skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In social animals, the alpha is the individual in the community with the highest rank. Male or female individuals or both can be alphas, depending on their species. Where one male and one female fulfill this role, they are referred to as the alpha pair. Other animals in the same social group may exhibit deference or other symbolic signs of respect particular to their species towards the alpha or alphas."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_%28ethology%29

The way her blog reads and the stories surrounding the GitHub incident indicates to me, she thought she was in charge and pushed people around, which turned a lot of people off. Alpha positions are earned, not given. When people come in and just expect to be the dominant personality, you get the issues she ran into at GitHub.

This doesn't take away from any of her allegations, but it probably was a role in the issues and friction she had with team members.
Those are very different skillsets - someone who is street smart may not be able to do the simplest of coding tasks, and a very good engineer may not have any skillset to survive the streets. This comparison doesn't make much sense.
Will all The Washington Post articles about books now have this Disclaimer?

(Disclaimer: The Washington Post is owned by Amazon's
founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos.)
"Fortunately" (and I don't mean to encourage it), the abrasive people in the crypto community are like that when they tend to be right - and don't want "newbies" to do stupid dangerous mistakes, so their tone comes out a little aggressive by default. But yeah, it could be improved. The community should work together on solving issues the right way.
No, the performance was great. The UI is not unusuable, but pretty frustrating, and as far as I know there's no CEC support in Android (or, at least, their Android build). So as a set top box I don't think it works.

Worse still, you can't really run background services without a lot of hassle, so you also throw away a lot of what makes it compelling as a mini-server.

So by useless I suppose I mean it doesn't do anything very well.
"Innocent until proven guilty" often only applies to legality, and not people's mentality.
I can't actually see anything on Tyan's site about a board. Elsewhere Google says it is going to be cheap. But it would be nice if it was available.
It's pretty trivial to set up AdBlock and watch The Daily Show sans commercials. You're right, it's a day late, and you may have to wait a few seconds to watch Jon Stewart's mug in glorious HD, however it's still more convenient than finding a torrent.
It must be related to the ISP then. Anyone else on Time Warner Cable in the US that is having these issues?
Without it we wouldn't have had this great debate about male friendships. Sure, the original article may very well be crap, but the resulting debate is not.
This is not actually "open" as in free and open source software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPOWER_Foundation
"actual neighborhood-dealers"

Actual neighborhood-dealers in my neighborhood are more like the one depicted in the article, than the "corner" style inner-city dealers you see in movies and on TV. They might not be hustling around NYC selling to business people in office buildings, but they aren't "on the corner" packing a gun and paying off cops either.
Vice is doing that all the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvN7fKmCoXA
Microsoft unveils 'Bing in the Classroom' with no ads
Right, because “number of cores” is an honest way to compare processors (and why does the customer even care about the processor?).
... grypto! ...
I've personally seen MDMA fix two marriages, with one session each. Its divine stuff. I'm very happy that new studies have been completed or are being planned to further explore the psychotherapeutical side of the drug.

But aside from that, I agree. It's the best. No hangover (if it's pure), short duration, music sounds amazing, an amplified sense of intellectual focus and compassion, and good times with friends. You can't ask for anything more from an intoxicant. Its the best.
How journalism promotes the Internet's shadiest scams
Yes, it appears to be Time Warner Cable specific (in the Triangle NC area, at least)
Aren't they already entrepreneurs? Who says they have to have a job? LOL
Check out the top, I'm sure you'll find something interesting.

If you're web-developer try Top posts > CSS. Also try top stories from GitHub and top-Medium posts (they are a lot of tech-realted and not necessary design-realted topics).
"This page scientifically designed to annoy web hipsters. Donate now to stop the Comic Sans and Blink Tags."

They know. I find simple HTML like http://cr.yp.to/ to be refreshing sometimes, albeit not "pretty." But with the font and blink tag (powered by CSS), they've gone out of their way to make it a bit ugly. At least they drew a line and don't have headache-inducing colors or animations.
Yep. I may stumble upon shrooms or acid/LSD every once in awhile but for the most part, it's unknown-strained marijuana. I don't really have the type of friends to make those kinds of connections, has always been my take on why.
I am a co-founder of the tech cooperative: http://colab.coop

We run a worker-owned tech cooperative supporting startup social enterprises through agile development of minimum viable products that we hope will change the world for the better (hopefully that doesn’t sound cliched as our hearts are sincere in that desire).

I am glad to see some enthusiasm on HN for the cooperative cause which we believe strongly in as model vehicle for moving beyond the 'exploitation economy' which most of us operate in and which pits us against each other as adversaries rather than joining us together as partners in seeking solutions to problems we all share.

We have found the biggest plus of being a cooperative to be the sense of equality amongst our crew stemming from a democratic-based decision making process and a path to membership (as a co-owner) available to all (assuming performance and cultural standards are met).

Frankly we are slightly in awe of the talent that has joined our family by virtue of this ethos of equality and a 'do good' mission.

Moving forward we are of the opinion that the many of the best and brightest in our industry who seek social and environmental change will choose to work in cooperatives rather than traditional corporations even if it means sacrificing some personal financial benefit to do so (although hopefully this will not be needed as more resources go to supporting cooperatives).

The ‘meaning quotient’ of life generally trumps all for those we work with and those who support cooperatives.

In terms of keynotes, running a cooperative successfully requires:
- emotional intelligence
- operational processes that support intra-team communication and collaborative work
- a willingness to put your trust in your co-workers
- a strong sense of cultural identity
- a mission that can be shared with members and partners

Given this is HN, I will say that there is some tension b/t the 'lead by your gut' - fast and furious - approach of most entrepreneurs and the emphasis in cooperatives on getting consensus from the team on big decisions. As a former ‘traditional’ entrepreneur with some VC / startup experience, I feel like we have found a nice balance b/t empowering our management team to lead with their ‘gut’ business instincts while also engaging in proactive communication with the team around key business decisions. That said I have also at times stepped on some toes and gently bruised some egos with my former ways. So it is a learning process for sure...

As part of our communications work, we have begun experimenting with using http://loomio.org as part of our discussion and decision-making process.

Lots more that could be shared but, I hope some of this is helpful. If anyone has further interest in cooperatives, our work processes or our work feel free to PM me.

EDIT: Just noticed that we were referenced in the opening post. (Thanks jboynyc) Sorry for flying a bit too fast and furious, speaking of... Also updated the loomio URL above.
My life in typefaces (2014) [video]
The point is they don't need to defend the Immunity Project. They are giving them the resources to (ideally) allow them to defend themselves. If they fail, YC is fine with that, but the Immunity Project at least has the chance to try something.
Sometimes your "weed guy" will actually sell much more but simply not tell you. If you ask (the right way) they might reveal this, or connect you with another guy but I would suspect a lot don't want you (or anyone) to know they deal in the "harder stuff".
Ironically the post reads extremely sexist. "We're offended by due process! Ahhhh the female lost; must be sexism!". I'm not arguing Github hasn't handled this situation as well as possible, but really?
And worse people cycle through novel compounds to avoid drugs laws to create "legal highs" which have bery little data to show how safe or not they are.

It's weird just how sub optimal current laws are.
Building Flickr’s new Hybrid Signed-Out Homepage
The issue isn't so much YC's investment in projects that may not have scientific rigor, but that of individual investors via crowd-funding platforms. At an extreme, this results in a company like GoBe raising $1.1 million on IndieGogo with PR and a slick video.

YCombinator has the sophistication and time to vet their investments. If they want to back something most of the scientific community thinks won't work, all the best to them. However, raising capital from mom-and-pop investors is another story.
Let's avoid a wall of text: http://bit.ly/1prhQuR
Mitochondrial diseases don't seem like an easy target because they are really metabolic and homeostatic disorders, which are very complex. If the main failure of mitochondrial disorders were a lack of energy production, how could cancer cells grow faster than regular cells, yet turn off mitochondrial energy production in favor of anaerobic glycolysis and lactic acid fermentation (which is much less efficient)? Mitochondria have an under appreciated role in ion homeostasis, intermediary metabolism, and biosynthesis that seems to be the cause of many mitochondrial diseases. The mitochondrial genome only codes for a few proteins, but relies heavily on the nuclear genome for proteins. In other words, the mitochondria isn't just an isolated power plant; it's an integrated system that provides power in addition to logic, material processing, signaling, etc. Sorry to hear about your disorder, fortunately there are people researching these diseases.
I don't really buy that reasoning. :-) If the goal is not to clean up bad things, we may just stay with C++.

When a new language comes and the programmer is already having an intention to learn something new, probably is working on a new project, this state is the best opportunity for the cleanup. Once the language matures, legacy codebases become rampant, that opportunity is gone forever with that language.

Did you consider naming the type something like 'index' itself, if that is the predominant good use-case for the type?
More and more farmers using drones in France
They call it "Internet Plus", I believe they were only running it as a trial in certain markets: http://gizmodo.com/comcasts-hbo-internet-plan-is-the-one-you...

You can try calling them and see if they'll give it to you.
Yea, I really wish Codecademy and Treehouse could merge their curriculums. Step 1 has always been the hard part for me.
Technically not the same, but in NC you can't buy it on Sunday before noon.
You'd suggest SICP to someone just starting out?
I don't think he attacked the traditional male gender role. In fact, I think the article supports your general opinion. it starts by entertaining the idea of the male friendship deficiency, and even giving some anecdotal evidence.

But then, it turns around. He could enjoy his friendships without sharing "deep feelings", just centering around activities. That's what the ending means, when the wife asks him for entertaining gossips, and he can't tell anyone.
yup. i'm in charlotte.
On the other hand, the cable carriers' indifference to the demands of serious sports fans has pushed the sports streaming environment to the point where it's often significantly better than what's available on cable.

I care about sports. I'm willing to pay to watch them. I'm willing to pay extra to watch them in high quality. And in particular, I'm willing to pay extra to watch my favorite teams.

In terms of cable choices, I have a glut of options: AT&T, Comcast, and Astound all serve my apartment (though I can't use a satellite dish). I picked the company with the best sports options. And even so, and even when I pay extra for the NHL package or the MLB package, most games are only available in low-def. There is no amount of money I can pay any cable company that will ensure I can watch the Red Sox in HD (on those rare occasions that they're still playing when I get home from work.) So instead of paying the cable company, I pay for the online streaming service, which is almost, but not quite, HD quality.

The funny thing is, I never seriously considered cutting the cord before, but now that my TV setup is streaming-centric (with both a Chromecast and a PS3, since not all of the services I want are available on either device), it's much easier to imagine getting all of my content over the internet.
Surely one doesn't need to be pressured by third parties to make a judgment call on this situation? You must concede that there is some polarization in the debate over Github's reaction, with positive nods about the company's work environment and promptness, and some consternation over the legal posturing.

Again, Ada is simply saying they cannot continue association with Github. The statement you quoted explicitly states that there were several variables to consider, including their own image as a protector of women's rights (their charter is not to end ALL prejudice, it's specifically aimed at prejudice against women).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhores_Alferov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Berezin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gersh_Budker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Frank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Frenkel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Fridman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Friedmann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Ginzburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeni_Gross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Hessen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Ioffe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulii_Borisovich_Khariton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Kikoin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Lifshitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lifshitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Mandelstam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Migdal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Markovich_Polyakov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Pomeranchuk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Pontecorvo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Rabinovich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Pavlovich_Rapoport
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Tamm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiva_Yaglom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Borisovich_Zel%27dovich

Arguments much?
Brierwood is one of our partners and inspirations in setting up a coop. They specialize in mobile app development. They are both a pleasure to work with and do outstanding work.
Thanks. I think it's a good way of looking at things. I might just practice the same from now on.
My experiences with industry research to date do not particularly back that up. For every "academia is too conservative", there's a pushback of "Yeah, but will this be profitable?"
This was a survey of university workers - so I imagine that's less of an issue than at a company.
I don't know about Rackspace, but if your mailhost is on Amazon EC2, you can use something like authsmtp.com or dyn.com who will sell you smtp relay service for cheap. Easy to setup and use.
Reading the whole story, couldn't find any sign of gender biased action from GitHub.
Have you considered changing to a new (and perhaps more interesting) job?
Seems to me like a decision that will not help to further the initiative's goals. Feels like diplomacy by isolation and cutting communication.
I guess that's my lack of knowledge of how Ruby's string interpolation works. I assumed it worked like any old string format, which in other languages can use whatever string is passed into the formatting function. It sounds like that's not the case for Ruby's string interpolation. My apologies for jumping to conclusions. I guess it's my statically compiled mindset that assumes a string is a string.
That's not necessarily an unfounded fear, though, is it? They're used to the kind of profit margins you can get in a world where people value a copy of one movie at $19. If that changes and suddenly copies of every movie are available all-you-can-eat for $7, those margins collapse. (Not to mention that you're splitting those seven bucks with Netflix.)

I have to think they look at how Apple managed to maneuver itself into the position of being an intermediary between most people and the music business, then look at what that did to the profit margins of the music business, and think "there but for the grace of god go I."
Supreme Court Conflicted on Legality of Aereo Online Video Service
I suppose there isn't a .torrent for all of these images ? :<
I think a lot of the pushback, and absolutely my source for concern, was not so much YC funding the Immunity Project, but the hype spike that comes from a high profile investment around something with very, very little actual scientific evidence behind it.
This seems like a weird move to take. From what I can tell, there's no clear evidence of gender-related wrongdoing* . There is one person's strong allegations of it, and a handful of accounts saying otherwise (of mixed trustworthiness).

So, whether you believe there was gender-related wrongdoing depends entirely on whether you believe Julie Ann Horvath or an independent investigator, or neither.

As such, it seems like the only reasonable conclusion for an outside party considering an action related to github (going to work there, partnering with them, or even just using their product) is "we don't know."

The only way we could know, with any actionable level of certainty, would be if this went to court. Until that happens, though, any punitive action we take (like boycotting github, or ending partnerships with them), is based on a guilty-until-proven-innocent approach founded in a single person's accusation. That reeks of witchunting, and I'm more than a little concerned by it.

* Everything github has said seems to indicate only non-gender-related wrongdoing, specifically the founder's wife pressuring (unintentionally, according to her) employees into helping with her charity.
Playing Devil's advocate, who's responsible for the case not being clear if not Github? How will waiting help, if the investigation is already over?
I haven't followed this too closely, but GitHub got rid of the people involved, didn't they? So why break off now? I know I'm missing something here.
Ahh, oops, that was pointed out below as well. Sorry, I assumed a string was a string, not that this only works in string literals. That's certainly better than letter user-supplied strings work this way.
The idea that anybody you'd label an "entrepreneur" can pull money out of thin air legally, without any capital, without any connections and without working for anyone else is rather peculiar.
The fact that they handled it at all, did so publicly, removed key personnel who were involved, and yet were sanctioned for doing so, shows you the poor quality of dialog we have regarding gender relations in tech.

And the counterproductive, zero-sum game that modern gender advocates get wrapped up in playing - that is a cause of it.
"The upshot is: Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane."
Really? Ada Initiative is going to throw away a partnership that was beneficial to them and their constituents because of unproven allegations of harassment by a founder and his wife against a single employee?

If Github was truly hostile towards women, why would they support the Ada Initiative in the first place? Sponsoring two conferences "to support women in open technology and culture" is not something a misogynistic organization would do.

I do not envy Github's PR staff. It seems like they are going to have a hell of a time repairing the damage from this incident.
Wired seems to often not include links directly to whom they're writing about. Check out the LOIRP at http://www.moonviews.com/ and find some of the original images they've recovered... along with lots of other great information.
Although I do run at the moment my own email server with postfix, dovecot and the rest, I'm thinking for some time to replace that with Kolab [0] - a similar package of "everything email hosting related in a box" solution with an extra advantage of supporting active sync which I find very valuable.

[0] http://kolab.org/
Just because he's serving a large segment of the coast, doesn't mean it's exclusive. I've known of people serving larger numbers than mentioned in the article, but they're one of 100s in the city. On any given weekend in London huge numbers of drugs are purchased and consumed. A single supplier is a small part of that.
These statistics are failing to take into account that young adults that grew up using the internet for entertainment will not subscribe to cable TV. It's not all about the loss of current subscribers, but the loss of potential subscribers as well.
I'd like to second this. I would very much like to throw money your way.
So they were leeching money and resources from GitHub, and using them in a sexist manner, and they're not going to do that anymore?

That'll show 'em!
Insignificant only when you look at the way things work right now. This is the problem with monopolies such as Comcast, too. They think "hey why bother improving the service, and cost us money, when we're not going to lose customers to anyone anyway"?

That only works when there's no competition or the competition isn't serious enough. But as soon as something like Google Fiber comes out, they start freaking out, because they know customers have developed a lot of resentment towards them when they kept thinking "why bother improving the service?", and they will quit them as soon as a much better alternative is available.

The same can happen to Google, too. Imagine if this was Microsoft coming out today and saying they are going to implement PGP or something even better for true privacy - and imagine then they would do campaigns like Scroogled and Gmail Man. Now do you still think it's a mistake for Google to do this from a strategic point of view, so they don't lose customers in the future?

If Google wants Gmail to remain the #1 e-mail service, then they need to do such moves first, not as a reaction to other competitors. Because by then the exodus may be too hard to reverse, if the perception of Google's services becomes much poorer and they've lost most users' loyalty (not necessarily the users themselves up to that point - but the loyalty of those users).
> Ahhhh the female lost

Did she? The offending member quit, so it isn't really a loss.

> I'm not arguing Github hasn't handled this situation as well as possible, but really?

The discussion afterwards brought up that many of the witnesses external of GitHub were not contacted, which if true shows that their selection of external auditing used a biased basis to prove no harm was done.
Yea, for me, I'm only interested in piracy when there isn't a legal way for me to watch without being extorted by cable providers. I use a family HBOGo/Showtime Anytime account (but would pay for my own if it were an option), pay for Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, etc. Piracy only becomes an option if I can't use one of those services (I want to support people who create things I enjoy).