skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even know what to say to the idea that you might believe your investors are obliged to either share your opinions about gun control or keep quiet about them.
Or the lower technology version that's available today: public transportation.
>In addition, this thread is the sort of heated political discussion we usually penalize.

I'd love to think you're serious, but there were three fucking posts---almost all identical---about Syrian chemical weapons on the front page this morning. All of a sudden, now that it's about YC, you're saying, "oh, we usually penalise this."

I at least have respect for the fact you didn't remove this thread, but still, I'd prefer it if you got off your political high horse when it makes YC look bad.
Yes, I think that's being disputed, and no, I don't think the comparison to skirting the edge of the law is reasonable.
As another native speaker, no, there is no difference.
"peek" and "peak" are both pronounced identically \ˈpēk\
They are homophones.
Pick is pronounced \ˈpik\.

Piece and peace are also homophones and pronounced identically \ˈpēs\ while piss is pronounced \'pis\.

Apparently you have trouble distinguishing between ē and i sounds but there are only two different sounds in those word triplets, not three.
Chinese has a vast number of homophones, the average word length is much shorter than in many other languages and tone and context is basically used to provide meaning. Now eliminate tone and you're stuck with the Korean problem.

A better way to think about it in English are homonyms, in Korean there's pretty much a 1:1 mapping between pronunciation and spelling so all homophones are pretty much homonyms. In English we can get clever and use different spellings to determine the difference.

So let's assume we can't do that in English and spelling is entirely unambiguous (like in Korean) -- both the words 'Aisle' and 'Isle' are spelled 'Ile'.

So the sentence "she walked down the ile" is now ambiguous. I don't know if she was walking down an island or down the aisle of the bus or what. Now magnify this to 20 or 30% of you language so that sentences like "I bought a car" get confused with "I bought a tea" (both are 차 'cha').

Or "can you walk on the leg?" vs. "can you walk on the bridge?" 다리 'da-li'

or "I have a bag of grass." vs. "I have a bag of glue." 풀 'pul'

It's one of the reasons Korean<->English Machine Translation is so dreadful.
Related observation:
I have an hour/hour-and-half commute, and I've noticed in particular that it doesn't pay off in any noticeable way to speed (~10-15 over) on the interstate. At best you shave off a few minutes, but those saved minutes can easily be eaten back up by traffic and traffic lights in the non-interstate parts of the commute.
Absolutely. That's why I made the choice originally to not expand, and am now ending the whole thing altogether. But a lot of other people didn't, and I feel AirBNB should be making more of an effort to protect its most loyal users, instead of just killing their business, as gray as it is, in one fell swoop.
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This has to be an incredibly difficult moment in Tom Preston-Werner's life. Regardless of what may have happened. To build a company from the ground up and then have to walk away from it. I'm sure we all remember GitHub during its infancy and the enthusiasm with which founders worked on it. A hugely successful bootstrapped company.
This is becoming farcical. Good bye.
Haha, so true. A while back I settled into the 'average traffic speed plus large gap' mode. Less braking, lower clutch use, and more pleasant driving.

As a bonus, I get to feel superior to everyone not employing this strategy.
I actually ordered one from Amazon yesterday so yes that's a reasonable solution however I'd prefer the devices to work as intended!
The "trying to pressure portfolio companies into supporting political agenda on non-tech issue" was the part I objected to.

The issue isn't the specific policy viewpoints. It's using a commercial or other relationship to try to pressure for politics.

"sf.citi" was supposed to be focused on pro-business SF local politics, which is sort of reasonable. Gun control is literally orthogonal to technology.
I created http://picmint.io just as a place to keep photos I have taken that may come in handy for projects and as a way to tinker with IFTT. Free for anyone to use if you see something you like.
YC's purpose is to advance the goals of the startups that it represents and make its investors money. Secondarily it tries to help develop the startup ecosystem regardless of whether the companies are in YC.

I don't understand why politics can't be a tool to achieving those ends. Especially when the DNC is aligned with the startup community on many of the key political issues, like founder immigration reform, that can affect all of us.
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Does anyone know if Flynn components can be run on CoreOS?
Also, does Fylnn offer the ability to use sub-domains for accessing apps, with either a random string or custom, eg. //dev.example.com? Thx
Can anybody discuss how Flynn compares to Mesos? Superficially, it seems to be solving the same sort of problems.
And YC is pressuring you into supporting the DNC how?
Boy, this is what Thiel teaches in his classes? The only useful, actionable insight was in the last paragraph and then it ended. Lots of abstract, thoughtful stuff, but nothing that could make me more successful.
I did this a lot to LCD gaming handhelds back in the early 90s. Also using two polarising sheets to understand polarisation. Was very interesting, a pity nowadays taking apart stuff is not so easy.
What is wrong wrong with just using the following.

Given it would be nice if make had a builtin macro to do this, but it is not too bad to type out.

depend: .depend

.depend: ${SRC}
${CC} -MM -I. ${SRC} > .depend.X && mv .depend.X .depend

include .depend

Makefile: .depend
Spot on. I agree. I really miss the old Trinitron that this Bravia replaced. I hung onto that unit for nearly a decade and it never skipped a beat.
That's 50% odds for those found at the end. As both your link and the primary link from HN point out, an unknown number of people may have fallen out, eg, into the sea, and not been counted. Your link also points out that some may have been helped at the end by "Good Samaritans" and the success not reported.
Seriously, it amazes me that in 2014 people like you are still trying to justify spam.

A follow-up contact and putting someone's email address into an automated system that spits out boilerplate junk are two very different things.

Any company that relies on the latter clearly doesn't give a flying fuck about their reputation.
Theresa Preston-Werner's response https://medium.com/p/2fe173c44215
There are quite a few hacks around but I wondered if there was some reason these aren't more widespread or commercially available. Business idea?

You could also make something that filters all light but near infra-red so it could be seen by CCDs (on cameras or phones) but not with the human eye. Or do the reverse and flood the picture with near infra-red to prevent it being photographed.
In my experience, make is coupled to Unix. Make is not coupled to C.

However, implementations typically include magic that is heavily biased toward building C and C++ code. As someone who works on a lot of projects, some using those languages and some not, I tend to think it's rather too magical at times. Personally, I'd prefer to have that kind of magic explicitly stated in some standard file that comes with the tool, so that file can be included with a one-liner for those projects that want it but there is nothing implicit going on by default.
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I think this is without question analogous to Stripe. As pg said, the reason Stripe was able to succeed is that no one else was willing to do it: it was too obviously hard. The mountain that would need to be climbed was apparent from the start.

I think this one is similar. Aggregating all of these events for all of these niches from all of these websites is just both so obviously needed and so obviously difficult that no one has wo/man'd up to do it (at least as far as we know).

I have lamented on this one since at least 2007 when Yahoo bought that startup that was trying to do exactly this (can't remember the name).

One day it will happen and the world will be quite a bit better. Obviously :)
So, remember that what Julie says about them not contacting her is itself, and allegation.

Her picture proves nothing, after all.

Your conclusion about "how much stock to place" does not follow, since this allegation has not been proven true.

Having been involved in this sort of thing before, both on the "asked to investigate" and "asked to play witness for an employee side", i'd say the truth always lies somewhere in between, and both employers and employees tend to behave badly.
Great! But you need a status update that's more mobile I think. Because the status is quite likely to change when you (and all your colleagues) see the green light and head for the door ...
Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing
Where is anybody saying that YC doesn't have the right to hold this event, or that it's "skirting the edge of the law"?

Lots of people are saying they shouldn't be doing this. I don't see anybody saying they don't have the right to do it anyway.
I do agree that it isn't the best idea, but I find name-calling the worst way to support an argument.
Tom Preston-Werner's response: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2014/04/21/farewell-github-hel...
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I have a question/observation that may be offensive, and it is not meant to be - so pardon my ignorance if this is a misguided perception:

When this story first ran and I was reading JA Horvaths tweets in the surrounding days - and reading whatever other articles related to this story were - I got the impression that she didn't necessarily seem like the most easy-going-innocent victim, and I wondered; what if she was actually a difficult to work-with person?

This is in no way a defense of any actions of any party, it was just a perception of the language, tone and content of the messages that Mrs. Horvath used gave me the perception that she wouldn't be the most desirable co-worker....

Now, I have nothing to substantiate such an opinion other than the tweets and stories I read just left me with this impression....

So, could it be that while her allegations are true, she is also a participant in the situation whereby she could have been acting poorly/using poor judgement?

Finally, I recognize that the actions of the wife of the founder are the most insidious, and a clear cause of concern, assuming they are in fact true...
"convince your friends, neighbors, coworkers, etc. that the law needs to be changed."

Property owners of NYC purchased condos and co-ops with the understanding that they were buying a residential property ... not a hotel with transient occupants. What's your argument that their residentially zoned property should be converted to a mixed-use property? What impact do you think that would have on their property value?
How about not going the route of "zen the #$%^ out." I prefer the drivers around me to be aware of their surroundings and conscious of their driving, not lost in dreamworld.
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It doesn't really matter what actually happened. The well has been poisoned so just fire someone and get it over with.

Now Github can get back to business.
AT&T has made it their goal to trick the average consumer by having their reps go around telling everyone in Austin they now have fiber in their area!

The reps won't even give the speed of the line until asked and the majority of responses when asked are Download Speeds of 15-30Mbps. Time Warner has cable options doubling this and the price is better.

AT&T is basically trying to confuse their customers before google fiber hits Austin and it's the most immoral thing I've seen in a long time.
Hello all,
I'd love to get the feedback of any of the Life science HN members.

The ultimate goal here is to centralize, organize and automate scientific data. There is such a big gap between basic research and technology that I had to do something:) This is my answer to the many servers/NAS/USB keys I've set up throughout my graduate career.
Looking forward to any feedback you may have,
Keith
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2014/04/21/farewell-github-hel...
They did beat them to the market. Then they screwed up, lost their whole advantage to Apple, and abandoned Windows Mobile...
My dad worked out of Stranraer at that time, the dumping area was called Beaufort's Dyke. If you search for the name there are all sorts of interesting documents, especially if you get the PDFs.

I heard similar stories from him, including one where a some of the 'goods' ignited whilst still on the barge and a couple of very brave men dumped the burning cases to sage the barge. Likewise, there are things he didn't talk about too.
:( this sucks. Github would not even exist without Tom Preston-Werner and I am really scared to see how it will exist without him. Tragic for all his users.
I've read this a few times and it still doesn't really have any bearing on the aside I was making, which was that something was presented as a hypothetical (Imagine ...) that is the overwhelmingly typical case, and in some measure that amused and confused me.
The key word in there would be “evidence”: take the example of “oogling” female employees hulla-ooping. You can prove that they did hulla-oop, but not that the way others watched them was sexist.

Proof is a huge issue with sexism in general: anecdotal, or separate cases for discrimination; expression of consent when it comes to rape, etc. I wished organisation handling such issues focused on provability in court, rather than awareness.
I was hoping Github would address this. But the whole post is about HR issues and having an inclusive work environment.
I was already sold on tup after reading the first paragraph comparing it to make[1]:

"This page compares make to tup. This page is a little biased because tup is so fast. How fast? This one time a beam of light was flying through the vacuum of space at the speed of light and then tup went by and was like "Yo beam of light, you need a lift?" cuz tup was going so fast it thought the beam of light had a flat tire and was stuck. True story. Anyway, feel free to run your own comparisons if you don't believe me and my (true) story."

[1]: http://gittup.org/tup/make_vs_tup.html
exactly, this is really tragic.
I can't really speak to the utility of using the characters in practice, but looking back on when I was studying Japanese and Korean, it frustrates me that more emphasis wasn't put on the characters, as learning the roots of the words was incredibly helpful in learning vocabulary, in the same way that learning Latin roots would be helpful in studying English. It was, though, much more of an issue in Japanese, where you run into the characters everywhere. Because of the heavy conversational emphasis in most foreign language classes, I didn't learn about character composition (radicals), or the phonetic element to characters until I took a bit of Chinese. When I did finally learn these things, my reading comprehension got a very significant boost.

I'd maybe argue that the use of Chinese characters in Japanese allows me to read much faster than if all writing were in Hiragana, particularly since people tend to identify words more by their shape, but Hangul does this quite well on its own, so I think maybe there's not as strong of a need for it in Korean.
I can't think of much else they could reasonably do in response to these allegations. Tom was a founder, President, and former CEO of GitHub. They effectively fired him. They apologized profusely and laid out specific ways in which they're trying to fix the problem. They hired a new HR head. They're starting to train and educate employees.

What else would you have GitHub do?
Seems sort of like 'inequality' is the meme of the day and all this attention is just because somebody wrote a big weighty book about it, rather than another documentary with emotional music behind all the dialogue.
Did you read the part of your lease where what you were doing was illegal? How can you be upset at AirBnB when you either knowingly or ignorantly broke the law?
Most thin sheets of polyester actually function as retarders (not necessarily quarter wave plates) due to the way their molecules are aligned during manufacturing. Here's one of the better cites on the topic, it includes some math to design any desired retarder:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0702225.pdf
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Russian with its truly phonetic alphabet is cool.

I don't speak a word and felt quite lost in Moscow (Even in Moscow! English doesn't help! It took me twenty minutes to get out of the subway station, I always ended up at some other subway line... after that experience I quickly learned what "entry" and "exit" look like).

But! Walking past a Lufthansa ad and just playfully trying to decipher the letters was fun!

So I pronounced it, letter after letter, all separate, since I still needed to think about every letter, having just learned the cyrillic alphabet days earlier.

Okay. But what could it mean? Let's pronounce it as a word.

"Stewardess". I kid you not. I could actually read quite a few things. "McDonalds", "Subway", "Hemingway Bar".

I felt like the king of the world. :-)
The programs are transmitted as a broadcast for public consumption.

Cellphone and wireless are point to point communications.

The argument isn't unsound, just unclearly stated.
Exactly. Even after 10 years living in UK I still make mistakes with verb. Consider this: http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/have.html, a table just for "have"!
The key point here is that it is automated deployment, not automatic deployment. Without an automated manually gated trigger, you would end up deploying every gem that got built to rubygems.org, which would be very broken for gems.

Another possibility- and something people do often is to maintain a release branch and merging all changes from the master/development branch onto this one when something is ready to be released. The gem built from this release branch can then be released automatically every time it is built.

The fact is, that flow too, can be automated from Snap due to our automated branch tracking.

RSpec (rspec-core at least), and many other gems, use TravisCI to do the testing but not the pushing.
Gracias.

There seem to be ever more folks ready to overreact with pitchforks and cudgels calling for the draw and quarter anyone over misinterpreting the color of a bikeshed.

It's too bad folks choose to disagree, point out something as an excuse to be uncivil and with the cowardice of anonymity.
So, guy who wrote GitHub and a ton of open source stuff is ousted from his own company and sacrificed for a person whos biggest accomplishment in open source is JavaScript for Cats? https://github.com/nrrrdcore/javascript-for-cats
I was wondering as well since this is the first time that I learn about the issue: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes...
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"And so a huge number of incredibly well qualified engineers, who in previous decades would have put their skills to work being a part of something much bigger than themselves, instead decide to go it alone"

Anyone have an actual estimate on what this 'huge number' is?

If we accept that 1 out of 10 startups do succeed, each VC funds a few dozen startups on average, and that allows "a few big-name angels and VCs [to] do OK for themselves", then that implies maybe low four figures of engineers.

Is it really economically significant (as seems to be implied by the article) in the grand scheme of things?
Silly thing these gender based politics and acts of political correctness. I can guarandamntee you that if I was Tom and was innocent, mistakes in judgment aside, I would not be resigning from MY COMPANY.

Is this the result of new board members coming in post-investment? If so, it's more reason to stay bootstrapped and free. If not, who is there to pressure him other than Chris?

Edit: 4 downvotes without a single comment. Tech is really becoming a soup sandwich of misplaced frustration and angst.
I completely agree with you. As a whole I am against Airbnb's willingness to look the other way, and see it as a good thing for these types of places to be shut down.

I'm saying that instead of complaining about being forced out of business, realize that there are reasons for it--talking to friends/coworkers/neighbors/etc can be enlightening for everyone. Maybe understand that a friend Joe doesn't want to have his 2 young children be surrounded by complete strangers who change daily by talking to him. Maybe in that way a political middle-ground can be found. That's all I'm saying.
https://github.com/blog/1823-results-of-the-github-investiga...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7623281
Cupcake (Apollic Software) has been the company behind Flynn (and Tent) since day 0 (we tend to downplay the branding because we think both projects can stand on their own).

Most of the development on Flynn (nearly all of the 2014 work) was done by Jonathan Rudenberg (@titanous), one of the founders of Cupcake. We brought in Jeff as a contractor and paid him out of the crowdfunding campaign. He contributed to the initial architecture and prototypes but stepped back in December.

I don't want to speak for Jeff (@progrium) but my understanding is that he'll keep evangelizing the project at conferences and may be working on a proprietary version/components at Digital Ocean.

The Cupcake team (especially Jonathan) will keep developing Flynn (of course with open source contributions) full time in the future.
I think you need to break down SPAM this way...

SPAM = UCE + UBE.

UCE = Unsolicited Commercial Mail

UBE = Unsolicited Bulk Mail

What's common? Unsolicited.
Mrs. Preston-Werner says here (https://medium.com/p/2fe173c44215 ) that the accusation and reason is that: "We learned that unnamed employees felt pressured by Tom and me to work pro-bono for my nonprofit."
Ask HN: Your thoughts on if H1B employees should contribute to 401k or not?
Mates ,
As a H1B employee in US, I always had second though about whether or not to contribute to 401(k). On one side there is some extra compensation but on other side there is huge penalty if I withdraw early. Given the wait for green card for folks from India and China its psuedo-same-employer-lockdown situation. So considering time value of money and given the inflation rate does it make sense to contribute to 401(k) or IRA ?
What other H1B folks on HN do ?
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i agree that in languages without compiler defined types, but with other tools such as named arguments, the class of errors described here can be to some extent avoided by making good use of named arguments. I'm gonna do this more often in my python code!