complete template language to go with their macros! Priorities, right?

And with that you can build reflection:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/11744832/375343
Sorry, but the article is doing Julie Ann Horvath a disservice by mixing up her - let's assume valid - complaints about the work environment with irrelevant rubbish. Blame re/code for not treating the subject seriously, either purposefully, or through sheer incompetence.
Replacing several FP operations with a single integer OP can only improve performance.
I'm coming to London for the first time in a decade this coming week. I'd love to have a burger with the guy who decided to do this.

If you're interested, drop me a note: keith @ op3nvoice.com
That's like saying you find a racist post on facebook and conclude it's written by a "Facebook Poster". Also, I would expect better from a site called _recode.net_
What about the animal population that seems to have adapted enough to resist the current radioactivity levels (source: some BBC documentary IIRC). I found it fascinating.
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I'm not waiting for a statement from Github, I'm waiting for a statement from ANYONE. Julie has written some tweets, but we don't even have her side of the story yet. I'm not grabbing my pitchfork, I'm saying people putting the word "bitch" in open source code hosted on Github has NOTHING to do with this story and is going to distract from a serious issue - as it clearly already has. re.code is usually better than this
They probably just mean "physical". I've noticed "Analog" gets abused in that way a lot.
Each job would have a different decision function.

Of course, it's irrelevant for exams - the decision function in that case is just to answer the question "is student A > minimum passing standard" or "is student A > student B at math".
If you're unable to figure this kind of stuff out, then you should NOT be calling yourself a journalist. It's your job to figure out what the truth is. Making mistakes like this, especially when it's fairly common model right now, is inexcusable.
Whether or not her allegations turn out to have merit, blasting them out on Twitter without having gone through the appropriate channels inside and outside the company first shows a distinct lack of professionalism.

There are plenty of professional responses when there is conflict with your coworkers and attempting to publicly shame them is very far from any of them.
You talk about bitcoin as if it is established. Were it already mature your arguments would be valid, but it is still nascent. What % of the OECD has bought something with bitcoin?

In the long view, Bitcoin only has brand strength.

Time will tell, and I believe ultimately vindicate my arguments.
Tainter's explanation for their collapse was the diminishing marginal utility of the "conquer and collect tribute" mechanism that had served them so well in previous centuries. I'm not saying that they did not deforest the land or change the environment but that's like saying the cause of the decline of the new world civilizations in the 15th century was because of their expansive agricultural modifications of the land in the preceding centuries.

Maintaining territory and tribute generated negative marginal returns after a while. It was only the eastern roman empire's deconstruction of their military institutions into the theme based system[1] of distributed farmer's security collectives that let the Eastern Roman Empire (A.K.A Byzantium) last another 1000 years after the western roman empire had collapsed.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_(Byzantine_district)
Unfortunately, we can't judge the claim at all, because for now it's innuendo, not a claim.

I'm curious why she'd post this on Twitter instead of taking it to a lawyer. And I don't mean for that to be innuendo- there are many reasons for this to go any which way.
Jared Diamond explicitly said that environmental issues aren't always a defining factor in the collapse of human societies.

What kind of ideological beliefs are you talking about ?
This is a poorly-written article focusing on insignificant tidbits of illegitimate controversy attributed with GitHub which distracts from actually discovering the details of an unhealthy work environment that may exist at GitHub.

The bit about racial and sexist slurs in some random users' code? Completely irrelevant. GitHub is a platform to host code. They are not and should not be responsible for what people commit to repositories. To suggest otherwise is to suggest that GitHub should take on the role of a censor, and at that point, code associated with any gray area (like Popcorn Time) becomes a target for the vocal minority.

Let's wait for Horvath to finish her side of the story and go from there.
Pressure sensitive, as a peer post says.

The original Xbox buttons were also pressure sensitive. Developers did not use this feature much, and it was eliminated in the 360 controller. Only a couple of the original Xbox games couldn't be ported to the 360 because of the lack of analog buttons.
The responses I got here pretty much confirm my thoughts that HN is mostly inhabited by people who are either angry, too serious, or a combination of the two. I deal with all kinds of people, but this is bad for your health, folks! :)
Thanks, I had missed the FAQ while browsing the site on a mobile browser.
Well, it seems to be in human nature to try to extinguish itself. Acid rain, ozone hole, global warming, wars, especially the nuclear arms race, ... seems only a question of time until we succeed by accident.
It depends on the context. In the case of a GPU, floating point resources are great and integer operations are limited, your statement is false.
Printing money isn't growth, it's just inflation.

Reducing pure waste, or increasing output for a given input, results in growth. Yes, there are physical limits, but we're nowhere near them for most processes.
How is it not relevant? The title is "Prominent GitHub Engineer Quits, Alleging Gender-Based Harassment".

Github ENGINEER. If she's not an engineer, she's not an engineer, it's pretty simple.
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Julie has contributed to one of my projects, but due to my own fuckup, the code has not yet made it into master, and so doesn't appear on that graph: https://github.com/resque/resque.github.com/pull/3

It's an incredibly valuable contribution that I thanked her for and apologized for not yet merging in person.
Forbes calls her a "developer". http://www.forbes.com/sites/northwesternmutual/2013/09/10/fi... Business Insider calls her a "designer". http://www.businessinsider.com/is-it-sexist-to-recruit-women... rds2000 is the only "source" I have seen claiming that she doesn't have skill.
If I had told people publicly my workplace was safe for women, and then I found out it wasn't, It would be important to me to let people know that fairly quickly. There might be other women applying for jobs there and making big life choices based on that information who deserve to know that the information has changed.
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Well, bear in mind his goal, realistic or otherwise, is to save $10,000 a month after all expenses. That contributes a huge deal to his $200K demand. But sorry, walk into MSFT out of college and ask for $200K as a developer your first year and you're not going to get it, despite what someone upstream claims (source: myself, an ex-MSFT Group Program Manager - a few levels above. This is fairly accurate: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Microsoft-Group-Program-Mana...)
I dont know much of the circumstances, but I feel that this particular article hurts Julie Ann Horvath more than it helps. First, it presents a series of tweets, each more vicious than the previous. Then it presents a blatantly wrong example of Github accepting racial slurs and its ilk. However, it continues to talk about how GitHub has actually been improving the culture and that more women have been joining. Next, it presents a rather weak example of 'harassment' that I can even see as the manager trying to do the right thing in his own view but presenting it entirely in the wrong way. Finally, it ends with a tweet that Julie Ann Horvath wants secret to remove a post about her (is anyone else angry about the implicit censorship here?).

Again, I do not know what is happening here, but the article has at the least made me mad that people are resorting to censorship to solve their disputes.
Ok, sure. If you can control the proximity carefully, you can achieve reasonable efficiency. Transformers work.

But it's still a super high powered magnet. There are more places than not where that's just a bad idea. Garages are high on that list. Also carports, kitchens, living spaces in general...offices, sleeping spaces..bathrooms. All bad.

LED lighting gets you pretty far down the current draw curve, but I don't see a small, easily moved coil generating enough resonant current to be useful in many common consumer electronics. That coil has to be plugged in to the mains, remember -- invalidating the promise of wireless power, even at three feet.

And ambient charging has all of those problems, squared.
...'The issue has spilled over into other Internet companies too, as Horvath quite correctly called out Secret, the anonymous-sharing app, for leaving up what is an appalling post about her, in which she is called “Queen.”.....

I signed up for the Secret yesterday based on the HN comments of their UX interactions and I immediately noticed that in comments below Secret posts, people are assigned random icons and then refer to each other by what the icon looks like. She refered to the author of that Secret comment as "greenshirt" in her tweets. Is it possible that the "Queen" was a reference to her icon(which we dont see from the screenshot), rather than an insult. It could be just be attributed to a chess figure icon.
Sexist culture and harassment drives GitHub's first female developer to quit
Eh, publicly shaming doesn't work without considerable and undeniable proof. It will just backfire into internet rage and dossing ala dongle gate. If there is real harassment best just make it hurt through state harassment arbitration. When they get tired of paying through the nose for all the stupid insensitive things naive and oblivious coworkers are bandying about, maybe they'll get serious.

Start writing things down and then contact a local equal opportunity office and start the process. It will not be cheap for them. If people keep doing this they'll change their ways.

Going public on Twitter or Hacker News though hasn't done much other than bring out nasty and unproductive fights between Social Justice Warriors and Men's Rights fanatics. They make everyone look bad and we all walk away feeling like maybe we've lost faith in humanity when in reality a serious problem just stems from mostly unintentional, but hurtful ignorance.
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Why do you assume it was the developers who wanted the cheap tricks?

(I know the founders and developers of scroll.in, and I'm 99% sure that the developers just did what they were told.)
The layout and hardware are things that can be tackled separately and independently. The hardware isn't a waste if it works.
Yes, the title is terrible and the fact that the "meat" of the information is inside a video is worse (no abstract or summary in the linked page).

However what's shown in the video is amazing: Doctors do trial test injecting a form of HIV (modified so that it doesn't cause AIDS) in order to cure Leukaemia from a child.
Assuming the hijackers had a plan, the closest airstrip that might be disused is on Car Nicobar. The base there was destroyed in the 2004 tsunami and subsequently evacuated. The rest of the island was also devastated, with thousands dead.

If not there, I would guess a landing in a dry lake bed in Tibet is next most likely.

But since there has been no communication, it raises the odds it crashed, either at sea or attempting to land.
"Feminism" isn't "women better, dudes worse."

Woah woah woah - all those she-beasts online had led me to believe otherwise. Hell just take a look at /r/tumblrinaction.
I use http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/index.rss, myself.
To be referred to as a prominent engineer, yes.
She founded GitHub's Passion Projects series, so if GitHub does something that undermines that message, her professional reputation is on the line. She writes on twitter "HR has a well documented explanation and has for years."