skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At $20 I leave unless the quality of movie/documentary/show options increases. Frankly, I'd pay $40 a month if they had better selections. I also think about canceling my service, but then I remember it costs so little. I rarely watch it now though outside of house of cards and super extreme out of ideas boredom.
I think you misunderstood the article. It's not about choosing how much to compensate someone. It's about how to allocate equity given a known compensation total.
This article leaves out some of the detail from older articles (specifically [1]) about this patient where they describe the painstaking process by which they determined these patients were answering yes-or-no questions knowledgeably. See also [2] for an older article with more detail around the process.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/brain-scans-reveal...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/health/04brain.html?em
Yes, I remember in Japanese class where we had a student teacher (both native Japanese) observing the teacher teaching the class to help train her how to teach. The two spent a lot of time bickering about which particle should be used in a sentence. They usually never came to an agreement. That and the repeated explanations that what was in the book really would never be said in real life due to conjugations and keigo.

Fun times.
I guess it depends on what kind of pain is being referred to. I can't imagine myself being both conscious and in a vegetative state without experiencing a lot of psychological distress.
Hi. We are currently using the Chrome's built-in speech recognition and so it only works for Chrome at the moment.

It should not be too much work to add in external speech recognition library later on.
Nonsense. Her picture probably opens her up to suit, where she lying about the company. At the bare minimum, any lawyer would tell her to not post demonstrable lies about the company, for many reasons. Not least of which is regardless of the whole truth, in any lawsuit (filed by her, or github, or Tom, or Tom's wife, or other parties), opposition counsel will attempt to discredit your whole testimony by finding small lies and tainting you in the eyes of the jury.
Good! If they doubled the price and the content I would be thrilled. For 80% of Americans, netflix is a negligibe expense.
Hey newsjunk don't have too much time. It looks fairly neat is there a reason you've gone with purple? The one thing I absolutely didn't like was the popup/scroll about like us etc maybe build it into the footer. Hope you guys take off.
The background is from the following scenario: DJ asks girl being interviewed what favourite position is, she responds 'CEO'.

IIRC it was 'sway in the morning'.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes out swinging as the Weekend Box Office opens
If this were actually the 'truth' then you could be pretty sure some statements would have been made to implicitly discredit Julie-Ann.

It's also fairly meaningless since if you interpret this story as 'Julie-Ann started dating someone close to Theresa Preston-Werner who shared he slept with her and could even be the father of Tom's child and then refused to distance himself from Theresa; a sad state of affairs which Julie-Ann shared with some colleagues,' it immediately paints an entirely different picture.
One language that enforces strong typing is Ada. It has compiler-time and run-time type checking. It also had many other features to make the code less error-prone and maintainable. It was used by the DoD and also used in critical applications, such as nuclear power plants. The early versions of Java reminded me very much of Ada.
I think one reason is because Make is built with Shell, which is always one step (and one letter) away from hell.

For example:

clean:
rm -rf *o hello

Did you really mean to erase all files and directories that end in "o"? Let's say it's just a typo and fix it: "*.o".

Now, are you sure it'll handle files with spaces in the name? What about dashes, brackets and asterisks? Accents? What if a directory ends in .o? Hidden files?

This specific case may support all of the above. But if it doesn't, what will happen? How long until you notice, and how long still to diagnose the problem?

Just like I prefer static strong typing when developing non-trivial projects, the build system should be more structured. I agree endless reinventing is tiring, but it may have some credit in this case.
took a real long time to load homepage... wasn't me... will go back.
"The investigation found no evidence to support the claims against Tom and his wife of sexual or gender-based harassment or retaliation, or of a sexist or hostile work environment."

"We still have work to do"

Which is it? A non acknowledgement acknowledgement?
The difficulty in this for founders is that when you start the company, you need your employees way more than they need you. They have more power than you do at the beginning. And while this slowly changes, it changes even more slowly in a founder's mind.

Don't get sucked into thinking you're peers with your employees when you decide how much they get paid, what work they do all day, and whether or not they keep their job. They don't see you as a peer.
Interesting Vinge reference. I wasn't familiar with that.
It's been 12 years, though. I think that in all of that time, you would have found some sort of acceptance of your situation.
And here's Theresa Preston-Werners side of the story:

What every founder fears - https://medium.com/p/2fe173c44215
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbb5HwR0aJU
i'm not sure where you're getting this. the parent referenced a movie, after posting a quote marveling at the different ways people interpret the same reality.

grandparent post was talking about the need for intellectual empathy. i've seen that work wonders in my life. it's like this thread of comments shows the need for intellectual empathy in microcosm.
It certainly could be, but in general what she's accusing them of would be wrong regardless of what a terrible person she could be. If someone is a bad employee/co-worker you can fire them, but you can't bully/harass them out of the place.
The whole RT thing sounds like a joke. Even on wikipedia there's a circular link collection on top of each of those articles, "WinRT, not to be confused with Windows RT, not to be confused with Windows Runtime, ..."

Btw, I just noticed that the old Surface is now known as PixelSense. Makes sense.
I am not a lawyer, but http://www.dfeh.ca.gov/Publications_StatLaws_SexHarrass.htm

All employees must receive info, companies > 50 need to offer two hours of classroom time within six months and then every two years.
Chinese also mix up "last" and "next", just as English-speakers learning Chinese mix up 上 and 下 for time words. The English metaphor for time is climbing a mountain, whereas the Chinese one is script written top to bottom.
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34 points by mikeklaas 1 hour ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7623815
It's interesting hat music now looks like the most enlightened industry given it's the only one with a meaningful amount of product available on a subscription basis.
Doh! Yes. :25.

By "secure port", I mean forcing encryption of all over-the-wire traffic. It's happening now in many cases with STARTTLS (modulo utter brokenness of the CA and SSL/TLS systems), but that's still only opportunistic.

And of course, encrypting payloads would be vastly preferable. Headers as well other than absolutely required for delivery.
Same here, but the issue i have is that most books tend to be technical so that vastly limits the throughput.

Regular books are pretty easy to get through. Unless they're written by Peter Hamilton.
Someone hired to do a security audit has a huge incentive to find security flaws- frankly, they'll get a better reputation for alerting the company to them.

Finding bad news when you're a security auditor is good.

Someone hired to do an investigation like this has an incentive to downplay any results. If they agreed with the accusations, GitHub would either have to hide the results, or publicly say "Yeah, we think we were likely legally liable for a hostile and sexually abusive work environment". They would not be taking those auditors out for celebratory drinks.

If the consultant says "Yep, you're in the clear", GitHub can announce publicly how great everything is.

Finding bad news when you're investigating a PR disaster is bad.
Sorry?

I'm not claiming otherwise.
I wonder if the reason they don't have a lot of the older films is due to the fact that digital rights were never fleshed out? If so, I'd be curious to know if that's the type of thing that can be resolved (and how).
So, just to clarify, you mean the mistake that he made was allowing Theresa to speak to employees of github and make them feel pressured to contribute to her start-up? or was there something else I'm missing?
Let's not go there. Incorporating random anonymous posts will only make things worse.

For all we know Julie-Ann started dating someone close to Theresa Preston-Werner who shared that he, and several others, slept with her and could even be the father of Tom's child and then refused to distance himself from Theresa. When she shared this sad state of affairs in her private love life with some colleagues she was suddenly requested to meet with Theresa and....

See how that's both consistent and perfectly plausible yet still went from bad to worse pretty quickly? These things are messy enough as they are; let's not make them any messier than they need to be.
The 'Distance Selling Regulations' does not apply for "contracts for services where you agreed to the service starting before the seven working days has expired"[1]

[1] http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/distance-s...
That's a nice read on what can happen when incentives are misaligned, and what proper charity should look like.

This mirrors some of what I've heard about public housing. Designers tend to get more leeway for weird, artsy designs when they don't have the pressure of having to sell it to the people who will be living there. The poor, however, just want a normal place to live. Most want to live life just like everybody else.
Prototype for AngularJS 2.0 router
It is hard to "horde" a large amount of capital. I would say there are only 4 ways it can be done:

1.) Invest in a natural monopoly. That's fine, but most of these are highly regulated (e.g., utilities) and limit your returns.

2.) Invest in real estate. This is rent seeking at its finest. Henry George [1] addressed this issue, but his ideas have not been widely implemented (unlike Marx).

3.) Invest in government debt. I'm always surprised that people like Krugman and Piketty never bring this up, but the fastest way to reverse inequality would be to default on the national debt. The debt is just a transfer payment from tax payers to wealthy debt holders. It is almost like Feudalism.

4.) Buy and hold a nonperishable commodity.

Even your example, the housing market crash, is not an example of hording. In fact, it is the opposite. It is the squandering of capital. Piketty might even argue it was a good thing (like WWII) since it reduced inequality. Or at least it did until the government intervened.

[1] http://www.henrygeorge.org/whowashg.htm
Add an arbitrary GitHub repo to what? In what capacity? You mean as a source dependency, an artefact repository, what?
Type systems in languages make me less productive.

Unless I have to provide support, add features, scale my application, write bug free code, hire additional developers, or explain my thought process to anyone else.
Spam as a Service

I'd call it "Sender Reputation Checking as a Service". Where said service is paid for by the sender, but provided to the email recipient. Anyone can send email directly; but knowing that email has been sent through SES and Amazon hasn't killed the account yet provides a greater degree of trustworthiness.

In a sense, it's like a bond rating service.
What do binary decision diagrams (BDDs) have to do with TDD (test driven development)?

If this manager hasn't been doing development for 10 years, he is a lot cause. But this doesn't have much to do with programming, just being involved in building software. But in cases where their experience isn't fresh enough, they will have a tendency to either be static (we will write our web project in COBOL, because that is what I used to use dammit) or be very trendy to a fault (I heard post modern node-oriented programming was hot, let's use that for our compiler).
I doubt there will ever be any clear explanation on what happened. Two sides of the story basically tell two different stories. As someone mentioned in the post, Julie posted some tweets in response to Github's announcement today. (https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore)

1. Bullying someone into quitting: Illegal.

2. Asking an employee to relay private conversations between her and her partner: Illegal.

3. Justifying the harassment of an employee because of her personal relationships: Pathetic.

4. How does it feel to make money for liars and cowards?

5. Pushing women with strong opinions out of your company because they disagree with you is wrong.

6. What number am I on? Oh yea, how do you sleep at night?

7. Leaving GitHub was the best decision of my life.

8. There was no investigation.

9. There was a series of conversations with a "mediator" who sought to relieve GitHub of any legal responsibility.

10. Whose reasoning included "would it surprise you to hear that [your harasser] was well-liked?"

11. No, no it would not.

12. Women at GitHub who sprang forward to defend the men who harassed me, it is naive to think the same thing cannot and will not happen to you.

13. Best of luck rolling the dice.

14. A company can never own you. They can't tell you who to fuck or not fuck. And they can't take away your voice.

15. Unless you let them.

16. Hmmm still no mention of the man who bullied me out of our code base because I wouldn't fuck him. Too popular to be accountable, I guess.
git reset? I can't imagine any way in which it would destructively modify the files under objects/
Good to know one shouldn't treat the OneDrive as a... Drive.
That will likely be a part of it. Though finding pockets to go after may be difficult as well: hardware and software components are already modular, there is the developer, the manufacturer, and often a "brand" who effectively purchases the tech and tosses a logo on it (Apple is an exception to this rule). To say nothing of transnational jurisdictions.

The complexity problem extends to the legal side as well. Much as I think liability could help, it's going to be hard to apply, particularly with lay attorneys, judges, and juries.
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I literally cringe whenever someone posts this hackneyed response.
Why not? The article claimed it modified a .php file. So I'm curious to know if it would modify the equivalent file under .git/objects?
Good for you! Though I wonder how much pain it would take to make it ENABLE_REGISTRATION ...
He's almost definitely using Go for the server-side and Unity+OpenGL for the client side. It would be really bizarre to try to use Go and Unity in the same client-side app.
Care to tell me how many global warming denialists don't have ties, many strong, to the fossil fuel industry and/or conservative right-wing political causes?
I did. You're suggesting there's some sort of clean distinction between tech and politics. I agree that politics with no tech is off topic. But I disagree that there's a clear distinction. We can't be forever talking about changing the world and disrupting billion-dollar industries and pretending that those aren't political acts.
Come to think, I somehow doubt Steve Jobs was a "Steve Jobs" type situation.
HBO renews 'Silicon Valley' for second season
Your source states that AT&T spent "0.8 cents" "of each dollar of revenue" on R&D. Secondly, if you dig into the source [1] of your source, you find that R&D spending for North American telecom companies in 2013 are dead last against every other industry as a percentage of revenue. I renew my claim that "basically none" R&D spending is a fair and accurate description.

> AT&T is rarely the only wireless or telecom provider in any given market

That is technically true, but I would paint the same facts as "approximately 96% of the population has at most two wireline providers". [2] This is an optimistic estimate: "the data used here do not provide adequate information on price and performance to determine if multiple providers in a given area compete head-to-head".

> If you want to have a market, then you can't regulate rates of return.

I don't disagree with you there. I think where we disagree is that you think a competitive market for wireline broadband in the US in 2014 is a possible scenario. In my mind, the regulated monopoly (or public utility) is the only viable model.

[1] http://www.strategyand.pwc.com/global/home/what-we-think/glo...

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=l8oI5rA_NpQC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA...
> unless you live in China or Taiwan or HK or Macau, you are not going to be fluent in Chinese

You forgot Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand.
in regards to misplaced frustration and angst, pretty much, tech is mostly filled with frustrated, unattractive (physical and personality wise) middle aged men, who believe that the only way to find a mate is to swallow this liberal agenda so as to make themselves appear as more of a 'nice guy', and thus in their twisted little heads, becoming more attractive to members of the opposite sex. Typical beta mentality.

edit: actually, I should say that tech is not actually like this, its mainly the illusion that reddit and HN present.
How Americans Hate Each Other
The main point you seem to be going for reminds of http://www.africafornorway.no/ in a way. While I agree with the overall goal, I do have some criticism when reading the whole thing. Basically, I feel like it needs a bit more fleshing out here and there.

First, I'm surprised that there is no explicit mention of participatory design in the part where you lament the lack of feedback with non-profits:

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

Then again, I'm studying design in Malmö, Sweden, and maybe it's not that well-known outside of Scandinavia, and the movement was targeting design in general, not this specific issue. Still, it seems to apply to the problem, and the point is that there is an established design approach trying to address it.

Also, I can't say I'm too fond of the four examples you give near, with the exception of the Giradora. The price point seems to violate your own principle of constraint. In places where drinking water and lack of electricity are an issue, these solutions are just very expensive stopgaps.

Furthermore, it does not mention the problem that just donating stuff locally can undermine the local development of better solutions. Does sending life straws over to Africa give them the means to build a more sustainable solution? This ties in to that participatory design I mentioned earlier: the design should be with the target audience, and if possible the end product should be produced by the developing nation.

Finally, these two websites would probably be relevant to your interests:

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/

http://www.notechmagazine.com/

... although for some reason they seem to be down at the moment.
In what way would my reading that blog post have been a better experience for me with your tracking cookies?
The Blade Runner Curse
Geeks have a hard time understanding the deeply political nature of the world.

This is terribly condescending, similar to saying that vegetarians have a hard time understanding food. The status quo is not the system, it's just one implementation of it.
> What do binary decision diagrams (BDDs) have to do with TDD (test driven development)?

In context, BDD = Behavior Driven Development [1], not Binary Decision Diagrams.

[1] http://dannorth.net/introducing-bdd/
I think "magic" is much too loaded a way to characterize it.

The rule applicable to C pertains to building foo.o from foo.c. It amounts to two lines in a Makefile:

%.o: %.c
$(COMPILE.c) $(OUTPUT_OPTION) $<

where COMPILE.c and the other variable is predefined to trivial values.

There are other rules useful for C++, and for yacc, etc., but they are just as simple.

You can cancel all the implicit rules with "-r", or cancel selected implicit rules by naming them in the Makefile like this:

%.o : %.c ;

All this is in the make manual, which is quite good: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Catalogue...
She didn't write JS for Cats. Which is excellent, BTW.
I wouldn't have a joke like that on any of my social profiles. If anything, this is in her defense since it's one data-point indicating she's not a stereotypical hyper-feminist-drama-queen(do these even exist?) looking to be offended by the slightest incident. She's easy-going enough to have something like that on her public profile and she _knows_ what people will think of first when they read that.
Have there been any confirmation this is actually a Github employee? Because as far as we know, this could just as well be a troll.
They are separate types, not a type alias, but some conversions are automatic. The rule for assignability also affects comparisons and function calls (including expressions containing them), but apparently not all expressions like I thought?
> The status quo is not the system, it's just one implementation of it.

A system is just one implementation -- and the status quo is the one implementation we have.

That's not to say that it can't be improved or that their aren't better alternatives -- but the idea that the status quo is not the system is deeply wrong.
So people flagged it and it got marked as spam? I think since the rest of the hearsay got to the top of HN, this should too to balance things out. No matter what happened, the more sides of the story we hear the better.
Can we please stop this gossip? Obviously both sides are not being entirely truthful. Github did well to remove Tom since it's clear he should not have allowed his wife to have so much privilege at the company. The rest of the details are frankly none of our business.
I'm not sure I agree. Of course, very strictly speaking you are probably right. So we can never know or prove anything. We can not prove that god doesn't exist, or that the flying spaghetti monster doesn't exist, or that invisible dragons don't exist.
That doesn't seem a very useful attitude, though. I think not finding evidence is some evidence, at least in a bayesian sense.
And OK, we can know some things - I know there is no visible dragon sitting on my keyboard right now.
India wallows in filth. Indian programmers write crap.

Windows is filth.

Linux is filth.

TempleOS must be perfect. It will break compatibiulity to keep it perfect.

One driver for keyboard, one driver for mouse, one driver for video, one driver for sound, one driver for CDROM.

I will make Microsoft support RedSea filesyetsm, then we will have one file system.

It's is God's temple. It is clean. PCI is filth.

GPU cards are filth.

Video games are smut and gore.

God says.
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