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> Where are you working that you can reasonably imagine this happening?

I'm working at a place where I can't imagine this happening because they, while taking harassment complaints very seriously, also take personnel actions very seriously and investigate before imposing permanent consequences, using other means to prevent furthering a problem during the investigation.

> The risks of someone making this claim are so, so high

If the company establishes a practice of firing without investigation, and the events are hard to disprove in a way which would sustain a defamation complaint by the falsely accused, the risks are near zero.
Honestly I think higher ups in finance have more money to use to sweep it under the rug.
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You don't actually want qubits, you want an analog computer with differentiable signals. Most likely photonic. Qubits are a dead evolution branch.

I've been recently exploring computational metamaterials for photonic computation.

http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~aalu/research%20-%20page%203.ht... (there's quite a few papers on this but unfortunately they are all paywalled. Spoiler alert, they seem to be based entirely on Fourier transform).

These computational metamaterials don't need electricity to be powered (you need something that will shoot the photons on them and read back the values off tho).

Machine learning would be much, much faster on these as you have O(1) differential calculus.

They don't heat up. You can possibly build a house sized CPU out of these. I can see it, a city block sized CPU and a nuclear reactor next to it.

Did you know that on an analog machine, you can do sort in O(n)?

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

Hit me up if you wanna chat about this. I've seen the "light" (xdddd) now and can't go back to stupid bits.

I'm not like super married to the metamaterials but analog photonic trumps quantum for just about every task I can think of.
> Perhaps the $200 million spent on the homeless attracts more homeless people to San Francisco.

From [1]:

> The most recent homeless count, conducted in January 2015, found 6,686 homeless people in the city. Seventy-one percent of people reported living in San Francisco when they became homeless, up from 61 percent in 2013. Just 10 percent said they were living outside California when they became homeless, and the remaining 19 percent were living in the state but not in the city.

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/What-San-Franciscans-k...
Wow. Is this satirical? This is disgusting - you are part and parcel of the rampant sexism the women in the article are speaking out against.

> That she might use sex appeal to her advantage is believable since many hard-working artists do. Just use every natural or acquired gift you have.

You're evaluating whether or not you think somebody's claim of harassment is true based on whether or not you think they are attractive. Does that mean that you would disregard allegations by somebody you found homely? We should assess claims of harassment based on the testimony provided not your personal assessment of somebody's attractiveness.

> That said, I'd probably not do it as a venture capitalist helping her get funding just because of the liability. I might end up in a news article or something.

The reason to avoid making women seeking funding feel uncomfortable is to avoid making women seeking funding feel uncomfortable. It's not so that you avoid bad PR.

> If I did it, there'd be a brick wall between the two with me testing her interest up front. She can tell me what she's comfortable with taking me up on personal/professional interests anywhere from zero (dont work with me) to both.

There should be zero personal or romantic engagement by the part of a VC with an entrepreneur where the first interaction is skewed by the power dynamic. A consensual and equal relationship is impossible when one party controls the financial and social prospects of the other.

> Then, there seems to be an expectation that successful or professional men never show interest in any women who are skilled professionals or founders in favor of... lesser women in clubs, churches, or something?

It's possible for men to interact with women in social contexts, not just in professional ones.

> Telling me I must sacrifice all potential for a date or resulting relationship with such incredible women just because they're founders or something with nothing in return... while they can mostly do whatever they want... seems a bit arbitrary, unfair and lots of missed potential.

Women do not exist in the world solely for you to date. Again, if there exists an asymmetrical power dynamic there is no possibility of a consensual equal relationship. If somebody asked you out while holding a gun to your head would you feel comfortable turning them down? You might protest at the metaphor, but being able to deny somebody resources they desperately need can be just as threatening.

> Also, every one I've heard from reported witnessing a varying chunk of those women would hit on or flit with men they liked who were professionals doing their job. They said that was OK since they initiated.

Are you sure that in every instance the women are expressing romantic interest? Or are they merely being friendly, and being misinterpreted. That is a trope that comes up often - men think they are being hit on but nothing of the sort is happening.
The answer to your question, as other commenters are pointing out, is in the "seem". They seem to have less flagrant issues, but that's just appearances.

While tech still has a very long way to go, at least speaking up is becoming acceptable, and won't bar you from the industry for life. An Uber engineer who speaks up will never work for Uber again, but she can still find work in the industry (if she so desires). Someone who speaks up on Wall Street will be "marked" for life and never have the opportunity to work on Wall Street again.
The groping is probably illegal independent of workplace context, the stuff done in hiring is as illegal as if it was done during employment, much of rest is probably not illegal.
The technology industry is seen as progressive and cutting edge, therefore stories about sexism have more impact because they challenge a larger gap between perception and reality - "everyone knows" that finance is sexist.

I'm not sure I completely understand the rest of your point, but I object to the idea that promoting women's rights is against the interest of men. Just society arguments aside, there is a basic economic argument about the talent that is being overlooked by pushing women out with sexism.
I don't see any texts that people around me send each other privately, so as far as 1:1 private communication goes, yes I'll "never see it."

I'm not doubting the stories posted in these articles. But I'm not going to believe something just because there's a "constant murmur." There was also a constant murmur that Obama hated America, etc.

Your catcalls example is not a "murmur," it was people you know, telling you what happened to them. That's different.
Can you try a low-brow book, like Twilight?
> It's just that dynamic languages outcompeted them.

All "trending" languages are statically typed (Rust, Go, Swift, Kotlin, ...) and all the popular JavaScrip-improved-languages are statically typed as well. Even further, many dynamically typed languages have pushed in recent years to add type annotations or even static typing (e.g. mypy).

Dynamic typing is the brainchild of the 90s for rapid initial development. Sustainability has been a big issue from the outset.
Honorable mentions:

GunPoint: boss made the presentation mandatory; attendance is checked.

Disap-Point: presenter forgot laptop in hotel, uses overhead projector with markers.

NeedlePoint: presenter applied cross-stitch simulating Script-Fu in GIMP to images; people at the back clean their glasses and squint in disbelief.

CounterPoint: presenter keeps jumping ahead twenty slides and working backward, then forward again.

StandPoint: large crowd shows up, enticed by free snacks.
So this is official reason why it was not considered ?
I'm coming at this from the Elm-camp, and my first impression (and largely why I think languages like Elm is promising) is how languages that are implemented as supersets of other languages have the potential to be as bad as their subsets.

The example that I was given was C++ and C, but I think TypeScript with it's gradual-typing approach is forced to remain potentially as bad as JavaScript itself - that is, if you're feeling weak and want to "get shit done", you can bypass all the goodness that TypeScript undeniably offers you.

For a language like Elm, the type-system is invariably gonna have your back - a value-proposition I think means a lot more in practice than some self-proclaimed pragmatists realize :)
While Swift's use of argument labels would probably never have existed without the Objective-C legacy, they're pretty much the last thing I'd point to as "baggage". The Swift 1.x version of them was kinda weird, but now that the rough edges have been fixed I'd consider the optional named parameters one of the strengths of the languages.

I really can't think of anything in Swift 4 that exists in the subset of the language supported on Linux which is there for obj-c reasons that I would consider an actual problem.
It might say something that the creator of Python is working at Dropbox and currently on a project to add static typing to it…

(https://github.com/python/mypy/commits/master because I know the pain of linkless comments)
If there's an intelligent lifeform watching us is probably smart enough to stay away from a species that destroys its own planet in many creative ways.
Maybe on Big Block of Cheese Day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection
Gender Binary
I agree. I also think that not only are the animals living a horrific existence as sentient beings but so are the humans whose job it is to deal with them. And as such every human is a little bit fractured because of our negligence of a minimum amount of respect for ourselves, who's ignorance accepts the convienance, and life.
⅄xe
Feds provide force sometimes, but other times it's just a matter of time. When you produce a new product or service, you have a 'monopoly' on it until other people move in. Thus, margins start high and quickly lower even in a maximally competitive environment. Just wanted to share that concept in case others didn't make that connection!
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Believe it or not, there is stuff happening that you are not aware of.
If your first reaction to hearing such things is "Well I've never seen it, therefore it probably doesn't exist", maybe some self-reflection is in order.
Also would be interesting to see it applied to newspapers, with obvious slices like particular author, section (sports v world news etc) distribution year to year, and which paper. TV news broadcasting could also be interesting to compare by the same dimensions, though the conversational style in some interview shows would possibly make this less telling. .
> their mistake of using python on the server side

I could not disagree with this sentiment more. As always, reality is more nuanced than this.

There seems to be a common theme of startups succeeding with dynamically typed languages, and adding static typing later. However calling the original decision a "mistake" is neither fair nor accurate.

After all, you don't buy a big mansion out of college because you are going to have a family one day. What is right for you today might not be right for you today.

Companies change as they grow, and switching from move-fast-and-break-things to slow and steady mode is just one of those things alongside all others.

Dynamic languages were great at bringing these companies where they are now: it allowed them to be agile and fast to market with a small team.

Are they going to benefit from switching? Yes, absolutely. But was the original decision a mistake just because the priorities and cost/benefit curves have changed now? I really doubt it.
> What is the DOM?

There is about a 50% chance I would answer "It is what values of β will give rise to", and hope the interviewer is an old Unix hand and gets a chuckle out of it [1].

[1] https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/odd.html
> You'd rather say that she was sufficiently well connnected to make her voice heard.

Most complaints of this nature damage the victim's career prospects and/or end up with loss of job/funding/etc. There is rarely evidence because the few who perpetrate this kind of behavior often deliberately avoid leaving evidence. They also rely on societal signals that most people don't believe it or don't care.

It isn't very hard to figure out. Every rape trial includes a huge segment on what the victim was wearing, as if that mattered. The message is clear: this is the way powerful people work, deal with it.

> Even then she came public only after she had left the company and was employed elsewhere

Which is damn smart on her part.
See Wolf of Wall St for most vivid example. I'll also add it's extremely common in sales all over the country. Especially telemarketing, phone sales, boiler rooms, and so on. A large number of women I've talked to over the years in those positions say it's crazy. That movie even brought flashbacks for at least one I talked to who told me of huge parties with barbeque, pools, drugs, and tabs for employees for beer and hotel rooms. I actually went to the first half of one of that company's parties at her invitation. Too crazy and too many hard drugs for me so I left. I've seen similar stuff at corporate offices of what you'd consider boring industries where on the executive or senior level they'd waste company money on parties with dates, secretaries, hookers or whatever. Nowhere near as extreme as the Wolf but same problems.

So, yeah, I have probably over a hundred anecdotes especially in sales but in general saying the right-leaning, ultra-capitalist areas have a lot of it nobody cares to report. Plus, it gets worse in "right to work" (aka fire without cause) states where there's limited job availability or the man/woman being harassed has been at company so long them not getting a reference can be held over them. Lots of reasons not to report.
Any VC whose reaction to this is "oh I guess I should avoid taking meetings with women because I just can't know what goof will cause me to get sued" is probably already making some women uncomfortable.

If you cannot understand how _stupidly easy_ it is to have a completely non-sexual, non-harassing conversation with a member of the opposite sex, you most definitely should read up on some stuff. I mean this in the most non-snarky way possible.

Wouldn't it be nice if half the population weren't completely turned off by the idea of talking to anyone in tech?
⅄xe. See my comment below.
I haven't seen anyone arguing that health care in the U.S. is in anything resembling a free market... Have you actually ever seen that, or did your fingers/heart get ahead of your brain there? ;-)
tsc --noImplicitAny solves that.
As femboner said, there's whole companies in public relations and image management dedicated to doing stuff like that. Plus individuals with a great representation for misrepresenting stories. Spin doctors I believe they're called.
The smart ones might take more, less competition for the ones with good ideas/products.
Annotations at least help the IDE dig through the mess faster. That's ... something. I guess.
As little as one character of almost any document will usually give you 100% of the binary symbols 0 and 1. Usually, the first character will do this, after which the rest of it is just mindless repetition.
Old institutions in wall street have processes in place to follow up and lay off employees.

Banks keep records of all communications and emails. Whatever you said, it is not just stored and available for searching, it is also randomly inspected by annoying regulators and backed up in a bunker for the next 5 years.

Last but not least, they are not populated by 20 years old brogrammers.
Do you have a link with more info? I'd love to read more about this.
Wow, think for a second how hard is to be an entrepreneur. All the shit we have to deal with at so many different levels.
These women goes beyond that, literally putting everything on the line. Much respect.
>Just kind of musing on a concern I've heard from a lot of people in and mostly outside that field just talking about rules where men can never hit on or anything close women who are professionals.

Then why do couples often say they met at work?

If you're an investor, meeting someone for the first or second time, and someone asks you for money, and you hit on them, you're an utter asshole and moron. Yes, even if someone was dressed in a way that exposed cleavage.

It's not remotely appropriate, professional, or even decent to hit on someone at the place and time that Cantor did.

If you already have a steady, mutual friendship (or other positive relationship) with someone you work with, or are in a casual setting that people go to with the intent of hitting on people or being hit on, then, sure, things can work differently. But that's extremely distant from what occurred here. Someone asking something from you in a professional capacity does not ever want "wanna fuck?" as the answer.
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Like what? TypeScript is careful to avoid a lot of JS's footguns (implicits, undefineds, etc.)
> How do we get out of this dead end?

It's a chicken and egg problem. The biggest systemic factor is the absurd gender ratio, but if the consequences of that are self-reinforcing then the status quo remains.

Many people have the instinct to turn to anti-harassment policies and enforcement, but that's like trying to fight cancer with aspirin. It might help a little bit but it's no cure no matter how much you use, and too much will cause problems without solving any.

But "we need more women in tech" is just the problem statement. Nobody seems to actually know how to get there from here.
Somehow I missed the groping part. I was referring to the guys coming on to them while they were fundraising.
Static types are better and cheaper at catching type related bugs than a myriad of end-to-end tests that check dynamic types.
> This is people being assholes because they know they can get away with it.

Nope.

These people are being assholes because they ARE assholes.

Never attribute to rational decision making what can be attributed to rotten character.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/article158124954.html

Duke lacrosse. UVA. Conor Oberst.

It happens. Allegations deserve investigation before punishment is doled out. Just because SV is doing an absolutely awful job at dealing with sexual harassment right now doesn't mean we need to swing hard the other direction and punish without proof.
what would you say are the limitations of Python type annotations? From the pycon demos I've seen it seems pretty functional and complete.
"Dude, what the fuck? Her having picture of herself showing cleavage is totally irrelevant. Dressing attractively does not make it ok to be harassed."

It might shock you but I operate on innocent until proven guilty and hear both sides concepts. I'm just applying what little of that I can to assess how she presents herself vs his claims. I said there's some potential they were true. I also said the evidence was strongly against him and those texts were inappropriate. She's the victim here based on the evidence.

Then I started exploring the greater topic based on what I've heard and read from tons of people (including women) with varying opinions. In the media, esp like this, you're either big on sexually harassing women constantly or you totally support a specific position on interacting with women in the workplace that a subset of them are pushing or article covers. No middle ground in any way. I was just instigating some discussion of those rules.
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I mean, we need more women in silicon valley. Legalize prostitution maybe. These guys have had so few encounters with the opposite sex that they haven't calibrated to social norms. Maybe start a fashion industry in DTSJ and to attract some non-technical females and things will even out.
This was not long before systemd. It looks like he supported it: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-May/136...
I would have more confidence in the list if they spelled ClojureScript correctly.
I agree, except that once digital music became available, going through that ritual feels artificial to me. Like, in the old days (say when I was in college in the 80s, when I used to make regular trips to the used vinyl record store), it was a necessity to go through that ritual.

As much as I can appreciate vinyl, I can't force myself to go through the hassle (and expense) of trying to do that today.
You'd think we wouldn't need a security camera in our break room to stop people from stealing other people's food, but we do. People do all sorts of petty crap. If you expect rational behavior, you're going to be disappointed.
Sales at my company is female dominated, I'm in building next door so I run into them all the time, I just treat them as any other member of staff, politely but otherwise as an amorphous blob.

I don't socialise with work mates outside of work events either, lines get crossed when you do in a alcohol orientated culture like mine.

It's worked fine for me for 19 years employed.

Had one female former colleague assume I was gay because I never hit on her (and she was attractive).

Nope, just not interested in bollocking up a good work environment, it was interesting to watch the dynamic though.

My simple rules for work.

Treat everyone equally, small stuff matters, I went out for coffee and went and asked the cleaner if he wanted one, he looked surprised.

Don't gossip ever, just don't. Leave the conversation if someone else starts.

Be on time, meet deadlines, let boss know as soon as you know you won't.

Be professional, you might know a customer for years but they are still Mr Smith until they say 'call me Bob'.

When a boss makes what you think is a poor decision (business reasons, moral reasons etc) get it in writing.

Always send a recap email after meetings, misunderstandings cost less the earlier you catch them (much like bugs).
I personally skipped Coffescript, Javascript Generators
and Angular.

And none of them passed the test of time.

So I think I made the right call by not adopting them super early.

I think I'm going to do the same with Typescript. Hopefully static typing will be adopted by ES.Next and then I'll port my programs to it.
because things happen outside your immediate circle? Like maybe you work at a better company than most?

For example, if on your team of 20 engineers you have 3 women, then your team is already above the national average.

It's for the same reason you can think there's systemic racism in the American policing system without thinking that your cousin is racist because they're a cop.