skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes such incredible bravery to call out this kind of behavior in a palce that can feel too much like an old boys club. I'm in awe of these women. From Susan Fowler to Niniane Wang to Leiti Hsu & Susan Ho to the ones in this article. I don't know any of them but they are the catalysts of progress. It's up to all of us to make sure this is a turning point for an industry that needs to do so much better.
This quote isn't from Dave McClure btw, it's Chris Sacca, another investor mentioned in the article.
I'm pretty sure all weak typing warts basically stem from equality checks with ==/===. If you use === all the time you'll never run into them.

TS has optionals so undefined is not an issue.

The rest is valid.
I agree with your sentiment (could've been worded better). Without clarification it seems like people are assuming the worst. Given Dave's reputation that doesn't seem fair. Hopefully the community will get some clarification so that those who work(ed) with Dave can make an informed judgement call for themselves about how to proceed with their relationship.

Edit: added parenthesis to first sentence.
That's awful. Stop it.
Toleration, as described there, is not consent.
Jeez, the Cold War was a strange time. The exception seems especially weird since political party affiliation wasn't a protected class in the law to begin with. I guess that meant you legally could say, "We only hire non-Communists, regardless of sex/race/religion/...; and white Communist Jain men of Estonian origin."

I wonder if it was just a "safeguard" against members of CPUSA claiming their membership was a religious affiliation.
An ideal 1000 qubit system can explore 10^300 solutions simultaneously. A classical analog computer achieving a similar speedup would be larger than the visible universe (10^30 m) with precision below the planck length (10^-35 m).

Unlikely.
i've never understood comments saying jailbreaking is no longer needed, particularly among technical people (it comes up in every single story about jailbreaking across the web).

jailbreaking gives you root access to your mobile computer, which means you actually own and control it, not some corporation.

one thing you can do after jailbreaking is install a real firewall on the device so you can control what information passes into and out of it. that's a real boon to privacy (it's not perfect secrecy of course).
If you're a VC, you can just ask if it's okay that you record the meeting for record-keeping or pick-your-reason.
At 18, He Strapped a Rocket Engine to His Bike. Now He’s Taking on SpaceX
Thicknet, AUI and vampire taps. I don't miss that.
How a Single Spy Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States
He could have left out a couple of the self congratulatory bits about how he's making a real difference, that's up to others. But other than that that post could have been a lot worse.
That's really interesting! With North American rotary phones, you put your finger into the hole that corresponds to the number you want to dial, turn til you hit the backstop then release. There was no null position.

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you are saying, which is entirely possible.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14674708 and marked it off-topic.
I assume you actually realise why they are vague, but in case you don't: it's polite. Many victims find it humiliating to talk about, and adding details often adds to this humiliation.

In this case many details were published elsewhere already, in enough detail to offer little excuse.
What if the choice were "no investment or attention" versus "creepy attention and small investment"?

Entrepreneurs are so willing to sacrifice, and this should not be the situation, but what if it is? How many of us males would accept these types of advances in order to get our idea funded?

To think that we can remove power from sex is misguided. There were times during my startup that I would have wished for the attention, even as a straight male, if only because it was better than the nothingness that my idea lived in otherwise.
>High functioning sociopaths.

That's actually a medical/psychiatric diagnosis. I don't really think it applies here (or maybe it does, I don't know, I only know that you can't just throw that casually at run-of-the mill creeps).
Why not have it stay as a globe when you are zoomed in? It will be similar to Mercator, but the aspect ratio would be more accurate especially as you get further from the equator.

Admittedly, it is easier for developers who are adding features if you do it as Mercator, but not that much easier (if it has a good API).
Perhaps by first developing some level of intimacy & emotional connection in a platonic context, being a supportive whole human being with well-defined/practiced/communicated boundaries, and occasionally having a meta discussion about the relationship to get on the same page?

I don't need specifics since hitting on someone is a suboptimal strategy for connection. If you're just looking to get laid, try it out and let me know how it works for that.
"Does that mean that you would disregard allegations by somebody you found homely?"

That's exactly what Trump asked all the voters in America to do, and many did.

Donald Trump Says Accusers Are Too Ugly For Him To Have Groped:
“Believe me, she would not be my first choice,” he said of one woman.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/donald-trump-insults-...
They also think they're exceptional. They don't understand boundaries, and they don't understand that women have to deal with that shit from other guys who also think that

Dark Triad, anybody?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
I believe Stallman has stated in the past that it was never about the amount of software under the license; in that case, the GPL would have been a failure if it fails in accomplishing its aims with any particular piece of software licensed under it, and to my knowledge that hasn't happened (yet).

Perhaps oddly, the only software which I know is currently open source thanks to the GPL is Linux, as I imagine there might be more Linux distros that are proprietary (or at least, the kernel would be) if it was not under the GPL. That said, I still license my own software under the AGPL if it's something big or something I'm particularly proud of. The rest goes under public domain (CC0).
A new one to put in the pros column for bootstrapping your startup - not having to get harassed by creepy investors!
Incidentally that’s how I deal with the few records I have. I rip them once to flax’s and then never touch them again. Then I can experience the noisy clicks and pops from the comfort of my phone. :-)
Why is this still being posted?
This is in the article, search for Business Insider.
Muh feminism.
> If an employee of yours said they were raped by another employee, would you make them go to the hospital and get a rape kit before believing what they said?

And if the other employee said they didn't commit the rape, you should presumably believe them by default as well, right?
Now I'm curious what line of work you're in where you find yourself in these conflicts so frequently. I've heard one off stories like that, but outside of politics, never heard of an environment where this is a regular occurrence.
US denies visas to Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team
Saying "I wasn't sure whether to hire you or hit on you" is fucked up if you're in a position to hire that person.

What the actual fuck.
They they are orthogonal. Digital/Analog vs Non-quantum/Quantum. You can have quantum analog. Note that analog is a better match since quanta are fundamentally analog and you loose all this info when going to bits.

That's the thing, it can solve a lot of computations at the same time however an analog computer can recognize the direction of the solution therefore the number of simultaneous solutions doesn't really matter.
I'll tell you one.

A bank I worked at in the mid 80's had one woman working on a floor in a fairly separate building away from the main building. That one woman had to endure pretty much constant harassment from two guys who were technically her superior and their boss didn't lift a finger to stop it.

I made a good bit of noise about it to HR and then she begged me to stop because she was afraid they'd let her go. The two guys that did this (Koert Borst and Jos Haarsma, I sincerely hope they read this, assuming they are still alive) were crossing so many lines in their behavior I lost count.

Fortunately I only worked in that department (systems administration) for about a year before landing a job at the computer center which was far away from the main offices. Assholes would be too friendly a term to describe those two, it was downright sadistic how they enjoyed harassing her until she cried.
I know many people like that, and no, they don't derive an enjoyable power trip out of being rejected at all. Theybdon't know they can get away with it. They don't know that they are doing it. These people are rarely evil and predatory. They usually genuinely believe that the behavior they are exhibiting is desirable.

Basically, power corrupts. Being a boss, an investor, or an employer comes with power. Just having the cachet of being involved with startups carries a certain small amount of power in itself. Combine this corruption with the powerful instincts around sex and mating, and really bad things can happen.

I'm probably going to be attacked for this, but I really wish women would be overt and name such things. (Here, I'm talking about workplace norms in CA in general, not any of the specific situations of women named in the NYT article.) As it is, there are so many provisions for deniability, being second guessed, and not overtly saying "I'm not interested" that it really muddies the waters. I think it would help if women just said, "No. I'm sorry, but I don't think of you this way." or, "No, sorry, but I think I should keep business and personal matters separate." Wasn't clear and direct communication part and parcel of the "no means no" message in the first place? By creating norms where women think it's dangerous to just come out and say no, it's like we're creating an operating assumption where any man who might hear "no" has to be considered some kind of unstable potential attacker. To me, this is the sort of "fainting couch" feminism that regards women as only potential victims who can't stand up for themselves and who must be protected by others. To say the overt "no" -- to directly say what you want and mean -- is to claim agency as an adult. It's a chance for the refused to show acceptance. It's a chance for every party involved to coexist as equals.

Disclosure, this comes to mind because of something that happened between me and a colleague of equal rank in a volunteer organization who went directly from "I don't think I can see a movie tonight" to "This situation is making me uncomfortable" with nothing in between. I just don't think this is suitable verbal behavior for supposedly rational adults. Okay, now you angry and misguided young "activists" come and lay on the aspersions that I'm some sort of morally deficient person.
Yeah, this is hard. I worked from home for five years before joining USDS, and I wish we could support remote work, but we're grafted onto agency projects that are so often based in D.C. that it's just not possible.

The "term-limited" positions are actually quite nice. Generally, you can serve for up to four years. USDS is almost 3 years old, and anecdotally it feels like people tend to leave by the end of their first two-year term because, well, it's hard and it can be exhausting. You lose effectiveness over time, and returning to the private sector is important to re-strengthen your skills and knowledge.

As it happens, the excellent career civil servants we work with also appreciate knowing we're there to help them, not take their jobs. :-)
It's still in early development, but there is a tool[1] that automatically converts potentially unsafe C/C++ code to be memory-safe. If the problem is C/C++ programmers that write unsafe code, rather than trying to change their practices (or even change the language they program in) maybe it's more practical to just have a robot "fix" the code.

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus-AutoTransla...
quite a lot of effort went into making something so complex seem so sillyly (have i just invented a word?) easy. There were a few complexities left out but it certainly explains the gist of it.

The bitcoin implementation is slightly more nuanced. One thing he didn't touch on was the difference between nodes and miners. another thing he didn't touch on was the signing of your txns. Because that wasnt covered, the specifics of a 51% were not clear. A 51% attack can stop you spending your coins, but still can't spend your coins. You would need to control the nodes for that to occur.

But still pretty good and it at least gets across the concept of the blockchain itself.
The risks are too great for me to make that my problem. If a woman wants a meeting with me, I'm happy to make time for her, it just has to be during the daytime.
Marissa Mayer?
Needless to say those who follow contemporary history of the jailbreak scene, let alone the whole history, you are a founding father. Thanks for everything you do.

In the last year or so I wanted to take an old iPhone 5s, a handmedown from a relative, to learn CyScript and the other one from the NowSecure engineer that exposes a JS interface (I forget).

How can and how will security students learn to reverse engineer at runtime and assess modern iOS apps in the current state and no official emulator to boot?
I had a very difficult time reading it as well, but then, I couldn't handwrite in cursive to save my life, so there's probably a correlation there.

I assumed this font was for marketing purposes only; regardless, I also assume that they let their devs customize their own IDEs look-and-feel, so to each their own.
Just your typical "wage gap", "feminism", "tech is so gender unequal" shill fest.
Was the victim(s) identified? If not, then we should be free to talk about the specifics without making any identifications. Again, there's no details to go on here.
Dupe of:

* Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment | Hacker News || https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673777
A lot of people seem to be reacting to this and I can't say I'm surprised, I'm no fan of javascript or nodejs either, but allow me to express my thoughts so that perhaps you can see things from a different perspective.

We made an asset pipeline in Go (aptly named pipedream, and it turned out to be one), our original plan was to use this instead of requiring an "external" dependency for asset management. We got to the point of handling all the different combinations of compilers and we were forced to pipe to them on the command line because there are no Go library implementations for most of these. Once we started doing this the problems became apparent. The interfaces for these tools on the command line are not very flexible in a lot of cases, and they wildly vary in implementation and flow. All the tools that you want to use to mess with Javascript (typescript, uglifier etc) have significant advantages when able to be used as a library instead of a standalone compiler. They're meant to be used like that and when we tried to break it into something nice based on "compilers" and "minifer" binaries, the dependency handling became a nightmare, recompiles became inevitable, and all this other fallout because the tools that are created for JS are all written in JS and there was no great way to bridge that gap and use them like gulp can/does.

To summarize why we failed with our pipedream efforts the biggest reason is because the command line interfaces to these compilers left so much to be desired. They all want to be their own recompiling watchers like typescript, and they don't think about pipelining. Gulp manages to pull it off by using their libraries, but you can't do that outside of JS.

I also want to state that I think the hate is overblown in our use case, once it's installed it's out of the way and you never have to worry about it. It's automatically taken care of by abcweb and as someone who isn't a fan of javascript or node I've had no problems with it and have been able to appreciate it for the work that it saves me.

The decision to use gulp didn't came lightly, but it happened to be the best option out there. We've made it entirely optional though `--no-gulp` if people want to try to build the dream like we did. Maybe they can succeed where we failed.
Sounds like a serial sexual assaulter justifying his own behavior.
I can't really stop, but a valuable question is, should I? The women who have worked with me have succeeded and been promoted to successful managerial roles more than those who have worked for my other male colleagues. Who would be served by an attempt to change my thoughts?
At a certain point, one has to believe that another's actions are evil, even if that evil is unwitting. One mustn't actively choose to be "evil and predatory" to be so in fact.

So something can become so horrible, that even a mistaken action should be defined as evil? Sorry, but that sounds wrong, and itself willfully vengeful. In that case, shouldn't we just do away with manslaughter and just say everyone who has killed someone is a murderer?
True. Pickup artists are pickup artists for a reason.

It turns out that some people really are susceptible to manipulation.

It wouldn't be called manipulation if it didn't work.
I think you're completely neglecting the fact that there is a large contingent of women that this behavior WORKS LIKE CATNIP ON.

There is a reason why a huge amount of porn in the world (and porn made for women) about boss / secretary, teacher / student, rich person / poor person, mentor / underling power imbalances: it's a major part of our sexuality as social animals.

So, these men have often gone through life being wildly successful with this type of behavior up until society started to change around them.
I don't think we're morally obligated to let the city's infrastructure and public space become completely unusable out of sympathy for the people making it so.

There can be no bike path, or public transit, or public park anywhere in San Francisco until poverty is eradicated globally? That's equally absurd.

Homeless shelters, mental health services, and bike paths are all responsibilities of local government.
> you're also able to write equivalent functionality with less code

The amount of code one writes says more about the language than whether or not it's statically typed.

To me, adding "bigint" or "bool" to the occasional variable and function declaration isn't "more code", it's an extremely terse way of avoiding different code (e.g. type assertions).
Regina Dugan ran DARPA like a startup - or at least like an innovation incubator:

https://www.fastcompany.com/1784731/regina-dugans-innovative...

JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) is a cross-functional mission-driven organization:

https://dupress.deloitte.com/dup-us-en/deloitte-review/issue...
> But "we need more women in tech" is just the problem statement. Nobody seems to actually know how to get there from here.

My wife and I are starting in our own tiny corner by volunteer teaching small age-appropriate and (hopefully) interesting topics in math, science, and engineering in K5, first, second, and third grade (as our kids go through those ages).

The first seeds of the gender disparity in tech are sown in pre-teen years, IMO. There are also some significant selection effects later on, but I think those are smaller in magnitude than the original "Daddy, what can I be when I grow up?" programming.
On a tangent, what are the best speech recognition engines that don't require sending the audio to a server somewhere? Preferably open source.
I think there are both 1) sleezeballs who intentionally take advantage of their position and 2) men who don't realized what they're doing and need to use better judgement.

Without knowing details, there are at least indications in both McClure's and Sacca's pasts that they may (hopefully) be in the latter group.

And hopefully this will help both groups get smaller.
Ok, good to hear. I am seeking for a backup solution for my heterogenuos home-network, and thus evaluating the possibilities.
Raping someone is fucked up. I don't see how that sentence is fucked up. If someone said that to me, I would take it as a compliment. To me it says not only are you smart enough to be hired, you're also attractive. Is it better to split it up into two separate sentences? Obviously the guy is hitting on her, if she's not interested then that's fine. I really don't see the problem, could someone please explain?
Rotary phones swirl the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere?
Petya cyber attack designed to maximize destruction
At least the software ran on premises of the NYPD. There are many deals with governments where data gets pumped back-and-forth with external parties doing the analysis on their infrastructure.
Haha. You'll want to read the story of what he actually did before making this assumption. If the names were redacted from the Bill and Melinda story, everyone here would be calling for his head.
He/she is talking about the standard iOS keyboard. Please be more civil.
Did the sarcasm hurt your feelings?
(1) WW3 IS PLOTTED WITH REBEL SYRIAN GAS ATTACK
Intentionally wounding is considered to be a war crime.

To clarify, inflicting wounds with the specific intent of avoiding fatal wounds violates international pacts to which the vast majority of nations are signatory.

Also, bear in mind that not every major potential combatant is a signatory to all military-related pacts. For example, the USA is not a signatory to any of the Declaration IV subsections of the Hague Conventions.
I agree, but I think that even the most feminist men are raised and inculcated in a misogynist society. You likely do have a good idea of who McClure is. But it's a numbers game - given a position of power and a systemic gendered inequity, there are a lot more opportunities for a man to fuck up. That's why we, and I speak as a (cisgendered/heterosexual) man myself, have to be constantly vigilant about our actions and introspective about our thoughts and where they come from.
What are your specific criticisms?
Huh. Who would've thought that allowing wealthy frat bro types to run amok, wield power over others, and construct cults of personality would engender a culture of sexism and abuse?*

Power is a dangerous thing. This is why we must also be careful of the power in evidence-free accusations and abrogation of "innocent until guilty." Not saying that is necessarily happening here. However, such urging to "listen and believe" comes up when these topics are discussed. Women are no less corruptible by unchecked power than men.
People are using bitcoin more than never before to receive their payments for actual WORK.

If you don't believe me, just ask Bitwage.
NYPD gets their source data, but not the algorithm. Hard to say if that's unfair without knowing the nature of the contract.

It's certainly not unusual to sell analysis without selling the "exactly how".
Why are they empty? How long are they empty for, on average?

It wouldn't surprise me if so many homes were between tenants on any given day, but it would be shocking if so many homes went unoccupied for more than a month at a time.
You are welcome to write one in whatever language you like
With no technical details it's hard to know what is going on. "Analysis" can mean many things, and sometimes one person's open analysis data is another's proprietary visualisation.