skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not ironic. It's the pervasive attitude that violent misogyny is tolerable. We haven't grown past the point where women aren't 2nd class citizens and it's disturbing...
You can treat it like a reverse big-O notation. Your figure out the bus factor for each sub-task/system in your project (this is the risk factor) and then determine the priority of each sub-task/system. If a GUI is "easy" or low priority for your project, one GUI person doesn't mean your project has a bus factor of 1. But if networking is critical and you have one person that understands the novel telecon protocol stack you're using, that's a bus factor of 1.
The logical outcome of that approach is that all parents remove their children from school, because otherwise they risk being held responsible for behavior over which they cannot have any control over.

This might not be such a bad thing.

Edit: Downvoters? Consider a minority family. Think how easy it would be to goad of otherwise trick a child into doing something that could be legally actionable. Think about the already racially biased access to justice.

This would be a recipe for disaster.
The actual number of phones to be smashed is probably statistically insignificant compared to the number dropped and broken each day - I suspect there are more than 100 dropped/cracked/unusable phones daily here in the Chicago area.

The bigger issue for me is that this is effectively really only available to people who either have another phone available for use or who can do without a phone for several days ("After your submission has been reviewed and accepted, you should have your new OnePlus One in approximately 48 hours." but there's nothing about how long they're going to take to review submitted videos).

They also want to be sure you're not smashing an older phone - they have a fairly limited list which looks like it's all current high-tier phones, so if you're using a slightly older one (e.g. Nexus 4, HTC Amaze) it's not listed. I'm not familiar with all the phones on their list, so this may also be related to screen size - only larger phones need apply since the OnePlus One is a phablet?
Yes, but Netflix has the option to not provide those streams to Comcast customers if it's not economically viable for them. As it stands, most Comcast customers only request 4k streams because Netflix defaults to the highest bitrate. Basically, by changing a default setting, Netflix pushes bandwidth and creates a tragedy of the commons situation.
I'm very curious about this, and surprised that none of the media articles mention it: Does anybody know where these numbers (both the $324M settlement and the $9B asking price) come from in the first place? Presumably, the plaintiff has hired some experts who've come up with a model that estimates the wages stolen?

$324M ÷ 64,000 employees ÷ 3 comes out to $1,687.50 per employee, which seems very low. (The factor of 3 is to account for the treble damages alluded to in the Reuters article.)
How email really kills employee productivity (and it’s not how you think).
I'm dubious as to the worth of these as a specific kitchen utensil; most how-to videos I've seen include a jumper as the sole "equipment" required. Maybe two rubber bands on either side to help prevent movement would make it even easier.

> The design process took months of careful exploration and testing. We did loads of sketches and built functional and aesthetic models by hand and on the computer.

The resulting product is quite nice aesthetically, but is it worth $18?
That's typical of AEAD modes in general, though. GCM also requires a nonce.
In my experience Quora ranked a LOT higher before these shenanigans. I do not think Quora is getting the best of both worlds here: High organic rankings and many user sign-ups.
Who puts a security camera in their own bedroom?
Of things that link to it, or actual users of plus.google.com or the app equivalent?
I thought my comment was obvious, but it looks like I got a downvote so I guess I need to explain it sigh.

The point I was making is that there doesn't seem to be any real evidence of any wrongdoing at Github. All the allegations seem to disappear once we hear more details:

- The hula-hooping seems pretty innocuous. Some people start hula-hooping in the office, so other people start watching. It would be a pretty unusual thing to hula-hoop in the office, so it seems natural to watch it. There should be no reason to think the hula-hooping would cause male excitement (and if there was reason to think that, it probably shouldn't have been done). It sounds like nobody else had a problem with it.

- The rug incident seems like a non-event. Why should 'meritocracy' be divisive? The only problem it seemed to cause was preventing Horvath being accepted into a "feminist hackerspace".

- The 'harassment' against JAH from Heather and Tom now seems to disappear given the facts from JAH herself in valleywag. It seems that JAH was accused of starting the rumour against Tom's wife, and that is why JAH was called into the HR office. JAH says that she was harassed because she was accused of starting the rumour, and Heather sat silently. It would seem very appropriate to talk to a worker accused of starting a vicious rumour, and get all the facts. Did JAH actually start this rumour, or was it a lie? That is a bit unclear at the moment.

- The IMs in the valleywag article just seem like a vicious rant from JAH against Tom and his wife. So Tom's wife set up an office at Github. Perhaps not the most sensible idea given that she wasn't an employee, but certainly not harassment.

- Regarding the allegation against Ted Nyman: she now says he reverted her edits because she wouldn't date him (previously it was "fuck"). So all we know is that Nyman asked her out on a date, she refused, and he reverted some edits. Were those two things linked? To be honest I have my doubts, based on JAH's other "false positives".

Overall it looks like JAH is the bully and harasser here. It's also ironic that she has achieved the exact opposite of what she wanted to achieve (advancing the position of women in the industry). Perhaps the lesson - unfortunately - is that it isn't a good idea to hire a feminist.
Kudos to you. This comment clears the picture and paints it more as "well thought" rather than brash action feeling reflected in parent.

I will note this down and will remember for the time when I am a parent.

Edit: Grammar.
I think we need to start a new meme. Something like:

Double-blind randomized control trial or it didn't happen

Anyone?
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While I may agree with the sentiment, this meta-piece is just as speculative (moreso, actually) than the original TC piece.
Sure, it's much harder than it needs to be but is "disrupt" really the right word for what needs to happen to payroll? I'd probably reserve that for major market shifts (disruptions...) rather than desperately needed improvements to usability.
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About a half-day of work. Fixing our systems went pretty quick, but had to go track down a lot of clients' accounts and systems to rekey their certs.
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If you generally jump to blaming your daughter by default, it makes sense that she wouldn't tell you openly about what is happening for her.
> The author is looking for sympathy (I guess? Why would she write it otherwise).

You must really not be as smart as you think you are if you can't honestly figure out other reasons for people to share their negative experiences. Hint: spreading awareness, letting people know they're not alone, generating conversation, highlighting things that need to change, ect, ect.
Yes! We are using it & loving it! Here's our experience with Go: https://medium.com/technology-cvsintellect/423519a24a33
> I have a feeling that bullying harms more than just the victims, it also harms the perpetrators...

Most likely, they have already been harmed when they start bullying.
Its cool you willingly use it. You are in the minority. The vast, vast, vast minority.

That is why its the walking dead.
ESR may be gun-happy, but the very next sentence after the quote you repeated twice is: "But the way to deal with death threats is to (a) report them to law enforcement, and (b) be prepared to defend yourself against the very likely contingency that the authorities won’t be around when you need them. "
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Speaking as a fellow Brit I think not - it sounds like a standard comprehensive school.
I don't think it is the bullying which does the harm, rather the opposite: those who bully do it because they are insecure in their own person. They bully because they want to make themselves stronger by making others weaker. In other words, those who bully are already damaged, they bully as a consequence of this damage. Obviously your bully was damaged enough to blow his head off.
If people take from my comment that we should ignore the problem, they have no ability to consider the basic morality.

We are psychologically torturing a large number of children. That burden is on us. We create the situation where bullying is possible, and refuse to address that consequence in an effective manner. We refuse to even give children or their parents an effective tool to address it on an individual level. This makes me sick, and it should make you sick, too.

Anyone would be fundamentally changed for life by the level of psychological torture we inflict on our children. It requires significant strength just to not develop a serious addiction, run away, or commit suicide -- strength I don't see in most adults I know.
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You really should not be doing that. Databases should be nothing but ice-boxes. That's why ORMs. It's a bad practice to spend more tending to your DB than your GUI. And I'm pretty sure it comes directly from using SQL and stuff like that.
>it's ridiculous, he can't possibly know about all of these different things

That just seemed petty.

Does Lebron James balk if President Obama gives him a tip on his jumper?
What if all they did was mark the restaurants your friends have liked, not changed the search results order? So it's just an attribute. It could have SOME value.
I upload photos to Google. I want to chose who I share them with, that's Google+'s Circles.

I also upload videos, create documents, write blog posts, etc.

If I couldn't chose who I share those things with, I wouldn't be using those things.

The value G+ adds... makes those other services usable.
Am I wrong for hoping TechCrunch is right?

I feel like any interaction I have with Google services, I'm defending myself against getting an unwanted G+ account.
My guess is that what they write in their notebooks is not as important as the physical demonstration of social and intellectual inferiority they present to their boss. Kim Jong Un has already demonstrated a willingness to execute people who could even be perceived as potential rivals. If you reinforce the illusion projected by the leadership, you don't die. Or at least you have fewer generations of your family punished with you in political prison.
I meant the traditional NoSQL architecture (like what LinkedIn was using) where you had offline batch processing based on Map Reduce executed regularly during the day and the results were stored in a distributed hash table with super low latency and eventual consistency. This made access super fast but inflexible, i.e. only what was precomputed could have been accessed.
I've been using AppCode off & on now for about 6 months. What impresses me is how responsive the AppCode staff have been around my logged bugs and feedback. We worked with them as part of the CocoaPods bug bash and that turned out amazing.

I've been playing around with 3.0 today and its definitely a better piece of software, still does all the same refactoring and I'm very happy with multi-line editing, I've been wishing to have that in Xcode for a long long time. I normally switch to TextMate to do things like set a lot of properties to readonly.

AppCode: https://github.com/orta/AppCode Bash: http://blog.cocoapods.org/CocoaPods-Bug-Bash

( edit: wow it's difficult to include links.. )
Single-server relational backends can survive loads well in excess of most of us will ever see for our software. There are a handful of truly web-scale companies that need specialized engineering, and the time to solve for that is when you actually have that problem in sight. Conforming SQL engines can do some amazing things with simple and declarative code, giving that up in the hopes you might be Twitter-scale one day is, in my opinion, a quite poor tradeoff.
You're awfully upset about this. Why is that?

You used to work at Google. Were you on the Google+ team?
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> They just said that they no longer consider social to be a separate unit, but now will be potentially integrated to everything they do.

Considering that being integrated into everything was one of the core problems of Google+, I fail to see how this is a smart move.
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Google is a master of spin analytics.

Why dont they say how many unique users create a daily post not generated from a app?

We are not talking about adding a youtube comment, uploading a photo with picasa or using the google play store. We are talking about actually using the thing.
Yep, its even better if the kid retaliate themselves and right away, it must cost someone lots to go pick on you. That way they pick a weaker target.
We want our core products to get better from social info- Eric Schmidt (2010)
While in the real world, Wikipedia articles either hide unflattering info or act as smears depending mostly on which faction manages to edit-camp that article more effectively. Regardless of what is "ok"
That's a silly argument and shows a complete misunderstanding, or at least naive view, of product development.

Security, uptime and profitability are all table stakes. Not priorities.

Google+ just went from table stakes to priority #2.
You touch upon an important point: so often teachers are simply complicit.

In my school, a PE teacher allowed other kids to bully the same guy over and over again, walking out the room when they pointed a fire-hose at him because he wouldn't shower after class (for medical reasons I found out much later). I also remember him smiling in agreement when kids laughed at the smallest kid who was a little stalled in his development and had small private parts. What a guy!

Years later I told him off at a reunion, in public, what a horrible man and disgrace to education he truly was. He left the event. Good riddens.
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I'm far from an expert on this topic, but I am a developer, and I am currently working on a project that leverages both MySQL and ElasticSearch for storage. MySQL handles all of the "boring" data such as users, profiles, comments, etc. ElasticSearch is basically a giant product database, no real relational data, just a normalized structure and easy to query. ElasticSearch is serving as a primary data store, there is no backing in a database because ES is just that good.

Whenever I see these "SQL vs NoSQL" arguments, I always have to wonder: Why one over the other? A lot of projects can benefit from both and there's no reason you absolutely HAVE to use one or another. It's perfectly reasonable (and probably ideal) to use more than one storage system in your projects.

If you have a bunch of nails to hammer in and bolts to tighten, you don't choose just a hammer or a wrench to do that job...you grab both and use each for what they do best.
I've been thinking about this a lot. I'm remorseful of what I did as a kid. I was at times the ringleader that would make fun of particular kids and if I were a parent now, I would do my utmost to get me kicked out of school.

I grew up in a happy household, my parents were both highly educated, and my siblings and I are all relatively successful. I don't think my parents even knew about my bullying because I was really good at making sure I didn't get in trouble for it.

I didn't bully everyone, just particular kids. The best way to describe it is that I saw weakness in some kids, it sickened me, and I wanted to crush it. I didn't do it to make myself feel better, or because I had self esteem issues or to make myself popular. I was amongst the top students in my class, had a bunch of friends, and even kind of nerdy so it wasn't like I was a stereotypical jock picking on nerds.

I can't explain why I felt this way, I just did. And to be honest, I can still feel these feelings sometimes around certain people, but I just stifle them because I know it's wrong. So I think it must be genetic and something I was born with because despite me knowing it's wrong and I don't want to act on my feelings, when I interact with some people I still get the same feelings of "God this person is weak, I want to crush them."

This is why I recommend people fight back against their bullies. If the person I bullied punched me in the face, not only would I not want to get into a fight (as I mentioned I never physically attacked anyone and never got into fights because I was really good at picking kids who wouldn't fight back) but then I would reconsider whether they were actally weak or not.
Heres to me hoping that I can have a tablet which I can use to documents and use rsync to keep the documents synchronized with my workstation. Have been waiting for the kde vivaldi tablet. Also unclear if the latest bay trail tablets will run linux without issue.
Is this sarcasm or a troll?

If it's neither then I'm confused by your statement that you work for Google yet imply that working for Google is morally wrong.
Thanks! The app was designed by @alexsailer and developed by me, @wlindner.

I've always wondered the same thing, and I think it's because all of the location data in the Instagram app comes from Foursquare. It would be really competitive with Foursquare if Instagram could search locations, so I don't think Foursquare will let them. That being said, all of this could change with Facebook places instead of Foursquare locations: http://www.fastcompany.com/3028166/instagram-testing-faceboo...
So with a magic wand and an incredible amount of money we'll only make the problem slightly worse.

And it's not clear how slightly -- climate change is being caused by accumulation of greenhouse gases during a period of reduced solar output (cyclical fluctuation of 0.1%). BTW 0.02% seems like a lot more when compared to the sun's cyclical variation of 0.1% (which has measurable effects) and suspected historical variations of perhaps 3% that caused ice ages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08...
Good for you. I hate bullies. I heard this story once about my mother-in-law's tailor / dry cleaner. He'd moved to upstate NY from Italy. His kid was being physically bullied on his way home from school. One day, the guy hid in the bushes and jumped out at the bullies with a kitchen knife and told them "If you toucha my kid again, I'll fuckin kill you."

Nobody should have to put up with bullying. When it's this social kind on the Internet, I think in many ways it is worse because it's less clear how to defend yourself.
If the comments don't suck, why are people complaining about them? They suck big time. (YouTube as a whole suck too, but less.)

> Having every Google application sport its own commenting system is unnecessary balkanization.

I disagree, it depends, there are pros and cons.
Every once in a while I'm reminded of the negative side of the ruby community that people always talk about. I'm not entirely sure why there seem to be a ton of highly negative and highly vocal people giving it a bad name, or if it's even anything other than my selective bias, but it is really unfortunate. For every Matz and Jim Weirich there seem to be ten Ruby rockstars who think the best way to make a name for themselves, or have their argument known is by being the biggest bully.

Are other communities like this or is it more pronounced in the ruby community?
Thanks for this insight. I got the same feeling while reading it and suspected it was the manner of delivery more than the disagreement.
Which is why web standards often specify javascript APIs, and don't generally say "this should be available in a language that's...well, mostly imperative or object oriented, and maybe there can be some functional features, I guess..."
In years past, when I went out to bars a lot, I had a few classes of drinks I would buy, depending on my purpose for the night. If I intended to drive home a few hours later after playing some pool, I would just order Bud Light. I was able to drink for the social aspect, it quenched any thirst I had, and at a slow pace because I was playing a lot of pool, it didn't end up intoxicating me all that much. If I didn't have to worry about my ride at all, I would order a more flavorful beer.

I also find cheap American beer to be ideal for the beach.
The PHP Virgin QUIZ is full of wrong answers!

1. To run PHP code it needs to be processed by a web server.
They say TRUE.
The answer is FALSE.
- php-cli is used a lot (composer/phpunit/etc...)

2. If you inspect the source of a web page, will you ever see the PHP code?
They Say YES.
The Answer is FALSE
- I mean maybe if you enable phps (php source) in your web server, but in most usage never.

4.In the following code snippet, 'print' is what?
<?php print("Hello beautiful world!"); ?>
They say it s a variable.
That might be true given that a variable can be a closure function, but the real answer is a function!

UGH!
Female developer here! I feel like this has to be click bait, right? No one is seriously positing this site as a serious way to learn to code. Right?

"So how did you get into development, Mr. Job Candidate?"

"It all started when I successfully completed every fap session at Codebabes.com..."
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Is this for java only? I'd love to use it instead of msdeploy. Does anyone have any experience with such configiration?
>I'll just take a bud. My reasoning? Why pay for expensive beer! A bud tastes fine

Can't help but read your reply in a thick southern accent. Personally, if I'm aiming for an aggressive, high volume night, I'll take a busch over a bud.
HN is above criticism now?

> meta-discussion about HN which is unhelpful.

Why is this unhelpful? Why isn't discussing sexism and bigotry on HN important?
Sometimes, you gotta go for the Godwin. Victim blaming like the OP just indulged in, that was one of those times.
It's a superior tech because it allows you to develop to your business domain (which changes all the time anyway). Supporting infrastructure really should not be more important than your app code. SQL is almost a first class citizen in most old apps, which is tying dependencies too closely and makes for some bad apps.

Also for all consumer apps, people value scalability over security and performance today, yesterday, last week, a year, 5 years ago, whatever. You should be using NoSQL for that. And B2B almost all business domains.