skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't imagine that forbidding workplace romance outright is the answer since we spend most of our adult lives working and is one of the places we are likely to form a long lasting romantic relationship. Think about all the people you know in your life in a happy relationship. My experience has been that a non-trivial percent of those relationships involve people who met through work.

I'm curious if something like tinder could be used to solve the question of how workplace romances could begin without exposing the company to issues.

Basically, a tinder like system would allow employees to opt in or out of the possibility of workplace romance. Someone that isn't interested in any unwanted advances at work would swipe no to everyone and therefore any advance would be an unwanted advance. On the other hand, swiping yes to someone is acknowledgement that you are open to a workplace romance and that you acknowledge the risks of making an advance and you have clear responsibilities on how to handle it like an adult and in a way that absolves the company of responsibility.

Furthermore, if this system were managed by the company, they would have records of opting in from both parties. Any advances outside those recorded by the system, would clearly indicate who is to blame.

There may be some unintended consequences here, but this seems at least to be a better system than the status quo.

Maybe Tinder can try to pivot into a tool for human resources departments?
It really does get that ugly. Check out http://golang.org/pkg/math/big/.
Free market is where consumer has right to buy the goods they want and suppliers have right to produce goods they want.
I agree to your point, both sides should have options to select what they want. But here consumers have no choice. It cannot be considered free market even remotely.
Where in the hell did we decide phones were okay in schools? In the 90's only drug dealers carried pagers, or so the school boards thought, so nobody was allowed to have a later or cell phone on school grounds.
Yep - I'd also love to see this
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Granting exclusive cable franchises has been illegal under federal law since the early 1990's.
So basically the blog post seems to me to claim this:

Ms. Horvath was right with her allegations about a founder and his wife, unbelievable as that wife story sounded at first.

She flat-out lied about the engineer who sabotaged her because she wouldn't sleep with him.

And she lied about not being contacted or interviewed in the course of the investigation.

The truth of all this is undecidable by the public, of course.

This drama can go on virtually forever, unless it is settled in court.

Maybe it's best to detach oneself emotionally from it. It's impossible to choose sides.
As well as 'redundant' storage, since each car effectively gets multiple parking spots at the moment (a dedicated garage, plus a guaranteed spot at work, etc). Once cars are automated you only need enough storage spots for the cars not on the road, which is much smaller.
I think Haskell has, of late, entered into the echo chamber a bit and been dressed up as much more than it is. I believe Haskell has a cleanliness of semantics which makes it rich, but I don't believe that it has the best RTS at all. My understanding (via Scala, an experiment) is that it's difficult to embed these semantics into the JVM.

Ultimately, choose the tools with tradeoffs beneficial to your goals, obviously. Engineering of any kind is nothing if not about understanding tradeoffs.

That all said, I do think there are upgrade paths for both technologies—JVM languages with better semantics and "ML-alike" implementations with better runtimes. I'd be more than happy to use either.
Reddit actually brands itself as a "platform for online communities". Given the nature of subreddits, this does not seem like an unfair characterization.
Julie herself says she's "pretty satisfied" with this post. I still consider myself one of her supporters, and I felt satisfied enough by this post that I recreated my GitHub account. Next time give it an hour before calling everyone insane.
Pardon the vagueness.. but, this use case was a hosted web app, so it only exists in a browser. Some customers required the use of driver's license scanners in order to expedite their business process. Not using Active-X or something like it would've meant writing a whole new fat client UI for the group of users that needed the DL scanners. The simpler solution is to write a little shim and have the native code populate the previously existing form fields. Aside from feeling a little bit dirty, it worked pretty well.
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Unfortunately the negative posters have more to gain. By putting down someone they get a minor lift up in their own self-image, while boosting someone does not provide nearly such a strong reaction.

I think it has more in common with the phenomenon where in general most feedback is negative because people who are happy with a product/situation tend to not bother looking for ways to express that opinion, where people with a strong negative opinion generally want to find a place they can vent.
Great response, patio11! Thanks a lot :)
There was also a great bit on last week's This American Life on anonymous gossiping on the Internet: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/522/t...
Does anyone actually use the main page of Wikipedia? I just look it up on Google and a relevant article shows up.
It's the same way I view stackoverflow.
How about four 8-hour days per week? Could they schedule this as the next experiment the following year?
Except the containers aren't typed. They are essentially containers of void*. If you believe that to be "generic", then you don't understand the topic.
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Why would anyone worry about being anonymously slandered, on a stream of nothing but anonymous slander?

It seems like it would take about 1 day for this to go from truths and half-truths to just a contest for who can write the most shocking or offensive statement. At that point, who cares if it's your name being used on a made up shock-value joke or story? Any real information would be safely obscured by a mountain of false accusations.
I'd be very interested in hearing new facts about the circumstances of Melissa Severini.

The only problem is that the only source we have on this is Valleywag, a publication whose integrity is roughly on the same level as the stuff you stock lavatories with.
Annoyingly, the article doesn't say why Kellogg's stopped their 30 hour work week. Is it unsustainable in the long term? Then it might be a good idea then if A) your business is creative and not an assembly line and B) you plan to sell your business before the strategy becomes unsustainable. They still had a small amount of departments working 30 hour weeks until 1985. When the company was handed over to new management in ~1947, it seems that the management immediately went on a crusade against 30 hour weeks without reason, creating incentives to work in 40 hour week departments and other things.[0]

Personally, I loathed 40 hour weeks at jobs where things are repetitive or physically demanding (I have terrible ankles at 28 from so many on-my-feet positions. I'd probably work 50 hour weeks at a programming gig, switching between studying concepts, coding, and studying existing code simply because you can change up the work sequence.

[0] http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/2962
I dig. I'd be curious to see your other implementation that you show at the end.

That said, I still have a hard time seeing how Pop is much different than iOS 7's animate with springs API.
A company founder doing damage control isn't even close to equivalent to a badly treated employee speaking up about being treated badly. The respective motivations are completely different.
France already privileges work-permit applications from engineers, who probably have an easier time than anyone else getting visas and legal employment in France. This has been the case for many years. Ironically, they seem to be taking a page from the startup book by "relaunching" their own policy.

France's real problems are its education system, which focuses on rote learning rather than Montessori-esque problem-solving, and its heavy state, which taxes and regulates businesses out of existence.

Together, those two factors encourage companies unable to adapt quickly to market conditions.

IMHO, TechCrunch focuses way too much on France and its "tech scene" for the simple reason that Romain is based there, instead of Berlin, London or Stockholm, where much more is happening.
I'd much rather be a billionaire.

You can have legal justice or you can have street justice. Yik Yak is an example of street justice.
I live & work in Stockholm, Sweden. I start work at 8:00 & leave at sharp 15:00 to pick my son from day care. And these are the most beautiful days of my life. I play with my son every day, I'm doing hobby projects, preparing for summer marathon, read HN & CS papers on cutting edge & getting full 8 hrs sleep.

Now tell me how can I do that all with working like donkeys?

Human side of life is much more than living in a Software bubble.

EDIT: corrected some typos.
I used to live near a road that was designed similar to the "Continuous flow" model. It wasn't quite that elaborate, but Palatine Rd. just north of Chicago has "local" and "express" lanes. (Or was it Dundee Rd.? I forget.) I have no doubt it flows more efficiently than other roads, but I consistently had people drive into the wrong lane directly at me. I've never had that on other streets. So the question is - do these trade efficiency for basic safety?
The article addresses this:

> Further testing showed that the rodents exposed to male odors were actually feeling less pain, rather than simply hiding the pain they were in. The male aroma ramped up their stress levels, which deadened the hurt. “It’s really astounding that such a robust effect could have been missed for so many years,” Mogil says.

Though, to be fair, they don't go into detail about how exactly they determined that the rodent was "actually feeling less pain"...
I actually checked the comments to see if anyone else jumped on this quote. Couldn't agree with you more.

Mark spends a great deal of his post talking about how the world is getting smaller, and his time is getting more and more scarce. There are so many "early stage investors" now that entrepreneurs have the same problem. You could take 3 meetings a day on investors who "want to catch up and see how your traction is". Many of them claim that they can provide insight, mentorship, yadda yadda. Some of them will, some of them won't, and as others have pointed out, some of them will want to, but may have to invest disproportionally in backing other horses.

I understand why he wrote this paragraph, as he wants to reinforce that he's one of the ones who gives attention to his startups, but it reads as if he's either naive or lying.

This paragraph aside, the rest of it is solid.

-edit- spelling
If you care about UX, you care about every users’ every experience
This reminds me of FBs ad business - they keep introducing new ad spaces, expanding their offering to more platforms, introducing logout ads, video ads, scrollable install ads, an ad platform, etc. With all of that they are just masking the fact that a large portion of their advertisers stop using them and that most of their products start losing popularity relatively quickly.
I dunno, but it always makes me wonder if they test this on any consumer type machines and if their fans are going as fast as mine...
With regards to cable/internet service providers, in a lot of locations there simply is only one option. If that's the case in the area where the customer trading is going on, then the only option is to cancel that service and go without the internet/cable. That's why it is bad.
The startup I work at had a lucky escape - there was a potential hire for a marketing director, but she was a well known femtard, and worse had a reputation for causing trouble. So, did not hire. Sure enough, 6 months in employment with a competitor, she already brought two cases against them for nebulous gender-bias accusations, and has publically damaged the brand of the company.

Going forward, I suspect more employers will actively screen against loud-mouth femtards, less they bring more trouble then they are worth to the company.
Agreed, here are more JS styles that might be interesting for you: http://codingstyleguide.com/lang/6/javascript
Like I said, I'd prefer to pay for what I consume. I'm not ok with paying cable companies extortionate fees simply because they were able to develop a semi-monopoly on content distribution while they provide painfully poor service and actively work to avoid adapting to the fact that the internet has drastically reduced distribution costs. Shows that are available one day later on Amazon/Hulu or the like, I wait a day and purchase, so it's actually a lot more uncommon than you think that I pirate shows (that said, I'd pay more in some cases to be able to purchase the show when it airs - for events like Breaking Bad). HBOGo, WatchESPN, Showtime anywhere - they built a system that allows shared accounts explicitly, so there is no guilt on my part for not paying for a cable subscription just to get those channels, and if those companies wanted to enforce a policy of individual accounts, I'd happily pay for a subscription to just those channels.

I realize some of this is not perfectly logical and is contradictory. However, I see it as a broken system, with entrenched players acting poorly, and the best way to force adaptation is to pay when they offer me a way to and not pay when they don't. My hope is that this incentivizes the power players to move towards a system where all content is available for purchase should someone want to purchase it (which, given the minimal barriers to uploading copyrighted content, seems like they should have embraced long ago - especially as companies like Netflix and Amazon monitor pirated content to determine their targets).
I've started recently working in and properly learning C++ (most because I hoped the OO model would suit me over C).

Sometimes, I get so frustrated by how weird the syntax can get (the templates always confuse me to the point I have to stop and slowly read the code before I get its meaning)!
To be fair, the front page is already there at http://www.wikipedia.org/.
I don't really get what all you guys mean by "boring". I'd appreciate some clarification (especially about Go).

What does it mean for language to be "fun"? I have some intuition of "fun", but it doesn't play well with what are you saying. I'd say being "fun" means ability to solve your problems easily, concentrating on problems themselves, not on language pitfalls. Isn't it? That's pretty much synonymous (maybe a little broader though) to "productive". So I can't comprehend how language can be "less fun, but more productive and maintainable".
This is a great point. Open source communities are ones in which you are very unlikely to see any sexism, as most people in these communities neither see each other, nor have a very clear way of identifying gender, and generally hold egalitarian political beliefs to boot.

So its clear that the idea of gender roles starts much earlier. Now whether you think that gender roles are a bad thing, or you think they are a reasonable evolutionary strategy that has contributed to our success (we are certainly not the only mammals who adopt gender roles), that's a separate question.

There are also certain biological reasons that may lead to more men being attracted to these fields - Robert and Chevrier found boys performed significantly better in spatial tasks than girls, but girls performed better at language tasks. So maybe as programming moves from lower-level languages (more spatially oriented) to higher level languages, we'll see more women get into the field.

I personally have worked with some excellent women in the tech world, and think the presence of at least some women on the team changes the dynamic for the better, but if we want to do it correctly, we cannot pretend that biology doesn't play a role. We'll have to make the strengths of the different genders work together.
I haven't read the rest of the comments, but am I the only one who finds it strange that GitHub says that Horvath was contacted for the investigation, yet she says she wasn't?
The app didn't bring the school to a halt; a bunch of assholes did. This is only marginally different from writing shit on restroom stalls.
Yeah, that's fair. I'm not sure GitHub's verifiable claims are worth anything though.

I think there are some good reasons to assume Julie's credibility. Like other whistleblowers, the consequences for speaking up are extreme. Not a lot of people I know would open themselves up to the kind of harassment and character assassination that Julie has for no reason.

While it's good that she hasn't turned out to be "unemployable," as many people insisted, the reality is that she has made her life a lot more difficult by speaking out than she would have if she kept quiet. What would she have gained by lying? I'm open to suggestions, but I feel like most of the things people are saying comes down to "disgruntled employee wants revenge" which I find really unconvincing considering the attacks on her character.

If someone doesn't believe that there is pervasive sexism in ANY male dominated industry, I don't know what I can say to convince them. But the truth is that if any HR person (and that's really what this independent investigator is, an HR contractor) asked people if they experienced sexism at work at any of my jobs, people would've been reluctant to be the one to call it out even though it is pervasive.

You're right though, I don't pretend to know objectively what happened. I just think there are a lot of good reasons not to weigh the words of a whistleblower equally with the company trying to protect itself and its investors.
How is that atypical?

Investor says he is interested, needs more info. Investor says he needs to go to meeting. Investor has meeting. Final decision is that the deal is off.

How is that any different from any other business decision? The emotional reactions of the founders have nothing to do with the fact that this is a very cookie cutter and not in anyway abusive business back-and-forth. No different from the kind of back and forth you might have in negotiating between different job offers / juggling interviews that coincide.

God forbid if you're an enterprise company and you're trying to sell to other companies.
Giant Chinese 3D printer builds 10 houses in just 1 day
Microsoft ups OneDrive to 1TB per user
Hate speech is a different matter, that's why it's not legally protected. I believe in the first amendment, both the freedom it grants and the limitations it imposes. Harassing a kid because he's gay or African American isn't protected, and I'm OK with that.
Paying for the self-driving cars will likely be a cost savings by itself, since we won't need as many auto-cars as regular cars. Most cars are only used maybe 5-8% of the time, and sit unused otherwise. An auto-car service could probably get at least 50% usage out of a car, potentially much more. That means a 10x reduction in the number of cards needed.
Then the rug is a declaration of values. The US has often failed to live up to its own founding values - should we shred the preamble and the declaration of independence? No - those two documents have shaped US history, mostly because we're more and more trying to live up to them.

It just seems awfully silly. The legitimate point here - that there should be more female engineers - seems a) not specific to GitHub and b) to be lost under a shroud of phony outrage over a rug.
How is just ignoring this shit not an option? Am I that far removed from HS culture at 33? My HS was full of asshole bastards that would say anything about anybody just to get a reaction.

We didn't have social media, but if a juicy rumor got started it only took about half a day to spread to the whole school. Hands down the best way to beat them was to not give a fuck. Just don't feed the trolls. Bullies are motivated by a reaction and as long as you're not being physically harmed you shouldn't give them one.
> I think "the guy who she wouldn't let fuck her" was her previous boyfriend, which was confirmed in one of the chat transcripts she posted?

No, those were two different people, @tnm and @Holman.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/ims-and-email-support-allegation...
Maybe researchers should then just always use suits, or at least put on a clean shirt each time before getting close to the rat cages and handling them.
I think even without the government regulations you'd have a similar situation: it's expensive enough to serve even an affluent area that the market can't really support much more than 2 companies (which already exist in the form of Comcast/TimeWarner and FiOS/U-Verse in most wealthy areas). You'd probably also find that some middle-class suburbs would have no providers available at all.

Though I do agree that subscriber pricing is much better in areas where you see both a cable company and a telco video provider like FiOS or U-Verse.
Ask HN: Design and UX
I am a liberal arts grad from the Bay working sales and marketing for a Start-up, but I am interested in learning UX and design, so I was just curious if you guys had any recommendations for where I should start? I know there are a lot of resources out there to learn programming and web development, but I am less informed about what's available for design.

Thanks!
Science is repeatable, not repeated. It's not true that one experimental result is meaningless but two are gospel. The first has a probability of being a fluke, and the second reduces that probability, that's all.
Less that perceive the depth (2 inches at 50 meters is tough, especially from above) but that we're really good at pattern matching (vague square thing in the road? likely not road).

You can think of parallax as stereo vision repeated over and over again with different cameras. Cameras/depth sensing has a hard time at range, since the resolution for depth decreases rapidly towards subpixel.
By this logic Arabs and Persians must be mathematical geniuses since they invented the math system most of the world uses.

Malcolm Gladwell says (sells) a lot of shit. Literally.
It's sometimes interesting to check to see recently added articles which are highlighted, "this day in history" items, as well as recent major news items which I might have missed.
So the traditional wisdom from what I remember is 20% fat, 30% protein and 50% carbs. 1000 calories a day from carbs means 250 grams of carbs a day. That sounds like a lot too.
Based on what I've seen and heard, Comcast has history of doing things like this. They have entered in contract with apartment complex across the nation and have mandated each apartment to have their service. The consumers have been at their mercy whether they like their content or not or even want it. Comcast has gotten too large, it is very dangerous when one company controls so much of media in the country. Where are the regulators?
> I wish people still wrote so eloquently in their everyday correspondence.

To write in the manner you mentioned might give the impression you are a 'snob', which regrettably is why I often avoid doing so.

When someone hears of my education history it is often assumed I am familiar with Shakespeare. Currently the only (corrupted) line of the Bard that haunts me is:

> "Shuffle off this mortal coil, you cunt."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534653/Royal-Marine...
Yes but in most of the cases it's better to use === operators. I mean, they both are correct. It's just a matter of style
Avoiding Simpson's paradox in data analysis