skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And indeed the content of the interviews made it to the bosses via the report:

Rhoma’s report includes personal stories, private thoughts, documents, and all kinds of details that were shared for the purpose of the investigation, not for public consumption. We are trying to be transparent, but I hope you understand that there are privacy concerns preventing us from sharing the report in full.
Thanks for doing this, would definitely like to see more. Hours is looking great!
It is novel partially because the medium is different. The difference in medium isn't irrelevant.
The investigation found Tom Preston-Werner in his capacity as GitHub’s CEO acted inappropriately, including confrontational conduct, disregard of workplace complaints, insensitivity to the impact of his spouse's presence in the workplace, and failure to enforce an agreement that his spouse should not work in the office. There were also issues surrounding the solicitation of GitHub employees for non-GitHub business and the inappropriate handling of employee concerns regarding those solicitations.

It doesn't insubstantiate them either. TPW acted "inappropriately", which may or may not have been because Julie was a female. I believe that the stress of the CEO (and his wife) on Julie may have contributed to her experience in the workplace overall. I've been under that kind of stress before (not gender-based) and I know that it colored the future dealings I had at that job.

Harassment doesn't happen in a vacuum and they shouldn't be considered isolated incidents. Harassment affects us all differently and what some people may be able to brush off, others get affected by, deeply.

I almost want to address you calling Julie delusional, but I'm afraid it would only lend credence to you calling her that...
is it time to get a chromecast?
There was also no mention of which jobs were held by Asian Americans versus immigrant Asians. I think there's a stark difference between an increase in jobs held by Asian immigrants versus an increase in jobs held by Asian Americans. In the latter, the jobs are still held by Americans.
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True, but you didn't see every bathroom wall, or the contents of every note at the same time.

This sort of app would be much more effective at school-wide dissemination of gossip.
"Manual verification is indeed more complicated, slow and prone to failure but it's not worthless"

Manual vs. automated is a whole other discussion, rather separate from TDD.

Manual test scripts are not worthless, but are certainly an indication your project is either (a) very small scale or simple or (b) going to take a very long time to complete and be prone to regressions.

TDD is about the benefits derived when you write your test case before your code, and also the design implications of doing so.

"You can have 100% coverage of your tests with TDD and still have a bug."

Obviously. But the probability of your codebase having defects goes down drastically with higher code coverage.

You could take the new radical approach of "don't test, just ship", but that requires a very specific organizational culture and risk profile.
Oculus Rift experiment warps reality by slowing down your vision
> your gallon of gas would get you to Alpha Centauri.

In less than an hour ;-)
> Jaywalking pedestrians.

There was a episode on this on the 99% invisible podcast:
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-...

The above page has photos and a full transcript of the episode, I very highly recommand it.

This piece reminded me of the 'problem' of jaywalking because the complexity the self driving Googe car boast to be able to handle, could also be instead reduced or anhilated by adequate urban policies. There are movements to get the car out of urban areas [1] or at least make the pedestrian the 'owner' of the street, and I think self driving cars should be positionned more as an auto-pilot for long distances, rather than attempt to make sense of the current chaos in high density areas.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/v3ff7FY.jpg ("you are the traffic", a Roumanian poster seen in /r/bycicling)
I didn't think so. I just wanted some clarification.
So you think the Preston-Werners treated male employees that way? Sexism isn't just boys being mean to girls. It is when women are treated differently or targeted for some sort of special consideration or evaluation, just as appears to have happened in this case based on the findings of the investigator.
You are trading equity for cash with the anticipation that you will 'pay' them a lot more than their principal investment in time.
Ah yes, another barely literate post from the always bigoted ThomPete.
There is only one dash/em/en/hyphen. ASCII has overruled the NSGC.
Yes, and surely some people (particularly in less dense suburbs and rural areas) will continue to own cars. They will just be self-driving cars, because manually operated cars will be illegal.
The current changed title is overbroad, it's certainly not shown by this study that experimenter sex is an issue in all animal research. I would simply suggest the title of the paper itself: "Olfactory exposure to males, including men, causes stress and related analgesia in rodents". It's fairly straightforward, and not as jargon-filled as scientific titles go.
This is awesome. Are there any projects like this written in Ruby that I can easily integrate into a Rails app?
I think this feature is not minimalist at all. Smooth scrolling consumes a lot of battery and processing power.

> In my experience a minimalist design often requires more effort behind the scenes.

Why ? When I say minimalist I essentially means less useless fancy features. Minimalist focuses on the useful, not on the feeling, so it can leave more room for other new features. The iPhone has a power of a 1995-2000 full fledged desktop PC or maybe more, yet it's using a lithium battery and it's 1cm thick.

This applies to all hardware: it's not worth it anymore to invest into new hardware if you're unable to exploit current hardware to their full potential.

You can throw money at chip technology, but at some point you also have to try throwing money at software and OS developers. Computers have always been about software, not hardware.
and the reason you don't have the option to switch to another service provider is your state and local governments granting comcast, et al local monopolies.

Please direct criticism to the proper source: government interference.
Pretty comparable - 26,000 accidental falls, 30,000 car deaths.
They apologized for letting everybody down. It's hard to address the myriad of grievances that folks have come up with about this issue in a reasonably-sized letter especially when GitHub probably feels like it didn't do anything wrong on some fronts.
I guess I'm digging myself in a hole here since apparently my opinion isn't very popular. But I just wanted to explain why I said what I did, based on a moment of reflection:

- Founder allegations: sounds like they already came to the conclusion that TPW wasn't acting appropriately, so I'm not sure what the fact that it happened before adds to that.

- Engineer allegations: this is about people other than TPW.

- Github's working environment: Maybe Severini could have added some dishing on TPW, in particular (but not necessarily the company). But given the non-disparagement agreement and the fact that her feelings are apparently general knowledge, was another interview with her really necessary?

As @waterlesscloud says above, I'm wondering, "Is anyone disputing the activities of the Preston-Werners at this point?" The fact that it's happened before is relevant if you want to dish more on TPW's character or the fact that GH made a mistake, both of which have already been done. Adding more at this point is almost sensationalist.
This made me realize: Reddit/HN wouldn't be nearly as valuable without usernames. They allow you to scan someone's posts to see if they have a history of being mean, intellectually dishonest, etc.
Given that we have assumed human-like intelligence is reproducible, let's assume only slightly further that intelligence can be represented as some pattern, P, that can be reproduced in media other than human brains (I'm assuming you are meaning "reproducible" in terms of "reproducible within a machine", not the uninteresting meaning of "Every human born has reproduced intelligence").

If P exists, we have all kinds of faster, better, more durable strata we could encode it into than the one evolution happened to hit upon, and that encoding alone could be considered 'super intelligence' in the sense that it would easily out-think you and I. That may not necessarily imply that P can be improved upon exponentially (but if I were your stock advisor---or for that matter, licensed to be so---I'd humbly suggest that wagering against the _total possibility_ that something can be improved tends to be a losing wager). But it wouldn't take too many improvements to get orders of magnitude past our slower-than-a-speeding-bullet organic thought machinery.

It's worth noting that Kurzweil's book doesn't necessarily predict infinite, unbounded growth in intelligence (I'd assume that what we'd call "intelligence" is susceptible to the S-curve of diminishing returns like other technologies). But one doesn't need infinite, unbounded intelligence growth to build something that fundamentally transforms the world we live in.
The stock become more attractive to hold
> How did a case which apparently was not about sexism come to be so closely related to it?

Because she explicitly called out that the source of the problem was gender discrimination. Whether she was mistaken or whether the investigation failed to find the problem no one knows for sure, but it is not surprising that this case was closing related to sexism when the victim claimed that was the cause.
What is the space trip going to be? Sitting in a chair, looking out a porthole, seeing the sky darken to stars, maybe being allowed to get up and experience microgravity the same as various amusement park rides or the vomit commit wave flying plane, then sitting in your seat for the ride back down. Pretty worthless, honestly. About the same as a day at the amusement park with a higher chance of death. Money instead might let you start a business and change the world, or code your own thing instead of coding what a boss tells you for several years.
What if there's not another paper because the margins are so low that neither of you would make a profit if you had to compete for customers (and your service was mutually exclusive)? And the government says that you have to drive by every house when delivering papers whether they subscribe or not?

Even if telecom/cable were fully deregulated, this is the situation you would face. A cable company may make $1 billion in revenue off of a city, but it probably costs them $900 million to serve the city. If someone else comes in and is able to radically undercut their costs at $600 million while simultaneously winning 50% of the market, both companies would still only make $500 million and lose money. The incumbent cable company probably has enough of a war chest to wait out the challenger's funding.

Infrastructure businesses are very expensive. There is no easy solution short of the government seizing the cable infrastructure, which would set such a dangerous precedent that it would probably destroy our economy.
A more specific url: https://twitter.com/luckiestmonkey/status/453380705846693888
A thought for the school: maybe flood the app with good things about their students and encourage them to do the same.

A sort of happy uplifting DOS.
I have read a lot of thoughts on the supposed "singularity", and something I still have yet to see is for someone to realize that every person who believes in the singularity disregards economics.

They all seem to think that this intelligent machine will improve it's algorithm or find ways to make smaller, more efficient, and better designed chips. On the software side, there is only so much one can do to maximize the intelligent aspect of the algorithm. At one point or another, the program will be maximally efficient at solving whatever problem the algorithm is designed to solve.

On the hardware side, the singularitists sometimes argue that the program will design every better, bigger, and more efficient chip designs as the news chips would be used to build even better chips.

However, who is going to pay for the manufacturing, energy, and maintenance costs of this self improving machine? Eventually, this machine will have to quit trying to design more intelligent machines and start solving HUMAN PROBLEMS. Why? Cause humans will actually pay for the solutions to problems that this intelligent machine can solve.

I'm not saying that this type of self improving machine would never be built. I just think that we will end up splitting the line between devoting resources to improving the machine to encourage future growth, and making money by solving problems that people are willing to pay for.

Also note that as this machine gets more and more powerful, the problem of making itself better will get more and more complex, and as I think we can all agree on, complexity is our greatest enemy.
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"Furthermore, there was no information found to support Julie’s allegation that the engineer maliciously deleted her code. The commit history, push log, and all issues and pull requests involving Julie and the accused engineer were reviewed"

isn't one of the whole things about git as a VCS the ability to re-write its history?
Firefox 29 for Linux released
Six-hour days may be more productive, but this won't prove it one way or the other because:

- The people working six hour days have been told that this may improve productivity so the excitement of being part of the experiment may indeed encourage them to be more effective in the short term

- They have a strong incentive to work harder because if the experiment concludes that six hour days are more effective, they will likely get to keep working six hour days.
No, you don't poach to equilibrium. You leave it in for 11-13 mins. The yolk is runny but the white is a little more firm than you'd get equilibrium poaching at a lower temp.
My implication was that the article was very professional and I was quite impressed that it was written by somebody so young. I think that it makes it more relevant, not less.
The full API documentation can be found there:

http://dev.blockcypher.com/

Includes websockets and webhooks to get notified on a variety of blockchain events.
> the customer is supposed to select the supplier, not the other way around

Which isn't entirely right. Companies routinely chase after specific demographic groups. Porsche isn't exactly selling huge numbers of low-cost commuter boxes. Where you live is just as much a demographic category as anything else.

It doesn't mean it's not a crappy deal, but the article doesn't get how things work from the company side.
Hard, yes--but I disagree with the premise that you have to design for 40 years from now.

Unlike the Colosseum, web design can be changed. The NY Times e.g. has done a great job balancing their time-tested values with digital experimentation.
"There's nothing new under the sun"

... except for all the new stuff, of course. The fact that Da Vinci dreamed of flying machines doesn't diminish the significance of the actual invention of the airplane or modern commercial air travel.
gossip apps are new but gossip websites did the same thing to college campuses. for example juicycampus and collegeacb
Did hallways full of students and teachers run into bathroom stalls every minute to check the latest messages?

Gee, I don't see why people are so freaked out by this gatling gun I'm carrying. It's basically a fancier sling to throw things at people.
These services charge more for the items purchased than what you would expect if you were to purchase them at the store yourself. The $4 per delivery is simply a facade.
In general professional service firms aim for a balance between three goals: profitability, professional satisfaction, and client service. As a freelancer, I try to satisfy the same goals. I want a good income. I want my work to be enjoyable, rewarding, and make me grow. And I want my clients to be happy.

All three of those are genuine ends in themselves. If any is missing, I'll be unhappy. If I'm not earning enough, I'll be worried. If I'm making a fortune but doing horrible work, I'll yearn all day for something else. If I'm eagerly diving into the latest tech but my clients are dissatisfied, I'll feel like I don't deserve their business.

Each goal is also a means to the other two, but it's important to keep that in the background. Of course I'll earn more if I keep my clients happy, but if that's my only motivation, things will eventually break down. One reason I freelance is that I value the interpersonal side of software development, meeting with clients and helping them achieve their goals.

There are projects I've really sought that didn't pay as well I could make but were interesting or would let me develop new skills. There are projects I've sought because of who I could work with. I'm willing to give up some cash for those ends. I'm still financially motivated, but I like my job and I take pride in it, so money isn't everything.
Although throwaways are generally considered acceptable, especially on Reddit. Without some means to enforce single account registration or a real name policy, the same problem exists.
I think that it is very impressive that he is having these thoughts at such a young age. That's it, I wasn't saying that his opinion should be discredited!
I don't see any reason why this would require that tradeoff.
You ignored the part about "They couldn't even find the malicious code removals by 'the guy who she wouldn't let fuck her' that was one of her central claims."
Women Wear Too Much Makeup Because They Mistakenly Think Men Like It
in the context of restful apis?

seems like it's mostly web apps that are building rest apis. Most web apps are ruby/python/php. I'm pretty sure, but could be wrong. My hypothesis is based on the builder of the web app uses langs they are familiar with when they build out a selection of client library. The claim of a lack of .Net libraries seems to justify my thinking
I dunno, history has shown that the negative people will win out unless you filter them out.

Most unfiltered communication channels online are known for being horribly negative, not to say there isn't positive content, just that it is minor.

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.

Adding user names can help, as your history becomes public and scrutinizable, allowing you to be proud that you are positive.
This metaphorically reeks

I see what you did there.
Thanks. I'm not sure either. It's my impression that most people, maybe not on HN, but most people, think of the "top 1%" as people who make absurd amounts of money. But the reality is that it "only" takes $383,000 to be in the top 1% of earners. It's dishonest to present the stats about how many people make it into the top percentiles for at least a year without stating what those percentiles are.
How Fireball Whisky Became the Most Successful Liquor in Decades
The solution is to teach young people how to behave properly, and not denigrate their peers.
You may want to look at houston [0] and/or helios [1].

[0] https://github.com/nomad/houston

[1] http://helios.io/
so you guys are giving free coins? cool! ;)
nice api!
There's plenty of alternatives for internet everywhere in the country. Saying "but they only have 1 broadband provider" isn't the same as having only one internet provider. The home I grew up in still doesn't have any broadband cable provider and can't get DSL. Yet somehow my non-tech savvy parents figured out how to navigate finding, competing and buying a high-speed internet provider after years of dial-up. They've had "always on" 24/7 internet in their house since about 1997-98 if I'm not mistaken.
> Often in the tech industry we’re too quick to eviscerate some recently-obsoleted technology (Flash, SVN, Perl)

Perl is obsolete? LOLz.
Using a remote server to build the transaction and then signing it locally seems pretty cumbersome.
Man disagrees with woman that she experienced sexism; calls her delusional.

I sincerely hope you see the irony in this.
The Hype of Design
They always have the option to stop paying for the paper.
Your reasoning makes no sense. If the parent can live longer they can reproduce more and therefore propagate more of their genes.
Are there any feasible production-ready NLP solutions? My default approach has been to browse the codebases of different computational linguistics labs, but something more central would be very handy. As it stands I just say something to the tune, "please don't use nltk, use opennlp, cleannlp, redshift, etc".
No, the medium is incredibly relevant.

The "FaceBook" existed in Harvard before facebook.com...in other places, it was called "MeetBook" (check out this reference in a 1997 episode of This American Life http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/66/tr...)...but the way Facebook.com facilitates interactions, even in its early college-only days was a real game changer because of the medium, even though it emulated a function of an existing print product.

The speed, permanence, and visibility of Net communication is very much a different game.
Richard Feynman spoke specifically to this point in his Cargo Cult Science piece:

http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html

"That is the experiment that makes rat-running experiments sensible, because it uncovers that clues that the rat is really using-- not what you think it's using. And that is the experiment that tells exactly what conditions you have to use in order to be careful and control everything in an experiment with rat-running."
I'm led to think that Tom Preston-Werner got off easy here.

failure to enforce an agreement that his spouse should not work in the office

It had been a big enough problem before that they had a formal agreement prohibiting it.
Stopping at a stop sign in residential neighborhoods as a cyclist is frequently stupid. Idaho even has a law that lets cyclists treat stop signs as yield signs, which makes perfect sense. Cyclists aren't a large threat to other road users (pedestrians/cars/other cyclists) the way cars are.
The modern legal system was made for this.

Subpoena the information from the app creator. Don't know the app creator? Subpoena the information from the app stores. Can't serve process on (can't get a hold of) the app creator because he's out of your jurisdiction or whatever? No problem. Enjoin Apple and Google from providing it in their app stores. When the app creator's lawyer comes to contest the injunction (to get their app back), hit him with the subpoena.

"Equity will not suffer a wrong to be without remedy."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law#D...