skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well maybe something is wrong with societal norms then? Because honestly if the focus was just watch attractive women hula hoop I would think it's creepy too but I wouldn't just say it's alright because of societal norms.

But I think it's impossible to really judge this situation without the context. Did other people decide to participate or was it really just two girls hula hooping the whole time? It boils down to was the mentality from the males perspective "oh hey, cool, people are hula hooping!" or "oh hey, the two attractive girls are hula hooping and I want to gawk at them!" The first one is fine, the second one is not.
The problem isn't that college isn't worth doing, it's just too fucking expensive. The amount of debt we are asking people to assume is simply too great.
Growth Hacking a $9 startup idea
Do you have a source for that claim? The official Bitcoin wiki certainly talks about non-financial uses of Bitcoin, and Script obviously makes such uses possible.
Roll eyes. Men get treated as eye candy too. Honestly, if you do that at work, it doesn't matter who you are, you are going to get gawked at.

Most of this seemed like a poor performer who socialized too much at work. The problem was the crazy wife. Two bad drivers meet at an intersection..

And for people saying the guys don't get worked over in pull requests or have their code passively aggressively reverted, all I can say is LOL.
What advantages would marriage provide over a non-legal partnership? The latter seems to carry all of the benefits of marriage without any of the risks.
The indoor style exists because of extreme weather. I personally suspect California got indoor shopping malls back then because most everywhere else had indoor malls too- and they had indoor malls for the same reason they have indoor highschools.
While the technique is interesting, that's just about the ugliest logo I've ever seen.
The fact that you were able to post this means that your statement is false. Using hyperbole to make a point only serves to invalidate your point, unless your audience is composed of complete idiots (not hyperbole, that's actually what I mean). I would hope that the HN readership isn't a bunch of idiots, although you obviously think they are.
Fork of Popcorn app that works post-shutdown was released.
The impression this story leaves me with:

- Github leadership is run by adolescents who behave as one might in high school situations.

- Good luck to whomever says they worked in Github HR at this point in time. Your professional embarrassment is about to go off the charts.

- Andreessen Horowitz gave these guys US $100MM. Yes, it reflects upon them too.

But...I'd like to hear the other side of the story. As a manager for years, I've seen situations like this before (although not this sensational.) While the sexism word has been thrown out here, it's never anything as simple as gender. There are team dynamics at work, and those dynamics matter in context.
Who is the wife?
If you don't want people to watch you snogging, you shouldn't be snogging in public.
Which is still politics.
I'm so fucking tired of this so-called "more opportunities to succeed" thing i keep hearing about. such a load of crap. you make your own opportunities. Period. That's been true of my life and everyone i know.
Hipchat user/admin; agreed. I don't have access to 1 on 1 chat logs and I prefer it that way.
In Kentucky (and probably the midwest in general), mass transit effectively does not exist.
Where is the bathroom?
Among other things,

- A sanctioned place to hang out with friends outside of school

- A predecessor to online shopping. If you buy it online today, and you can't get it from Target/Walmart/Etc, chances are you would have gone to a mall back then.

- Lots and lots of different clothes stores. The HN crowd probably doesn't care for this much, but other people liked that part a lot!

- Bustling and full of people. This has its downsides to be sure, but it can be nice to be around other people, and they didn't feel like the ghost towns they do today.
Yes. The reality is that if this happens in a hotel, the hotel immediately kicks the "XXX party" out, and will usually move the aggrieved neighbors to a different floor or (as has happened with me at hotels with loud parties) do that and refund the night's cost.
The demographics have changed around the first- and second-generation malls enough that many of them are no longer viable. Since they're huge properties, they tend to rot slowly. They're finally dying. There's probably some fundamental challenges wrt online shopping, and preference for more "natural" environments, but there are plenty of malls that are doing very well, especially the more upscale ones.

Just because not every mall is succeeding, it doesn't mean the whole category is doomed. (Not that I actually like them, but enough people certainly do.)
Get the Saturn USB re-release from about 2006. They are white with blue buttons (ugly, I know -- they should have kept the black and grey). They have a "Play Sega" sticker in the middle. Do NOT get the "saturn-style" knock-offs.

I got a few new off of eBay for about $6 a piece, they are great for classic / MAME / shmups.
> Oh and they really don't fuck up the kernel every 2 minutes like on Ubuntu and don't throw out buggy shit like Apple do.

It seems my experience with computers has been radically different from yours.

The only kernel I've ever had problems with is the NT kernel, and one of the reasons I stick with Apple portables is that they're generally the least buggy devices I can find.
Was Julie Ann Horvath simply jealous?
I am fully aware of what they are, we stopped building them for a reason. They are hell to live in. You get the bare minimum air exchange as required by code. Try being in such a building for a day. Properly constructed passive buildings use thermal mass to maintain comfortable temperatures while allowing proper ventilation.
Microsoft charges for OEM licenses. PC manufacturers, however, will include other software with Windows for a fee (e.g. Imagine Adobe pays Dell for Adobe Reader to be included on Dell consumer systems).

It is also plausible that Microsoft has a patent agreement with PC manufacturers so that they have to pay Microsoft a fee to ship systems with Linux installed. I know we've seen similar situations with companies that run Linux servers or sell Android devices.
Kid Icarus on 3ds was completely unplayable as a lefty.
Former Google SRE here.

From the outside it looks like Google's strategy is to hire people that have the skills that people can only get from already working at Google. i.e. They have forgotten that they themselves did not have those skills when they were hired.

Sadly blog posts like this make me think they are suffering an unintended side effect from doing this: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg...
According to the NAHB [1], construction is about 60% of a house's cost (the rest eaten by land, financing, etc.). Of construction cost about 20% is foundation, framing + insulation (what we have in this design). For this particular design it's not just all the finishes though, since you still need plumbing, electrical, etc.

[1] http://www.nahb.org/assets/images/Table1_201035133529.jpg
You can do population analysis, but thats valuable in terms of making population level decisions. Not decisions about individual care. An example being; where do we build a hospital. Not; which medication should we give this person. Right now we have universalized standards of care for things like hypertension that clearly do not work for the entire population yet we have accepted that x% improvement overall is the best. I think the future will involve identifying the subtleties of genetic and microbiome impact on all medications, and tailoring regimens based on those indicators rather than the EBM-based standards of care.
This is where it falls apart, in my opinion:

>Schmidt vehemently disagrees. “The economic return to higher education over a lifetime produces significant compound greater earnings.” It’s true, on average, economists find that college raises wages by about 15-30 percent. Despite the debt, it’s a wise investment for many students.

>When asked about the difficulty in paying for college, Schmidt was adamant: “I appreciate it’s expensive and we need to fix that,” he said, but “figure out a way to do it.”

College is expensive because we tell kids that it's going to be this huge windfall so people "figure out a way to do it." The problem is that it's a correlation/causation argument that's turned into an out-of-control feedback loop.

College graduates traditionally earned far more because fields that needed a degree were higher-earning. College degrees are absolutely useful for some fields, and, in fact, I lean toward the argument against college being weaker for the more technical fields like typically get discussed here.

But the real problem is that we've been telling kids that the only way to do anything with your life is by going to get a four year degree, and as a result we have more graduates and employers are starting to require four year degrees for jobs that have traditionally -- and should be -- vocational in nature.

As a society, I think it's absolutely insane to expect these sorts of jobs to suddenly begin creating more value, and thus have higher compensation, simply because the person working it has more outside education.

My stance is that we need to sort this out now before it gets any worse. We need to destigmatize vocational education. We need to realize that while some form of higher education is almost always a good thing, a four year degree is complete overkill for many.
So much work for such a crappy effect? Am I missing something here? Is this art?
I find using bundler and "vendor everything" a cleaner way than gemsets
There's also a lot of office office space going in at Brentwood and Oakridge. In short, they're shifting from "shopping area to which people drive" to "miniature downtowns connected by rapid transit". (Arguably Metrotown was the first of these, although it was a bit too early to benefit from the condoization shift.)

I think we're going to see a lot more developments like Burnaby's "SOLO District" -- underground parking, 10 acres of ground floor retail, ~7 acres of park space on the roof of the retail space, 1-2 acres of 6-storey office space, and 2-3 acres of 30-50 storey residential space. If you're lucky, you could live, work, and shop without leaving the building -- and if you do need to go somewhere, the skytrain is right across the street, so you probably won't need to drive.
I suspect you're over-inferring, and it's hard to tell what you mean by "heart" and "worse".

Reading the oft-cited anarchist response might provide some context (though it was written in 2005): http://libcom.org/library/tyranny-of-tyranny-cathy-levine

Nearly every time the Tyranny of Structurelessness is posted to some activist's facebook wall these days, a link to the Tyranny of Tyranny is in the first few comments. Then the discussion devolves into rehashed bickering, though never about the actual content of the pieces.
Track the market value of Mt. Gox's missing 850K Bitcoin
It's lazy and I lost the "flag articles" bit hammering them. :) Just ignore them and scroll past.
Alibaba confirms plans to offer IPO in US
People who up-voted this have no idea what rvm/rbenv/etc are about.. right?!
A description of the hula hooping from someone else at github:

> Probably worth mentioning that the hula hoop dancing happened at a Github party with a lot of people not from Github. It was also super badass hula hooping, not just regular dancing. Everyone was looking, men and women, because it was pretty awesome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408466
Ask HN: How to limit my web app to a particular city?
Hello HN,

I am building a web app (with Django as a backend) where users can create objects with a "where" field that is meant to inform other users viewing the object of its location.
Right now, it is a simple dumb text field, so there is no "geo-validation" of the input.

For the launch, I'd like to limit the creation of objects to a certain city. How could I do so and what do you think would be the best/simplest way?

I've thought of a) setting up city-specific subdomains (like craigslist) or b) making that field "smart" so that it would "verify" the address given (like when you type in google maps) and then filter from there to only include addresses from a particular city, but the idea was to keep it simple and that seems like it would bring more problems in (what if the address is not recognized?).

If you have any thoughts or experience with this, I'd love to hear it. Thanks.
This post hints at it, but you can install all of those Ruby versions on OpenBSD simultaneously. Ruby 1.8 has its binaries named "ruby18", "irb18", etc. and Ruby 1.9 is "ruby19", "irb19", etc. You can create a symlinks from "ruby" to "ruby19" and "irb" to "irb19" to set a system-wide default but any version can be used.
Well there is also a whole bunch of really boring mundane tasks that take a lot of time, such as setting up and supporting health insurance plans, getting people into various directories, organizing the interviews, etc etc. I may look down on HR at times but boy am I glad we have them to do these things.
The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everything that Seems Obvious Isn't [video]
I don't understand how the solution described actually solves the problem. There's a (yawn-inducing) solution given for installing Gems outside the Ruby library path (i.e., in one's homedir), but none for actually selecting the version of Ruby to build those Gems against. A Gem with C bindings built against the 1.9.3 shared libraries is unlikely to work (and might not even be found) when subsequently used under 2.0.0.
Hey, Ivan, have you folks fixed the security hole yet where your tunnel can potentially drop and the connection simply reverts to clear without the user knowing it? Have you yet included a function similar to VPNCheck which blocks traffic in that event?

Unfortunately, because TunnleBear uses it's own client rather than the standard Windows VPN mechanism VPNCheck can't be used with it. While I love your company and the generous touch of humor and whimsy you bring to a normally somber market, I can't live with a product with that gaping a security hole. If and when that's fixed and if the performance is about an order of magnitude better than it was when I tested it a year or so ago I'll be on board in a heartbeat.
I didn't graduate high school or college. I make plenty of money and have a great career. I just got lucky, huh? Rolled the dice and had my life created for me. Did school teach you this false dichotomy?
So, how does one tease apart what is meant by the original definition of merit, let's call it 'accomplishment', from these subjective definitions of success? Or is that even possible?
On a brief but pleasant trip to Switzerland, I got around using their wonderful transit system. Every transit station was also a commercial hub. Big stations had big shops like supermarkets and department stores. Little stations had little shops like bakeries and banks.

Any restructuring of retail shopping in the US would have to include thinking about how entire districts are laid out. It takes one person -- the owner -- to restructure a mall, but considerably more cooperation and time to restructure neighborhoods.
Do Workplace Wellness Programs Save Employers Money?
Why getting a two-year contract with your cell phone carrier is overrated
On the spectrum of college students, the lower economic end is where the viability of such expensive higher education comes into question. Statistics describing the entire population do not support an argument relating to this subset. Not only that, but the closing strawman of "all you care about" is unrealistic. If only it were as simple as deciding to "Go to college" then I don't think this discussion would be taking place. Eric Schmidt's words are great for those who do have a choice, but to everyone else, he's out of touch.
It is Sender and Receiver now. TX and RX aren't obvious to non-English-speakers
Are there any studies available on the difference in career earnings of grads vs non-grads in the same career? I don't doubt that a random college graduate earns 30% more over their lifetime than a random non-college graduate, but what about a random software developer with a degree vs one without?
Interesting that neither this, nor the CSS version, have the tricky bits of juggling toast, or bread going in and toast coming out. That was what I liked about the screen saver, the toasters were toasting while they flew, which only added to the ultimate absurdity of it all.
>There is severe survivor bias at play. Massive profitability allows you to get away with just about anything.

I think you could extend this observation even further. Technology start-up culture has a habit of sh*ting on well established knowledge as being useless because founders of start-ups often lack these knowledge yet still manage to succeed. An example of this is the general disdain for business know-how in the form of say an MBA.

They fail to realize that the reason they're succeeding is not because traditional business know-how is useless but rather because innovation grants you advantages that often allows you to succeed without business know-how. However this advantage disappears once everyone catches up to the innovation then business acumen reasserts itself. We are currently in a golden age of innovation, but that won't last forever.

The metaphor I like to use is: It is like someone using a machine-gun and hitting every target then concludes that marksman skills are useless while ignoring the fact that they are only hitting their target because they are using a machine-gun.
I am shocked to see everyone rallying against the victim because he may have violated his lease terms. If that is the excuse AirBNB have, they should not be doing business in the cities where their business model is not 100% compliant local laws.

How does the lease terms even matter in this incident? It's not like David vandalized her apartment because he figured the host is violating lease terms and he deserve this? Do you really think that David would have cancelled his XXX fest if the host's lease terms allowed subletting? This would have happened to him even if he was 100% compliant with lease terms and local law.

AirBNB should take responsibility for it and do the right thing. AirBNB should caution their hosts and customers about risks like these instead of lying them about 100% guarantee.

Moreover, it should be AirBNB's responsibility to ensure that every single listing and transaction is 100% compliant with the local laws. Ebay doesn't let me sell drugs or other illegal items. AirBNB should do business
K-mart's problem is that their merchandise is no better than what Wal-Mart carries, their selection is worse, and the shopping experience in their stores is, in my experience, worse than at Wal-Mart as hard as that may be to believe.

Target seems to be a step above Wal-Mart/K-Mart, and I'm guessing that has been a big part of JC-Pennys' and Sears' problem. The local JC Penny's here has gone, and going to Sears feels like stepping into the 1970s, the store literally has not had a serious rennovation since then. Target stores are new, bright and well-organized and reasonably pleasant to visit.
> It's also not necessarily an unhealthy/toxic environment.

Honestly this is very close to gender discrimination, which is clearly illegal. If you created an environment that only young male developers will enjoy how is that much different then explicitly saying you won't hire any female developers?

To me it's in a similar vein of when literacy tests were employed in the South to prevent African Americans from voting. It wasn't saying you couldn't vote if you were black but it had the same effect of denying most blacks suffrage anyway. So you're not saying women can't work here, but we're just going to encourage/promote a culture that isn't one most women would want to be a part of anyway.
> So, how does one tease apart what is meant by the original definition of merit, let's call it 'accomplishment', from these subjective definitions of success? Or is that even possible?

You can't. Merit -- including "success" or "accomplishment" -- is always a subjective value judgement. Even if there is an objective measure, the evaluation of the measure as something meaningful to measure (i.e., that the measure is one of merit or success) is a subjective value judgement.
Perhaps the secret agenda is to discourage web designers from abusing this tech and making the web heavier & more complicated than it already is. :-)
Absolutely correct. In essence, everyone simply looks at the winners and then redefines the 'path to success' to be 'the path they took'. That sounds ridiculous but it's what many arguments boil down to.

There are some excellent resources out there for people to understand more about this. There's an article on Survivorship bias [1] and I was recently at a talk by Duncan Watts on the 'The Myth of Common Sense', which considers questions such as 'Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world?'. I found a video of one of his earlier talks [2].

[1] http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF8tdXwa-AE
it's not a threat, it's a progression

as a manager, the conversations go like this:

1 - please (do/don't do) X. Hopefully this takes care of things.

2 - I said (do/don't do) X. why the fuck are you (not doing / doing) X. Now I'm unhappy, but again, hopefully this is the end of things and the employee starts doing / not doing X.

3 - (and this is what parent was talking about; I now have an employee refusing to do what I said and not providing good reasons for said refusal.) Now the conversation is: do / don't do X again and you're fired.

it isn't a decision, it's laying out consequences. Now, between steps 2 and 3, when I become aware of the doing or not doing X, I'm now moving on to the point where I have to give pretty blunt orders. I'm going to make sure my boss and potentially a peer or two, depending on which teams this employee works for, are aware of the situation and are ok with what will happen; I think that's what michaelt is talking about. There's also, obviously, a query for extenuating circumstances that they are but I am not aware of.
Hi! I picked this theme indeed because I thought it looked the best on my screen. Would using a heavier font help? Or maybe just setting the font color to true black?
I wanted to make it clear in my writing, but apparently it wasn't: I think their culture is very flawed. Period. However, that's the culture they seem to want, so that said, my judgment was only against such poor hiring decisions, which are apparent in the outcome of this situation.