skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're lucky, bullying can teach you how to deal with completely unreasonable people and how to play social and legal games to retaliate when someone fucks things up for you. This has been my experience for bullying that happened early in my adult life. You need to be in the right place to get anything good out of it, though.
Hipchat should have stuck gone the opposite, and made their policy explicitly: "1-to-1 is private".

Mimic the real workplace, I have a 1-1 meeting with someone, it isn't recorded (usually).

It's annoying, because it puts up barriers to communication, people talk differently when they know they are being recorded.

I hope they implement this as an option (like they do room history).

EDIT: Thinking more, it should be an option, and when enabled/disabled, all users should receive an email explaining the change. (If you are reading bitbucket devs, do it! Please!)
I'd expect an organization who pays for the service should have access to their data in it. If you fear the change, you really fear the people who are or will someday become a service administrator. If you fear that, perhaps you should consider if you're really happy where you are. I'd suspect you either have trust issues with your corporate or IT management, or you work at a place that moves too slow for IT to have anything better to do than troll through private chats.

In many cases, IT can already do a lot of other things like span your port, read your e-mail, shadow your terminal, capture all printer output, etc. But in practice, this kind of permission is usually used when someone is stuck and an employee unreachable or out on vacation, or an employee is terminated and you need some critical piece of information they might have in their chat history.
Slack tho.
There are thousands of people out there who are desperately looking for a "technical co-founder." Most of them will never find such a co-founder because the numbers are stacked against them.

You have an advantage here -- you can hire such a person as a professional CEO, not a co-founder, and you'll be able to find someone very good if you've got a company already making revenues. Get a lawyer to structure a deal that lets you retain 100% control of everything, and give the new person a 5% equity grant with four-year-vesting and a one-year cliff. Then you decide whether they get to stay, they report to you but can go out and raise money for you, and you get a valuable partner to help you run your business. Over time, if they prove to be an ever-increasingly important partner, you can grant them more stock options.
>prostitution

I think most couples would be pretty offended if you called the girlfriend a prostitute for letting their boyfriend financially support them.

>Every study I've seen shows that women are paid less in than men in equivalent positions.

Women are paid the same as men in studies that control for other variables. I recommend you stop reading "studies" that don't control for things like hours worked and choice of career field.

http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20...

In fact, single childless women now make more than men in most US metropolitan areas: "Young women in New York City, Los Angeles and San Diego making 17%, 12% and 15% more than their male peers, respectively." (http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274...)
Teardown and rebuild doesn't increase your safety margins, they reduce it. If I rebuilt my Toyota every 10k miles I'd have a lot more breakdowns.
Streem (YC S12) Has Raised $875K For Its Unlimited Cloud Storage Service
"Horrible font rendering with Web Fonts on Chrome for Windows" finally fixed
The binding arbitration clause is predatory and an unfortunate addition to their terms.
Will it work?

Surely I can still take them to court and argue the forced arbitration is part of my grievance. IANAL but surely one can argue that removing the judicial system from anything is illegal?
The White House is leading efforts for a new web authentication system
No matter what you socialize around, after about four hours or so it will be hard to avoid bringing food into it somehow. Hungry, irritable people don't make for the best social companions.
Sea anchor, i.e. something like a parachute that drags through the water, so it can be made of light materials.
The vendor ID device ID issue is/was real. I think there was a story here a while back about a manufacturer making it so hobbyists could use their ID or something.
FWIW: Every time you modify a file in git, it adds a completely new copy of the file. 100mb text file, 100mb binary file - makes no difference. Modify one line, it's a new 100mb entry in your git repo.
Easy. Print icons/ideograms on tickets, in addition and preferably next to ticket numbers.

Print triangles for window seats, squares for middle seats, circles for aisle seats.

Print arrow up for modulo 4 numbered seats, arrow right for non-modulo 4 even numbered seats, arrow down for modulo 3 numbered seats, and arrow left for non-modulo 3 odd numbered seats.

Everyone gets two and only two easily identified symbols in addiion to their ticket number, which suffice for all of the methods outlined in the article.
Survata (YC S12) is Hiring Marketers. Help Us Transform Market Research
I speak as a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor.

I feel that a TBI may have its benefits. The source article is probably a showing of an incredibly lucky case. I know that I only have a handful of positive side effects, and nothing "magical" like this.

But the negatives... oh man, the negatives. I would never choose to experience the negatives again. I endured the side effects for two years and they're incredibly frustrating. You wonder if every moment is a "brain injury moment" and doubt yourself at every decision. It means you're wrong almost all the time and everyone around you tells you so.

There's not much more frustrating than that. One positive that I've found is I'm incredibly open to negative feedback: I understand and accept I am probably wrong. I would have much rather learned this a different way.

I should also note in my last neuropsychology test, I was found to have eidetic memory, specifically the emotional memory: I remember my surroundings when an emotional event happens. I've had this my whole life but, to be honest, I included it.
Ogre Miniatures Emancipator Cometh
Great Ogre Miniatures website full of Ogres, new units, fiction, and more.
The only question I have is: how good are the emoticons on Slack.com?
Harnessing startup power to solve urban problems
Thanks for the feedback, is your stutter mild? Mine can be severe when its really bad with breaks and gaps up to 30 seconds to a minute.
We get this request a lot and we're evaluating adding it.
Forced arbitration is a terrible policy and terrible for consumers[1]. I remember when Al Franken fought to amend the "forced arbitration" policy in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act[2]:

"Jamie Leigh Jones is a courageous woman who stood up to KBR and Halliburton when they tried to force her into arbitration after she was allegedly gang-raped by fellow employees in 2005."

It's a way for corporations to avoid being held legally liable for criminal behavior against consumers and employees. So if Atlasssian screws you, either as an employee or a consumer, you're forced into arbitration instead of being able to challenge them in court.

[1]http://www.franken.senate.gov/?p=issue&id=211

[2]http://www.naca.net/issues/forced-arbitration
OK, if this is a dupe then please provide the link it dupes. (I do genuinely want to see the previous commentary...) Or sockpuppet-downvote me again, whatever.
Only my wrist seems to really move.
"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy as an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy; neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." J. Gardner
I pay for the service for my company. I trust my employees. I don't want them to think I'm snooping on their personal conversations between each other.
It'd also be a very very bad idea to try going aboard a plane with it.
Love a link to the pod-cast and an intro. Is his stutter on the milder side?
Does anyone know if Google has a similar policy for GMail or Google Hangouts/Google Talk?
JavaScript: Everything is a Value
http://i.imgur.com/kYGTLjc.png
It is quite common for Christians in the United States claim that they are oppressed [1]. Shouldn't we try to fix these problems too?

http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/christians-pers...
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley
This is a use case we're very excited about. I know longbox.me is using our API as well and is dreading on similar ground.
It seems to me to be basically a rehash of the 80x86 segmented architecture, but maybe I am missing something?
Really disappointing move. If you don't trust your developers, maybe you shouldn't have hired them in the first place.

Our team loves HipChat, and they will probably end up feeling the opposite because of this. Please provide a way for us not to activate that "feature".
Fun facts:

- a few code pages (such as CP864 DOS Arabic) use the arabic percent sign ٪ (0x066A) at codepoint 0x25 instead of the standard ANSI %.

- Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird approximate the Arabic codepages (including ASMO-708) to ISO-8869-6, which breaks XLS parsing from files generated from certain international versions of Excel (which actually forced me to build a library for the various character encodings: https://github.com/SheetJS/js-codepage)
We use Slack at my company (switched to it from Kato) and we're very happy with it.
I'd eat there and feel bad.

Also, that site is a bloated hog.
Thanks - we tried to make discoverability of related entities easy.
Men are 77% of the homeless population [1]. This doesn't mean that no women are homeless, just that women are much less likely to end up homeless (presumably as a result of the much greater amount of resources dedicated to disadvantaged women compared to disadvantaged men).

I think it goes without saying that a sick or unemployed man is far less likely to find or keep a girlfriend than a sick or unemployed woman.

1. http://www.nhchc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/June2001Heal...
Yep, we have exactly the same issue. This feature decision is a trust-deterrent. Nothing worse when it comes to team communication.

To me this is the final straw. By contrast Slack's privacy policy mentions they "plan to allow team owners or administrators to enable an optional feature which would allow them to view anything inside their teams".

They add: "When this feature is added, notices will be visible to all members on teams where it is enabled."

Keywords: optional & visible.

That's exactly the kind of thoughtful consideration made obvious when you first use Slack. The product direction on HipChat during the 6/8 months we've been paying customers has been disappointing. Instead of working on in-app history search or the other dozen of clamored for features (http://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions-issues/fil...), they pilled on a not really necessary audio/video call feature.

I can only hope the HipChat/Atlassian team considers making admin access to private conversations optional and visible as well.
It doesn't really hurt Facebook.
Disks internally have lots of extra space to handle errors and are not pushed to the limits of their physical storage. Amazon could have partnered with a disk manufacturer or written their own firmware to have disks that are somewhat lossy but 3x of what reliable drives provide.
I'd say the combination of some moral standards, the fear of getting caught and - first of all - little incentive to leak should be sufficient, no?
It varies a lot based on the environment and who the other party is. It can be anywhere from not-noticeable to severe. I'll email you an intro and link to the podcast.
Cover Oregon calls it quits, state to use federal site
My favorite example of a politician reversing a position on which they campaigned, and actually explaining why they changed their position, is this: http://youtu.be/2y05XmZlF44
> If you don't trust your developers, maybe you shouldn't have hired them in the first place.

Companies are basically required by law to store all the communications of their employees, it has nothing to do with trust. I forget the entire reason, but basically Bill Clinton cut some crazy deal with radical feminists in order to get reelected whereby he signed some sexual harassment law that basically required employers to monitor all employee communications. Jeffrey Rosen has a book about it called The Unwanted Gaze.
Same. Though, it seems a tad overpriced. It is a very nice platform though
Practical advice for using Go's database/sql package (from GopherCon)
I also had a stutter and some other speech problems as a child that are pretty much gone, but can flare up when I'm nervous. My solution has been public speaking. Now I'm less nervous when speaking and I know how to handle any stuttering that slips through as gracefully as possible.
Yes, I've heard some vague reports from others ISP users too, but not anything I have measured of even just experienced first hand.

That's the reason why I've switched to the new ISP services from ovh, though, as they made net neutrality their first marketing point (but for the same price, you don't have tv, if that matters).
And deleting his (patronising) tweets about it.
Google Glass breaks Android ListView, marks bug WontFix
I'd love a link to the podcast too (email in profile).
PHP's repo is around 500M. But I'd say it is probably tens to a hundred times smaller than Facebook should be, especially if you count non-public stuff they must have there. So comes out about right.
Because we're going to have a discussion on diversity regardless of my personal convictions and I would prefer that we focus on being more inclusive of minorities and spreading "hacker culture" to low income neighborhoods (ie: people for whom the barrier to entry may be as high as simply being unable to afford a computer to code on).
You don't need to be an admin to get an API token... https://www.hipchat.com/account/api

The new API allows you to request personal tokens or room tokens (you'll need to be a room admin for that).
Our team tried out Slack, but the Mac app isn't native, just a rather weak wrapper around the normal web page. And the web experience just isn't as good as HipChat.

Also, no in-app voice/video integration that I could find. HipChat's one-on-one video is great, although waht I really wish for is conferencing built in. Google Hangouts is just too annoying to set up (first it pesters me about signing up for Google Plus, which I don't want, then it shows a blank screen with a "start a hangout" button, then it opens a GH video in a separate window, which is just stupid), and doesn't have a desktop app.
Maybe Capital?
Facebook's architecture, for at least the core web app, was a blob of PHP for ages.

They might have since modularized and cleaned it up but it seems unlikely they'd fully SOA-ize the Facebook web app.
Note: To be clear, I do not agree with the OP's characterization of "women being more valuable to society" and thus treated better. In general, men have the advantage. But homelessness does tend to affect men more.

Most homeless are men. A couple sources I found places the number in the mid 60% range.

http://homeless.samhsa.gov/ResourceFiles/hrc_factsheet.pdf
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/who.html

You say some women can't get a boyfriend at all. I expect it's true for most of them that they can't get a boyfriend they want.

But many of them might be able to get a very disagreeable boyfriend, if their choice was living with him, or living on the street.

It's not a very good choice. In fact, it's generally an awful choice. But it's still a choice.

Obviously, there are homeless women, but they tend to be less vulnerable to homelessness. Orwell wrote about this in down and out in Paris and London. Mind you, this was in the 1920s, but it's evocative:

>Tramps are cut off from women, in the first place, because there are
very few women at their level of society. One might imagine that among
destitute people the sexes would be as equally balanced as elsewhere. But
it is not so; in fact, one can almost say that below a certain level
society is entirely male. The following figures, published by the L.C.C.
from a night census taken on February 13th, 1931, will show the relative
numbers of destitute men and destitute women:

Spending the night in the streets, 60 men, 18 women.
In shelters and homes not licensed as common lodging-houses, 1,057 men,
137 women.
In the crypt of St Martin's-in-the-Fields Church, 88 men, 12 women.
In L.C.C. casual wards and hostels, 674 men, 15 women.

[ This must be an underestimate. Still, the proportions probably
hold good.]

It will be seen from these figures that at the charity level men
outnumber women by something like ten to one. The cause is presumably that
unemployment affects women less than men; also that any presentable woman
can, in the last resort, attach herself to some man.
General Mills got banged up because they tried to claim that performing such actions as "Liking their facebook page" indicated your agreement to those terms. That was the part that was extreme.

Forced Arbitration is anti-consumer but unfortunately it's also pretty common these days. I'd wager you've already agreed to it with you cable, home internet, and phone providers.
How is JIRA's UX maddening? It's so highly configurable that it really depends on how it is set up, and what the patterns of use are within your organisation.
I did not know this:

"Dating sites like OKCupid and Plenty Of Fish ban profiles with sexual content, even when there is no nudity."

I think it is strange that even the dating sites would be hesitant about sex. Sex and dating are closely linked ideas. I do not know anyone, male or female, gay or lesbian or straight, who wants to find a mate but does not want to have sex.

This is both amusing and yet accurate:

"Instead, “sex communities” are created that use code language like “swinging,” “tantric experience,” and “open love,” and meet in virtual secrecy. People flock to online services that promise intimate encounters yet more often simply charge a monthly fee to chat with bots and scam artists. "
According to the supreme court it will. The corporation gets to pick the "arbitrator" (who is most likely to decide your claim is worthless) and you have to go there instead of court. Read up on it.
I guess that's one way to lose your customer base. We have a team of 50 that will be switching to another platform shortly. Good bye HipChat...
If there is a small number of rarely changing binaries (like icons, tool configs, etc.) then it may not be worth it to move them. Also if space is much cheaper than tool complexity and build time.
“Appearance is a consequence of fitness.” — Mark Twight
>I can still take them to court

Of course you can take them to court, however, do you have enough money to sustain the effort?

Forced Arb. clauses mean little for large corporations (who have the legal muscle to either reach a settlement or win a battle of legal attrition), however they absolutely screw "the little guy" who has zero choice but to follow the contract.
A sea anchor is a pretty lightweight device whose purpose is to create some drag against the water when the wind blows. It can take the shape of a small parachute, but in the water, at the end of a long line. The idea is when the wind blows, endangering the booster, the sea anchor will force the booster to point directly into the wind, thus minimizing wave damage.

> Wouldn't you have to launch that into space, too?

Yes, which is definitely a drawback -- every ounce that isn't payload is regarded as a serious waste, because it all has to be launched at great cost (the ratio of payload to fuel is often greater than ten to one).

On the other hand, the SpaceX people report that the booster was destroyed, so this well-tested idea is very likely in their minds right now.
Backblaze has worked very well for me. It took two months to upload but now it stays synchronized. When I had a disk failure I had them overnight a HDD to me for $250.
Now there is a video. In the video, he plugs a head set and a microphone into the SIM900. The audio out, 2 usb ports, and ethernet port are unused on the Pi.
Another great piece from n+1.
My friends and I are all using gitter.im to chat now. I just made a private repo on my github account and made them all contributors. Easy peasy.

Also then we're already in the right program to paste code bits around when we need.
I guess it depends on how it was being used. If your employees came up with a great idea over chat that six month's later lead to a patentable invention, its nice that there is a record of all that information.
I started out as a graphic designer as well, then gradually moved into programming. I have four kids (evenly spaced between 2 and 11), so I know how you feel about extra time for fun hobbies like drawing. (we are a few weeks away from our first dog too.)

Your post reminded me that I shouldn't be spending all of my time in code working on client projects. Yes, it pays the bills, but I should (need to) do a little drawing each day to keep that part of me alive. It's not as big as writing a book, but it will be fun to see how long I can keep the chain going.

I also agree with your comment about screens vs. paper—I have one of those fancy Wacom drawing tablets, but it doesn't come close to the feel of a nice sharp 4H pencil or Pilot v5 pen on copy paper.

Thanks again for the inspiration.
Not possible, SIM900 has 68 pins and SIM5320 has 80.
Oregon is switching to Healthcare.gov from its own troubled exchange
There is a great talk by Ian from Dangerous Prototypes on this from the 2012 Open Hardware Summit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pegVYODsn4
I consider myself passionate about programming, and I think passion leads nowhere. A little (or perhaps a lot) less passion would allow me to concentrate on the actual product, instead of seeing an ugly architecture everywhere, or the sheer amount of repetitiveness of imperative programming where functional programming would be a cleaner approach, or tests everywhere when a smarter type system would be better and faster at catching bugs.

But, for better or for worse, I am passionate about programming.
As it turns out, you're completely right. Oops.

In case anyone else happens to have the same issue, I solved it by sticking

export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

in /etc/environment .
Apple Launches Replacement Program for Faulty iPhone 5 Power Buttons
FWIW, Elon Musk also has a bit of a stutter.
I get what you're saying, but we use HipChat and it's really obvious that it's "your company's chat system." At least, that's how our employees think of it and how it's marketed. I'd be really surprised if someone thought it was more private than their company email address.
well, git gc --aggressive --prune=now, duh.

(jk)
I hate to be "that guy", but what about turtle4's observation [1] of some TOS items? Seems like your post may be crossing some lines?

~~

NO PRESS RELEASES. You may not issue any press release or make any public statement about the Marvel API (and related Content), Tools, the inclusion of any of the foregoing in any Apps (yours or others') or these API Terms of Use without Marvel's prior written approval.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7649077
I get a bunch, the ones that I happen to read cover-to-cover

1) Inc.

2) Wired

3) The Atlantic

4) Fast Company