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> During my time away from GitHub I started experimenting with Go, OpenGL, and Unity with an eye towards the software side of immersive computing.

That is extremely exciting to me. It's no secret I'm a big fan of Go, and seeing someone as influential as Tom pick it up is great to hear. I'm looking forward to following what comes out of this.
Has she filed a lawsuit? I would like to know.
Is that solved with autotools? I'm not an expert, but I wonder why people talk about pure Make where a lot of bigger projects actually use autotools.
It Doesn't Matter That Americans Are Scared of New Technology
"LibreSSL (the OpenBSD fork of OpenSSL)" In case anyone missed it on first read as I did.
Why discriminate against new customers? It doesn't seem like a good business case.
Did you not read the article? They claim to have finished a formal, third party lead, investigation.
> Dragon is berthed, it does not dock

Strictly, any man-made vessel that can maneuver independently can be docked, one only needs a larger vessel or facility that can receive it. That any man-made vessel can be docked follows from the fact that it is man-made: some sort of contraption was used to hold it during manufacture, and then it was removed. So long as I can make a vessel big enough to reproduce that environment, I can dock the smaller vessel.

The need for the ability to independently maneuver comes from the legal nature of the issue. At some point, legal responsibility for the vessel transfers from the captain or pilot to the dockmaster. In conventional shipping, that point is when the bow crosses the plane of the dock's gate.

When a vessel is berthed, some mechanism bridges the gap between the facility and the vessel, like ropes, or, in the case of the Dragon Cargo, a robotic arm manipulated from the station.
This is the internet. There is no place here for your logic and reason.
Luckily RMS has GnuTLS available, which doesn't use any heathen licenses.
I'd be really curious to see an aggregate demand curve for Netflix. Find out its elasticity and see how much price increases help/hurt its revenue. Personally, I think I would pay up to $30/month for it.
Many more people realize that than you realize, but I think you're misunderstanding the Gervais Principle link. "Losers" in the Gervais model are completely aware that their company is getting a much better economic deal than they are. They just don't think that's a big deal, because, after all, human beings have values but corporations are basically amoral. So a corporation is just a tool for a Gervais Loser to feed, clothe, and shelter himself; he directs his emotional energy toward his personal relationships.

Core values are useful for attracting and keeping the Clueless in the Gervais model. But in doing so, they make the company more than just a purely amoral economic engine. In order to sustain the delusions of the Clueless, the Sociopaths at the top need to pay at least lip service to preserving their illusions, else they leave in a huff and start acting like a wrecking ball, as a certain other prominent HN poster who likes to throw around Gervais Principle links has done. That lip service is pretty much the entire social purpose of the corporation.

One often-unstated corollary of the Gervais Principle is that the whole idea of "money" and "profit" is a social construction developed by Clueless and Losers to rein in the will-to-power Sociopaths. Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, and Napoleon Bonaparte went on killing sprees to satisfy their need for power. Steve Jobs and Richard Branson go on building sprees. That's entirely because the Clueless and Losers have created a society where the only way to the top is to take a bunch of people with you.
You moved into a direct competitor or you rolled up your own infrastructure?

I'm curious because if the company is not large, doesn't seem like much of a hassle having your own depository server.
I did and understand everything that is going on, but reading her Twitter feed the last hour shitting on everyone and everything at Github (since they didn't find any criminal wrongdoing) doesn't make you look good or more believable, it actually does the opposite.
Facebook rejected Google + Apple's "no-hire"
Why wouldn't you? I think it's natural to want to defend yourself when you're being attacked. No one wants their name dragged through the mud. It's hard to stay silent, especially considering that many people will see your silence as a sign of guilt.
It's obviously not a "company" yet. Shoot him an email and ask what his plans are.
makes sure to reinforce the fact that GitHub is immune to lawsuit while providing no real details

Where is this mentioned?

This thing where people think that investigators you hired are "independent" and that their conclusions carry something similar to the weight of a court of law is ridiculous.
Although some might attack this for being anonymous, in this case anonymity arguably makes the story more credible, not less. At the least, we can be confident that the article isn't much influenced by fear of reprisal. This is not the case for most other communications on this subject.

This doesn't make the article true, of course, so absent corroboration we must rely on internal evidence to assess credibility. To my eye, such internal evidence indicates that the story is credible. In particular, the details in the article explain for the first time exactly why Theresa Preston-Werner would have met with Julie Ann Horvath and why the conversation turned so quickly from casual to serious. [1] It also explains more credibly the relationship between Horvath and the allegedly "harassing engineer".

It's tempting to try to shoehorn these incidents into the "sexism in tech" narrative, but we should be willing to concede the point if the shoe doesn't fit. My own guess is that several people screwed up, there were misunderstandings galore, and there's plenty of blame to go around.

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/15/julie-ann-horvath-describes...
From what I see, it was an investigation into gender-based discrimination/harassment claims, and the result of the investigation was that, well, no evidence of gender-based discrimination was found. Does that not provide very useful information to the reader? It would be irresponsible for the report to claim that no harassment of any form exists at GitHub, and irresponsible of us to accuse (or "wonder", which is just a wiggly way of accusing) the worst given its omission.

> This doesn't mean there isn't any evidence--it just means that their internal investigation didn't find any.

Of course the results of the investigation tells us nothing about things outside the investigation. Is that not assumed? How many 3rd parties does it take before this is not true?

Apologies if I sound irate, it's just disappointing that accusations that seem to have little basis (huge disclaimer, purely based on news coverage and this published report) can cause a founder to leave his company.
And how many fail before they get any backing but after sucking a lot of money? The 1 in 10 chance of success could actually be optimistic.

Anyway I think the 90% failure rate might be based on this:
http://www.wamda.com/2013/02/90-percent-of-tech-startups-fai...
Getting a new customer is always more expensive than keeping a current customer - it makes good business sense then, to cover the added cost.
You demand a higher standard of evidence than you yourself meet. Especially when you say "always", with zero evidence or plausibility. (And in fact, it's a standard of evidence HN rarely meets, on any subject.) The other poster was ironically much more careful.
I like the concept quite a bit. Average consumers (read: chumps like me) are already familiar with search engine analytics stuff like Bing's flight price trackers, but that's merely an informational chart type service.

I like that this service presumably looks at similar data, but finds a way to help aforementioned average consumer directly benefit from the data!

EDIT: Oh whoa. I didn't see bluedevil2k's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7623622) about Bing pulling the flight data stuff. Interesting and somewhat troubling! I also hope that LevelSkies has some hedging in place, but I think it also makes their service seem even more important.
Well, sure. But, then, isn't that just generally life? I live in a single-family home in San Francisco, and my house's walls literally touch the houses on either side. If one of my neighbors sells or (legally) rents their home to miscreants, I have increased risk of a bunch of things from inconvenient (noise) to life-threatening (fire), but I get none of the money from my neighbor's house sale.

Obviously, there comes some point when negative externalities rise to the point of being worth regulating against (my neighbors should not be able to do ordinance tests in their backyard), but equally obviously, there are plenty of negative externalities that are not worth regulating against.

I think it's generally under-argued that the negative externalities of AirBnB rise to the level of being worthwhile regulating.
Go is an odd choice for such a graphics-heavy domain. If it works out well, I'll be very interested to hear more about that combination of technologies.
It's not about getting anywhere faster. It's about not being trapped, and about having control of my own situation. Hell, I'll drive 12 hours rather than spend 6-8 dealing with airport bullshit, for precisely that reason. I want to be in control, and I don't want to be trapped.
In the PR world, it's called "Damage Control". From http://smallbusiness.chron.com/public-relations-damage-contr...:

"While many duties of a public relations department involve building the reputation of the employer, with damage control it is primarily about minimizing the negative perception caused by a crisis-situation. A crisis is sometimes the result of an unexpected event. It might also be about something that the public relations department hoped to conceal from the public or hoped would not happen. Those involved in damage control are typically on call 24 hours a day, ready to minimize negative public perception."
There are a lot of parallels. The Industrial Revolution rendered obsolete a great deal of the agrarian-based economy that preceded it, and many farmers were forced out of work "forever" -- at least as farmers. They had to take up entirely new lines of work, and the transition was messy.

In today's context, replace the transition from farming to industry with the transition from industry to knowledge-work and services. Robots and child labor will put a lot of people out of work, indefinitely, depending on the line of work they're in. So they'll need to find new lines of work. But it'll be a long time before robots have rendered all human work obsolete, despite what Singularity proponents would have us believe.

There isn't too much fundamentally different between what happened back then and what's happening now; only the set dressing has changed. We're not yet in the era of fundamental shifts in the way labor works. We have not reached the end of history.

What's changed between then and now? Predominantly, freer trade and more fluid and fungible labor markets. These have had at least as big an effect on labor as technology has (though the two forces have often worked in tandem).

The book is generally pessimistic in its outlook. Some critics argue that even this book, despite the breadth of its historical analysis, doesn't rely on enough data to make predictions. In essence, the book discusses how the postwar decades were a local aberration in a global data set. But one could argue that even the book isn't global enough in its analysis. (Though I'd argue that a more sweeping, global view of history would tend to bear out the book's thesis more than confound it.)
I live in Austin, TX.

I have Grande and AT&T fiber to my home.

AT&T will not sell me their (current 300Mbps, future 1Gbps) service.

Grande will.

When Google Fiber arrives in my neighborhood, I'll probably keep both Grande and Google. (Because it makes for an excellent test of pfSense, and as co-owner of the company behind pfSense, I'm into testing it.)
I wonder if Tom know this.
IIRC OneDrive for Business is not your average cloud storage but build on top of SharePoint (unlike the normal OneDrive). Therefore this might be some kind of side effect due to way SharePoint handles documents and document versioning. It is definitely unexpected behavior but this might be a reason explaining it without bad intent on Microsoft's side.
Absolutely agree.

Recently, I've been really impressed by the quality of the streams I'm getting from hbogo vs typical show on Netflix. Hopefully this allows Netflix to push higher quality streams down the pipe.

Or there is a magical setting I'm missing...
I've just spent a couple of weeks "unclouding" everything due to a number of problems like this. I was using OneDrive (the consumer one) with an Office 365 Home sub for doing basic personal finance spreadsheets and it decided to literally destroy the contents as it was uploaded and downloaded from one computer to another. I can't really trust it.

I tried Google Drive before and found it unacceptable that it just leaves links to documents on your local disk. I could imagine that in a network down situation I'd be in the shit.

So I'm here with LibreOffice and local file storage only now and all is good.

I don't buy the supposed advantage of these services any more. I'm just going to lump my ThinkPad around and not worry about where my shit is now (it's with me). I'll keep an offline backup at home and one off site (encrypted).
Congratulations to everybody! I wanted to participate but I learned about GSoC last week when reading through some Julia documentation. I would have been happy to work on their linear algebra related projects. Maybe next year!
User generated content in marketing campaigns
Me too! It is indeed very awesome.
The variables are NOT immutable. The bindings ARE mutable.

a = [1,2,3,4]

x = a

x = [1,2,3,4,5]

a == [1,2,3,4] => true

x == [1,2,3,4,5] => true

This is empirically NOT the same as ruby or even mutability.

This is a HUGE misunderstanding of Elixir. Once something is created you cannot modify it, PERIOD, you can rebind variables within the same scope. You cannot change the values.

Same thing is possible in clojure, and nobody questions that its immutable.

EDIT: And to be extra clear this is only within the same function. Not possible across functions, modules or processes.
That does sound like a little more than the boss bringing around the Girl Scout Cookies signup sheet.
"This doesn't mean there isn't any evidence--it just means that their internal investigation didn't find any."

How could you ever claim anything else, though? You can only make a claim about the things you did find (including absence of things), not about things you didn't find, because you can not know about them.

This is just another example of human communication depending on goodwill. If some involved parties want to misinterpret everything they hear, there is no way to stop them.

I think the emphasis on "gender based" stuff is because that was the gist of Horvath's accusations.
You make a good point, but bear in mind that Horvath is the first person to leave GitHub, and for this reason alone GitHub definitely isn't "most other companies". I find it credible that, even in the face of such alleged terrible accusations, GitHub would try to work things out with Horvath instead of just firing her.
How much would unlimited access to movies, books, magazines, and music cost?
I like this approach, but this sentence gives me pause:
"Interpolated Equity requires just one assumption about pre-IPO startups: the value of the equity grows at a constant rate between valuation events."

What about cases where the value drops between valuation events? If I was considering an offer, and the equity portion of the offer was valued based on a model that didn't consider the possibility of a drop in valuation, I would discount that equity severely.

Furthermore, how realistic is it to have a constant rate of growth? Perhaps I'm misreading it, but I think it is likely that the rate of growth between Event n and Event n+1 won't be well correlated with the rate of growth between Event n+1 and Event n+2.
That's the first line of a classic Chinese couplet (duìlián). The second line usually goes: Niūniū qiān niú， niú niù， niūniū níng niú. It translates to "little girl leads along the cow, the cow is stubborn, the little girl pinches the cow".
https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket is an option, too
The reason it is at best difficult and more typically impossible to align the interests of all stakeholders is that the AirBnB model internalizes profits and externalizes significant costs. Neighbors bear costs but have no seat at the table, or rather their seat at the table in the form of land use regulations created via due process is ignored by both renters and rentees.

If AirBnB were to listen to all stakeholders and not just customers and investors the consensus would be a resounding 'No!'
Yeah, but games are INSANELY fun. Sports are just meh.

This is (and I assume you realize this) merely a personal preference. Like a taste in music or food.
Those other runners also show most of the competitors that there are others who aren't (much) faster or (much) more athletic that can complete a marathon, and the spectators may also provide inspiration, if only because one may feel a loser when giving up in front of a crowd, if not entirely exhausted.
What's Wrong With GNU Make?
Using radioactive krypton to find ancient glacial ice
Back then I hadn't access to the internet(1997-8?) and I was trying to figure out how this LCD screen thingy was working by dissecting the parts of my Casio clock and I found out about this "miracle" glass that looks just as normal one but inverts the screen colors(=b&w) when put in different position. I have to say, it made me a badass :)

Now-days kids could just look it up in minutes an move on. I am not sure if this is a good thing.
So what happens when a founder leaves like this, do they give up their % ownership and the other founders gain what was lost?
Upload speed on US cable internet is often around 56k, even where download speeds exceed 20Mbps.
I've had a long standing interest in this kind of semantic typing. Ironically, one of the things people hate about Java is that it has a deeply engrained culture of using semantic typing everywhere, except that it uses class "boxing" rather than just having something like the type system in Go (typedef on steroids) or something axiom based like Haskell.

So that's why so much Java code ends up looking like this:

//class FurryThing implements Thing {}
//class RubberThing implements Thing {}

FuzzyThing furbie = new FuzzyThing();
RubberThing bouncyball = new RubberThing();
DoStuffToThing( Thing(furbie) );
DoStuffToThing( Thing(bouncyball) );

In fact, it's not uncommon to see things like class Furbie extends FuzzyThing, so you end up with very specific types that don't necessary behave differently, but do add some supposed semantic precision to the code. Unfortunately, you don't get much benefit from it in Java, so it just ends up being a hassle, resulting in lots of programmer-forced unsafe casting and just as many runtime errors as you'd have got with simpler types. This is not a fault of the language, just poor implementation which rightly or wrongly appears to be idiomatic in Java.

The type system in, for example, Go is much simpler, and allows you to create semantic types that actually are the underlying type instead of creating a class wrapper (called boxing in Java, e.g., boxed int is class Integer, which is an object containing only an int), which means you can define a type like 'kilogram' that's really just a float, but the type system won't silently cast a 'kilogram' value to a float or vice-versa because it knows they are different things.

I haven't got into Haskell in much detail yet but it just basically takes that a few steps further and allows you to define the characteristics of each custom type based on axioms, that describe things like whether it's commutative or associative, the range of allowed values, etc.

This kind of axiomatic semantic typing is clearly a lot more powerful, but as yet it hasn't really found its way into mainstream languages yet. Go takes the view that it's too complicated for what is intended to be a low-level language. Rust looks interesting because it aims to be equally low level, but provide some of the same rich typing you'd find in Haskell. Unfortunately it's far from stable, but it'll be interesting to see where it ends up.
Currently there is a very alpha Postgres appliance[0] (including automatic cluster orchestration and a database provisioning API) included with Flynn and we'll be standardizing the appliance model and adding more in the future. Flynn datastore appliances run inside of containers and are managed by Flynn just like everything else and will include support for backups, HA/replication, etc. out of the box with close to zero configuration.

[0] https://github.com/flynn/flynn-postgres
I really don't understand why all this Marx 2.0 stuff is on Hacker News. Marx's ideas have been tried, over and over again, and failed. There are far better essays on capital and technology out there.

The Mouse and the Market
"If you are for technological progress, and its wide availability, then you should be an enthusiastic supporter of capital accumulation and its rational investment."
http://mises.org/daily/1786/

Taxing income is horrendous enough, but necessary. Taxing accumulated capital is just plain destructive.
I just updated gitlab from 6.0 to 6.7 at work this weekend. That it does indeed.

Which reminds me I have to submit patches to their init script.

Rails is OK, but damn is it a bit of a time suck.
Taken.

[0]: http://www.opentls.org
The idea that you'd find this kind of thing shocking is a little surprising, since it's very much the norm across all political parties.

It can be the norm across all political parties while also being seen as distasteful among YC's fans and aspirants (if not participants).
i don't trust them. I simply have no choice.
Isn't that basically tantamount to not going to live shows anymore?
When it's the CEO who you have a problem with, how do you escalate beyond him?

> Look at her now, you think that there is any company on this planet which is going to risk the same process that was done to Github on a maximum mediocre engineer? I don't think so.

She already has another job with &yet. I'm curious though, what makes you think she's a "maximum mediocre engineer"?
Accounting firms provide a pretty good counter-example here. Everyone thinks of Andersen, who actually had to close as a result of their "customer-focused" service at Enron, but actually all the "big" firms were implicated to varying degrees in the subsequent unpleasant business with CDOs. Any service business will hesitate to piss off the guy who hires them every year.
Going by the TC account (and taking the account there at face value) it sounds very much like bullying of an individual rather than anything gender-based. What's missing is why they got so paranoid about her as a potential troublemaker in the first place before they (allegedly) started handling it like chumps.
Does anyone know of a maintained git clone of the CVS repo somewhere on the web? It'd be nice to be able to browse actual commits, rather than changes to individual files.
Single family homes that are privately owned are a strawman argument.

Even if you rent your single family home, a renter only gets the keys to your building, is likely to only potentially damage the things within your four walls, and not in a position to easily break into other apartment units.
I guess they are referencing OpenOffice - LibreOffice
Ah, interesting. My personal experience with Mesos has included clusters that are basically all transient services (like map reduce jobs) or all long running services, but not both. I can see how that might lead to pathological scheduling decisions.
Tiling by regular polygons