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> It never would have occurred to me that I was ever entitled to...

No one thinks they're entitled. They're just saying what they think is right.

> procedures for handling conflict in a community

You're missing the point. If the community was well-behaved procedure wouldn't be necessary. It's not procedure she's asking for -- it's decent behavior -- and suggesting that perhaps procedure is a possible fix. If it isn't, we'll try others.

> Endure it, fix it, or abandon it.

First she endured it (for about 8 years), then she tried to fix it ([1], [2]), and now she's leaving. You've found a true successor.

> Younger people seem to be celebrating a style that whines about community

Tell that to Martin Luther.

Also, why use that word "whine"? Linus whines about a whole lot of stuff yet no one calls him a whiner.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus-...

[2]: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/22/sarah-sharp
Larry didn't say it should be feminine, nor did he imply it. He also didn't say masculinity is misogyny. At most he called for something androgynous. I think to interpret his statements otherwise is projecting.

> As is the idea that aggression is a purely masculine trait

I didn't say it was a purely masculine trait, but to ignore the clear association between masculinity and aggression in many cultures is to ignore reality. There are many social, economic and (possibly) evolutionary reasons why men are often more aggressive than women. Couple this with the relative involvement of women in CS and programming positions, and I don't think it's a stretch to say that aggression in our industry can be seen as overly masculine.
I understand why it's kept secret during negotiation, but the terms of the secrecy kept representatives from copying out portions of the text for analysis during the negotiations. This is significant because the 90 day time line is insufficient to read and analyse such a large reaching trade agreement.

Then under the short time frame, the argument becomes 'we worked for years on this deal' don't vote no on any one point you disagree with because it's tied up in a big Gordian knot with a hundred other points. If software were written the way we negotiate trade deals, we'd fire the programmers.
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Woah! What campaign?!

I don't think she is drumming up any support. Asking for polite and decent conversations without being called a 'cry baby' or being asked to 'go back to kitchen' is not political knife fight, it is basic courtesy in a public forum IMO.
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> Not enough to scan brain connectivity info, neuron types and per-person genome, you will now also need per-neuron genomes to truly capture and reproduce a brain.

Is the cup half-full or half-empty? From one perspective, if the known fixed functionality of the brain is implemented in part using DNA mutations, this is good long-term news - after all, if there is one thing you can expect to be kept intact and be recoverable in a vitrified brain, it's the DNA. That makes decoding more difficult, but also makes information-theoretic death less likely.
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It's worth mentioning that the ES6 array spread operator provides similar functionality:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

The object spread operator (proposed in ES7) is essentially syntactic sugar for Object.assign:

https://github.com/sebmarkbage/ecmascript-rest-spread

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I've even used jQuery's extend in legacy projects:

https://api.jquery.com/jquery.extend/
Couldn't ad networks move from javascript to server-side?
I've noticed that if you stare at the app long enough you can see the surge rate fluctuate also.

Did anyone here go to the secret uber party a few weeks ago?

I did and boy was that lame. It was marketing genius but it was super lame: at 9pm sharp, open the app and if you see a party icon on the type selection slider, click it and request a car.

You get into a lottery and if your one of the lucky 100 winners your driver will take you to a secret uber party with a DJ!

I won the lottery to get a slot - but that took 40 minutes of clicking on two open uber apps.

So we get in the uber and they take us to Harlot in SF. But they charge you for the ride there.

Then you get in, after they check your uber receipt to prove you actually got the party uber slot, and they give you a wristband.

Then there was some shitty radio station playing for the first 20 minutes, and uber sold this as if you were coming to some uber corporate event!

Nope it was just a regular night at harlot, and their over priced drinks. Drinks were $15 each and I swear they swapped out the grey goose vodka and put gilbeys in the grey goose bottle.

The DJ Arty came on and was mediocre. He played pieces too quickly (every time the music was getting the crowd dancing and moving he'd switch and go to a break down which killed all dancing)

So after about an hour and a half, we decided to leave.

You would have thought uber would have arranged a "take me home from the secret uber party you brought me to by way of a lottery ride that I still had to pay for"

Nope.

So we then had to stand in front of harlot tapping request an uber home. And had to wait just like normal..

It was literally the lamest "sponsored" event I've ever been to.

And the worst part is that the whole thing was a douchey ploy for their data teams to mine a bunch of data on the behavior of users when given an opportunity to go to some "event"... That's all fine, but make it a good experience at least. It was shamefully bad.
I kinda prefer Linus's method as you know what will happen to you if you don't verify/validate (a kind of respect to everybody's time) before submitting.
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Good recent article which paints him as much more mature now:

http://recode.net/2015/10/02/why-jack-dorsey-is-ready-to-sav...

Good or bad, remember it's all PR.
So are there any upcoming crowd projects to break it down and analyze the text in detail when it comes out?
TBH, the entities that should be paying sites are the link aggregators like HN, Reddit, and especially Facebook. Reddit lets you give "gold" to individual users if you like what they've said; I wonder what would happen if they allowed the handing out of gold to sites linked from Reddit?
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I wouldn't call it an immutable data structure library. As far as I see, it does not implement any data structures.

This looks like a nice alternative to seamless-immutable though.
I don't think Russia can be ignored in light of growing relations between Russia and China. Russia and China have different economic strengths and weaknesses that make a Russian/Chinese bloc stronger than the sum of its parts. A large part of US diplomatic work in the Middle East over the past year has been an effort to undercut Russian oil prices so that Russian oil isn't economically viable, with great success. But this is a band-aid. Even with the current US economy, the incentives that the US is providing to i.e. Saudi Arabia to keep oil prices low are tenuous; a dip in the US economy will make it impossible to maintain these incentives even if Saudi Arabia continues to be satisfied with them.
Nice for you to assume my ignorance.

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia both fund extremist Islamist groups, but no one seems to acknowledge it since both are US allies.

India has its problems but no where the level of Pakistan. The people of Pakistan are extremely brainwashed with religious extremism. I know that because I went to a school filled with them and also Indians. They openly justify terrorism - we are not talking about uneducated people, but extremely educated - cream of the crop pakistanis.

I would love to live to see pakistan became a better country but its people are so backward - its going to take a lot of time to solve all the problems they have.
Thanks, I changed that
All due respect but I call bullshit on the idea that months of time is insufficient for hundreds of Congresspeople to work with their million dollar staffs and the armies of lobbyists for business, labor, the environment, and tech policy that will also analyze the bill gratis.

I know they won't review the enabling bill carefully. But it's not because the bill isn't transparent. It's because reviewing the bill is work, and none of them are excited about spending their precious cycles on work rather than political status games.

If this bill had been public 9 months ago and voted on 9 months from now, the amount of scrutiny legislators would give it would be roughly equivalent.
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I was defining UBI as a forced redistribution of wealth. For your benefit, i've corrected socialism to social welfare.
It seems to me that she has followed your advice. She tried fixing it while enduring it; now she's abandoning it in a way that she hopes might fix the broader problem.

A great way to fix community issues is establishing codes of conduct making it clear what the norms are. This isn't just millennial; some of our oldest documents are community codes of conduct. E.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

Personally, as an old, I think it's great that people like Sarah Sharp are stepping up and pushing for better working environments. And as a Linux user, I want my kernel built by the best technical people, not the ones best able to put up with aggressive bullshit. This is one in a long string of complaints from people who have left kernel work, and it makes me worried for the kernel's future.
To be honest, she did at least part of her campaign in public on the LKML directly interacting with Linus among others, and there doesn't seem to be evidence of she doing any "organizing against someone's back".

That said, I agree that it's problematic to try to enforce anything not regarding code, since the enforcer (or who succeeds them) can then abuse the enforcement itself as an harassing and exclusion tool (the so-called "Nazi moderator" problem).
There are many more people than Linus on LKML and the other lists. Don't make this about Linus.
I have contributed some trivial commits (so far) and though I encountered some harsh comments it was nothing I felt was overly personal. But of course, my experience is pretty limited at this point.

I get the impression that the level of these issues varies wildly depending on the subsystem in question. For example, Greg Kroah-Hartman is friendly and helpful to a ridiculous degree, I literally don't understand how he gets so much done and maintains helpfulness (and he's working on the staging drivers with some of the roughest code in the entire kernel.)

I feel sorry that Sarah has had this happen, and it's sad that this could happen to anyone, but in particular it's sad that it's happened to a woman when we have such a massive under representation of women already in our industry and probably even more so in the kernel.

I don't know what the answer is, but for those areas of the kernel that are a problem a balance needs to be found between directness and talking to somebody like a human being.

As for Linus, I think he gets somewhat misrepresented in many places. His vitriol is reserved for senior kernel maintainers who should know better and do things which (in many cases) could very negatively impact users, I've seen a number of threads where he's been let's say, less than civil, which were all about kernel code breaking user code and the subsystem maintainers saying 'well they're doing it wrong so let's just break their applications'. In those kind of circumstances you're glad that Linus strongly objects.
I worked at Square when it was relatively small (<100 people) and Jack seemed to only be around for weekly presentations. But! That seems to be normal for CEOs? It's not like their job is actually to play pingpong with software developers all day.
Many kernel developers are not OK with it. But what alternative do we have? No one person, or dozen people, could improve the development culture around the Linux kernel when various maintainers don't want it to change. Sarah has done more than anyone else I can think of to improve that culture, and I have more respect for her than any ten kernel developers who only know how to hack on code and not on culture. And while the kernel culture remains far from decent, it has improved somewhat, if only through the inclusion of many more people who don't find the current culture acceptable.

I'm a kernel developer. I find the current kernel development culture toxic and draining to deal with; many other communities are much more fun to work in, and I feel energized working in those communities rather than in the kernel. I put up with it because I want to affect the direction of the kernel as well as the culture of the kernel, and because the main long-term way to affect either of those is from within that culture. I also help mentor people who want to join the kernel community. I can only hope that enough people with similar feelings participate in the community and rise to prominent roles within it, which will help change the culture for the better.

I would also point out that, in addition to the people directly perpetuating this kind of toxic culture (both the massive attacks and the "background radiation"), such a culture also thrives on a large body of people who don't think it's a problem, or who chuckle at quotes of the latest nastiness. Just look at this comment page and you'll find several comments demonstrating what makes this culture hard to change.
The problem with "basic courtesy" is that you need to understand other people's culture/background/personal life to make it "correct". There are people who will be offended just by criticizing their code, not their personal life.
That is generally true but in this case that isn't really an option.
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> Pakistan and Saudi Arabia both fund extremist Islamist groups, but no one seems to acknowledge it since both are US allies.

I thought it was a well-travelled non-secret in U.S. diplomatic circles. The Atlantic ran an article [1] a few years ago that caused quite a stir, in part by showing that the U.S. has active invade-and-defuse ("render safe") plans for Pakistan.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/12/the-ally-f...
> Whereas previously I could simply mouse-over a data structure when I hit a breakpoint (or crash), I now have to do a REPL dance to see what's in any of my data structures.

Why is that? IMHO, this sounds like a problem with the dev tools more than anything.
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> You said above that "GPL cannot reasonably rule out dynamic linking", but now you are picking and choosing which part of FSF interpretation of derivative is correct and which is wrong.

I don't see how you perceive a position change here. The FSF considers dynamic linking to be derivative; I do not agree.

We both consider the invocation via command line not to be derivative.

> now you are picking and choosing which part of FSF interpretation of derivative is correct and which is wrong.

Have been all along. "Dynamic linking is derivative" is almost complete bullshit in my eyes.

It's pretty much pure use. We map this object into memory and then call it.
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example? the emails I've read so far are from Linus.
This makes me wonder if this subsystem is a particular culprit for these issues. It seems like it's pot luck as to how friendly one subsystem is in comparison to another.

That's not to say something shouldn't be done here, but does tally with what I've heard about this in the past.
On a slight tangent Shannon had a lot to say about signal to noise ratios / bit error rates and you're not going to like the theoretical minimum transmitter power required to push 10 TB over 20 GHz of BW at a reasonable bit error rate into orbit. Now figure maybe twice that for practical implementation at that huge scale, and twice that again because ultra wide band amplifiers are not known for cheapness or efficiency... This theoretical satellite phone from 2050 is going to get somewhat warm in your hand...
Link-bait-y and extremely poorly argumented.

tl;dr - Author claims medieval Europe hates cat. Author picks and chooses examples of people in medieval Europe that wrote bad things about cats. In the last paragraph, Author summarizes and downplays evidence of people liking cats in medieval Europe.
Currently, we are running multiple containers from different apps on the same host. These containers are running with unprivileged users and reduced capabilities but in the same network. It will probably change in the future for a higher level of isolation.
> As for Linus, I think he gets somewhat misrepresented in many places. His vitriol is reserved for senior kernel maintainers who should know better and do things which (in many cases) could very negatively impact users

Which sure doesn't make the already thankless task of becoming a senior kernel maintainer any more appealing.

And it creates a terrible culture where people see that and perpetuate it.
lol if it's so easy, I implore you to create a Twitter competitor... and to make your challenge easier, instead of it being worth $20 billion, we'll lower the bar to, say, $150 million. It's already been done..every major web 2.0 success has many clones that all tried but failed to gain the necessary momentum and marketshare to become as successful as Twitter or Dropbox, for example. Even Evernote, despite all the attention and funding it has gotten, is stuck in the ruts. Yes, the coding part can be replicated, but getting the users and traction is the hardest part.
You could store your state in DOM and serialize the entire page. Not very elegant, but it works and is relatively straightforward. Although, the mental leap required to represent your state via attributes is probably higher for most devs than even immutable data structures.
I would prefer if you ran it on your own infrastructure.
That is nominally correct, but it's not a "socialist" policy in the slightest. What's interesting about UBI is actually how syncretic it is, being supported by elements coming from all sides of the political compass.
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Saying "injecting conservative populism" without any example and counter argument just comes across very dumb. They want to form an opinion for me and I'm very well capable of doing that myself based on facts. This really downgrades the NYT for me.
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Moar has come light-years over the past 12 months. It very well might be! Give it another try.

I recall a few months ago that a hand full of the benchmarks on JVM were actually running faster than Perl 5.latest, though most were slower.

Perl 6 is far, far more optimizable than Perl 5, and also most similar languages. The long-term focus on correct first is finally paying off.
And it depends on what's at hand. If your phone is basically a Twitter machine, maybe. This will be more easily accomplished by talking to Siri or Google Now.
Or attached to the ISP bill, similar to how one could buy J2ME games by hitting a link in the WAP browser.
Title is inaccurate.

- The new Google parent company never had 'Don't Be Evil' as a motto

- Google still has 'Don't Be Evil' as a motto
Gasoline also has large transportation inefficiencies. Unlike solar, every garden a refinery and oil well is impossible while every roof a solar pv is possible, even if 100% unlikely.
It may be in the interest of content providers to provide refunds. Although I don't have any studies that say so, I suspect users will more willing to purchase content if they know they can get a refund.

Perhaps optional refunds can be baked into the protocol, so content providers can decide if they give refunds, and users can decide if a purchase is worth the risk.
Having worked in such codebases, the only difference that should be happening is that a lot of that old, redundant code inserted to work around the bug would no longer be visited.
> "corporations can sue governments under an international tribunal system if governments are failing to uphold their commitments to an international law"

From an outsider's perspective, the international tribunal system is too susceptible to corruption. Three lawyers debating in secret, no public or government oversight of the proceedings, with a small pool of lawyers that are eligible to work in these tribunals. If I remember correctly, there are 15 lawyers that end up working on 75% of all international tribunals worth over $4 billion USD.

This talk lays out a number of the problems with the ISDS system, including the figures I've either remembered correctly or got wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fDCbf4O-0s . If anyone watches it and finds the point in the video where ISDS is discussed, please advise others where to find the relevant information.
> It's quite pretty, but it is striking how few lights are on other than the border itself.

A few reasons for that:

1) The border between India and Pakistan is one of the less populated regions of both countries, for a variety of reasons.

2) Many cities in India have a variety of load-mitigation ordinances in effect to reduce power and water consumption. I'm not sure what the state is these days in Delhi and nearby areas, but it's similar to what's done in parts of the US, just on a larger scale.

3) Power is expensive! In the US, it's astonishing how much electricity we waste, even (or especially) at night. India is overall a less wealthy country, so people naturally conserve electricity much more than we're used to over here.
The screenshot here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses
looks pretty nifty. But reading I see it has forms but no mention of widgets.
Have you followed Trump's campaign at all? It's very much conservative populism and it's causing a huge rift in the GOP.
Good points, but none of this means that fruits grown in soil contaminated with cat poop must be destroyed. You just need to wash them.
I don't see any evidence that Uber is intended to work that way. Drivers don't get to filter riders to only get riders who are going somewhere near to where the driver wants to go. They have to take whoever is nearby, and can only reject a small percentage of requests before they are kicked out of Uber.
I wonder when the earliest this could have been feasible on a web browser
Well, since the gopher images are Creative Commons Attributions 3.0 licensed[1], you could make your own and sell them or give them away if you wanted. I think the point is to promote the language, not to monetize it, and making it available through the Google merchandise store was probably easiest for those involved.

1: https://blog.golang.org/gopher
>> Anecdote, data, yadda yadda.

> Sorry, are you waving away the comparative value of hard data and personal experience?

Absolutely! Not because I don't see value in data, but because my personal experience is all I have to go from. A cursory lit review didn't come up with any hard data for or against that specific proposition (that marijuana makes you ok with being bored). The closest I found was:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723942/

Which suggests that among their N=634 marijuana users, ~25% reported boredom as a motivation for smoking.

I absolutely agree that we should have credible data to use both for education and policy making! The unfortunate part of our current legal situation is that it's incredibly difficult to study those things directly.
Wow! Thanks! :)
They're doing some excellent marketing.
I first misread this as "international date line can be seen at night" and was questioning for a moment whether everything I knew about time zones was wrong. (Though, I do imagine there are some good pictures to be taken where it's 4PM on one side of a border and 5PM on the other side, and very different things are happening as a result.)