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I know personally of a few women engineers who have been sexually harassed, discriminated against, belittled at work etc. And very few stay within the industry for very long after.

There is a reason IT has such a toxic reputation. It's because it tolerates some pretty appalling behaviour at times.
That’s not a strawman. It’s reframing the original assertion to highlight the problems the author is ignoring. They are not claiming that this is the author’s actual assertion so they can “knock it down”

If you disagree with the reframing, please explain why instead of shouting “fallacy”
I've changed the landing page twice. Before the current "minimalist" design I had one that was full of colors and partial screenshots. Made no noticeable difference in engagement :P
Looks interesting, and apparently it's really a filesystem unlike so many thing that just slap "FS" on the name and call it a day. tears of joy White paper etc. is a bit low on details, though.
As the parent said, it's pretty damn cool :)
A lack of codified behavior standards also results in internal confusion on what is acceptable, especially given the higher levels of people in this general community with difficulties in recognizing unspoken social rules. This results in a different sort of in-fighting that has the effect of creating a code of conduct that is unspoken and enforced inconsistently, which tends to work poorly for anyone who happens to knowingly or unknowing violate that code of conduct.
I have chosen Fastmail. Cheap, works really well (but I am a new customer so more time needs to pass), you can register I think 100 custom domains on 1 account, aliases, catch all addresses, etc.. They host caldav and carddav stuff too. Their webui is really fast, much faster than gmail, and IMAP works great.

AND they can import your gmail account. They imported mine in a few hours, 4.5gb of mails.
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I think that could be really interesting. Ears/brain are very good at localising sound, but normal headphones don't really work well for this.

Ossic raised $2.7m on Kickstarter to do something similar but failed to deliver, I'm hoping Creative have better engineering and deeper pockets.
I notice that seats can be changed any time in a Business subscription. Is the end of subscription recalculated each time you add or remove a seat?
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I think we need to start distinguishing between data formats and configuration formats. JSON is a data format. I loathe working with NodeJS because of the necessity of hand-editing JSON, and that just makes me want to bash my head against the wall.

In my side projects, generally I'll hand-write a parser with regular expressions because I haven't yet found one I actually like both looking at and editing. I can fix every single other problem except that one. With SAN, the issue is the bracket delimiters. I hate futzing with them, just let me use tabs. I want this:

Monthly Recurring
Patreon: 8 | 9/17/2018 | 2mo - Acc: Capital One - Tags: arts
Workflowy: 4.99 | 9/17/2018 | 6mo - Acc: Amex - Tags: tools
RubyTapas: 15 | 9/17/2018 | 6mo - Acc: Amex - Tags: education
Verizon: 70.17 | 9/17/2018 | 6mo - Acc: Amex - Tags: utilities,tools

This is easy to look at, easy to edit with a text editor, and, once the parser's written, dead simple with Ruby POROs, easy to parse into queryable data structures.

I have yet to find any format that's intended to be human-editable that doesn't actually feel 'nice to the touch'. So I just make my own.

When hand-editing the format above, I generally don't type in a whole line at a time. I'll just add in the basics, and fill it out later, perhaps with machine processing. Tags in particular are easy to copy-paste in by hand and are generally the last part of the line.
I'm a bit confused on which of two points you are trying to make.

I too was bullied at school. There was no code of conduct at my school. I too was told that I had to ignore bullies.

But I cannot for the life of me believe that making those children who bullied me attest to a code of conduct would have stopped the bullying. Nor can I believe that enforcement by teachers would have increased; the behavior would already have been considered criminal if we were adults so the reason it was ignored was something else. Zero tolerance policies in schools exist because the enforcement problem is so hard to solve. One person's word against another.

I don't see a code of conduct and think to myself, "Oh, good. There won't be any jerks here." I just think, "Hmm, I wonder if they have been having problems... do I want to be here?"
I'm not getting a jerk vibe, merely support that the anecdote generalizes.
Majority of protests are organized by long time activists and are rarely first step. It is great when discussion works and when compromise is possible. It is not easy to protest nor to get enough people in place. What you do what discussion does not work and when people who hold power are not willing to listen or compromise?

Situation you described had elite playing show in public and saying and doing something different in private where it matters. They demand to hear nice sugarcoated version of reality where their policies are praised and not criticized.

Had you described situation where everyone listens and people can criticize elite, then I would agree that cal discussion is way to go.

Also, this sounds like a situation with low conflict and risks. Private school wont be paid by parents money, their expenses can go slightly bit up but not much more. That is entirely different then closing public school in area where people cant affort private one and state wont pay.
The science is actually old and certainly known to physicists around the world. Such detectors are readily available to university physics laboratories, for example. But if you don't have a physics background, it might never occur to you that such technology exists.
Surely people who are behaving immaturely could realise that their behaviour is affecting others negatively and do something about it. It's what happens to most people.

Anyway I am not aware of a particular "purge" going on. Care to be more specific ?
So, it is not a dashboard for managing a static site...rather, it is a dashboard for managing static content that gets ultimately served to visitors via node...is that right? (This is not a criticism, just confirming.)
I'm not saying you have to have tabs, if you want to paint your terminal pink with yellow fonts and render it upside down then go for it, but I'd like tabs :)
I'm interested (although I'm not an artist nor I have any stuff to host besides my own rants).
As someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s, I still yearn wistfully for the space race's unity and determination of purpose.

It's hardly appropriate for HN, but I wonder how differently the world would look if NASA had received a much larger budget. Probably taken from the US Military's allocation, how much would the loss of half of the US Navy have affected world politics and conflicts? Or what would the USA look like without the Iraq war of 2003 onward?

(I'm trying to be as neutral as possible in my language here, I don't want to start a flamewar about US and geopolitics!)

I doubt we'd have gotten further into space as some of us would like, but I do think we'd have already proven that asteroid mining can work, and some people would be living multi-year tenures on the Moon. Whether we'd have bootstrapped our way to mining and using nuclear materials in space is doubtful, but certainly possible. (in other words, building nuclear rockets that have never been close to Earth's biosphere, which would open up large parts of the Solar System for human exploration)
i've never had this issue on any Windows 10 Pro machine. If i disable the Group Policy for updates and all that it never resets itself.
>Anything other than random citizens would necessitate a full time profession of juror and would thus render members of this profession employees of the state in some capacity. This violates the idea of an independent judiciary.

What if we restricted jury duty to actively practicing lawyers? Who better to judge the work of a lawyer than another lawyer.
Fixed, thank you for pointing that.
This article from Bloomberg has the best and least clickbait reporting on the breach: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-29/the-equif.... While it's true that the breach entry can be attributed to an unpatched vulnerability, it was unpatched due to a process failure, not a "complete disregard for the secure storage and transport of sensitive financial and PII" as the other poster claimed. According to the article, Equifax processed the vulnerability: they got notification and applied the update. But their process was flawed and missed at least one spot, and that was their undoing.
Saying "they had failed to patch, despite ample opportunity" implies they knew about the issue and ignored it, which is not the case.
Must mean we're getting close !
Seems like a natural extension of Linus's Law:

"Given enough eyeballs, all anecdotes are shallow"

Basically when you have an audience as big as HN, even the most unique anecdote will seem completely obvious and ordinary to someone (and that someone will usually feel the need to comment)
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I read the whole thing, and I still don't get why anyone is interested. Maeve Brennan, her columns, her life — all of it seems trivial in an especially dull way. Maybe the writer of this piece was unable to convey her interest in as artistic a way as they wished to, and should have told the simple facts instead of trying to construct atmosphere.
What doesn't take time though is speaking out about the ethnic cleansing operations being carried out by the military. Her comments at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN were beyond pathetic:

"There are of course ways in which, with hindsight, the situation could’ve been handled better,"

“But we believe that in order to have long-term security and stability we have to be fair to all sides. We can’t choose who should be protected by rule of law,” she said."[1]

In the same speech she addressed the two recently jailed journalists with the following:

>"The judgement … had nothing to do with freedom of expression at all, it had to do with the Official Secrets Act,” she said. “I don’t think anybody has actually bothered to read it."[1]

There's a difference between playing the long game and being complicit.

[1] http://time.com/5394791/aung-san-suu-kyi-rohingya-crisis-han...
> Except they don't just judge facts. They judge based on the stories they're told.

Combine that with an absurdly low standard of proof and it's no wonder that so many innocent poor people are locked up.
Whether they are a good or bad idea, maybe not, but whether they should be supported, opposed, or ignored, it is relevant. The group of people actively pushing for codes of conduct and the group of people making decisions like the one above have significant overlap, and empowering one empowers the other. It's kind of like the police. We need police and I want to like the police. But until they can police themselves and keep police abuse to an absolute minimum, supporting them should not be a foregone conclusion.
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To put it bluntly I only see radical shouting on twitter from both sides (look at the latest tweets from the CoC author and the reactionary responses). I have not really experienced it in real life.

So the debate itself seems to be like an alien war fought above my head with the occasional fallout dropping on projects I care about. I would very much prefer both sides to do more coding and less clawing at each other.
"So which is worse, the Black Mirror scenario (everyone rates each other), or the Chinese real-life version (the Communist Party rates you)?"

The one that you'll get, which is that due to the opacity of the system, it presents itself as one in which everyone rates each other, but in fact the government or other control mechanism nominally different from but ultimately indistinguishable from the government has a heavy hand in both the ability to manipulate the judgment and the ability to manipulate the seeds of who is successful and thus has high ratings. It presents itself as fair and all egalitarian and makes it seem like anything that goes wrong is your friend's fault or something, but is in fact strictly controlled.
So you want smart contracts with human elements in them so you can reject them for better smart contracts with less human elements?
There are builds available for windows that seem to work: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/28#issuecomment-37....

Using it at this point isn't viable however, since the Windows port uses rusttype for font rendering, and rusttype lacks support for hinting.
the irony here is that the premise might not even be true -- does social credit really provide the "control" or "stability" it aims to achieve? who is writing the algorithm that says "napkins" credit your social score while alcohol debits it? compare financial scores which are not perfect either but they are based on models that have some science behind them. what model underwrites the social credit system? is it valid? it's scary to think that it could be arbitrary
It's an interesting article but it is also worth remembering that western society is not all that far away from this vision. Credit scores are widely used, there are apps for them, they can prevent you from getting housing or loans. A criminal record likewise affects your employment prospects, and many other areas of your life. CCTV may be widespread in China but the USA and UK are still way out in front[0]. Lastly, for the suppression of the guy who uncovered party corruption, just look at the treatment of Snowden or many other whistle blowers.

0 - https://www.statista.com/statistics/484956/number-of-surveil...
my point was that when someone seemingly violates good conduct, people who are more "in the know" with the community's social values should talk to them from the position that they weren't being intentionally unpleasant (or in other words, with empathy). It's usually pretty obvious when someone has been accidentally rude versus intentionally trolling.

The problem I see with these codes of conduct is it can turn the haziness and ambiguity of human communication (especially across cultural boundaries and with people with social difficulties) into black-and-white "if you do X you are a bad person and should be banned". Especially if "X" is defined in a very politicised way or the people who choose to call out offenders are doing so as political enforcers rather than trying to foster good communication.
The focus here seems to be on very high scale, not just capacity but also number of files and scan performance which would be important for an archival store and which are often pain points for other distributed filesystems. Similarly, ensuring data integrity is a high priority for such a system. I certainly wouldn't compare it to a single-metadata-server pseudo-distributed filesystem that doesn't even honor O_SYNC writes.
The points you mentioned is also why such vulnerabilities are relatively rare. BTC has a inbuilt bug bounty and no one has to even run it (although some one has to fix the bugs) :)
> Whenever I see a code of conduct I check if "political opinion" is a "protected class".

My guess is that you’ll rarely find this as it’s not a protected characteristic under the law (and, as far as I can see, CoCs essentially follow discrimination law).

> None the less, the harm is in that it empowers exactly the same group of people who got Eich fired in the first place.

But Eich wasn’t fired, he stepped down and resigned of his own volition. Both he and others at Mozilla maintain this version of events, and it’s — as far as I can see — uncontested. You seem to be saying that you want a code of conduct that explicitly prohibits protest against political opinions. Good luck with that.

> Much like progressives try to "de-platform" conservatives

This is a myth: “Deplatforming” is neither exclusive nor even particularly prevalent on the left.

> to doing shit like changing master/slave database terminology or even more insane, changing blacklist/whitelist terminology

Fighting against such nonsense seems eminently more sensible (and more winnable!) than fighting for the prohibition of political protest in codes of conduct.
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When the guy in charge of the software steps away from the software named after him, something is wrong.
In the past we have had few "code repos" from Savannah to Sf and few sites like freshmeat to spread the news, the code, the idea. Of course we also have had and have used usenet.

IMVHO today it's time to evalutare ZeroNet for project sites/blog and something like IPFS (not much convinced by this project but...) for code and repos to AVOID depend on someone else server's switching to relay only on us all.

For me there is no difference in GitHub or GitLab or Bitbucket etc, nor between Google and Microsoft. In an era of diversity companies are not a problem, in an oligopolistic era like today, in an era of proprietary platforms instead of open standard companies are a problem and should be avoided, especially if they are big, especially if they push mix of proprietary and FOSS solution.
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Agree. This is not a strawman.

Tech culture is nice and cosy for us straight white men, not so much for others. I personally know several women who have left the whole industry/scene because they'd had enough sexism for one lifetime, thank you very much.

If you don't like the anecdata, then there's plenty of studies saying the same thing, and of course the numbers don't lie: there are less women in tech than men (and no, the reason for this is not that they're not very good at it, ffs).

Going back to the good old days is not an option if we want more women involved. And I want more women involved, so I'm not going to co-operate with any attempt to go back to the old days.
During a draft they would, but right now in times of "peace" the military can be choosy.
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American culture is quite a bit more polarized and judgmental than many other cultures, and likely this is why you see efforts to address that, even if the medicine is not much better than the problem.
Sadly it became a user hostile company at the same it became developer friendly. So while the tools (.net Core, VS Code, Xamarin) are a pleasure to use, I hardly boot Windows 10 anymore except for VS. The UI inconstancies, the productivity-nerfed start menu, the pervasive ads, etc. all contribute to gave that negative sentiment.

Also while MS is good to integrate third party open source projects, it also fails at the same time to address some core concerns of developpers from its own platform. For years people have wanted a portable UI framework for .net but the idea is always dismissed by the higher management. So, I think Microsoft is actually a developer-second, hype-first company.
FWIW, I'm also a database researcher (or I used to be, in industry now) and at least in my sphere we tried to avoid master/slave terminology, and in fact I learned this from my advisor at the time, a well-respected professor, who mentioned it was racially insensitive. So, I don't think this is being forced by anyone except the people in the database community already. It's not like progressive mindsets don't exist in the database research community. Databases aren't exactly a great space to imply that conservatism is the mainstream and that progressives are foreign; several prominent current and former researchers are/have been women and the gender ratio is quite a bit different compared to other sub-fields.

That is to say, I don't understand the rhetorical implication here that progressives, or people who want to change master/slave terminology in general, are not part of the community they want to see change in. When that happens, it's just a community discussing about terminological use in their own sphere, which is also exactly what the blog post here is doing. I feel this should be welcomed within any community.
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there's not even a watermark for me. i downloaded from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10I...

i skipped the part during installation where it says to enter a key. after install, it says windows is activated, no watermark, no countdown. i don't use it, though. i just don't trust free shit anymore.
Your statement is true and completely uninteresting. We’re talking about how companies pursue this goal.
I'm not a big fan of Codes of Conduct. I'm not going to put a lot of energy into being against them, but my general feeling is that CoCs are a case of "going to war to preserve the peace is like fucking to preserve virginity."

Earlier this year, I had a conversation with a guy in charge of a program. He told an anecdote about some bad thing happening and I talked about the need to guard against basing policy on such outliers, that when you write up policy trying to prevent a worst case scenario, you often frame it in a manner that announces to all new people "I expect you to be like That One Guy."

I told my own counter anecdote about dealing with some seriously screwed up guy I met online who wanted to talk me into meeting him in person and he actively hid from me the fact that he was a smoker knowing I have life threatening respiratory problems. When I called him on his messed up bullshit, he told me that if it mattered that much, I should have asked. He took it as some bizarre point of pride that he deceived me without actually directly lying to me.

I briefly spent some time wondering if I needed to post something somewhere essentially saying "No smokers, no tokers." then decided that's about like starting a dating profile and saying in it "No rapists!"

Yeah, that doesn't work. Hopefully, people here chuckle at that like he did.

Social problems tend to be hard problems to solve precisely because direct push back against certain kinds of things can actually deepen the problem and because it neither works to promote a punishment model as your only means to foster good behavior, nor to abandon punishment altogether.
I feel like this comment thread needs a link to CGP Grey's excellent Rules for Rulers video, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
What parts on particular? Don’t eat what you didn’t see or 30 year testing?
Yeah, if you put it right there from the start you can avoid the political polarisation event at its introduction.

I feel like in the early days of the internet people acted like the interactions with other people weren't "real" interactions and that people shouldn't be upset at conversations that wouldn't occur at the grimiest of dive bars. It seems this aspect of online culture pervaded some aspects of developer culture as well (it seems some really unprofessional behavior is tolerated in some places). Having a code of conduct that essentially says, "We expect you to behave in our online community like you would at a company barbecue," can get there. I don't think calling attention to particular types of bad behavior is a good idea. Nobody has succeeded in drawing a bright line through gray areas yet.
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