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Why is there a limit on password length for a Weebly account? How are you storing passwords?

C extensions because something you wanted wasn't in go? Are you using cgo to build?

I wonder how many lines of code they ended up with afterward, although admittedly lines of code is a pretty silly metric. I think it is useful in orders of magnitude when describing the size of a project, 100 lines, 1,000 lines, 10,000 lines, 100,000 lines all speak volumes about effort. So I guess what I'm wondering if you got about a roughly similar sized code base or significant change difference?

It's cool, and this is a nearly useless comment, but the logo looks to much like an alien out of a Whitley Strieber "non-fiction" story. A little creepy I'm saying. Gitlab needs some branding design love.

I think it goes both ways. Younger engineers need to not avoid hiring old people because of fear of being a culture misfit and older engineers need to stop being self-conscious of their age all the time. Both can be a little bit more flexible and learn more about what other people like and appreciate the diversity that different ages can bring the workspaces. Both sides need to realize that the generalizations are all unrealistic. Young engineers aren't running around with pacifiers in their mouth pissing all over the floor and older people aren't losing their dentures in the snack area and falling asleep at their desk every day at 2pm dreaming about retirement. I say that as an engineer nearing my 40's.

I'm not sure why being #1 is so important. Who cares where our position is in the ranks as long as we are happy with our state. If we aren't happy we can make improvements, but again it's not a race so how we compare to others doesn't really seem significant unless we are far behind. I suppose the real significance is the trends, but I guess that doesn't strike at the heart strings of the common person as losing at some newspaper editor's arbitrary rules for a game nobody knew we were playing.

Does confusion impact the conclusion at all?

What is a less dramatic interpretation?

> ...the results of GitHub's independent investigation unequivocally confirm this and we are prepared to fight any further false claims on this matter to the full extent of the law.

Seems like a legal threat to Horvath if she speaks up about this again.

I've read about a couple of different explanations for changes in crime rates. I think freakanomics has discussed greater prevalence of abortions[1], and one thing I've heard in academic circles is that crime reporting has gotten better. You could actually make predictions with this article's question. There may have been areas where lead was used in petrol for longer than others, one could compare across regions and see if the time at which petrol was changed also adheres to drop in crime to see if there is still a correlation.

http://freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-who-sh...

That's a tough problem. Outside of human moderation I don't have any idea. I'm glad you're aware of the problem though and are working on it. You guys work hard and we pay you nothing!

I feel like many men sometimes aren't aware of how little they help around the house with chores and taking care of the children, so I am proactive and plan stuff with my wife. I don't wait for her to ask me. That isn't dysfunctional.

There's also a lot of process in families. Some you can automate now, like paying the bills. Some processes are routines. Getting up, getting our child dressed, walking her to school, picking her up, taking her to her after school activities. Doing her homework with her.

There's also process with checking things around the house. Checking the fire alarms regularly, scheduling dentist appointments, making plans for seeing family. These are all processes.

The whole original article came off as ignorance and out of touch. As someone with an academic background in Anthropology and Sociology the author doesn't seem to understand what culture is or how hierarchy and unbalanced power relationships in the office place work. It's not a very sophisticated treatment of the topic in any regard. And in that vein, my opinion is that as long as the times are good and you're not hiring a bunch of dickhead managers your culture will be fine. If you take your culture to mean don't hire old people because they don't play the video games your 20 somethings do then your shit is fucked. In the end, when things go bad in the business, culture will sour.

Wells didn't have a recording device, so to perfectly record such large, articulate and complicated back and forths in a conversation probably involved some ghostwriting from memory on Well's part. It was a different time.

Hacker News is turning out to be the RSS feed for Wired's stupid articles and their link bait titles. I've even seen mods change the titles they're so "Upworthy" like. There hasn't been a day there haven't been one or two Wired articles on the front page and I think if they're not gaming it, something I wouldn't put past someone writing obnoxious titles like this, well then maybe we just need a weight against these "Astounding!" Wired articles.

Please just go to http://www.wired.com/ and see one gross and manipulative title after another:

"The Coolest Spaceships Ever Built, Compared by Size" Well I'll only read it if they're the coolest EVER!

"Americans Aren't Ready for the Future Google and Amazon Want to Build" I'm sure they used a scientific poll.

"Why the Console Wars Won't Be Anything Like You Expect" Right, you knew just what I was expecting.

"The Craziest, Coolest Mustangs That Never Were" So crazy, so cool, who would have known?

"Free iPhone 5s Deal Proves Apple Isn't So Special" See there you go, proof Apple isn't special.

Seriously, Wired is shit content. It's a cesspool. Yet every day it's on the HN home page. One obnoxious article after another. Usually HN is a bellwether for what will end up on techmeme or the general tech press the next day, but you think you're going to see these shit articles from Wired on techmeme or the tech page of the New York Times? How often is tptacek leaving amazing comments on these stupid Wired posts. Like never.

I simply commented on the evidence of dangers from smoke on open fires. I haven't anything else to say. If the comment doesn't apply to you feel free to ignore it.

This may be an unpopular reply, but splitting fire wood sounds like you're going to be making an open fire. Open fires are a danger to your health:

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-fireplace-delusion

> "The unhappy truth about burning wood has been scientifically established to a moral certainty: That nice, cozy fire in your fireplace is bad for you. It is bad for your children. It is bad for your neighbors and their children."

http://www.epa.gov/burnwise/healtheffects.html

> "Smoke is made up of a complex mixture of gases and particles produced when wood and other organic matter burn. A major health threat from smoke comes from fine particles (also called particle pollution, particulate matter, or PM). These microscopic particles can get into your eyes and respiratory system, where they can cause health problems such as burning eyes, runny nose, and illnesses such as bronchitis. In addition to particle pollution, wood smoke contains several toxic harmful air pollutants including: benzene, formaldhyde, acrolein and methane."

> Love the irony of a YC exit as an acquisition by a YC company :-)

Honest question, why is that irony?

It's Dropbox startupageddon today or something:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604809

Also:

http://recode.net/2014/04/17/as-it-becomes-an-app-platform-d...

I have no idea, thankfully.

For what it's worth, if you have Ghostery installed you cannot see the comments. The intent is to block tracking but the added benefit of not seeing comments is a nice plus.

The biggest performance issues I think that some people run into with Go involve reflection which seems to be slow. Something that does a lot of JSON parsing for example maybe could be much slower in Go than in Java, Python or JavaScript I think. I don't have any data, but I've known people to complain about it that work with Go. I wonder if a JIT or AOT compiler might help.

> Who would have thought between Microsoft and Google that sending search traffic artificially to a search engine would be a > $4B/year business?

Many toolbars make all their money that way. Ask Partner Network, Conduit. Mozilla makes their money this way, in fact I bet a huge chunk of that cost you see there is the Mozilla deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

That post reminded me of Carlin's skit about stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

Not everyone who doesn't want their real name associated with comments is a troll. Forcing real names isn't the solution. I don't want my boss or members of my family to know I spend 40 hours a week playing games like DayZ and commenting and liking videos where bandits are making awful jokes about breaking people's legs and leaving them stranded in the middle of a forest in gruesome video games. There's nothing wrong with liking horror or survival games but not everyone needs to know that's my thing.

You can just not use Google+. I like hangouts for what it's worth. I like that you can plugin stuff into it (basically an iframe).

The YouTube change is really sad though. YouTube is stellar in some many ways, but the Google+ integration is definitely a black mark. I'm sorry there are so many trolls on YouTube comments, but I don't want my public activity on YouTube to be visible with my real name. I've since stopped participating in comments, sharing, and uploading, even though I want to participate more. I want to upload game videos I've recorded, but I don't want to do it using my real name and API integration with Google+ pages and Google+ names like on twitch is broken. I still consume content on YouTube, but besides watching I hardly do anything anymore. I don't want a comment I made on a YouTube video to be searchable 20 years from now by someone who uses my real name (an easily searchable name).

You trumpet NaCl's crypto_box and mentioned other language runtimes are deficient in one way or another, but what do you think about security of crypto in the Java standard library?

As bad as it may seem I've found that saying incorrect things results in more learning than staying quiet so I often say incorrect things but things I think are true. I'm embarrassed when I'm wrong but I always learn from it. I also ask "why?" a lot and "what is that?" if it makes sense to (or just Google it later). I learn this way. It helps solve ignorance. It doesn't make me a faster thinker which is something I may not be able to fix, and it doesn't help improve my motivation to learn more which I need to do more of instead of playing video games or creating things.

I wonder if tax credits on mortgage payment interests is a contributing blocker to tax reform. If they got rid of it, buying and owning a house would be so much more expensive. It would make renting more worth it.

My experience is definitely anecdotal. I probably misspoke, my problem is with the reporting of the studies, not the science itself.