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Isn't the other perspective having a stranger touch your thigh and send you unwanted messages during and after a professional conference?

Is that flirting or a joke? Would you want that?

He's not guilty by law, he's been accused, and it's very possible there is enough evidence behind the accusations to make it warranted. Most people don't want to go out of their way to pretend to be the victim (not great word, but nothing more appropriate) of sexual harassment or assault.
agree or disagree with #5?

"Silicon Valley also has an insidious infection that is spreading -- a peculiar form of McCarthyism"
> For example, our "rational brain" tells us that racism is bad, but our "lizard brain" is still going to fail the implicit bias test every time.

This is not true. People vary in how much they are biased about race. I normally think of myself as fairly free for innate racism (largely because my early schooling was very multicultural). When I took a light-dark skinned association test, I go a neutral result.

Though to be clear, I don't think I am free from such innate biases in general, but I am fairly unbiased from on race.

> Even if you believe that you can consistently override your bias, surely you don't expect that the average person could.

I don't expect people to completely override their biases, but I do expect that people could mostly eliminate bias for important decisions (hiring, court, etc).
I've heard Shilov's text described as a great complement to Axler's.
This is an interesting use of the term "face saving". I typically understood it to mean trying to maintain perceptions rather than a way to execute an underhanded agenda.
Actually, even less than that. To get an avg sized txn sent within the next 14 hours it would cost:

226 * 100 * 0.0000001 * $17761 = $4.01

https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/
Many of the opinions listed in this article are held by sometimes a majority of the population, so this is not about the rule of the many because if so you could legislate this and resolve it through the courts. As MLK said, you do not drive out darkness with darkness.
I think it's a mix. Kojima was pretty clear that he wanted to make MGSV about the player creating their own stories and de-emphasizing an explicit plot. The opening is meant to be a bridge with the older games, hence it having a structure more similar to them (and specifically to MGS4).

But on the other hand I got the impression that the game was definitely not finished plot wise and even stylistically, at least not to the point that Kojima and his core team had originally envisioned. It felt like we got 90%, but that last 10% was the bit that was supposed to fill in the gaps in the plot and leave the player feeling satisfied. Compared to e.g. the ending of MGS4 (which is my favorite in the series), the latter third of MGSV was just so... unfulfilling.

I suspect friction over Kojima's vision versus Konami wanting to get the game to market was why they parted ways, even though Konami was very clearly killing the golden goose.
Why bother if you have access to vehicle and supercharging data?
do all uber/lyft cars have identifying features? i thought those were optional.
Decentralized ones are rare. There are lots of centralized blockchains. The centralized ones, with their cheerleaders of pump and dump get rich quick schemes, are constantly trying to convince the unaware that they have the same security model as the decentralized ones. They don't.
> Now, they faced consequences for what they said.

And what of those who were incorrectly identified by the vigilantes? Do their fates not matter?
Daily reminder that war mongerer Barrack Obama won a Nobel Peace prize

You don’t get more 1984 than this.
Thanks for the insight. I guess I never realized JPEG (as opposed to 2000) wasn't wavelet.
According to the caption, the photo is a selfie. Guy's just come running from the tripod (or rock or whatever). Doesn't make for great or natural poses.
Tim Ferriss says that there is a "a peculiar form of McCarthyism" in Silicon Valley

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15937836
They apply because they need a new job.
Pretty much everyone who is not part of the elite ruling class is influenced by the Dunning–Kruger effect. We all think we have it figured out, and that there's no way they could pull the wool over my eyes like they do to those rubes, and don't realize that we are those rubes.
I found a link[1] that says that DAB is about 41x cheaper on slide 6... But mostly because you can fit more stations on it.

[1] http://www.gatesair.com/documents/slides/2015-09-Anderson-Ad...
Not really, our industry has been hitting for awhile, Uber for instance. The "wait a moment" is because it's Google this time.
Do you think that Net Neutrality is about cost?

If so, you are misunderstanding what Net Neutrality is.

Go read about it, as there is more than plenty, readily available on the subject.
People with sub-100 IQs are probably not going to be able to achieve the level of critical thinking you're talking about. There's a genetic component to that level of intelligence, and it's not an easy problem that can be solved by teaching people a few tips and tricks. On top of that, the public education system is not designed to produce critical thinking people, but rather people who can memorize and follow orders. Not that things can't ever change, but there's a lot more work to do than making a few tweaks to a curriculum.
I believe the question was whether the texture for the imposter is loaded from disk or rendered to a frame buffer but at a lower frame rate. I'm guessing rendering the object to a texture dynamically is the most common approach.
If your purpose was to explain how this solves a 51% attack from China, you have not yet succeeded.
I don't know what issue this could possibly address. Canada's problem is access and sometimes lack of available competition, not neutrality. I'm in a place where two of the major ISPs serve, and I have a gigabit downlink for not a huge amount of money, but just a few blocks away it's possible you only have one (DSL-only) provider who will barely sell you 20mb/s for the same. All of this is basically complete historical accident relating to deployment of cable TV.
How will they enforce this for rideshare drivers?
> Wouldn't it be kinda presuming - telling US which laws they have?

Unfortunately, this is commonplace, especially with the US on the "telling" end.[0]

[0] See international copyright law.
> So buy it from them.

You can't do that if they don't sell and they won't sell untill bitcoin stores large portion of world's wealth.

> I assume 'fair' to you would mean taking it from them to re-distribute between everyone else?

I have no idea why would you assume that. Especially if you could achieve same thing just by destroying their bitcoin. No need to re-distribute. Share is the thing that matters not the amount.

On more serious note fair for me is more or less how actual brick and mortar econony distributes things. You make things other find useful, you get share of humanity's wealth in return.

Holding things, bitcoin, gold, real estate, copyright strays for me from 'fair'. I see it as the less fair, the less you contibuted to humanity to acquire those things and the more claim on share of humanity's wealth you have by holding them.
The second set of allegations you're referring to were directed at Carlin, not Scott. Two different accused individuals.
There's a limit to the extent to which HR can control basic human urges. This kind of stuff is going to happen no matter what the rules are.
Yes.

You'll see supporters clamor that "internet access is a human right", yet unironically defend that speech should be regulated on the internet.
It's not crazy. The problem is that lot of these people are position of power (in the sense they can influence your career, rewards, recommendations or job significantly). So even if the gesture is purely suggestive, women has choice of either not give in and compromising their career OR welcome further advancement to make man happy. The bottomline is that there should not be even suggestive gestures in work environment. The relationship needs to be purely professional. If you are not going to grab and squeeze another man's butt then don't do it to a women. Think about your job prospects being dependent on giving in to someone's suggestive sexual advancements. How would you feel about that?
Let's do both!

It's clear that we need regulation until there is sufficient competition, so why get rid of regulation before competition exists?
I wouldn't say so. I've seen a few of these threads in my time on this site. It's very common for the first few responses, and the ones that are up-voted early, to be folks doing what can only be described as concern trolling ("I can't date my coworkers?" "Guilty until proven innocent!" or, as in this thread, "zomg blackballing" for a guy that hasn't even been fired, etc.). Often times folks will even flag these stories off the front page.

Later on, cooler, more egalitarian heads seem to prevail, but things are always pretty dirty during the first hour or so one of these stories is on the front page. I can only be thankful that the folks doing the upvoting are not the dominant voice in the direction that we're taking as a society r.e. respect for women in the workplace and elsewhere.
Risky bet. Majority of Uber users don't know what Hacker News is. Even less heard about negative press they getting. Don't even mention about these few that care so long as cheap ride fairly safe is provided to them.
Umberto Eco discusses that very issue in his book "How to Write A Thesis". Question: "My advisor is an arsehole." Answer: "Dude, you knew that before."
TinyHello looks beautiful. May I ask how you design (UI/UX) these side projects?
Yeah, expect laser won’t work any better than RF in real world applicability. We’re doing symmetrical 2.5Gbps to CPE using RF and I can’t, in the least bit, see how and why a laser may make for a better solution fit in any scenario.

There’s a point when a hard wired fiber line just makes sense and it’s all postering to put out press releases about some bs laser solution that supposed to somehow be better than RF but less difficult/expensive than just running a wire.
You're right. This person did more then chat up and allegedly continued with unwanted physical sexual advances.

Never the less, I think we will come to a time when companies will have to come up with something beside "zero tolerance". It's not a forgone conclusion, but I think we will come to a more nuanced approach as more people get caught up in these scandals.

Certainly the likes of Weinstein and Spacey have very little redeemability (However, we see Polanski had some abroad if not at home) but there is another class of people who do act "ungentlemanly/unladily" whatever, but not all the way to sexual harassment. For example, if we take Dustin Hoffman at his word, yes, it's uncalled for, but is it beyond the pale, given the times it took place?
Agreed, but at the same time I think this matter shouldn't be broadcast publicly until the investigation finishes. If he did do what he said, then the investigation should confirm it, and then he should get blackballed for harassment because it's not ok.

But first step should be proving it, not blackballing someone because of allegations. I think we can all agree that removing someone who harassed is a good thing, while removing someone who is only alleged to have harassed is a bad thing. And that distinction probably needs to be made by someone qualified, not an activist or the general public.
Rational argument doesn't scale, bots and memes scale. Blocklists do scale, and it's only because identity platforms (fb, twitter) are also locked down content control platforms that we haven't seen more global blocklists.

I fully expect decentralised social behaviour blocklists to emerge in the near future. Who would want to (employ/socialise with/do business with) a (trumptard/libtard)? Why take the risk of employing someone with racist tendencies, etc.

It might even use a distributed cryptographic ledger.
People seem eager to blame the Holocaust on fascism; do you take exception to that?

Conversely, what if instead of censoring all Marxists, we just censor the various apologists for Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc., ban that “heroic” portrait of Che Guevara, and just focus on the glorification of these actual regimes that murdered people?
So how do you explain UV rays causing skin cancer?
Maybe if there's some compelling evidence or something. But one person's word shouldn't be enough to end someone's career at a company, especially if it's not even at the office.

To me, it seems to be "harassment" if the female isn't interested, but that can be a very fine line between the natural relationship between men and women that almost always requires the man to make an advancement and put himself out there.
The US is very much the same, just more geographically diverse.
I have a feeling this, along with gender, environmental, and other proposed clauses, is an attempt by Canada to make an opening bid that's unacceptable to the US, in hopes of using these items as bargaining chips in the negotiations.

I don't think it's going to work for them, but they're kind of in a desperate situation with the US having a lot less to lose if NAFTA falls apart and therefore almost all of the leverage. So Canada might as well try whatever they can.
Touching someone's thigh when they're presenting their poster at an academic conference is completely out of line. They have to be there to present their work to people, not get sexually harassed, and that's even ignoring his other behaviour. You probably shouldn't be flirting with people at a poster session anyway.
But his career didn't end. They suspended him pending the results of the investigation. If the investigation turns up nothing, they would presumably reinstate him.
I personally am fine with using Firefox (though after Looking Glass I've disabled the setting to allow experiments).

IIRC the person that advocated for Chromium (instead of a third-party Firefox rebuild) base it on performance (they were dubious Quantum is actually better, I personally find it fast enough except when loading Facebook), as well as the alternative versions of Firefox not keeping up with the official version. Also, supposedly Chromium (as opposed to Chrome) settings are reasonably privacy-friendly out of the box.

They did recommend installing uBO-Extra in addition to uBlock Origin on top of Chromium, which is revealing -- with Firefox, there is not even a need for uBO-Extra.

My original point (which I didn't elucidate clearly enough) is that this Looking Glass experiment is resulting in unwarranted backlash against Mozilla -- whereas from the standpoint of preserving an open web and protecting user privacy it's actually one of the better players.
This is why, jurisdiction providing, you always record everything at work these days. Don't leave it to chance. Whether you need to make an accusation, or you need to defend against one, records clear things up spectacularly fast.

P.S. I recognize that California generally requires two-party consent for recording.
I'm glad this submission was flagged as I've done so as well out of sheer disbelief. It's baffling why somebody who spent so much time building up their reputation would throw it under the bus for ideological cause. You can say anything you want, write what you want in SV but do not mistake people distancing from you afterwards as 'silencing' you. If somebody goes around saying it's okay to love Trump, as a women AND as a minority is just pure mind fuckery.

I can see why some people feel threatened by the sudden rise of opinions that differ from the mainstream narration but this is precisely because the silenced voices are SPEAKING UP.

The most bizarre part about this is that a minority female would openly become a doormat for the very people that told everybody who wasn't like them to shut the fuck up....

This is hardcore Uncle Toming from a woman who wouldn't be viewed as a white women by mainstream America but through the lens of fetish. Especially, shaming another Asian American women like Ellen Pao to further her article's message.

I apologize for any harsh words but as a minority myself, it was hard to contain the anger.
Good point. The topic at hand involves both physics and biology, and even if it were more constrained, it isn't "owned" by any particular discipline, and thus the argument itself should be judged.
> They though Hillary was gonna win in a landslide.

Actually, 538 was pointing out why other poll-based predictors were overrating her likelihood of winning (because, unlike 538 and contrary to historical evidence, thet were largely assuming deviation from polling averages in the election would be independent between different states rather than correlated.)
Despite people's egos, I think everyone is more replaceable than they think they are, and often a person's effectiveness is so tied to a single organization that they would be nowhere near as effective elsewhere.
I'm probably going to pay this a lot more attention now than I would have purely because I find Moxie really quite impressive all the way up to his patient, reasoned interactions with people around here.
No. Plenty of Spectrum and more will eventually be available.

This is about public ear. We all want to hear about some magic tech saving our internet’s ass. It’s not going to happen.

The solve is in the change of business models of ISPs, not in the tech that brings it to doorsteps.

We have the tech, we need a shift in how these companies make money.
Cover letters are largely a waste of time UNLESS you come for a notably unusual background. For example - you have a PhD in Sociology and looking to get a job as a software engineer.

General rules for resumes
- no more than 10 years experience listed
- no more than 1 page listing job experience
- if you have another page, it should only include things like talks given and/or published papers
How much is "enough evidence" vs "this would be a PR disaster if the accuser went to the press and we held on to the accused", though?
I initially laughed at Pence as described in this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/30/mi...

Now I think he might have been on to something. Is it really common to go swimming at a conference with others attendees of a different sex? Crazy parties with booze et al at a conference like NIPS? What is going on here? Why even have these non-professional outlets, distracting from the professionalism of the conferences themselves?
Look at the diversity, globally, of behaviors supported by an equally diverse set of culturally formed ethos. It's about dropping orders of magnitude off the frequency of these situations.
Those who decry darkness by the oppressed yet tolerate darkness by the dominant are not fit to quote MLK.
A nitpick. Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements. One is a mandatory pension plan that people pay into and whose benefits are based on what you put in. The other is a mandatory health insurance plan that people pay into. As such it is wrong to call them entitlements.
On a tangential note, the entire subthread starting at [1] was collapsed when I clicked on the comments link for this article. But when I expanded the thread, the text in the post was not greyed out.

Are posts (and their associated subthreads) that were downvoted and subsequently upvoated still collapsed by default?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15933563
To me it seems like a witch hunt nowadays.
You need just an unverified comment to get fired and to wear a mark of blemish for life.
When the mobs filled with "righteous hatred" are judge and jury of a non-existent trial we know that there is something scarily wrong with our society.
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I don't think so. The client will do a DNS lookup, try the address and if it fails will give up.

Look at the node.js code for example: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/net.js. Look for "lookupAndConnect".

The high-availability responsibility has been moved to the server side.
> The argument is that your carrier can now block you from getting information relevant to your rights

That's not an argument.

> So you may no longer be able to search for an abortion clinic, or newspapers that have negative articles about the government could be blocked, internet services in poor black neighborhoods may have their access to educational materials limited, etc.

None of these hypotheticals are being seriously contemplated as potential outcomes of the FCC relinquishing its Title II authority over ISPs. Let's focus on the likely outcomes, not the unlikely ones.
Isn't this the same old news from a week or two ago? Something about a letter from lawyers of guy that worked at Uber, that contains various allegations, some of which the guy now refuses to acknowledge. Very confusing.
Let's be direct about what this "regulation" is.

Any action against net neutrality is action against customers. There is no value in removing net neutrality regulation, and it will have no effect on competition.

Just because something can be described using the same noun does not give it the same meaning, value, or effect.

One (not "the") solution to this problem is competition. Since that competition does not exist, we resort to another solution.
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Yes he touched her leg without her permission. And it would be unpleasant for me if someone touched my leg without my permission. But to be honest it has happened to me before and I think ruining the person's life would be over reacting. A more appropriate response would be to have them on a temporary probationary period.
Most people don't want to go out of their way to pretend they'd been harassed (although some would). But it should not be about either the plaintiff or the defendant. It should be about the actual evidence (if criminal beyond the reasonable doubt) and the punishment should always match the crime.
A lot of conferences occur at hotels, and most hotels do not have gender segregated pools. So if you fancy a dip and you're at a conference, you're likely going to be swimming with colleagues and counterparts of all genders.
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"Of course we shouldn't say people said things they never actually said. But that's not what we're talking about." - Abraham Lincoln