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I am member of a minority, and have had more than one chance to go to the HR to report "being racially abused" and present the narrative in such a way that anyone would be convinced it was horrible.

Firstly, what happened to her is definitely misconduct, but not sexual harassment. I get the impression that the "victim" here is trying to take advantage of the situation. She never asks the inappropriate person to stop here, instead goes to HR. I mean just in plain words "Please don't, this is inappropriate." would stop most such behavior from happening again in huge majority of cases.

> During the HR investigation that ensued, I remember being shamed by a female colleague who thought I was blowing the situation out of proportion. She thought I was being overly sensitive, and that it was wrong of me to report my manager. That hurt. I thought she would’ve naturally supported me.

"Being shamed"? What if that female colleague honestly thought that she was blowing the situation out of proportion? A mere disagreement is shaming? Just because someone thinks they are 'sexually harassed' doesn't make them right automatically. I mean is there any scenario where someone claiming they are harassed could be on the wrong side of the things (or blowing things out of proportion)? It seems the SF/valley area atleast is too politically correct to even entertain the possibility that the female could possibly be wrong or making a mistake. Anyone that doesn't agree with a narrow notion of SJW equality is literally the devil. And this sort of trend has made 'being victim' a somewhat coveted status that can be used for gaining publicity/career advances.
"you just blamed the victim"

That phrase has lost meaning. Listing things the victim could have done differently or better is nothing but exploration of the causal chain. Blame in any logical or legal sense accrues only to a proximate-cause rule-violator kind of party.
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With all the new influx of native app IDEs and languages, shouldn't browser be able to run Android apps? or those IDEs should compile to a common Javascript rendering framework (webassembly)?

To clarify I mean they'll run like another website.
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Slack on desktop is a resource hog. And connection hog.
For a split second, I thought it said "runic". Desktop magic, indeed.
Okay, let me make this clear.

Under absolutely no circumstances is it even remotely appropriate for a manager to flirt with any direct reports. It is always 100% wrong and there is never any room for this type of bullshit.
Anyone able to give a quick overview of why they use Riemann vs SaaS offerings, and the distinguishing features (other than cost/control)?

I like the look of the config structure, being Clojure.
I agree with you. And you're totally right about how governments are really being on payroll.

"Not buying" isn't a bad solution per se - it would work perfectly well if we could coordinate enough people to change their shopping habits. But it's close to impossible, both because coordination is a Hard Problem, and because the market doesn't offer alternatives. People would have to reduce their quality of life, and it's not something humans generally do out of ideological reasons. There's only so much things one person can care about strongly, and those things seem to be somewhat randomly distributed, ensuring you can't get enough people to strongly care about the same thing.

Regulatory bodies, like markets, follows incentives - those incentives may be different, but the mechanism is the same. One of them is the funding from big corporations you mentioned. Another one, in democracies, is popularity. I think it's easier to convince (almost) everyone to care about some issue enough to change their voting patterns than it is to make them stop buying stuff. Therefore, the regulatory change may be easier to achieve than "vote with your wallet" market change. That still requires a lot of coordinating effort though.
If you want to learn foundational FP topics but don't have the time to commit to learning a whole new ecosystem, I really recommend Fogus's Functional Javascript: http://www.amazon.com/Functional-JavaScript-Introducing-Prog...

I know that JS isn't the same thing as Clojure but the ideas in this book work with really any language. After reading this book I'm a better Python programmer.
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In our latest web based project we are looking to allow the users to create their own forms via the browser. Is there a decent javascript library that we can use?
>Every year, SplashData complies a list of the millions of stolen passwords made public throughout the last twelve months, then sorts them in order of popularity.

The title should be most commonly stolen passwords of 2015. It isn't very surprising to me that easy-to-guess passwords are the most stolen.
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If we really want to get into "what is better" - the state of the art has recently moved significantly past this (paper [1] and blog [2]) - not to mention the recent submissions to ICLR in this realm [3][4]. GAN training is very tricky to get working in practice, especially on new problems, though conditional GAN seems to be a bit more stable in learning than the unconditional relatives.

This blog deserves credit for thinking differently about a problem and getting something useful out of it.

I think the goal of this inversion was to inspect what the cascade is "looking at" in some sense - and for that this does a great job! Inverting a lossy classification feature is nearly always going to be worse than something designed from the ground up to be a generative model.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.09300

[2] http://torch.ch/blog/2015/11/13/gan.html

[3] https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code

[4] http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05644
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Where is the safest place in the US to live to avoid natural disasters?
Another one we found easy to use is GitBucket that has most of github

If you have Java

just type
download gitbucket.war

> java -jar gitbucket.war
I think the problem is that the current system lands somewhere in the "gray zone". The money doesn't appear to have an influencing effect, but we also don't know at what level it would start. I think a lot of people think it's uncomfortably close to "coercive".
There's your chance to out-run Stradivarius. The thing you're going to have to deal with next is how your improvement weighs in against playing an instrument for a few hundred years. You might be able to work this out by comparing a brand new regular violin with your improved model in a series of double blind tests for preference and then do the same thing every couple of years afterwards to see if there is a diverging trend.

One possible problem here is that the appreciation for classical music is not exactly on the rise and really high quality violins have limited applicability elsewhere. It's a matter of time before there will be more quality violins than violinists (and most of them will live in China where there is a fairly large continent of classical performers, and their numbers are actually on the rise).
on a scale of 0 to even I literally can't
Right - I know the person complaining is a little bit misguided (and seemingly refusing to understand, which can be frustrating) but when your primary contact is "@haxx.se" you must surely be at least a little bit prepared for these sort of things.

I'd prefer to give the author the benefit of the doubt, but it seems odd to even post this publicly at all unless a tiny part of them wanted to have a "haha look at this idiot" rant and they knew it could be justified under "I was only asking for help...".
The thing is, it's all upside down. If a startup wants to get a experienced person to the team, they should offer more salary and then some options/shares instead of lower salary and possibility of options.

I really don't understand why an experienced person would take a pay cut.
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It's an excellent beginner FP language. Clojure is fairly minimal and requires learning only a few concepts to become productive. At the same time it continues to see more use in the industry, so it's one of the easier FP languages to actually get a job with as well.

I wrote a starter guide that might be helpful https://yogthos.github.io/ClojureDistilled.html

There's also a free book that's very good http://www.braveclojure.com/
Under subsequent cross-examination, she might state that they don't regularly weigh the whole national population.
Is the term "sexual harassement" appropriate here?

It'd be interesting to hear the manager point of view on this issue. We have only one side of the story here. Maybe the manager genuinely thought this was a case of mutual flirting there.

Or flirting in the workplace = sexual harassment?

EDIT:
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sexual+harassm...

"A key part of the definition is the use of the word unwelcome. Unwelcome or uninvited conduct or communication of a sexual nature is prohibited; welcome or invited actions or words are not unlawful."

"The courts have generally concluded that a victim need not say or do a particular thing to indicate unwelcomeness. Instead, a court will review all of the circumstances to determine whether it was reasonably clear to the harasser that the conduct was unwelcome. "
This coming from someone who's previous comment was "Are you high?". Perhaps keep your lectures to yourself?
"A typical laptop or server, left without any type of external time conditioning, will drift out of sync within minutes and after a few hours may already be several minutes away from good synchronization with other systems."

This doesn't match my experience at all. I've had smartphones disconnected from the network for weeks at a time without drifting "several minutes away" from the consensus time. Drift is a thing, but it seems like that estimate is several orders of magnitude larger than anything I've seen in practice.
Note that this isn't a better nagios... It's more like Apache Storm. Think of it as grep on steroid. I've heard of several thousand events per seconds on a single server. The other advantage is that it uses a well known programing language rather than a DSL.
Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability
Clever. I wonder if it's possible to build a "ticker" that displays the current playing song.
10 features in PHP that you really should learn and use
I understand your point of view, but I feel like we often underestimate the level of harm that some types of misconduct can cause. A workplace should never tolerate any type of harassment (and few workplaces do).

It's not just the act itself, it's also the act in the current historical context (institutional inequality) and work context (workplace power inequality).

Unfortunately the effects on OP are probably much bigger than we expect because of the way we are socialized, our culture, etc. Some might say that it's not the guy's fault that our society is so imbalanced, but I think we should be more conscious about this in general. To prevent the self-confidence issue, we could probably fix our education and general culture, but in the short term we could just not harass women at work. That's a pretty easy short term solution :)
The drug companies have become virtually paranoid about incurring regulatory or public scorn.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm only familiar with how it is today and yes, companies are absolutely paranoid about following the rules (which is a good thing). Not that surprising considering some of the monster fines these companies have paid.
The only comment there makes a very good point, the c shape has a 'tab' of wood and if that runs along the grain of the top then it can easily break off, the f shape does not have that property. So maybe what started out as a mechanical improvement actually turned out to work better because the vibrations are divided more evenly to the sides of the hole.
> It's nice that you wonder why people don't stand up for themselves

It also may be that people today don't want to stand up for themselves because they risk that the other party will play victim. There is this other comment which says that if she punched him, she would risk an assault accusation.

Maybe it's the whole "somebody has to be a victim" mentality? Maybe it's lot less clear cut in most cases.

I have to say, I would much prefer women to simply slap the men who do these uncomfortable things. I don't see anything wrong with it. Now if this would escalate afterwards, perhaps then should courts (or other institutions) be involved.

> you should be careful that people don't accidentally think that you're ascribing blame to the victim

I don't agree, the people who think that are the ones making an error, and we shouldn't accommodate them.

How can we have an honest discussion about what is moral and what not, if we have the need to blame somebody? The blame can only come after it is decided what action is immoral, and understanding circumstances. Assigning who is a victim in advance prevents this understanding.

> It is interesting that you imply that in previous generations, there were no victims

I don't think he does, it's the faulty reasoning of yours (as you say in the previous sentence) that leads to conclusion that there is always 100% victim and 100% perpetrator.

> the evidence I have that indicates that sexual assault and other such crimes have been with us for a long time

I agree, that is very much true. But there is also other side of the coin, people (of both sexes!) are taking risks to get good sexual partners, it's just human nature. Ignoring the fact that people sometimes risk (and it fails!) in the interest of declaring somebody a victim does no good either.

I mean, even if you move the boundary of what is acceptable in society (in either direction), there will always be people who will risk to cross the boundary, because that risk pays off. So I am not sure what is bigger involvement of institutions in these matters going to resolve.

It's one of the blind spots of left and feminism (I am leftist), we don't want to hear about people who do take risks (because it's slightly irrational, after all), because our ideology cannot deal with them in any meaningful way.

And personally, I see the mere existence of bosses (and human social hierarchies in general) as a bigger problem, of which sexual harassment is only a symptom.
Have to skip the php7 ones because of lack of hhvm compatibility for now but they are catching up.

Also, don't directly hash a raw password, ever. It should consist of other data combined with the original password (aka salting) part of username, date registered, etc. Otherwise hash-lookup tables can be used to reverse the hash.
That's because the way it's structured sucks. It's more or less a requirement now (or will be very soon) to earn a decent living, it shouldn't cost you half of your lifetime income to attend. You can't make something that important to a life and then charge such asinine amounts for it, especially when there's ample precedent showing that college grads on the whole improve our society by stimulating more economic activity and adding to the white collar workforce.

As romantic as it is to tell tales of how we bootstrapped ourselves through college, working off hours and earning our way, it's stupid to demand the next generation do it out of some misguided sense of tradition. We have the capability to make it better for our kids, why the hell aren't we?
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"she has only been asked to sit on ones lap"

In civil society, the expected standard is not that everyone is socially and martially capable and with a razor sharp wit. Unexpected things like these generally make people flustered and confused. If a person has not faced a situation like this before, it can be very hard to come by with a proper response.

The situation is similar to being mugged, or tricked out of money. In general, the common fraud techniques work because people are not overly concerned becoming conned, and the approaches are such they work the first time because they play on the automatic responses peoples have to a situation.

Only after the fact becoming mugged people generally go through a behavioural analysis of how to recognize bad situations and how to get away from them.

In a sexual harassment situation, the initial slow response may be interpreted as a positive sign (and may erode the confidence of the assaulted party).
I'm trying to understand the behavior of the manager, there must be a rational explanation. He knew what it can lead him to. So for me, it may be that he was sexually attracted to her and she may not have shown enough rejection signs (cultural bias between the 2?).
Also I may point that for me the only person in charge for my carrer is me, whatever is my position.
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Depends how they're stolen. If a site that wasn't using unsalted hashes for storing them was hacked, then it doesn't matter how guessable they are.
No, that's really different.

- nodequery source (and ecosystem) is closed

- "periodically store various system data" "minute" VS "low-latency"

- email notifications only

- no query language, but a JSON API → overhead

Riemann looks more free (libre as well as liberty of usage, you can just monitor anything), more in-depth (does more with lower latency objectives) and better designed (DSL for rules, protobuff over tcp and udp instead of json over http over tcp).
Quite fun, new social element with a hidden twist
I submit that even a hipster learning about the French Revolution or Feminists Studies is going to have more to add to the world than a burger flipper, even if it isn't directly economically beneficial in the short term.
Looks complex and unnecessary for most users: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/166-lcd-flat-panel-displays/13...
At best you're not allowed to call it a ‘spoiler’ but a ‘for-me-spoiler’ (‘me’ being you).
I'm just getting started with riemann and I'm also learning clojure at the same time. How did you get buy in from your company to use riemann
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He also messes up: the first "password" is all letters; the second one (near the end) substitutes a 0 for the o "passw0rd"

EDIT: Oops, I didn't see dmichulke's post saying the same thing. Here's the reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10930521
The presentation video on the homepage is amazingly engaging. It's well worth a worth watch.
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I do Australia/UK regularly without problem. It seems to be very dependant on the participants network connections, not surprisingly. It doesn't seem to recover from temporary network issues fast enough.
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The aftermath of the events left her pretty shaken, I don't think any of it was mild (sit on my lap, WTF!!). I have seen people allowed to change teams/managers for much much lesser degrees of uncomfortable. At least in the companies I have worked in, it would pretty much guarantee that the manager was made to leave.
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A friend of my mother's also worked in a similar all-male environment, and had the same response to advances. It went well - until it didn't, and then it went terribly.

And of course, she didn't publicly tell her "tale of woe" because at the time she wouldn't have just one guy telling her she shared the blame for it, but the whole society. So she suffered in silence. Which is great, because it allowed everyone else - even years later - to pretend it didn't exist, and that people were just braver and stronger, unlike the kids these days.
Looking at someone is harassment now? I must have harassed hundreds of women then, What about thinking about them?
They're still in business?

Serious question.

I heard they went down, after the criticism about how they treat their employees.

Just wanted to know if it's still the old company or someone bought the name and tech and does his own thing now...
I used to be, but now I'm an ex-tractor-fan.
Here's exactly what I was talking about:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/19/terrorism-act-i...

Unrelated, but it shows that the UK courts care about ECHR rulings. And the standing thing usually happens in the US, not in Europe. European courts rule a lot more on "principle" of doing something, and it matters less if the people accusing the state were involved or not. What matters is evidence that the government did or didn't do something (like mass spying), not whether John Doe was affected by it.

If mass spying is illegal under the European human rights laws, and the governments are found to have engaged in it then the only possible outcome is that they broke the law. Why should it matter if it affected this guy or that guy?

I really think the "no standing" excuse is a very poor one, as it effectively guarantees people have no redress against secret spying against them. That's not what a democratic country should be allowing.

There needs to be judicial redress for everything. Heck, I think the US is about to pass a law that gives EU citizens/foreigners judicial redress against US spying, but the Americans still won't get that. It just goes to show it is possible to have redress, it's just the powers that be don't want you to have it.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1428

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/160...
Trade school can be HUGE and has been unfairly stigmatized as beneath most people. I didn't think it was that expensive though, at least around where I live a trade program will run you roughly $16k or so over the course of 2 years, followed by a master/apprentice deal (but you get paid for that.)
Yeah, I guess if your rent is ~2k/mo you can't afford it with 30k/year, but my rent is less than 200€/mo
I often either reuse a simple password or use a stupidly simple one for sites that require a signup but for which I do not care to interact with in any meaningful way.

Have to create an account on some new startups app?

username: newstartupname_myname

password: 12345!

need to sign up for a "trial" account to get access to content I probably don't even want? same thing.

so while I'm sure that there are way too many people using 123456 for their insurance or financial service login, does it really matter that someone's password to Cnet or foodnetwork is simple and easy to guess?
Your comments have been consistently dismissive and peppered with the vocabulary to match: referring to whingers, scare quoting “victims” or using phrases like "culture of victimhood”, tossing in snide references to Tumblr, etc.

Again, it's great that your mother was able to successfully break a barrier. That doesn't mean everyone will also have success as easily using the same approach or that it's ever reasonable to dismiss someone else's life experience because you think they should have been more confrontational despite knowing so little about her situation and the power dynamics involved.
It really depends on the use case. My site[0] works in a very similar fashion to cms.js but if you have javascript disabled it forwards you to the raw markdown file using a simple noscript tag. Sure, it breaks cURL but it's just a personal website so who really cares?

[0]: https://dyladan.me