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Sexual harassment is harassment. I don't mean to sound trite, but it's literally true.

Politely asking a peer out on a date, ONCE, is not harassment. Even though it might be a little uncomfortable in the moment, that can pass if everyone acts professionally regardless of the outcome.

Examples of harassment include:

- asking someone out on dates repeatedly, even if they've already said "no"

- propositioning someone for sex--different from asking out on a date in that it is more sexually explicit

- subtly or not-so-subtly suggesting that you have leverage over them--for example, a boss asking out a direct report and mentioning that their performance review is coming up

- making repeated comments of a sexual nature or about a person's body, i.e. "wow Suzie you look so hot in that dress" (if that happens ONLY ONCE and never again, that's not likely to be harassment, but those sorts of things very rarely happen ONLY ONCE)

- putting the other person into uncomfortable situations--following them into the bathroom, following them to their car at night, stopping by their home unexpectedly, etc.

- pointless, uninvited touching or rubbing--like walking up behind a colleague and starting a shoulder run without asking first (and respecting "no" if that's the answer)

- if you want more examples, just read the Vice story linked at the top here
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In general. Women should not be shown as objects, prices, decoration, etc... It is bad for all the women and puts us the men in a false superior position.
Unfortunately often the only person smiling is the author, while others just cringe.
Revenue goes towards publishing expenses. Why don't you consider their subsidization of publishing a contribution to the research?
But do you think that's because of its current state, or because the foundation behind it is not solid?

In other words, do you think it'll be in a usable state once it's polished and matured?
> Objectification doesn't really apply to a still image.

What the what? Care to elaborate on how that works?
The "freedom" to be born poor and go to poor schools is no freedom at all.
Context is key. I haven't followed this shirt brouhaha in any serious depth but I assume that all of his colleagues and management saw him wearing the shirt before he delivered his talk. AFAIK it became a problem afterwards. So, if you (not me) want to equate a shirt with female characters on it to a shirt with the N-word on it then, yes, if the workplace context was right why not wear it at work (e.g. I'm thinking an indie record label or similar environment with black, white, whatever people working together as a tight team and a black friend of a white guy bought him said t-shirt).

Ultimately, it's up to the guy wearing the t-shirt to make a judgement call as to whether doing so would offend or not offend his friends and colleagues. So: context, relationship with everyone else at the place he works at, balanced sensitivity etc.

If he honestly (not deliberately) makes the wrong call, he should apologise and everyone should move on. Work is a place for adults, not children on a lynching party.
Ask HN: Who is using GraphQL in production?
Its been awhile since GraphQL was announced. I was wondering who (aside from Facebook) is using in production, and how you like it verses a traditional REST API + custom endpoints.
If the skilled reversers stopped producing cracks, isn't that the same thing? :P
C# has been paying my bills for quite a few years. I hail from Italy, though.
The last few sentences of the article:

> Whenever marketers claim that “everything has changed” or that something is “dead” or that some new buzzword “is the future of marketing,” ask for evidence. Make them cite their sources and explain their reasoning. Most of the time, they are just full of it.

Somehow I don't think the author fully grasped the irony of his statement given the title.
Depending on the circumstances, asking someone out for a coffee is one thing. Asking them five times is almost certainly harassment.
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Still it looks like lot of people ignore that and have kids expecting them to be just some kind of home decoration.
But it still is incorrect, the Dutch Labour Party is proposing the ban, they are not representative for the Dutch people. Which during the last elections was about 25% of the votes, now more like 10%. There is still a lot of resistance also within our government and political parties. With these proposals a lot of people are quite positive when they are proposed, but down the line they get voted down.

The case against the Dutch government from Urgenda [1] shows how hard it is to get change going.

[1] http://www.urgenda.nl/en/climate-case/
Really? I would fight that lawsuit tooth and nail. Neo-puritanism makes my blood boil.
On all my Mac's I use the MacPorts version of git, which it keep up to date, compared to the Apple version. It's a non-issue for anyone that does.
It's not just about short URLs. Several services, such as Flickr (and IIRC Dropbox), allow you to generate links which allow the recipient of the link to do something (view an album, download a file) without authenticating. This is of course not at all secure, however it is very convenient for sharing stuff with people who don't have an account with the site.
If say 100% of college costs were covered by a general tax base then perhaps everyone should actually get the right to a ticket/seat. If then say you're not into football then you could sell that ticket to someone who loves football. There are more nuances to figure than this, though the concept does make sense and perhaps allows for more fairness. Imagine it takes 3 years of football games to give every person in the country a seat at a game. Not all games are going to be equally in demand, and not all seats are equal, and not everyone will want to go to a football game - while others would love to go to all of them. Those are enough conditions for good supply demand market economics. The road system is a little more complex.
What a strange comparison. I have had my fair share of less than stellar bosses, but just by virtue of being male none of them tried to touch me, invite me to a date or told me to wear sexier clothing in order for the client meeting to be more successful.

Yes, it can very well be that the same people are treating male workers like garbage and treating female workers like garbage, it's just that when you are male, this mistreatment is restricted to the work place and non-physical, which makes it far less intrusive (I would guess... I am male so it is hard for me to really relate with women in such situations, but I do know that I would freak out if my boss would try to touch me!).
> oversimplifying the issue

>Plain and simple

Huh?
They have a right to, but they can waive the right voluntarily.
it was a short-hand for all the nuances applicable, I think I just badly translated a local way of speech
That isn't a fair comparison. OSX is itself a unix system and as such, there isn't any work involved in showing all processes equal (they _are_ equal). In Windows, the subsystem is probably running an entirely different and separate process model, regulated by the kernel. That's way harder to nicely unify in task manager or something like that. (Disclaimer: I know zilch of the new linux subsystem on windows, so please forgive any errors)
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"hoarding"
"a"
Does not compute...
This is not about how the art was made some centuries ago. In that time all women had a hard time chosing even their own lives, couples and rights. It is about the current fight and rights.
> It's the giant lie of social media, where everyone is creating but almost no one is really consuming -- we all think we're tricking the system and cultivating our own consumers.

Hmm. I can see what you're getting at, but I don't entirely agree.

Looking at my facebook newsfeed nowadays, for example, there's an awful lot of sharing going on, but it's not original content - there's very little creation going on. I'm slowly weeding this stuff out because what I really want to see is what my friends and family are saying, or posting, for themselves.

I share photos on Instagram as much for my own benefit as anyone else's. That being said, I have found myself thinking things that essentially boil down to, "This will get a lot of likes," and I'm not sure how I feel about it.

You might be a little cynical with the comment about feigning interest though. I'm sure it's true of some people but I know for myself, if I click 'Like' (and especially if I make a comment), it's because I genuinely do like something.
Since when do lawyers segregate their practices by gender?
We actually have something called 'Senior Consultant' as a position:

https://careers-redhat.icims.com/jobs/50182/senior-mobile-co...

The story of how this came to be a.f.a.i.k. went like this:

1. we have awesome* enterprise grade solution for managing mobile development. It has centralized build farm for mobile apps, automatic back-end integration with data-browsing for managers, e.t.c

2. some of our customers don't really want to build up their own mobile teams to work with this, so they outsource our consultants as well.

Last project I know our consulting guys were working on was a sort of a checklist application for the repair crews of British Railways a.f.a.i.k ?

* when it actually works ;)
But if scientific papers were free, how could nations avoid a free-rider issue regarding other nations?

For instance, a major part of scientific research is done in US, isn't it? Does that mean that the US tax payer should be the major contributor to an hypothetical worldwide scientific activity?
I never knew BuzzFeed wrote exclusive longform (and interesting) content. Thanks for mentioning it.
"many thought that roads would rule and rail would go the way of canals"

Particularly the transport minister who had a background running a construction company that built motorways:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts#The_people_and_t...
[Edit: Adding specifics link on survival rates]

Shows the ~50% 5 year survival rate and goes out to 14 years: https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/FAQ_Sept_2012.pdf

[Original comment]I don't have specific slice of the data to link right now so summarizing how we dug in to look at business life for US small businesses.
We focus on US 2-25 employee small businesses and as we dug into numbers at https://www.census.gov/econ/susb/ and https://www.sba.gov/advocacy/firm-size-data we found that each year ~500,000 businesses enter and exit the 2-25. Most of the entrances is from one of the 15-23 million sole proprietors adding their first employee and most of the exits are a business shutting down or returning to a sole proprietorship. In total for the category there are ~3.5M that employee ~40M people in total which would be an average life of 7 years.
Burdensome taxes to support underutilized rail infrastructure cause misery too. We can call names at public policy, but that's not a good way to manage public policy. Efficiency has to matter too.

And, strangely, this article insists there's no central decision-making group for managing rail stations and lines. Then, how did Mr. Beeching manage to close all those lines?
I find Louis CK's stories and jokes on parenting hilarious, but also quite comforting. I'm a sarcastic asshole, I always have been, and I've often thought (and in mostly private discussions with close parent friends of mine said similar) funny/sarcastic things about kids.

The hilarity is amplified for me, obviously, because I have a deep connection to the stories he's telling, but the comfort is that he's telling my story in the same way I would and people aren't running him out of the village with fire. In fact they're all laughing too.

Phew, I was (kind of) worried calling babies self absorbed Hitlers meant I was broken- instead I'm just a bad person and I'm okay with that.

I shouldn't have to, but PS, my kids are the best thing in my world and if I was worried they weren't I wouldn't be calling them little atrocity machines. So if you take offense, I'm not sorry.
Although those fossil fueled plants tend to still be more efficient than car engines. You might only save about 1/3 of the normal emissions in the worst case, but that's still some improvement, and it automatically improves further as the grid moves to more environmentally friendly production.
If you're writing great content, submit it on Hacker News.

Apart from that you can drive traffic from your blog's social media pages.

You can also publish a story on LinkedIn and link to your blog post. Use (don't spam) LinkedIn and Facebook groups as well.

Have a look at some niche social networks. An example: Growthhackers.com for content related to marketing, user acquisition, engagement, etc.

Write guest posts on other authority sites and put a link in your bio.
If you're white, and your black friend gives you a shirt with the N-word on it, they aren't your friend.
> so they may well be unaware of how it would be percieved by his colleagues when worn in this context.

Wasn't the controversy more about how the shirt was perceived by randos on twitter, not by his colleagues?
Might as well say don't use the web. Disabling javascript will break most sites with a few rare exceptions. (like HN)
Same boat here as well. I'm quite sceptical of people who claim to have vivid memories almost like videos in their mind. I often think they're just better than us at replaying the narrative they've constructed and filling in the gaps with imagination.

I read somewhere that eyewitness accounts, when tested, are often wildly inaccurate, and very prone to manipulation by asking leading questions e.g. "when did you see the suspect driving the red car?"
This seems like an updated version of what people have been doing for decades: Coach loads of tourists stopping briefly at viewpoints (with the place to stand for the best shot marked by the city on the sidewalk) around beautiful cities, just to take photos, bookended with a cafe and restaurant (writing postcards).
If that's how people want to spend their time and relax its fine by me.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11373316
Wouldn't that benefit everyone?
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I must admit that I was genuinely surprised by this. I have worked in Astronomy (as a technologist) for over a decade, and I have never witnessed this sort of behaviour. Of course, I am male. There are, however, plenty of assholes in the world including in academia, and I have noticed that universities tend not to want to rock the boat, so I suppose that it is not entirely surprising that these things are occurring.

My wife is an academic (biology). Thankfully, so far as I know, she has never had to deal with sexual harassment. She did have an experience of dealing with an extreme bully during her PhD (who threatened her career and the like; pro-tip: individual assholes generally don't have the power to destroy your career). The university was not at all supportive, but her PhD advisor was, so things generally worked out in the end, but it was a lot of stress along the way. Besides that, she has suffered the occasional subtle discrimination for being a woman or a mother, generally from older males in the field, but all in all, I don't think she would say that harassment is rife. I think she would pin the problems on individual assholes rather than a systemic problem in science. You do need to look out for yourself, however, as the institutions generally won't, and I do find that a bit sad.
I don't think that you're quite conceptualizing the issue in the right way. This isn't necessarily about rape or sexual assault (though even those can be hard to get the police to take seriously). There's a huge range of behaviors that can make work awful for someone that don't rise to the level of criminal behavior.

This is about, say, a guy who could torpedo your entire career with a couple of phone calls making it clear that he'll be Very Disappointed if you make a big deal about him giving you a back rub when he thinks you look stressed. (Maybe you'd object, but last week you put up with it when he put his arm around your shoulders during a lab meeting: at the time, it seemed like he was just trying to comfort you about some buggy equipment. After that, will the rest of your lab think you were okay with this stuff? Did he take that as a signal that you were interested? Maybe it's best to just keep putting up with it and not risk getting on his bad side and flushing your career away. Oh, hey, looks like he just decided that your shirt is "in the way" this time.)

[If you're wondering if a scenario like that is realistic, I based it loosely on the pattern described here: http://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2014/05/fed-up-with-sex..., which it turns out was in fact directly inspired by the repeated behavior of Geoff Marcy: http://mahalonottrash.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-long-con.html]
I agree with you, and I have the very same concerns, but you're talking about two different kinds of can. Government info that is FOIA exempt is not available for purchase.

You can purchase most research, that is a kind of access. And if you're at a university doing research, chances are you already have access without paying personally.

The knowledge we're talking about in this thread isn't being locked away, it's being charged for. I'm with you, and I don't like it, but we can't claim there's no access.
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It might be more or less suitable for fresh grads. But not for self-taught and especially not for mid-career professionals. The best interviews I had was concentrating on discussing previous projects and experience. Paid projects also could be a good way for some. A very simple fizzbuzz like task can be used as a first step for contacting - to eliminate CV flood.
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Which is a great reason for why you should keep edgy humour out of the office. In the US, we value the right to make a living in a hostility-free work environment more then the right to say whatever you want at work.
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These guys are probably friends.

http://realfunny.net/picture-3097-these-two-friends-wearing-...

They probably don't wear the shirts to work.
The Louvre also forbids taking pictures with a flash and enforces that policy strictly.
Having experiences doesn't necessarily mean going to Cambodia to see a sunset (unless that sort of thing appeals to you). It can be very simple things as long as it's something that you enjoy. Some of the best experiences of my life were sitting around with friends on a lazy day.
8 out of 10 Start-ups(!) fail, not businesses. There are loads of businesses that have a very low failure rate, but also a very low quadrupletuple-the-evaluation rate.

Example: You work for company X and build wordpress blogs for companies A,B,C since 5 years. Now you think it's not reasonable to have company X in the middle since your relationship to A,B and C is good enough. So you quit and work with them directly as a freelancer. At that point you started a business and the risk of failure is as low as your estimation of the relationship to A, B, and C is as good. If you are not too unrealistic you only do this when it is very likely to succeed. But your business value may stay about the same the next 5 years.
They're smart alright, but I think Julia has gotten a lot of play on other channels besides the Matlab/tech world. The stopper is for me is use cases. I play with ideas in Mathematica (notebook IDE for decades) because it has everything at my fingertips, keep J programming language opened on my desktop for quick prototypes (not just as a desk calculator), and if I need technical libraries and speed, I just use C with the relative libraries (even though I should learn Fortran :) ) I like Julia's syntax, and I think it will be more general purpose as it matures, but it is already the wild mistress of the Matlab playboy.
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Read the polls.

Seriously, go read them. Labour is ahead.
A few decades after Beeching's cuts, British Rail was privatized in a rather half-baked fashion.
An image is literally an object. It's not a woman. Objectifying an actual woman would be more clearly immoral. Objectifying a shirt - which he literally, legally owns - is not necessarily a problem.
That Telegraph article is so full of spin I'm surprised bits aren't flying off.

In one corner we have a Cambridge zoologist, the head of the Science Media Centre, policy and communications director at the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Sir Martin Rees the astronomer royal, and director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering. All either scientists or highly reputable scientific institutions.

In the other corner we have "a right of centre thinkank[sic]", the Cabinet Office minister, someone from the thinktank again, an MP, and "Gina Miller, the founder of the True and Fair Foundation"; the last time The Telegraph represented her in print was so libelous they were forced to retract some of it (http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/finance/news/content/21277/dai...).

Finally there's this bit:

"That followed the death of Olive Cooke, 92, one of Britain's longest serving poppy sellers, who took her own life after receiving repeated requests for money from charities."

Wow, really? Let's click that link, read some more about this poor old lady who was badgered to death by charities:

"An inquest later found that she had taken her own life, disclosing that she suffered from depression and had breast cancer... The report makes clear that the charity tactics were not responsible for her death..."

I see. Didn't stop them from spinning an entire article out of that premise though, did it?
Thanks for posting this link. It has reinforced my conviction that 1) this really is a deliberate attack and 2) the Telegraph is basically a Tory mouthpiece. Oh, and I didn't downvote you, but I wouldn't be surprised if those downvotes came from people taking offense at the suggestion that only right-wingers pay taxes.
Do you think if you mass drop all the important physics paper and maths paper on nuclear physics in syria - then somehow ISIS will be able to create a nuclear weapon ?

It takes an intellectually advanced society to understand another intellectually advanced nation.

If science produced in the US was actually superior, demand for US scientists would sky-rocket globally.

US education would have higher value.

And other countries will try to match the US in science funding.
Yes.

This assumes, of course, science done in other countries also becomes freely available. But why do I care who advances science, if the advances (or, at least the knowledge) are available to humans at large?

This is notwithstanding top secret scientific research, which is just loaded with nuance. But we're not discussing that today.
You end up in a situation where a minority is coerced to pay for everyone. It's morally wrong.
> This is yet another judgy, post-intellectualizing Medium piece whose purpose isn't communicating any particular point but garnering clicks and attention for the author. You really think Instagram ruined your trip to Angkor?

Yes: this. It all seems so reasonable until you step away a little and have a think about it. Tourists have been behaving this way since tourism, and especially since photography, became a thing. It is not Instagram's fault.

I am moderately annoyed with myself for falling into the trap of clicking on the link to, and then actually reading, this article.