skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"People don't drive from DC to NYC so they can signal their independence. Pretty much, they don't drive from DC to NYC at all."

Having driven that route many times over taking the train I can tell you this is false. The prices of Acela is more then double what is normal in Europe for similar length train routes and better service. It is cheaper to rent a car and drive even for a single person and if you have 2 or more people it is significantly cheaper.
Pretty sure the only relationship that scam had to do with bitcoin is that the name was used in order to bamboozle investors.
Here in Japan trains have been an integral part of the transportation system for so long that a lot of the destinations you want have been built up around the train stations. The train companies make a significant portion of their income from real estate (malls) built in or around train stations since there's so much foot traffic.
A risk would be a car suddenly braking for leaves or a plastic bag crossing the road.
Success of your project isn't entirely objective or logical. Why do we expect the process to funding your project would be? You know, I heard that sometimes wealthy parents will invest millions of dollars in their children's projects. How incredibly biased of them. They don't even ask tough questions in the due diligence process.
Power inbalance man, that's the point.
I'm not sure if creep is the best word to use here. Creep is a gendered term like slut or bitch.
Come on. All these guys who claim they are so smart and well rounded now all of a sudden are doing "I'm Sorry" posts as if they didn't know. WTF - of course they all were aware. Its easy acting all matter of fact and smart with everything else and then "I'm Sorry". Refer them to a public prosecutor because examples are needed for this to stop. We need some examples to be made.
This law will absolutely be used to curb political speech, that's the whole point. And you know it will be applied by the ruling party against anybody whose views they don't like.

When you're banning "hate speech" without strictly and narrowly defining what it is, it's a pure censorship instrument with pretty much unlimited reach.

I, for instance, think The Bible and The Quran are full of hate speech, but do you think they should be banned in the whole country simply based on my view?

What about a Android vs iOS debates? Should we ban every shit-talking conversation on the internet?

What about BMW vs Audi? Tabs vs spaces? Chocolate vs vanilla?
I immediately thought odd it was to meet like that over drinks with a group of people. That's never not been social for me.

So I'm glad he painted a picture.
Much of the issue isn't just "meeting through work", but the power imbalance. Of your examples, only Gates includes this imbalance.

I don't know the specifics of their situation, but I'd hope that he recused himself from being directly involved in her performance reviews etc., whereas McClure was explicitly tying his attraction to the hiring decision - "I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you."
Nobody is doing that. I'm talking about bad arguments, not bad policies.

Also, read my comments. If anything, my proposed idea would reduce the number of de-facto private beaches and increase wealth transfer to the less fortunate.
> Why should he "control" his hormones to begin with?

Because he's in a work/professional setting.

> What's so inappropriate in being confident enough to tell another person that you're attracted to them?

Nothing, if at a party, bar, or social event where people meet. In an interview at your company? Give me a break.
And if you shift back and forth between entirely different blockchains? Good luck untangling that one.
va_ doesn't change the calling convention. Parameters passed as registers continue to be passed as registers.

We could probably argue this some more but I suggest you simply try it with a compiler..
As someone once said, "You can offer an excuse or you can offer an apology, but you can't offer both."

I'm not sure which this is. It sounds to me like both.
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VPOTUS Mike Pence takes the same approach. This makes it tough for him to give important jobs to women, at least ones who would have to work closely with him.

That is not a good thing.
Dangerous precedent. Expect this to be "good" for a couple years, then the definition gradually expands while nobody is looking and is used to penalize any sort of thought that doesn't fit the social norm.
They might be popular. Just completely ineffective.
The problem with him is his position. In a position where you can hire or fire people you should not be engaging in this kind of adolescent behavior.

People, colleagues and equals at work should be able to interact socially, over drinks and even hook up. People are human and sexual attraction is natural. I don't think we should try to pretend it does not exist and that we should remove it from the workplace.

What should not happen is people not knowing boundaries or social convention. People should know how to act and should know how not to act -even when drunk.

I don't think workplaces should be sterile, asocial places which ignore human predisposition to social interaction.
> Women have the right to go out for drinks with coworkers without being sexually harassed.

Yes but you have to understand that we humans have a incredible high drive to reproduce, and many successful couples forms in the work environment. I have a child with a coworker.

Sexual approaches do happen in those kinds of environments but there are a big difference between approaching someone and sexually harassment. Modern women specially millennials tend to see any kind of approach (specially from unattractive males) as harassment and this is not the case, not even legally.
A broken recruiting process might be also at play here. An applicant should not get an offer if they're producing trial & error based hacks, irrespective of background.
When you open with a substanceless proclamation that Java is outdated anything further must be taken with a large grain of salt.
You might like to read over the rest of the thread.
XCode allows you install apps without app store. You can find open source tethering apps. Somehow they don't require special api's.
There are dozens, hundreds of events ranging from meetups to conference parties to pitch events to just about everything else that often involve drinks or going out for drinks immediately before/after with other participants. Whether that's "social" or a "professional" setting is hotly debated but regardless, it's the norm. Throw in social media and it is very easy (still not appropriate) to blur lines.
One of my favorite computer security talks is this one, given by Alex Stamos in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE

The whole talk is very worthwhile, and I recommend watching it.

Near the end of the talk, he essentially teaches a quick ethics class, describing a few hypothetical situations and discussing what the right option would be. At the end, he expresses how important it is to think about these things in advance, because it’s a lot easier to make the morally right decision if you’ve taken the time beforehand to consider what is morally right.

Sometime after giving the talk, he joined Yahoo as CISO. There, he encountered one of the exact scenarios he described at 45:00 in his talk. (You may remember it, the Yahoo government spying story that came out last year: http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-secret-yahoo-se...) For what it’s worth, he resigned quietly, exactly what he said in the talk that he would do in that situation.

I guess that demonstrates that he had the right idea to consider ethical dilemmas in advance. It certainly led me to think about issues I might encounter in my work.
Not reaching at all. I was trying to put my finger on what felt off about this while reading it. I think you've got it exactly.

It reads like an apology on the surface, but it feels more like bragging and attention seeking.
Buy will these yesterday's PR moves work in the much more cynical world of today?
He's explaining in some detail why your assumptions are incorrect, and you're not taking the time to actually read what he's saying.
the definition isn't expanding, it's simply applying laws that existed since the inception of the German Federal state seven decades ago to businesses that operate on the internet.

Here in Germany racebaiting, holocaust denial and so forth are not protected under freedom of speech, never have never will be. Americans will probably not understand it in the near future, but in German jurisdiction German law still applies. Digital business or not.

I mean, Facebook basically censors every naked piece of skin already and I have to live with it because apparently this is offensive to Americans. Now I find banning nazi propaganda to be much less controversial than a naked human body, but apparently tastes diverge
Loses his job. Major strike on his career. National public shaming. I'm gonna click the link and go see what murderous crime he committed.
Math is whatever it is mathematicians do.
Facebook’s internet-beaming drone completed its second test flight
Sold to the boss, not the developer. The best devs I know actually get very suspicious when they see a startup full of Aerons, because it means that management is more focused on appearances than frugality. They look for chairs that are comfy but cheap, like something you'd get used off Craigslist, or if you do have Aerons, they'd like to hear that you picked them up from a bankruptcy auction of another startup.
What about them? I just learned they exist, from you. Do they have a history of running ads targeting developers? Why is a chair worth $500?
Honest question, maybe one best asked to my female friends: at what point does propositioning someone transition from simply not mutual attraction to sexual harassment? The definition is broad and says making "unwanted sexual advances or obscene remarks". Is there a line drawn between romantic and sexual propositioning?

I'm not looking to be intentionally obtuse here, i'm more trying to make sense of the legal nature of it.
His firm will demand that he write a post as part of his professional duties.
> "It was over drinks and I thought it was social"

It is horrifying that world leaders and public figures use this kind of excuse, which is supposed to somehow give a pass, and then we see it trickle down to the man on the street.

Really, the public figures should be prosecuted and made an example of, so that is the example for the average man. Anything less is unacceptable.
Seems like the server couldn't handle the HN traffic.

The actual implementation is here:

https://github.com/jmid/efftester
I'd be more worried about the guy who she says no to who keeps coming. Poor judgement... maybe, but who knows what signals he was reading into the situation at the time. He just sounds like a guy who doesn't have a lot of experience with women, and he tried to make a joke and it didn't go well. Now he's gotta read about his failed flirtation attempts in the NYT. That's gotta be rough.

If he was overt, or repetitive, or really sleazy... yeah sure, I'm not on his side. But to me this just comes off as a guy who hit on someone who was out of his physical league and she didn't appreciate it (probably also because she didn't get offered a job). I don't think Dave McClure deserves to be crucified over this.
> Sexual approaches do happen in those kinds of environment

The power imbalance and lack of non-work relationship are key.

McClure had no personal relationship with this woman. They weren't friends, and they hadn't met in a non-professional setting.

Furthermore, he's in a position to make decisions about her future. In that situation, it's inappropriate to make the first move, because the other person will feel pressured to reciprocate, even if she doesn't want to.

This is very similar to the way professors aren't allowed to have sexual relationships with students in their classes, but students can have sexual relationships with each other.
> It's only cool til someone stands up on your car and pulls out an AR

It continues to be cool for the thousands of other trips that day and the millions of other trips afterwards where that doesn't happen.

Better to build a society that doesn't create people who feel the need to mow down a train car full of people than to treat everyone else like a criminal a priori.
Meeting a coworker (even a boss!) socially, having drinks, escalating into a relationship - no problem. Normally-socialized people can do this because they can make these decisions over time, being careful to give the other person outs along the way.

McClure was basically honking his horn while driving his Tesla down the street, hollering "nice tits!" At best, that is anti-social, rude and offputting. But to do it while someone is in the midst of applying for a job can't be seen as anything other than an abuse of power to get what you want.

How would you feel if McClure gay propositioned YOU while trying to apply for a job? You want to work at this VC fund but before you can get your foot in the door he says you are a super hot stud and and he wants to take you home. For a man, it would be awkward as hell but easy to deflect. And you would probably rather not work there (this is where it is bad for business, not just McClure's penis).

As am attractive woman, this shit happens ALL THE TIME. Please stop defending it as "normal animal behavior" or whatever. Using power to get laid is fine if someone is attracted to that. But using power OVER someone is coersion. Anyone over the age of 13 should be able to figure this out.
> Too forward — you probably don't have implicit permission to bring up personal subjects that she did not explicitly bring up to you first.

Maybe if you have low social status....

For normal people it is absolutely ok.

You aren't asking about her sex life.
I, uh, can't believe that otherwise smart people can't understand the difference between building a romantic relationship and sexual harassment.
> He may have been protecting himself from others, but also protecting himself from himself?

Does it matter? The fact is, if you are a man in a position of power, never being alone in a room with a woman you don't know very well, is starting to sound like a reasonable strategy.

People in other threads have said, that limiting your one-on-ones with women, inhibits their opportunities (perhaps we should not have one-on-ones at all to make that fair). But when there are other people in your life that you need to "protect" from any scandals, I really can't blame these men for picking their loved ones and reputations over "social justice".

This is one of those "going to get worse before it gets better" things.
Also, like, I thought Silicon Valley was a meritocracy. And venture capital is literally a job where your social skills and business acumen, not your ability to write high-performance C or whatever, is the entirety of the job.

Isn't someone who is too stupid to realize they're harassing their business partners unqualified for the job?
There's what's legally required, and there's what's morally required. Here's a guy who did some serious soul-searching and said "holy shit, maybe I'm wrong on a very bad way". It's about doing more than what he is bare minimum allowed to get away with.

He's taking personal responsibility for his actions, openly and publicly. That takes a level of maturity and openness that I know is hard, and I fully respect.

All that he missed, in my opinion, is what his next steps are, and how going forward he can assure that this won't happen again. It sounds like he does have plans, but a good apology goes "I was wrong; here's why/how I was wrong; here's what I'm going to do in the future so that I don't repeat the mistake".
Yes, some of those products and services that Microsoft has shut down do go back some way, but others such as Sunset and, the soon to be shut down, Wunderlist are very recent.
Why does it need to recognize specific types of animals? It seems like bad programming practice to code (or learn) for each specific case. Is there not a way to program cars to avoid animals more broadly, or simply objects that are moving towards the road?
Sorry but no. The two experiments you cite are ancient and riddled with holes, they are red flags for any psychologist worth their salt. The people described in this article are sexist assholes, plain and simple. You can argue all about how the environment they grew up in made them that way, but not that that's not what they are.
There's always power imbalances though. Social, knowledge, financial... can you only hit on people whose looks are on par with your own, and who have the same amount of money you do, and same education, same experience, knowledge, social network... blah blah. Always going to be a power imbalance of some sort between people.
And if you exchange these coins for other alt-coins on an anonymous exchange like shapeshift? And then exchange them back to different coins? How is that gonna work out for you?
I have first-hand exposure to this and I mislike how public transit, or even just transit, is being finger-pointed for "Homeless Apocalypse In The Neighborhood".
I've missed out on two sales since I wasn't checking twitter every hour. They sell out fast.
We send people to jail for decades for selling weed. Our sense of justice in this country is perverted. I honestly believe many people would support imprisonment, ostracization, or worse, for this person instead of rehab or similar paths.
I am not assuming anything. In fact it is ironically the opposite, people are assuming that McClure is some kind of he-devil.

The truth is likely much murkier. But because of the power imbalance, in our culture we are more critical of McClure.

Also I'm speaking in general terms. Sexual favors are nothing new, regardless of whether you feel they are ethical.
> It sounds like people are underestimating the pervasive lonileness that even successful young males experience in tech.

And again this comes up every single time. Just because someone is lonely didn't mean they're entitled to sexually harass someone else. Nor does being horny justify it. Nor does being angry justify violence.

Similarly the fact they have to now choose between throwing away financial opportunity or acquiesce to this harassment is exactly why there is a law there protecting people from it. In part, it's illegal to put people in a position where they have to make that choice.
Sleeper trains are still a big thing in Europe. They're tantamount to teleportation - you get on board, have a meal, go to bed and wake up just in time to shower, eat breakfast and arrive at your destination. An eleven hour journey might only cost you ninety minutes of useful time.

https://www.eurail.com/en/europe-by-train/night-trains

For America, the overwhelming shortcoming is ordinary commuter rail networks. Park-and-ride is a well-proven concept that can massively reduce traffic and local air pollution, while still serving very large areas of suburban sprawl. Many American cities could be completely transformed with a handful of well-planned commuter rail routes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_and_ride
Classic non-apology apology. "I'm sorry you were offended".
Dangerous ground. I would expect contra in form of "mansplaining" or "justification of harassment".

I came to the conclusion that the topic has become too toxic to be discussed seriously. Especially based on a actual case. I just hope this electrified field will return to a base where everybody can talk seriously about it. With the aim being a solution that is appropriate to what we are as humans not as man or woman (or all those other genders...).
The Air Force and Navy definitely crank down their service numbers during "peace" time to invest in weapons systems instead. The lead time on ships & planes is so much longer than sailors & airmen through bootcamp that it makes sense. Plus they stick with a pretty low deployment cadence that could easily be cranked up if necessary.

The big problem is that whole categories of the military budget are waste. They are job programs in the shape of a weapon, but are overkill in our current asymmetric wars and likely useless against an equal adversary. The LCS & F-35 are trillions of dollars in waste.

Even when you are talking about a decent system, the internal level of waste is insane. I was an engineer for nuclear submarines. We were cited as an example for all other programs because we were on time and under budget. There was still a waste in every direction I could see.

I think things would get better with a switch to fixed priced contracts instead of cost plus. It requires the service to nail down their requirements up front, but at least you get the cost incentives right. Until then, the saying "first time half time, second time overtime" was pretty apt.
It's not just talk, Phase1 has approval and is starting construction now, and Phase2a (to Crewe) will get approval this year, assuming the wheels don't fall off the current govt.
It actually does happen, in a social way, not at the protocol/client level. During 2013 some investment companies were buying "clean" coins only, the ones that came straight from the miners.

Indeed, nothing stops from that being implemented at the node level, or by the miners. But then you need to deal with people tainting other people's accounts.
I'm not a creep! Where's my trophy?
You know, back in the old days, we would've treated Dov like a bunch of unwanted cats and dispose of him by way of a burlap sack in a river. And, if Hermes Conrad could have his way, we'd throw the river into space. God takes Chris Cornell and leaves garbage like Dov Charney behind. This shit ain't fair y'all.
It depends on his motivation, and several hypothetical motivations could fit here; Public shaming (voluntary or forced), aiming to deliberately burn/restore brigdes, lawyer advice or even e-fishing. Is not easy to eval his real expectations.

About the public seppuku question, maybe for a while but nah, for some reason everybody loves when other people discloses a hidden dark side and face public ashaming. Is something about being a social species, probably. We love gossip.
I've seen flights from NY->SFO for less than the cost of a night in a Silicon Valley hotel. I don't think it's optimal though.
I think his use of "I fucked up" while on the one hand it makes it seem like he's acknowledging the seriousness of the incidents, on the other hand it signals that he still has an issue with social convention and knowing what is appropriate and not.

One does not go up to someone you owe deference and include the word "fuck" specially given the kinds of allegations and confirmation, in your apology. Understand social convention and understand respect. It's like he's apologizing to one of his "bros".
Err no. Bitcoin was invented as a hedge against inflation. It is delivering on exactly this promise in spades.
The first one went OK, the second collapsed the Japanese rail industry. All require huge subsidies.

America is smart!
Or maybe just a non-racist one.
One event is rarely a driving force of change, it is always confluence of events that cause change. Lack of train is not root cause, it is a part of potential solutions to what ails the region. US would never had westward migration if population density was the driving force for movement. You want to populate an area, make it accessible and attractive.
They don't need to be immigrants. You can go with second generation families too.
> Alice Corp.'s patent claimed a form of escrowing that was well known.

Somebody told me that it was not really well known when the patent was filed. Apparently keeping shadow accounts was not really feasible without computers and networks, so such methods did not exist previously. I'm not sure how accurate that is, though. I'm not knowledgeable about that domain.
I don't know, I sometimes hear of people avoiding or leaving Linux because of him and more often than not it's somebody I'd never want involved in my project.