skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I publish an other one without annoying people that are following me for something else ? It's especially a problem with my french articles, since most of people following me won't understand french.

Yup, that's a killer. I have people who follow me for personal stuff, a few people who follow me for kayaking stuff, a couple hundred people who apparently follow me for tech/entrepreneurial stuff and some people who follow me for interesting links to French content.

But the tech people have only a limited interest in kayaking, none of the kayaking people care weird French TV series, and so on. So anything I say is going to bore someone. At least Google+ circles make it easy to restrict 99% of the "adorable child" photos to my immediate family. But that only works for those followers I know personally, not the couple hundred strangers who follow me for one reason or another.

How not to be boring, rule 101: Thou shalt not obsess about one's hobbies to people who are not interested.

Twitter works a bit better, because I can have several independent Twitter accounts: one per language that I write in, or one per enthusiasm, or whatever works for me.

But Google+ forces me to publish only that subset of content which is interesting to almost all my followers. And that's very nearly the null set.
I work for Ericsson - we are now allowed other phones after the partnership with Sony dissolved.. That said, the patent lawsuits related to Samsung have previously interfered with the selection.
> The DSM-V fact sheet indicates that, indeed, rather than being voted out of existence, Aspergers Syndrome was reclassified to help reduce misdiagnoses from varying application of DSM-IV criteria, not because it doesn't exist.

It doesn't exist. All this reclassification talk is simply psychologists saving face. At their most candid, they say, "It's not an evidence-based term." (source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/health/03asperger.html?pag...). Saying something isn't evidence-based is how a scientist says "it's not real."

Remember that, in science, the null hypothesis precept dictates that claims lacking evidence are assumed to be false. Indeed, the fact that people continue to insist that Asperger's is real in spite of a complete lack of evidence, is an accurate measure of the unscientific nature of psychology.
Again you're moralizing it, all you're doing advocating prohibition.

Drinking is a common social activity. Stop being so judgemental and deal with reality.
I suspect Sweden has enough judges for 50.1 - 49.9% to be statistically significant.
You're kinda right. I started programming on BBC Micros when I was 9, and there's really no way around the fact that the only way you can know as much as I do about programming at my age is by having that kind of experience.

However, software is an industry. We need more people, and we can't travel back in time to teach the 10-year-olds of 2004 how to code. It's perverse, but part of the reason for the shitty nature of most software projects is the imbalance between demand for good software and supply of people capable of providing it. This is what leads to over-work, death-marches, time pressure and the attempt to prevent programmers getting involved in "distractions" like talking to customers, figuring out what the software should really be doing and so on.

Currently, the best way for employers to maximise the amount of software they produce is to get their best coders to focus on writing code, stripping away any other aspect of the job. Management, analysis, design, testing, all of these get shifted on to non-technical (read: easier/cheaper to hire) people who then fuck it up because they don't know anything about how software works, or at least how the software we need right now should work. Sure, it can be a good thing for developers that demand for their services is so much higher than the supply, but the long-term effects really aren't good. I'd rather work in a world where the obsessive programming-before-they-could-legally-drink people get to be lead developers, but the rest of the team can also program decently. And that means training the latecomers properly. (I appreciate that some of this may seem condescending to the latecomers - in all honesty, I think many people have the potential to be excellent developers given time and encouragement, but I'm trying to stick within the premise of the parent comment).
No one said love was without risks!

Joking aside, I think you are misunderstanding me.

I don't suggest anybody should be fired for asking someone for a date. I'm saying that company policy can give you an easy way to say "no" to a date: "Sorry, I don't want to jeopardize my career, you know company policy.". Ideally, the person asking you out will accept your rejection, and there's no need to fire anyone.
That may a reference to Pandemic II. It looks like Plague Inc. is a clone of this flash game, made for Android.
Whether Tesla was Serbian or Croatian is one of the most controversial topics on Wikipedia[1]. As is typical for Wikipedia he has been added and removed from the list of famous Croats a number of time[2]. I don't think that can be classed as a factual error

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_controversial...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Croats#Tesla
Not any more. Those parts of Nokia Keiretsu that once was exist today as independent companies.

http://www.nokiantyres.com/ http://www.nokiantires.com/

http://nokianjalkineet.fi/en/ http://www.nokianfootwear.com/

Nokia Cable is now http://www.nkcommunications.com
Isn't this longstanding policy nearly everywhere? SNL's words of wisdom on "how to avoid committing sexual harassment at work":

1. Be handsome

2. Be attractive

3. Don't be unattractive
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That excuse becomes unusable quickly as the number of office couples grows. A policy on the books won't let you off the hook when everyone knows it's not an actual policy.
No, its not ironic. That's exactly the difference between for-profit companies controlled by private interests and non-profit companies influenced by community interests.

Moreover, trying to extrapolate one data point to draw conclusions about the Silicon Valley in its entirety is a really bad argument.
It may depend on the availability on various natural resources, such as big (domesticable) animals, as hypothesized by Jared Diamond in "Guns, Germs and Steel". This is why native Australians were pretty much stuck in stone age era for thousands of years. They might have never developed beyond that level. Not because they're inferior, but because they had no means to start an economy capable of accumulating resources. One could easily imagine an Earth where the only continent is Australia (surrounded by oceans) and humans - even biologically identical to us - remain hunter-gatherers for eternity.
I really wish they had just rolled with it and allowed it to grow as a new Twitter-like product. It still is from what I can see. The majority of people I follow are people I don't know outside of G+ who share publicly or to interest-based circles.
> A much better policy could be everyone has to make their intentions clear.

Easily said, but impossible to put into practice. Have you ever tried to get a woman to make her intentions clear? Apart from being seen as insulting, it's an impossible condition to place on social interactions between men and women, where a woman's inalienable right to be vague and ambiguous is an essential component of the dating game.
A while ago the law changed in the UK to allow women to do the official book signing bit at weddings. Nowadays, if you go to a wedding, it is almost certain that the person in the role of registrar/vicar is female. For whatever reason a once exclusive male shop is now dominated by women.

If we look back at the time before the internet, in the days when Wordperfect was king, you could find that the typical office had more computers in the hands of women than men. In those days plenty of women went from secretarial jobs to more technical roles in computing. IT was far from what you might call a closed shop, women barred from entering. Far from it.

The internet, or rather the www, has created plenty of new opportunities in programming, design and content creation. Everyone had a fair crack of the whip, no universities barred women from doing Comp. Sci. degrees and many, many employers would prefer to take on a female candidate for a programming role to a male candidate given key criteria of skills are met. Yet here we are in our gender stereo-typed roles. The die has been cast.
Agreed.

This is one of the reasons why I like remote work so much. If most of the work conversation is happening in a basecamp or hipchat which is logged then if a particular team member is phrasing his communication in a demeaning way or doing anything else to discourage others from group-learning then that behavior pattern will be discerned by everyone else relatively quickly and it can be dealt with. In an office team people can get away with being a dick for years without anyone being able to call them on it to correct the situation.

more on these themes here:
http://37signals.com/remote/
Try telling that to the Google Adsense compliance department...
If they had full freedom to move around in the company, it would have become obvious as people would have bailed from the project.
Bruce Sterling has been telling this for years, especially in good conference talks.
>> "That's exactly the difference between for-profit companies controlled by private interests and non-profit companies influenced by community interests."

It feels like it should be the other way around to me. When something is influenced by community interests and a number of people make noise there should be a public vote or similar to decide on the offenders fate. It should be up to the community as a whole. A for-profit company needs to get rid of someone as toxic as this as there is a possibility it will effect sales. A for-profit company can't wait around to make a decision like that, it needs to be quick.
The Unexpected Entrepreneur: Interview with Joe Satriani
I think that's thinking about it the wrong way. Google's aim is to organise the world's information in a structured way and then capitalise on it. It seems to be that with Google + they had decided to use identity as a primary key to hang stuff off. They were determined that architecturally, they wanted it this way.... at almost any cost.
Yeah fucking right. Just look at US patent law.
I don't think there are two real strong reasons for wanting to see representative distribution in a profession: distributing power & vestiges. Power is the important one.

1. Power - Near equal representation in some professions is more important that in others is because these are positions of power. Law, medicine, journalism, film etc. Are expressions and sources of power and status/

The central component of discrimination against woman or minorities was always disempowerment. Most things stem from that. Under representation in positions of power is a way that disempowerment is expressed.

There's a self re-enforcing dynamic to these things. Under/over representation in certain professions also create and enforce the power dynamic.

Women becoming lawyers, journalists & politicians was both a cause and an effect of a more equal distribution of power. This leaks into other areas. A housewife in a world of female ministers and lawyers is more powerful within her family.

So, is programming a position of power? Does the profession have that kind of importance. In my opinion, it is. Technology is the agent of change in our times. Programming & engineering are the root and stem of technology. It's not a traditionally important profession, but I think it is one now.

2. Killing off vestiges of the old discriminatory world.

A male dominant profession can be hard for women to penetrate just because of momentum. Take a simple example from the list of female dominated professions: maternity nursing or child care. Maternity leave, career breaks & part time are probably more common and therefore tolerated in these fields than in construction or truck driving.

OTOH, many variants of political correctness are awful and dehumanizing. Sometimes they're a price we need to pay for just social change, but IMO it is a price. (3)If you see bad behavior from other men, speak up. (4)Don't attempt romantic relationships. (5) No drinking

This is one of the things which leads to (and has led to) a neutered, reserved and false work culture. It encourages trolls who find ways to misinterpret intentions and "take offense." It creates this dualism where people must discipline their work avatar. I don't want to single out female inclusions. This is a complicated issue and I don't have all my thoughts on it straight. There are a lot of casualties in honesty. Part of this forced reservedness is just the need to be diplomatic and reserved in general.

For me, this falseness of the "corporate me" people play is what makes work unpleasant. So, when I here someone cheerfully suggest some simple rules like Jeff has, I see a cost.
It's not ironic, it's infuriating...

But the best way I've heard it explained is that everyone knows and cares about Mozilla and Github, and no one knows RadiumOne.

I tweeted John Gruber suggesting he might link to this, and he (rightly, I guess) pointed out that he had no idea who this guy is. And that will be most people's reaction, I guess.
Remember the Burning Platform letter from Elop that killed remaining Symbian sales for Nokia? Elop likened Nokia/Symbian to burning oil platform and argued that Nokia must jump from the platform to be saved.

Jolla http://jolla.com/ was founded soon afterwards by people who left Nokia. The name Jolla means dinghy, skiff or lifeboat in Finnish.
Variations on your second point are definitely in the plans. The Tesla charging stations are being put up in conjunction with Solar City, a solar panel leasing company, which was founded by Elon Musk's cousins.
I think what he did is absolutely disgusting and am rather upset that he isn't going to be rotting in jail. But honestly I've also never heard of him or his company until this article. On the other hand, I have known of and have had a vested interested in Mozilla for as long as it has existed.

I'm guessing most folks are in the same situation as myself.

His company is private. The most anyone can do is to not do business with him. I think it's absolutely fucked up that he isn't going to prison... but what do you expect people to do? I doubt anyone is going to defend his actions. I don't see how your comparison with Mozilla makes any sense.
Why non-technical?

Anecdotally, when I first started seeing pintrest in FB, most of the women that were doing it tended to be the more computer savvy and then it spread.
Yes, this. Why is this all-or-nothing approach romanticised? There are untold thousands of bootstrapped companies slowly building their product without taking on any (or very little) outside funding and earning a decent living. It may not have the prospects of a huge payoff, but then again, you may have better chances of winning the lottery than winning a huge payoff.
Pagination. Comments. Profit.
Is it?

For me, this is a topic I find easy to have nuanced and interesting conversations about in person but not online.
He actually is a minor celebrity. He was one of Obama's biggest donors (and has been to the White House multiple times for personal visits with Obama), he was interviewed by Oprah, and had an entire hour of network television devoted to him in his episode of "Secret Millionaire" on ABC.
> Two, the number of wildly successful people who were said to have Asperger's, including Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, and Bill Gates, which means if Asperger's is real, then wealth and fame are reliable diagnostic indicators for the condition. That would give "mental illness" a whole new meaning.

If three successful people are said by some to have showed signs of Asperger's, how many non-Asperger's successful people are needed to make "wild success" an unreliable indicator? I'll lead off with Oprah, Dale Carnegie, and Bill Clinton.
It's just an interesting contrast. The Mozilla situation was pushed forward by tweets of employees that were offended by his donation. It's odd that something similar wouldn't happen here.
So in this case (and others, I suppose) YC acts as a union.
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We advise you to not install Time4Popcorn. We will not link to their software anymore from this thread, i did not want to take a side in this but since the application seems to send data to unknown servers and they steal code from other projects... That is what has made me decide not to delete it off the list. No that would not help anyone, i would like everyone to know how bad of a piece of software time4popcorn currently is. Their Mac version currently even links to the Official Popcorn Time version, which is odd? Why would they do that? Oh yes because they can't create their own versions. I have collected several comments from our community about the current suspious activity that time4popcorn has shown us.

I advise you to not install or to delete the app immediatly if you did install it. The developers do have a chance of getting back here in the list, they can send me a PM and prove that i am several other people are completely wrong. On this moment we will strongly advise against the use of this software. We will also delete any and every link to their website and or download pages.

Be warned!

@cesasol commented:

After checking the source code, i could see there is no software beyond nodewebkit under popcorn4time binary, instead they work on this "cloud" http://app.time4popcorn.eu/[25] deactivate js before going to this link And there is a couple of binary files with the extension php, wich is more than suspicius. After checking in a vbox, they send random data to that server and another two, not only the torrent seeding.

@Sharkiller a Popcorn Time dev has also showed his doubts:

@Foxito they steal code, dont release them, put features that dont work only grow up their userbase who knows for what. for weeks they do interviews for a lot of pages to gain more and more userbase even when their code never works(tvshows). in the code you can find suspicious images to track the users, they don't even are from analytics. after a few weeks they "release" a source code in github that is a clone of the popcorn-official repo, even the links go to that repo. with the commits of the same day. They don't even do a fork only a renamed code. If that is not fishy to you then use it.

@traplover69 commented: The download links on http://get-popcorn.com/download/mac[26] and http://time4popcorn.eu/Popcorn-Time-0.2.9-Mac.tar.gz[27] point to the same file. Both give a shasum of fc00796208ca412b01c3715fb44af191d937ba8a. Any ideas whats happening here?

So be carefull with Time4Popcorn

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Fuck this shit! Anyone who invests in this scummy bastard's company, for whatever reasons, is an implicit supporter of such heinous behavior.

If you have any way of holding this bastard's feet to the fire, financially or otherwise, it is your moral prerogative to do so, without question. Shame on anyone who supports this pathetic slime ass!

If you care about it, put your money where your mouth is and find a way to publicize this before the IPO and find a way to keep yourself, your friends and your companies from having anything to benefit his business, now and in the future.
Summary: The author thinks Google+ could have been saved (or been electrified) if they had integrated Reader.
With no felony conviction to his name, Chahal can remain on the board of RadiumOne

I don't know why they'd want him to, though.
Of course government should provide roads. And water, and sewage, and a police force, and fire protection, and libraries, etc. What made you think I didn't agree with that? You are fighting a straw man.

And "fair" absolutely is relevant, from a market-wide POV. Of COURSE some companies have natural advantages over others. That's great. They should win. When the better competitors DON'T win, you have a market fairness problem. If government is providing a service at higher cost to the taxpayer than if a private company was providing it, then there is a problem. And this happens all the time, because the sticker price of government services is always low, or zero, even though the real cost can be very high.
Our criminal justice system is designed to (except apparently at the federal level) keep it from being used against dissidents, but this is one case where the rules for evidence collection helped produce the wrong result.

What he did was completely reprehensible and while the courts have ruled, that doesn't mean that society shouldn't punish this behavior. As someone below noted, nobody knows who he is, but we can change that ... and I hope that RadiumOne's customers care enough to find another vendor.

EDIT:

Did anyone else find the line "Security footage from his bedroom" a bit creepy?
> Given the MS culture, are things going to get slow and bureaucratic?

This is my worry. Nokia moves so quick on everything, and delivers great products. While Microsoft is always slow, and the the products are always missing features.

Hopefully all those Nokia employees will have an effect on Microsoft's culture.

Microsoft makes products I like. Nokia make products I love.
Pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one another
A company is likely not the appropriate structure if you want to create free software.
"mainly because Tesla is trying to make them exclusive to move units"

I don't think that's the case. I believe the two major reasons are simply:

- superchargers are 120kW, ChaDeMo is 50kW.
- Tesla wants to retain the ability to iterate to figure out what works well, and what is required, before standardization

At this stage in the market, electric car companies are much better off co-operating rather than competing. I'm willing to bet that every Leaf sold increases Tesla's sales in the medium term rather than decreases it. The Leaf owner is a first adopter, who demonstrates to their friends and families that electric cars are practical. Not to mention that Leaf to Tesla is a common upgrade path as income, needs and/or family size grows.
I thought you were going to go a different direction with that. All joking aside I really feel like the policies outlined in the op wreak of "apparently nobody in this company is mature enough to engage in what all adults engage in and we selfishly don't want to have to let people go due to their emotional unpreparedness."

Which is possible given that a lot of the most promising developers are young, I still don't agree with it. People need to be able to make mistakes and corporate culture is strangling them.
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Reminds me of TLA+ but for crypto
Would the GetLinesFromFile() memory leak cause performance issues on anything outside of this example?
Its hard to think of a broader usecase.
Though I would suppose its annoying that it eats memory on an older machine. But since it will only be updated for VS 2013 that wont matter until the newer machines get old.
Slight affect if doing long running performance testing?
I still think it's a mistake for Microsoft to not buy the Nokia brand. Why not go the Motorola route (Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions)?
So instead of improving the algorithms that support our virtual currency, we brute force the problem with sending stuff to space(!).

Sounds like a plan that could destroy a civilization in the long term.