skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, in my comment I mention that this memo is no different than other corporate statements. My point is that some comments on here say "there is no evidence", which is not what the memo says. Saying you didn't find something isn't the same as saying that something doesn't exist.
I see the vanguard is already down-voting. That's fine, but anyone with any knowledge of start-ups should instantly see how the ideas put forth by Piketty are destructive. If I invest in a start-up, that's property. So next year, if the start-up grows and I'm taxed on that growth, I might be forced to sell my private shares to meet my tax obligations. How am I going to do that? And, the year after that, maybe the start-up tanks to a very low valuation, yet I still owe a tax. How is anything supposed to be created in that environment? Or are start-ups somehow special? Do they get special treatment? What about a family farm? Does the farmer have to sell off some land every year to meet his tax obligation? Or does he just continuously raise the price of food every year to offset the wealth tax? I would love to hear some answers from the Marx 2.0 crowd.
Kicked out of his own company - ouch. Taking VC and giving control to outsiders is Russian roulette.

Writing and adhering to HR/conflict-of-interest policy is a no-brainer. A board who cared for the interests of its founder would not leave this as a trap for the founder to step in.

I note with interest that the other accused was given a promotion.
I've mentioned elsewhere a plausible third factor that drives both, and that the data for Australia does not match this pattern. And that I'd like to see this European data that apparently matches it - the linked papers in the article do not mention it.

It's far from the ironclad causative link that you're implying.
They'll probably blame this one on an "error" again, like how they did when it was found out that Skype was MITM-ing https links, or when Bing was censoring stuff from China globally, and even in English, and in a couple of other cases I don't remember well right now. That seems to be their boilerplate PR response whenever some big privacy infringement happens and many are outraged about it.
So it's okay to deface the entire rest of the country, but the desert is sacred? Or is your solution to abandon society, decimate the population, and go back to the caves?

There are good and bad ways to handle this. More pollution is a bad way, more solar is a good way. Nothing is 100% perfect, but continuing down a bad road because a significant improvement doesn't instantly solve all the world's problems, is downright stupid.
I don't read it that way at all. I read it that he tries to exceed people's expectations in his personal relations.

If it sounds "horribly arrogant", then I think that sounds horribly negative and judgemental.
One note: Korean is soo much easier. The alphabet is uber phonetic, and there's much fewer tenses than English (it's generally obvious in context what you mean).
I'm sometimes amazed how otherwise competent adults believe that one investor focused for profit corporation isn't capable of behaving just like another investor focused for profit corporation.

When I look at Google services, I see a lot of monopolies forming. For example, Hangouts now takes over SMS messages, and is automatically installed on all Android devices as a system app that cannot be removed. Or, in order to interact with Youtube, one requires a wholly unrelated public Google+ profile.

For someone to say that Google is incapable of abusing monopolies for strategic reasons including profit, while they are already abusing monopolies for strategic reasons including profit, is amazing to me.
This guy did a fantastic mini-study of traffic wave systems, and has worked out techniques that go one step further than what your describing - actively cancelling out traffic jams by allowing cars to freely change lanes for a long distance ahead of you.

http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/trafexp.html
I don't know how to feel about this.

I value justice to an incredible degree, but when she talks about the injustice of "firing someone because they disagree with you"... that's completely backwards. If you keep disagreeing with leadership, then you're at the wrong company.

Glad she at least said leaving Github was a good thing. She should put this behind her and move forwards.
A few points:

First, a "strawman" argument is when I attack a position you do not hold. I don't think I claimed anywhere that you were speaking to single-family homes -- I certainly didn't intend to.

Second, I'm genuinely confused as to what line you're drawing -- you seem to think it's obvious -- between my rights as someone who lives near other people while renting, and someone who lives near other people while owning. On some level, my risk seems greater: if I were a renter, I could after all just move if my neighbors prove troublesome, while if I own, they can destroy the value of an asset I have even if I personally flee the scene.

I agree with you that we can see some avenues of potential risk that apply only to people living in multi-tenant buildings (keys, etc). But this is what I mean about your point being under-argued: all you seem to be doing is listing some potential negative externalities. Everything has potential negative externalities. You could hit me with your car. You could create a fire in your home that would burn down city blocks.

What seems to be missing is both:

1. Some kind of statement about those potentials becoming actuals. How much do the neighbors of AirBnB hosts ACTUALLY suffer? Are the stories of floating brothels etc rare exceptions, or commonplace?

2. Some kind of at least suggestion of where the line between actionable and non-actionable externalities lies.

I do not mean to suggest that these are either easy requirements to satisfy, or that I'm trying to dismiss your argument. I'm just trying to move the conversation past the listing of possible negative externalities. I agree with you. They exist. But where do we go from there?
Traffic Wave Experiments
Shouldn't you delete it at the moment when you stop showing it on the site?
> The comparison was meant to highlight that people who share culture have less process.

Yeah, I guess I’ll need a different example to really believe you. I think if cultivating relationships aren't a possibility (and they aren't, logistically, in large enough companies), we naturally (and justifiably) result to explicit processes in order to accomplish things between different groups of people. I don't think culture has anything to do with it.
we have one side of the story, for fuck's sake. the other side--the github side? it's lawyer-speak and completely devoid of anything that addresses the specific accusations.

how so many ostensibly smart people can simultaneously lose their ability to think critically is incredible. add the word "gender" to anything and people lose their minds.
> These memos are often more about what isn't said:

> > The investigation found no evidence...

> This doesn't mean there isn't any evidence--it just means that their internal investigation didn't find any. If read carefully, this statement tells us nothing about the universe of evidence that exists, but only about what GitHub didn't find.

You seem to be including this as part of a narrative where this statement is phrased to disguise the truth, but the sort of "loophole" you're pointing to here is not at all revelatory. The same is true of every investigation ever — the fact that an investigation didn't find something doesn't mean it necessarily doesn't exist. This falls out of the fact that you can't prove a universal negative.

An investigation can never positively prove things. It can only establish a reasonable confidence in proportion with your confidence in the investigators.
They serve two slightly different purposes.

Browserify is a build time tool which enables the programmer to combine files and have a module structure within this single packaged file. This affords practical flexibility, such as dynamically requiring files (as long as the dynamically required modules are required in a manifest module with it's own require method).

RequireJs is a runtime tool, in which you load modules from the browser.

You can use both by packaging files together using browserify and dynamically loading these packaged files using requirejs.

I personally use browserify and have my own lightweight dynamic loader. This allows me to be free of the requirejs boilerplate logic in every file.

One cool thing about Browserify if you can package a bunch of lightweight & focused javascript snippets you find on the internet, instead of using heavyweight libraries. Often times, the essential nugget of logic is tiny, compared to the boilerplate, cruft, & edge case concerns of the library.
obvious that it's z holman.
If you want to know if GitHub is a hostile work environment according to women who work there, take a poll of current and past female employees, including Horvath.

I did. So far it's working out in GitHub's favour. But maybe I missed something, so do your own research.
If they "got it" I would expect complaints like the ones you see here (externalizing costs to the neighbors) rather than complaints like

> "You let strangers stay in your apartment? Are you nuts?"

which ignores the various mechanisms airbnb has in place to deal with these problems (reputation, insurance, etc) along with the fact that quantifying, buying, and selling risk are problems that the modern economy is good at solving in general (i.e. if there's a shortcoming in airbnb's current approach to risk, they have a decent shot at fixing it).
I couldnt help but smile when I got your email. Brilliant use of feedback tools like redpen and inVision.

Especially since your audience has so much product design knowledge, tapping into that works perfectly.

I am so curious how this would play out for an audience who is not as tech savvy. My gut says it would still be highly beneficial and useful.
I've been learning Vietnamese for about three years now. In many ways it's a fairly easy language to learn. The grammar is very simple and it uses the Latin alphabet.

But learning to hear and speak the various tones has been a real struggle. Even now I still have a hard time picking them out and carefully enunciating them. It doesn't help that there's a huge amount of regional variation in pronunciation and vocabulary. I've had to work hard to unlearn some habits from English, particularly raising my tone slightly at the end of sentences.
Can you assholes stop talking about how Mandarin compares to German/Russian! WE DON'T FUCKING CARE. If you don't have something productive to say about the FUCKING TOPIC then shut the FUCK UP! I'm sick of this stupid reddit bullshit that derails everything, then 1,000 comments later you find something related to what the actual topic is.
I've been enjoying Airbnb for a while now, both as a host and guest. I travel frequently to NYC and have had great experiences staying with people renting out a part of their place. Right now though I'm 1.5 hours away from checking into my current Airbnb and I just got a call from a property management person about my check-in time. I noticed the email for the profile who owns the listing is bklynvacationrentals@gmail.com. I'm starting to doubt if the person in the profile is connected to the apartment and it kind of makes me nervous. I liked Airbnb when it was being used as intended but I might stop using it for my NY trips.
This whole episode has reminded me that when I start my next company we will have a non-fraternization clause.
> We learned that unnamed employees felt pressured by Tom and me to work pro-bono for my nonprofit. We racked our brains trying to understand this new allegation...I am so very sorry if anyone felt that I was pressuring him or her for advice, labor, or to sign up. I truly never had that intention...my idealistic belief in the status-free community of GitHub, I failed to recognize that power structures cannot ever be obscured entirely.

> employees view them as disconnected and only trying to build empires of gold. Tom saw himself not as CEO, but as the architect of a unique business structure...He wanted to invest heavily in employees and to create a space that gave each employee the autonomy, tools, and support to build great things. In our home every night, he spoke passionately about how to build a company that gave employees freedom.

Other than being a Github user and customer, I know nothing of the details of this case other than what I've read. She admits she was obtuse about "power structures" in the company, but this also is not a unique thing in Silicon Valley - she's not blind to these things in a unique way.

That said - it's like someone believing their own press releases. "A space that gave each employee the autonomy, tools, and support to build great things". To me that sounds like saying Platt from "Twelve Years a Slave" got an excellent bag to pick cotton from, and build up the glorious plantation he was working on. Preston-Warner can snap his fingers, and someone who was getting a check to put food on the table and a roof over their head is suddenly not going to have the rent check by the end of the month. Especially when the next employer is asking for references, why you left the last job, are there any gaps in employment etc. People on an H1-B visa are dependent upon the company so they can't be thrown out of the country, so their green card application can not be restarted etc.

This is in the default structure of a corporation, and the laws, and all the default papers that super-angels and VC's put forward. Ownership and control of a corporation is 80-90% in the hands of the angels, VC's and founders. Of the scraps left over, executives and top-level experienced techs get the lion's share. This is the reality, and everyone knows it. People believing their own press releases about people building great things are delusional. It's like the Tuskeegee or Dr. Mengele subjects happy about how they are helping contribute to science. No one is fooled by this other than naive, new to the workplace, socially maladjusted programmers in their early 20's. This is why there is such a feeding frenzy over this small pool of naive young men.
> Increased risk of vermin, strangers in the hallway, and giving a stranger a set of keys to the building is not worth an extra bit of money.

To you, of course. Other people might have different reasons. I don't know whats unacceptable about this.
I really don't understand some of these responses:

1) GitHub doesn't owe us the details of the investigation - what difference does it make to anyone apart from creating more fodder for gossip? This is an internal company matter.

2) Regarding Tom's "threat" - This is pretty much the largest "resolution" that could've come out of this, right? Some of Horvath's allegations were true and a high-profile founder has resigned. The way I read it was: What more is there to do? I think that's what he means. "I've resigned, isn't that enough? If you want to keep pursuing it, what's left to seek? At that point it's personal and my wife and I will respond appropriately."
Given their understanding that the stuff likely wouldn't leak for a long time, they agreed to (maybe) create a huge disaster (far into the future). Yep, that sounds pretty normal to me. Especially considering this solution was probably less expensive than the alternatives.

Hell, sounds like most kick-the-can-down-the-road politicians we have today, regarding a whole slew of issues. It's nice to see how far we've come in 70 years. 8-P
Noticed the release notes mention a forced password reset for all users because of a hash change.

Couldn't that be avoided by storing the hash type/version, and silently upgrade on the next successful login (when the password is available briefly in plaintext in the login request)?
With so many self-hosted Github alternatives, and even Github Enterprise (self-hosted Github), I don't feel sorry for anyone having trade secrets stolen if they were hosting via private repos on Github.com.
Richard Branson had/has critics that accused him of all sorts of things. His advice, which is similar to Napoleon Hill's, would be to demonstrate actions that are discordant to the accusations.

(The bigger of a celeb / more successful you become, the bigger of a target you wear on your back for people to try to tear you down.)
Japanese Messaging App Line Gains Traction Abroad
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7623440
I concur. As the pile of notebooks full of barely-legible handwritten scrawl grows and grows, so does the amount of money I'd be willing to pay a company for notebook transcription. Honestly, I don't care if it takes a bloody age -- reCAPTCHA that stuff if you have to -- since I never plan on transcribing them. Scan them to PDF right away, send me the notebooks back (or just give me the PDFs, if they're too low-res to use for reliable transcription), and then at some point send me a text file (or RTF, or whatever non-proprietary format) with the contents.

I would pay two dollars a page for this. Negotiable.
No, that's not what I said.

We're all probably going to have to get comfortable with a basic level of uncertainty about this.
incredible, thanks!
Closed source with that sort of application is uncomfortable.
There is no "new Microsoft". The huge ship has shifted course, visibly, and announced the shift, but that doesn't mean it's completed it's shift, nor does it mean that everyone in the company is completely aligned yet.

While I'm happy that Microsoft is re-aligning with reality, I still don't quite trust them yet. They have a lot of credibility to rebuild.
With no knowledge of either product, that's a fairly sane assumption.
Hi, this is awesome! I would like to see a sample in 0.3 mm B pencil lead. I have pretty much given up on evernote because I don't have time to do this in bulk (a solution you provide) but if I do it ad hoc with my phone camera the quality is terrible (you probably provide the required quality, but I would like to confirm...)

I use 9x5 moleskine, grid ruled, same as your existing sample. But could you please just post a couple pages with different writing utensils? Colored inks (orange, light green, etc) and common leads (0.5 mm HB lead of course, and 0.3 mm B and HB leads). If you need a sample page, I can make one up.
Residential zoning laws prevent short-term illegal conversions in order to protect limited, affordable housing stock from being turned into makeshift hotels, which raises rents, creates a nuisance to neighbors as well as unanticipated impacts on the quality of life.
github raped me! now lets start the misandric shitstorm.
Everyone thinks the message of that movie is "all truth is subjective", but it's not. It's more like "the stories we tell ourselves and others are distorted by our self-image and our interests".

At the end, the movie even explicitly rejects the theory that truth is unobtainable, and that everyone is corrupt. In the movie at least, disinterested third parties who have good intentions can reveal the truth.

You may believe in subjectivity, but Rashomon doesn't.
If they added more older/rarer/foreigner films I'd happily pay more than they charge now (vs. not subscribing currently)!
Totally agree here. I have not seen any major innovations come out from github recently. It's a great product already and something phenomenal has to happen to make me take notice. In VR, I imagine the barriers to making an impression are lot lesser.
Oh, it doesn't have to be anything so brazen as them finding a problem then covering it up. It's simply that you agree to a certain number of hours at a certain price, and they run out of hours before finding any evidence of wrongdoing.

Legal firms have lawyer-client confidentiality rules, so if they do find anything, with a bit of care you can bury or lie about their findings with impunity.
Protecting Enterprise Drupal Users Against Heartbleed
I would love to contribute to Elixir, but jumping right into Elixir's issue list on Github to fix the bug there is a bit too hard for me. I wish there was some resources getting us familiarized with Elixir code base, and leading us more easily into contributing to Elixir, just like the The Eudyptula Challenge for Linux Kernel (http://eudyptula-challenge.org/). Or is there already this kind of resource?
The 60s and 70s were a time of massive social upheaval, and people came out of it with a better understanding of how to see other people by merit rather than by tradition. The "Think of the Children!" political slogan rose to prominence in the 70s. This is also the time of better rights for minorities, first wave feminism, and the rise of the phenomenon of questioning authority. Kids raised under the hippy ethos (and related) were far more common than in the 50s. The environments they grew up in had more equality and diversity measures from the civil rights movements. Not perfect, but certainly significant change.
It's a reminder that freedom of speech != freedom from consequences. They're asking everyone to not ride on this infamous situation to perpetrate any more falsehood. Because if you do you'd have to help yourself with a little bit of law.
> Wonder what Gradle's caching, then?

Let's hope it's catching another scripting language or two in its upcoming version 2 because having Groovy as the only option does it no favors.
It's not clear to me how one would measure 'labor output'. What constitutes 'labor'? Is sitting at home playing a video game 'labor'? What if you're beta-testing for a games company?

So fundamentally this thesis is flawed because there is no well-defined concept of 'labor'. You could take the value theory of labor, which states that 'labor is any non-property that you're willing to pay for', but in that case capital cannot grow at a faster rate.

Really inequality is growing because we have legions of administrator working to redistribute wealth. These are usually well-intentioned ideas that are designed to elevate the less fortunate, but result in corruption and redirection of those funds to the already-rich (who are generally more adept at lobbying for those funds, perversely, especially under the regime of stronger campaign finance laws)

Consider the case of Bell, California, a city with a median income below ~40k, where the city administrators took it upon themselves to line their own pocketbooks (to the tunes of half a million dollars in annual salaries) with city funds. 5 out of 6 administrators were convicted of corruption. http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/09/local/la-me-1210-ang...

Or, the case of the centinela valley school district, again, a low-income area, where SCHOOL officials lined themselves with money (600,000 salaries, interest-free loans on property, etc etc), and awarded very lucrative construction contracts to their cronies. http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-centinela-probe-20140417,... Meanwhile the teachers are underpaid and the kids are not getting educated in failing-grade schools.

When the poor get screwed, it's often not the free market that's screwing them. It's the people with authority that are warping the bureaucracy and taking advantage of the fact that they are spending 50-60 hours a week on tenuous employment and have little time to concern themselves with arduous bureaucracy and regulatory minutiae, that we 'vote' people in to handle.
I remember discovering polarization and how LCDs worked in grade school when my calculator came apart and I accidentally flipped the polarizing film around.