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"What is a function" / "What is $_POST" is the PHP equivalents of FizzBuzz. Simple questions that you can use to weed out the people who literally know nothing.
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Too long, didn't read completely, but having more than "dabbled" for a few years in the Chinese language, I agree that you have to be attracted to the language for the intrinsic reward of the learning process itself, while external goals probably are not enough.
sounds more like a fact https://github.com/blog/1823-results-of-the-github-investiga...

edit: re. "unequivocally confirm this and we are prepared to fight any further false claims"
Downvoters: Would you mind explaining yourselves? It was a perfectly reasonable question to ask.
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It wasn't anything inherent in the wars themselves that caused this. It merely put financial pressure on governments, who then had raise to money, and proceeded to raise it from the people who had it.

This pressure need not be caused by war. Any big, ambitious, inspirational project like fighting climate change or colonizing Mars will do just as well.
Right now Flynn Layer 0 is very immature compared to Mesos, but yes they're trying to solve similar problems. After Flynn reaches production stability and builds out more features, we expect Layer 0 to be a valid (and much lighter weight) alternative to Mesos that we hope will be a superior solution for a broad class of users.

I feel like the projects have very different prospective user bases and communities (Mesos is an Apache project, hundreds of thousands of lines of C++; Flynn Layer 0 is run by a startup and only a few thousand lines of Go) and will likely develop in very different directions to service those communities.

That being said, we've explored creating a version of Flynn layer 1 components that run on Mesos instead of Flynn Layer 0 for users who are already deeply invested in the Mesos ecosystem.
That depends how you define happiness. For some people, simply pursuing their dream makes them the happiest. It may be painful, miserable, and ultimately end in failure, but for a certain set of people that's the only way they can live.
And if people point out your blind spot: stop, listen and then reevaluate.
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> If they de-duplicated the data (as Zediva did), they'd certainly save a lot on storage and hardware costs, but they'd no longer be protected by this legal precedent.

This should be a clue to the supremes that this is bad law.
Actually, that specific denial is limited to two items: gender based discrimination by Tom Preston-Werner and his wife, and the existence of a discriminatory/hostile workspace. Not coincidentally, these are the two claims which would have been against the law, and also the least of the claims brought forth by Horvath (though it's the angle latched onto by the media) - she instead claimed personal harassment from Horvath's wife, and the non-responsiveness of HR to these issues.

The only real gender based problems she had were related to male co-worker's responses to female co-workers hula-hooping, as I remember it.

There wouldn't be much evidence of personal harassment, particularly the kind described by Horvath.
This statement is pretty terrible.

The line "sexual or gender-based harassment" looks like it's been specifically written to exclude other kinds of harassment, especially given that term is used multiple times.

Employee harassment of any kind is unacceptable and if they're not willing to admit that it's a problem and act as if it's something that should be brushed under the carpet then it will continue to be a problem.

I appreciate that this might turn into a legal case so they're acting to protect themselves, but it would be better if they hadn't put out any statement rather than this weasel worded one.
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It was the #1 story on HN when you posted this. Still is.
Familiarity with a character is a lot like familiarity with a latin root word in English - if you know most or all of the characters that compose a word, you can usually do a pretty good job guessing the meaning of it. Certainly there are exceptions (and there may be more in Chinese than Japanese, which I'm more familiar with, as Chinese uses non-phonetic characters explicitly), but I'd still argue that it's quite useful. In Korean, which has a phonetic alphabet (though based on the same characters), I can always sound out a word, but I'll often have no idea what it means, whereas in Japanese, often I can't read a word out loud, but I know exactly what it means. For every "uptight", there are a dozen 心電図 (心:heart + 電:electric + 図:map = electrocardiogram). It works with spoken language as well, though - often times I'll hear someone say a new word, and I'll ask "is this the right character/syllable breakdown?", and if it is, then I already know what it means.

Edit: To your point regarding English having both connection to meaning and pronunciation - that's definitely true, it's just not as immediately clear/visually identifiable, and not as dense. One could certainly argue that, if native speakers are having serious issues learning pronunciation in a language, then the language makes a poor tradeoff with density there.
They're trying to discourage employees and ex-employees from filing a class action lawsuit.
while there may have been no legal wrongdoing, the investigator did find evidence of
mistakes and errors of judgment

'found them blameless'?
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Be careful, as they don't really delete the files, only don't show them on the site.

Here is an example. I uploaded a picture that was shown here http://jollyshot.com/Kzg7Xe where you can see that "This photo has expired!" but the image is still accessible here http://jollyshot.s3.amazonaws.com/media/5e34cc07d5fc6b390c1d...
I thought the allegation was she had access to internal chat, not customer data.
Was discussed at the time on NASASpaceFlight forums where some industry insiders hang out.

http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/falcon.html

http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/falcon9.html

http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/falcon9v1-1.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Reusability

These guys made the system:

http://www.airborne-sys.com/pages/view/spacex-falcon-1-and-f...
Oh, I know they use such compounds, but I meant more like the history of the idea forming in the 19th/20th century, and China moving towards the Japanese model of doing so as the commenter claimed.
Just because something isn't difficult, doesn't mean it isn't useful. And sometimes people just enjoying doing stuff. Do you enjoy watching a movie, or reading fiction, or just sitting and chatting with friends?
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"Because I would hear ‘We should hire more women!’ on almost a daily basis from the same people who kind of refused to respect me as a peer."

I don't know what went on here, but I have heard these words
before. And most of the time it has nothing to do with
gender.

(As to hn deleting comments--I don't understand the moderators. I posted something earlier about the
divide between the rich/poor--and claimed something about
the lack of modern Horatio Algiers. I guess it really bothers
some of the fancy boys? I come back to this site and
comments are magically removed. I commented in the article
on Lenin. Yes--this is off topic; I'm just curious why
whenever I bring up money, and how many rich boys fathers
helped them out graetly; I am edited?)
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TOTALLY MADE-UP EXAMPLE:

1. Employee makes sexual harassment claim.

2. Outside HR consultant brought in.

3. Consultant asks "where is your anti-sexual harassment training course?"

4. CEO says o_o.

5. HR consultant establishes a policy for the company.

6. Board asks CEO to resign for not having the thing asked for in #3.

Not having a training course isn't illegal -- it's not even evidence that anyone was sexually harassed -- but the board can ask the CEO to move on because they feel he was not sufficiently protecting the company.

(PS: Post-college I've never worked at a place large enough to have required a harassment training course. This is just an example of "something the CEO should have done to protect the company but didn't, and we got away with it this time but might not next time.")
Changing lanes makes sense when there is a substantive reason to do so. The other lane moving faster is not substantive; it's observation. If you have no idea why it's moving faster, you have no idea whether switching will help.

But if you drive the same route every day, it is possible to find inflection points in the traffic patterns, where you want to go one way and a significant portion of the traffic wants to go another. Optimizing around these points is a good reason to change lanes.
Thanks, took a look.
This makes me sad. My interpretation of these events was that a toxic employee instigated a witch hunt and was successful. By simple observation of numbers here, you probably disagree with this. But for the few of you that do agree with this point of view, take it as a reminder of the crucial role of hiring. You can easily hire the person who ruins your company's culture and causes your downfall.
What is so good about growth if proceeds only go to the people who already have capital?
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that there was an actual romance. I meant that this immature (and shitty) behavior was based in that domain of "romance" (the existence or lack thereof, in this case) and not, from the face of Horvath's description, automatically based on gender-discrimination.

From your link:

> Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).

1. Did Horvath provide proof that this immature behavior was more-than-isolated and unpunished? It would be easy for her to, as it would exist in the git logs. But we don't know if it happened dozens of times, or just more than one time.

2. Reverting commits is still part of an engineer's job. She alleges that the commits were unfair...again, this evidence would exist in the logs. But what if the commits were justifiable, and the engineer was being snippy about it? That doesn't really count as harassment.

3. Was Horvath retaliated against by management (e.g. fired or demoted) for being angry at her colleague? Her account doesn't claim that.

The link you posted says that harassment, and sexual harassment, is illegal...But what Horvath describes is not harassment by the legal definition, because the other engineer could claim that the reverts were part of his job. Again, the commit logs, or even a description of them, are needed to decide whether this constituted harassment beyond a coworker criticizing another.
Cap'n'Proto is actually pretty good example of a modern, high-performance serialization. I've been using it as a template for IoT wire representation discussions.

Fast wire encodings are almost universally TLV ("tag-length-value") style serializations. Delimiter scanning is inefficient and also means the parser has little ability to predict what will be coming over the wire so that it can optimize processing.

While older serializations tend to be byte oriented, newer formats use word-sized "frames" (even if not aligned) to enable nearly branchless, parallel processing of the bytes in the stream using bit-twiddling techniques or vector instructions.
"We didn't do anything illegal, or that would leave us vulnerable to a lawsuit" is about the only content that this blog post contains.

While Horvath characterized much of her woes as being gender-related [1], the investigation could have classified most of them as either unprovable or terrible-but-not-provably-sexist (in particular, the behavior of the Preston-Werners).

I doubt it will ever be clear what actually happened. Theresa Preston-Werner's response [2] spends more time avoiding topics than actually covering them. Tom Preston-Werner likewise [3] makes sure to reinforce the fact that GitHub is immune to lawsuit while providing no real details. I'm sure there are plenty of GitHub employees who have a strong opinion, but enough of them seem to have an ax to grind in one way or another that it's hard to trust that testimony.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes...

[2] https://medium.com/p/2fe173c44215

[3] http://tom.preston-werner.com/2014/04/21/farewell-github-hel...
> I am really scared to see how it will exist without him

Isn't that a little bit extreme? Do all the good things that happen at Github stem directly from Tom Preston-Werner?

I can't claim intimate knowledge of Github the company, but I somehow doubt that this is a "Steve Jobs" type situation.
Flynn is designed to run on any modern Linux kernel. We haven't tested CoreOS yet, but once we put out a few fires we'll explore more fully.

You can add any route to any app in Flynn, so different subdomains, domains, and TCP ports are pretty easy.
As someone from the EU, talking about having "no paid time off", just sounds bizarre. What's next, women being paid less than men for the same job?
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For example, if you didn't actually do anything legally wrong, but made it look an awful lot like you did by screwing up and being a dick about it, and you're a company executive, then you can resign or get fired.

I suspect that this is not a million miles from what happened here: not actual discrimination, but enough of a blunder to look like it.
Basically, yes. But how do you authenticate that the thing telling the TV to turn off actually has the authority to tell it to turn off? This is a whole nother level of complexity which consumers will need to navigate after the API for all the things are standardized and many companies are going to screw up the security way worse than they are currently screwing up the interoperability.

The real problem with IoT isn't the standardization of the transfer medium, it's the security implications of having your things on an internet.
Interesting to contrast this business with the recent 538 article on Bing pulling their air travel ticket prediction engine because it wasn't accurate enough (http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-to-hold-out-for-a-l...)

Would be interesting to know how they hedge their risk, which they are hopefully doing)
Seems like a promise to defend one's public identity from attack. Burden of proof lies on the accuser, not on the accused.
Can someone help me understand why naming and shaming companies for what is in the customer's opinion poor behaviour deserves down-votes? No sarcasm, honest question.

Were the down-votes for something else?
I honestly think some naming and shaming would be a good thing in situations like this. Especially in this day and age when complaining on twitter is more and more likely to get a response from the company in question.
I have yet to find any updated news about the 1st stage ... did it fire when it was supposed to? Did it follow the expected descent profile? Did that Russian boat steal it for Putin? It'd be sure nice to see some answers, and video footage (albeit from the rocket's POV)
Julie Ann Horvath has posted a bunch of interesting tweets about it starting here https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/458340919721197568
The report didn't claim the great Corporation of the Elites are omniscient and omnipotent; just that 'they' owned all Intellectual Property rights, and that We, the People, must offer remittance for air.
Google does do this, but is also not an entrenched monopoly. They’re only -adding- to the competition in those cities.
> There is no conclusive evidence that rising inequality will have bad consequences on say growth - it might.

I agree that there is probably more research to be done, but I think it is important not to forget about the social and political implications of inequality. Those pre-world war inequality levels also coincided with less representative governments and more socially stratified societies, both widely viewed as being "bad" things.
You're right. It will never be clear what actually happened. I think Internet message boards create the perception that outcomes like that are rare. They're not: they're the norm. That's how it's supposed to be. We don't get to know everything and we need to work within the limits of our knowledge.
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I didn't downvote you, but this is a hot-button issue right now. A lot of people are familiar with what happened, and (perhaps wrongly) assume that everyone else is as well. Assuming that context, your post can be interpreted as "I don't think that the things said Horvath brought up were a big deal", where you might have meant "I'm not familiar with this subject, what did she bring up that was so bad?"
It would be nice to not see the harassment word prefaced with "gender-based." This parsing, by Tom, without fuller disclosure of what mistakes were made leads to the conclusion that there was some form of harassment, but that it wasn't put forth in a manner which legally falls into "gender-based," which would make github and Tom (& family) liable for those actions.

I still want to see the dramatization where the guy coder comes in professing his love, gets spurned, then spitefully removes code.

Terms like hostile, gender-based, and discrimination all have pretty specific requirements for proof.

At least HN an move forward unhappily and pull out the "tragic" word describe everything. I'm not sure we all experienced catharsis, but "tragic" will have to do.
In my experience it is pretty common for people who bring work home with them not to be super-meticulous about preventing access to the content of the work by their families. How many people do you know who sound-proof their home office so their wife can't eavesdrop on their business calls?
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I would happily move to get faster internet speeds, but all of the neighborhoods AT&T are targeting seemed to be expensive when I checked them out.

This jives w/ what the article says:

>>What's actually happening is that AT&T is upgrading a few

>>high-end developments where fiber was already in the ground

>>(these users were previously capped at DSL speeds) and

>>pretending it's a serious expansion of fixed-line broadband.

On the other hand, Google Fiber seems to be planning connectivity all over the place, since they're tasked w/ providing free service to various community hubs selected by the city which are widely spread out.
I think once we have good statistics on how different strategies affect traffic and accidents, some states will fairly quickly respond with requirements for how driverless cars must act based on that data.
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He's not just saying inequality is rising, he's also pointing out how: it is because in our time, capital grows at a faster rate than labour output (this is my lay person's reduction, please do correct me if needed).

Is the latter a bad thing? It depends what kind of world you'd favour. Let me put it this way: if people whose great-grandparents were innovators but who are now simply in the business of owning stuff get greater rewards in life than people who take risks, innovate and work hard to build new things, is that a bad world?
Just wanted to say that the time, effort and thought you have put in this project is a very apparent once you spend a few minutes poking through the UI.
Excellent execution.

I like how as a new user, you get to start 'simply' (no trackers or readings or due dates or targets) and the UI is not overwhelming and add those things as/when you need them.

The dexterity of the application is not obvious when you see /use it for the first time (I think this is a 'good' thing in that you have managed to successfully keep the UI 'simple' while providing all the bells and whistles for when needed)

Great job, keep it up, this looks helpful and I'll probably be using it.
So how much stock we can expect to put into such investigations?
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Saleem, you are dodging the question. Every major school of Islamic jurisprudence agrees on the death penalty for apostasy. Certainly there is some opposition but it is far from mainstream, and in a distinct minority. The states that punish apostasy are clearly acting in accordance with Islamic law.

I'll ask again: can you cite a school of jurisprudence that opposes the death penalty for apostasy?
It's a distraction.
Large battery banks would allow demand to "debounced" (smoothed) such that load could be much flatter and more predictable. It would be an adjunct at most, definitely not a replacement because it would be temporary storage. Further, any new tech never replaces the previous completely (just look at DC-power grid for elevators in SF. Records, 8-tracks still exist in a post CD world.)
That's definitely the most dramatic possible interpretation, and is thus the one the Internet will fixate on. Giant crowds of uninformed bystanders can be counted on never to pick the most boring narrative.
As far as I can tell skimming through these comments, no one else here has actually read the thing.

I'm not finished with it yet, so I won't offer a final opinion, but to the page I'm on it's been an impressive work. He's very apt at weaving together a narrative spanning far, far, longer than nearly all economics research, which is backed up with real data they (him and collaborators) spent quite a long time digging up and parsing. The book uses this sweeping dataset to color the major research/writings of prominent economists from several eras. Up to this point I had not read anything that had stepped back to this extent in terms of considering a history of economic thought, but which also backed up the history with data.

Personally, I find the basic tenets of his thesis pretty convincing, although, again, I have not yet finished the book. I think this was published at a very opportune time as people begin to read more about the similarities between the wealth structure of the early 20th century and today. Considering the middle of the 20th century as something of an aberration is difficult to wrap my head around, because (like most of us I assume) I've had so little exposure to people and their experiences from before 1940.

EDIT: To be clear, the foundation of this book began with research in the 1990s, so it's not as if I was trying to imply it was a completely opportunistic publishing. Rather, I consider it to be somewhat fortuitous to be able to gain a historical appreciation of these trends as they reach new peaks.
Best of luck to everyone involved. Before casting judgement, please remember that everybody makes mistakes. The process of healing involves accepting this reality and recognizing everybody's humanity.

In light of this, I would personally be honored to work with someone of Tom Preston-Werner's caliber.

I hope he & his wife learn from this experience & grow as people.
"Don't give non-employees admin privileges on your system" doesn't really sound like an HR policy. It would have been a good policy, though.
They also handle plenty of trade secrets, I'd bet. They have private repos.