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Yep - a pool party with professional women at a conference is just asking for trouble.

If you don't invite them you're being "exclusionary." If you do invite them, then 7 years later when you're about to be appointed to the board of directors she writes a blog post about how you drunkenly grabbed her waist and told her she had nice tits.

Tech companies encourage it too... because they want us all to have our entire social lives wrapped up in the company. Oh - you don't want drinks with coworkers after-hours? Maybe you're not a cultural fit? F--- you, I do the job you pay me for, let me keep work and social life completely separate.
No security solution is full proof but it's a step in the right direction.
I second this. A cover letter, for me, is the opportunity to write a short thing about why you’re interested in the specific position. You aren’t expected to edit your resume for each job posting, but I expect to receive a cover letter that explains why you’re interested in the job you’re applying for. People who don’t include a cover letter (or an email, or some writing of any type) about why they want the job get devalued significantly when I’m evaluating applications.

Cover letters have helped me get jobs in the past, and have led me to get interviews (and to interview people).

It doesn’t have to be long, in fact, it really shouldn’t be. But if you’re up for writing a well phrased comment on HN, you should be up for writing a well phrased explanation of why you’re a good fit for the role.
Absolutely. Phone conversations now are awkward and annoying because of the lag and sound activated cancellation (simplex? - I don't know if this is a feature of the handset or something else).

I find older people on the phone get frustrated with the modern phone system and they don't know why.
This doesn't seem to be minor one time thing...

Right before I ever attended my first conference, one of the women who was a year ahead of me in my program pulled me aside to warn about him. She told me to do my best to avoid him at the conference but “every woman has a story about him, so it’s only a matter of time.” Of course, she was right. Months before my defense, while at a poster session to present my dissertation work, he touched me on the leg and told me that my dress was “way too sexy for a poster session.” I remember feeling deflated.

In the years since, he’s sent me several inappropriate private Facebook messages. In the first, he responded to a Facebook post I had made asking for people’s experiences with Lasik eye surgery with a message that some activities would become much better. Trying to deflect what I thought was going to be an awkward interaction, I responded that I was looking forward to better bird watching. He followed up with a private message that “the activity [he was] thinking about was sex, but bird watching would be better too ;)”. I ignored him. On another occasion, I posted about some data visualizations using data from a medical journal that involved the relationship between age and pubic hair. He sent me a private message explaining how the data is corroborated by his own experiences watching a certain genre of porn. What his personal preferences regarding porn are is something I definitely did not want to know. Perhaps I shouldn’t have posted about the data given the racy topic, but I thought it was in-bounds since it was a comment on data in a medical journal. I guess I was wrong. I responded but tried to end the conversation quickly. On another occasion, he sent me a private message out of the blue to let me know that there was another researcher with a name very similar to my own who published an article that “is even about sex, broadly defined (fecundity). You guys related?”

...and it goes on.
Revenue/user growth are irrelevant if your business model is to raise money for goods/services that cost you more money than you can charge from random users who have no brand loyalty. Uber's in a market in which there are no barriers to entry. It's a race to the bottom and waymo/lyft have better strategies thus far. (Lyft: raise less money at a reasonable valuation - stick with a crappy product in markets that actually matter, Waymo: Go fully autonomous using Google tech). Uber is the worst of both worlds. 2020 sounds reasonable to me after a snap-style IPO - Uber burns a lot more money than Snap :-)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lensherman/2017/12/14/why-cant-...
Yes, it's a bit strange. I'm the author of the 2011 comment, and it's collapsed for me as well, even though by now it has a definitely positive score of +8. And it was never (to the best of my knowledge) downvoted to below zero.

I assume it's an editorial decision, since the pointed out omission has been rectified, and the thread could thus be deemed noisy and irrelevant.
«everybody is HODLing, nobody is buying pizzas or taxi with it. »

Every single Bitcoin submission, an HN user like you will say this. But it's not true. Payments in bitcoins are sharply increasing. BitPay alone saw their payments volume grow by 328% yearly: https://blog.bitpay.com/bitpay-growth-2017/
I heard of a similar story with Linus Torvalds in that he is worried he would be accused of such things so he avoids mentoring or being alone with women at conferences or gatherings. Is that true or just an unfounded rumor?

(Not that I am implying the person in the article is not guilty or it was an unfair accusation, just commenting on what Pence is doing).
I lament the loss of AM too. I used to get broadcasts from over 500km away. And the sound quality was such that it stayed in the background rather than intrude on conversation.
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> From centralized exchanges, to centralized mining cartels, what does something like Bitcoin have left to offer?

I'd say you're being overdramatic here. Mining is still decentralised and if there are any mining cartels, they haven't abused their position yet. It's still possible to buy, sell and spend Bitcoin peer to peer as well.
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> That doesn’t mean they are even remotely comparable to Trump and his administration.

They're not, but the Trump administration has been allowed to get to where it is through the abuse of an increasingly broken system.

Every administration puts policies into place that will last longer than the administration itself. For every administration you trust, that enables potential abuse, you have to ask yourself "Maybe I trust the current administration, but what about the next one?".

This is a point that I, and many others, tried to make during the Obama era. Unfortunately, few listened. Politicians themselves didn't care. Obama did a lot of wonderful things for the US, but he also centralized a lot of power into the White House, and look how that's turning out.

People are so easily tricked into believing the government forever has their best interest at heart, as long as the current person "in charge" is affiliated with their party. Democrats, in years past, enabled today's abuses of power. Republicans today, enabling the abuses of power for the years to come. It's as if the majority of voting citizens have zero ability to predict consequences.

djsumdog is right, the system has been broken for a long time. America is just coming to terms with the cultural shock of seeing it all play out at high speed instead of it being a slow boil. I am optimistic however, that this shock will end up being the wake-up call the US needed to start seriously fixing itself, so hope is not lost.
So if a pair of researchers work on a set of papers, all they have to do is alternate the first author position? Then they never self-cite even if they cite their own work 10 times in a row.
It's kind of weird really. They think they can make reality go away because they make sockpuppets and try and force an outcome that will make them rich. By being really loud, and not really understanding how any of the technology works. All they do is copy paste things from people they think are smarter than them. Sadly, they are being played by much more experienced shysters and charlatans. Reckon it's mostly kids though.
I tend to believe that women are people, and that not all people will respect you if you respect them back.

Also you have presented a classic example of the fallacy of false dilemma. There are other options, such as:

- Worry about false accusations, particularly when you are a person of high power where political stakes are high (and politics bring out the worst in people)

- Are big into risk reduction/minimization. It is undeniable that it is less risky from an allegation standpoint to follow the "Pence rule"

That said, I think the "Pence rule" isn't all good because it has room for unfairness. For example, much business is conducted over meals while traveling. Meals and other outings can be great ways to get to know your boss, subordinates, and other coworkers. If one goes out to dinner with only male coworkers, that is unfair to women in the workplace, particularly when that person is the boss. For that reason I think if one follows "the Pence rule" they need to have the same standard with people from all genders, so never go to dinner one-on-one with another man if they wouldn't do so with a woman. I'm really whipping a dead horse here, sorry.
This is unbelievably ignorant. If everything wasn't already so bad I literally would not believe he wrote this.
The Request Network may beat them to it, in terms of making crypto accessible, since it aims to provide a paypal-like, currency agnostic portal for payments. But I still like the project, and will follow it closely.
That was something posted by ESR that he was told by somebody else and doesn't contain references to Linus's state of mind.
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I didn't actually see a negative connotation in either of your posts.
> How can you equate what is strictly speech with that of hateful action?

How could you not consider speech an action?
http://fortune.com/2015/10/08/netflix-bandwith

Netflix 35% of internet traffic; AMZ Video 2%. I'd say it looks like it.
We'll never know.
My mom and her friends do not live in the South. That really should have been your first clue.

About reading multiple newspapers at the breakfast table... well, we've spent the last 50 years destroying the family life, time, and perception of our media and journalism that would lead to that behavior, not to mention social media. Why would it survive?
The piece was too long. Could you please TLDR; where one can play this game?
It's far from ideal though. I think it's actually worse than using banks from a centralization point of view, because you can typically choose between multiple banks.

In this case you only have one single point of failure: Intel. If that breaks, what then?

From a pure efficiency/centralization perspective, there are likely better cryptocurrencies out there. I think Ethereum's sharding network is interesting, too, and it seems to maintain a high-degree of decentralization, but I don't know how easy it will be to implement:

https://youtu.be/9RtSod8EXn4?t=3h10m7s
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>So Canada might as well try whatever they can.

This behaviour is largely the Canadian Liberal party appeasing its voter base through virtuous grand-standing over actual effectiveness.

I'm very uneasy about the fact that we've Trudeau at the bargaining table here.
If he wins I guess he can get the $8.5M.
No, as others have observed, you're just being intellectually dishonest. You claim studies prove me wrong, and "prove that" by cherry-picking sentences that don't support your claim - not even when taken out of context!

Want proof for what I claimed? Stop quoting Einstein, and read the study you linked.
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For long guns (which is kind of pointless, I suppose). The point is that there is nothing preventing you from stocking up on arms for when MD/DE/PA have to become their own country.
Zcash and DASH implement private transactions too. As good as, if not better than, Monero.
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Absolutely, before jumping the gun it's wise to hear the other side of the story.
Why the hell would Intel require an NDA to give you the private key?

That's shady af.
Payments with bitcoin are too expensive to be practical. Hell, with credit card perks, credit card companies pay YOU to use their payment method. Crypto is the other way around.
"a diverse range of bacteria" - might just be a phrase you'd see in a document written by the CDC, now banned because of stupid, puerile "culture warriors".
Communists have murdered more people than any other single group in the history of the world. Sorry, but they have.

Citation needed
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I sincerely doubt this is a marketing piece. If anyone's to blame here for that feeling that some may have, it's Kotaku. Jason was one of the most genuine and wonderful people I've met while working at the same co-working space. In fact, all of the people I met in my time at the Gamenest co-working space were quite memorable.
Newbie ... what apps turn BitCoin into cash .... I assume Coinbase can when you sell a BitCoin or a portion of BitCoin to a third party? What other ways and or apps are people using to turn BitCoin into cash/USD?
I don’t believe any assets held in an ISA have any bearing at all on your capital gains allowance.
Gender literally means "kind" (from the Latin "genus"), and it was originally a linguistic term. Its use as an alternative to "sex" dates from 1955, and is contemporaneous with the academic distinction between "gender" as the societal roles of males and females vs. "sex" as the biological distinction between males and females. Before then it was barely used outside of linguistics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender#Etymology_and_usage

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

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gender%2Csex&c...
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I'm mostly curious about the details behind the flat-file persistence. Is the storage on the same physical machine as the API and Business Logic? If not how is communication done? How do you handle horizontal scalability for either perf or HA reasons?
We already do. It's called phytoremediation. Some of us even make a pretty decent living specializing in the field.
> Entitlements is charged term because you've cemented your position on social welfare pretty clearly just by referring to them as entitlements.

This may already be a lost battle, but "entitlement" is a policy term of art with absolutely no negative connotations. It simply refers to any government benefit that a person or entity is guaranteed to receive if they meet a certain set of criteria (i.e. falling under a certain income, under or over a particular age, being a citizen, etc.). This is as opposed to grant programs (limited benefits dispensed according to an assessment of merit), lotteries (limited benefits distributed at random), first-come-first-serve, etc.
BitPay processes a lot of B2B payments which are typically in the multi-thousand dollars range. For that amount a user has no problems paying a ~$20 txn fee.
I don't agree with that take, but I'd like to hear of another industry which has taken a harder stance against SH than tech.

Even progressive Hollywood, as progressive as they are, have not even scratched the surface. I don't doubt there is a reason for the "casting couch" cliché/meme/stereotype. I'm sure there is a lot of housecleaning to be had that's yet to begin.

This is a new consciousness and it will take some time to work things out and figure out how we go forward without going overboard.
His account aggressively sugarcoated his behaviour. Read the NYTimes report again: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-...

He did not get consent from the women to expose himself.

And even the fact that these women had to decline his earnest requests to masturbate in front of them is itself deeply offensive.
I don't understand the downvoting of this comment. What is being described is effectively tribalism.

Tribalism worked well for humans for roughly 350,000 years. Then we idiots come along and think that we've got a better way that is already showing its weaknesses and strain after just a couple of thousand years. Really? Maybe, just maybe our ancestors were on to something and there's something we can learn from them. No that couldn't possibly be it.
Your conclusion seems fairly accurate. I think it's weighs more heavily toward a concern about the appearance of weakness rather than social standing though.
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Why is this being downvoted? This was my exact understanding of the issue as well.
Why? How?....
https://www.etymonline.com/word/gender

"The "male-or-female sex" sense is attested in English from early 15c."

So 15th century, not 17th.

"As sex (n.) took on erotic qualities in 20c., gender came to be the usual English word for "sex of a human being," in which use it was at first regarded as colloquial or humorous. Later often in feminist writing with reference to social attributes as much as biological qualities; this sense first attested 1963. Gender-bender is from 1977, popularized from 1980, with reference to pop star David Bowie."

And from your own wikipedia links (which I'm assuming didn't fully read)

"In the last two decades of the 20th century, the use of gender in academia has increased greatly, outnumbering uses of sex in the social sciences. While the spread of the word in science publications can be attributed to the influence of feminism, its use as a synonym for sex is attributed to the failure to grasp the distinction made in feminist theory, and the distinction has sometimes become blurred with the theory itself; David Haig stated, "Among the reasons that working scientists have given me for choosing gender rather than sex in biological contexts are desires to signal sympathy with feminist goals, to use a more academic term, or to avoid the connotation of copulation."[2]"

Which is exactly what I said.
You wonder why Clean isn't as popular as Haskell and Ocaml.

I've read it's the lack of community. The name doesn't help either.
The CBC is an incredible institution, you've clearly never heard their radio shows and free podcasts on a huge variety of subjects like science, art, music and informed news and political coverage, all without a corporate agenda, advertising or subversive means. For generations Canadians have grown up around the CBC: in many far north communities the CBC was often the only media available and to this day the CBC has huge popular support throughout the country.

Say what you will about the CRTC and Canadian content rule: trust me, it's contentious in Canada and the discussion has been had for decades. So by all means, it's fine to disagree.

The CBC is a whole different matter and you shouldn't neglect the power of an independent news and broadcast corporation in a democratic country and with a strong cultural and social connection.

It's what the PBS could be with more funding and more community buy-in.
What happens if the value of BTC goes up or down though during that time though? What will he be entitled to?
I suspect the sets of actual doctors (I mean, those that work on healing people) and people wanting to use the mantle of CDC to institute gun control regulations have rather small intersection.
I'm willing to take the risk that creating a better electoral system would not benefit my party. Even if we ended up with exactly the same government, I think it would be preferable if that government could credibly claim legitimacy.
what if its always more profitable to provide internet packages rather than equal access bits-are-bits service. even with several providers can you guarantee that at least one of them will charge flat rate or per bit rather than by content?

the cost of regulatory compliance in this case isn't an additional fixed cost like .. properly disposing of waste products, but avoiding business models that constrain and restrict access.

an internet where my usage - outside the question of compensating for last mile infrastructure and transit fees with a reasonable profit - is curated by some product management group solely interested in extracting the maximum profit from me and upstream services I might be using, isn't really an internet at all but cable television.

and if we're just talking about cable television, I can probably learn to live without the wealth of internet entertainment options I have today..but if you hack off the long tail and undermine the general free exchange of information because it isn't sufficiently interesting from a business perspective to my regional provider, you've lost something quite substantial just so someone else can make a buck.

maybe I'm in the minority, but as much as I enjoy having gigabit access, I would take an unrestricted 1Mb over a carefully controlled 1Gb in a heartbeat.
Privacy boost for a malleability improvement? Do tell.

All full nodes had to upgrade or risk mining invalid blocks.
May be I am being too naive, but can somebody answer two questions for me here (note: I have no personal relationship with Uber or Lyft except that I like ride sharing services more than traditional taxis):

(1) Taxi industry has been using medallion system to create artificial scarcity and scam passengers by providing low quality service at higher prices. And, this scam has been running with the help of local politicians at false pretexts (too many taxis ruin the look and appeal of the city etc.). What exactly are Uber's options in a city where the scam is supported by politicians?

(2) I personally know a lot of cities where Uber sued or used other means to force the local politicians to open up the city for ride sharing services. This benefited not only Uber, but other ride sharing companies too such as Lyft. If we believe that Uber used unethical means to get in many of the cities, what ethical responsibilities do we expect from Lyft? Should Lyft stay away from these cities or is it ethical for them to take a dip in these unethical gains provided by Uber?
You gotta lay at least 50% of the blame on a congress that refused to do anything of value for the centralization of power in the presidency. When the only legislation that can ever be passed in name a bridge after a general, there's serious problems.
HN is still pro free speech. Downvoting comments does not curtail free speech. Flagging them does (unless your definition of "free speech" stops at the First Amendment), but only for those who don't have "showdead" on. Maybe HN's way of highlighting downvoted comments encourages conformist behavior, but you can still write anything you want. You just might not find anybody willing to listen and agree.
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The thing about syntax like this

fac :: Int -> Int
fac 0 = 1
fac n = n * fac (n-1)

to me, is that all the statements of this function declaration seem "disconnected". I'm guessing the "fac" connects them but it seems less clear than open-closed brackets in a c-like language (and also more cluttered). Especially, I'm not sure what tells me I've reached the end of the function declaration. This may seem trivial but it's always put my off this variety of functional language.
Your quote supports my timeline: 20th century.