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here a copy of an email I sent after reading that article. It's not only guys hitting girl, it can take may other forms. The problem is, being mostly outcasts, we lean to tolerate untolerable behaviour.

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Following an HN link, I read your article today on LWN http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/417952/bf6a55b67170ff0e/ and it rang a bell. There's an event I remember from a conference in LSM around 2002 IIRC in Bordeaux, France where I was part of the org team and giving a couple of conferences. It is way more social than most other conferences I attended at that time - in fact, it's now the only conference I keep attending. Everyone is housed on university dorms, the conferences are given in a university, and many social events occur during the conference.

There's a big "dinner night" which I can only compare to the dinners in Harry Potter - long lines of tables, everyone seated to eat but also demoing some technical stuff time to time.

Anyway, that year the dinner was preceded by a cocktail. We were all enjoying french wine and appetizers, when a guy grabbed a bottle from the table next to which we were standing and started running around with the bottle in his hands. I thought this was a playful way to show its running skills, and back then since I enjoyed running too, I started running after him, caught him and started laughting. When I asked him as a prize for my win, with a smile and in a non threatening way, to share the bottle with the rest of us, he suddently turned weird. There was 2 or 3 people around, and he started telling about us about growing in Illinois, having had bullet wounds, knowing how to defend himself, and finally threatening violence.

It was so weird. I didn't know what to do at that time. I let it slip over as the actions of some socially awkward guy. Now if something similar was ever to happen again, after reading your paper I would act very differently - including clearly stating that he should apologize, that such behaviour is not acceptable, and if he thought he could get away with it, as part of the organisation team I would do my best to have him expelled from the conference at once - not the next morning, but right now. And if that could not be made to work with the rest of the team, I would call the police and them deal with him.

It did strike me as odd, because I've been attending that conference since the beginning, 10 years ago, and never noticed something like that again. I went to the OSCON, Linux World and various others I can't remember ATM, in north and south america, but this is the only example I have.

Yet I'm sure the guy had the potential to scare away many other guests. I am forwarding this message to the organizers
, along with a link to your original article to make sure a policy get enacted against unacceptable behaviour by guests.
Regardless of whether the building looks dumpy, the view of Midtown is magnificent: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/iU0pdqJt5xOtzMhGIbrfbg?...
It's irrelevant. Monopoly of force is claimed through the threat and/or use of force itself.
The most moral weapon is a microphone or a keyboard. The neutron bomb is perhaps the most attractive weapon, but I don't see what makes it moral.
For me at least that's equivalent to solving the knapsack problem, but hey - if it's easy for you to optimize usage of absurd amounts of capital according to your utility function, then more power to you.
you may want to check this out: http://www.aaronboodman.com/2010/10/wherein-i-help-you-get-g...

It seems that your first step is to to find good C++ resources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/155762/best-c-resource

Hope this helps.
Sorry you feel that way. Several hiring managers from top companies feel differently than you though, because they have contacted me directly and even asked me to apply at their companies. Does this mean that I've got an instant job ? Of course not. I still have much proving to accomplish -- to these hiring managers and their crew. But they obviously see a glimpse of something special in me -- which you don't.

I speak my mind...I live authentically. Yes, it's a risk to live that way, but I am willing to accept the consequences of my actions.
I've used PayPal for over 10 years without any issues for payments between $12 and $5000. It's not the cheapest or least risky (we've all seen the horror stories) route but it's certainly the easiest and, in my experience, very few people really give a crap about using it (I've lost perhaps a few hundred dollars of business in that time due to PayPal no-goers).

(I don't know about Australia but in the UK we can use a "Payments Pro" system with them that offers a more merchant account-like experience and it allows you to hide PayPal from the customer.)
Distinctly possible. But this kind of testing would be consistent with his overall philosophy. And it worked out great for them to be kicked off: they were able to rehost quickly, got a lot of publicity, and a lot of people who care more about free speech than the specifics of cables are now more energized.

EDIT: I was surprised to see the parent downvoted (although it's since recovered). Maybe he's right, maybe not, but it's certainly worth discussing -- so the comment adds value to the discussion.
Whenever I read about neutron bombs they always talk about how they're designed to kill tank crews/armored soldiers etc, but as you say the potential is there to kill everyone in a city with little infrastructure damage.

From the sounds of it they must be expensive and difficult to maintain though due to the half life of tritium (12 years) so hopefully there aren't many around.

I don't see how they can ever be called a moral weapon, if for this reason alone (wikipedia):

One significant drawback of the weapon is that not all targeted troops will die or be incapacitated immediately. After a brief bout of nausea, many of those hit with about 5–50 Sv of radiation will experience a temporary recovery (the latent or "walking ghost phase") lasting days to weeks.
Can anyone paste the list here? I don't have a subscription to the The Economist.
She's right on point, IMHO. It's not the fact that she's being hit on that bothers her. It's the fact that the people who ask for her card give no clues as to their intentions. She wants people who ask for her card for personal reasons to say that is what they are doing. Makes sense to me.
The gender imbalance at open source conferences means that the small proportion of men throughout society that harass women have a much smaller pool of targets to choose from.

The result - while open-source conferences might have the same amount of harassment per male attendee as any other conference, the percentage of female attendees affected by it is much higher.

This creates dramatically different perceptions. As a male, I haven't seen any more sexual harassment at tech conferences than I have at academic conferences on Russian history, so it doesn't feel like there's much of a problem. But from the female perspective, the situation looks like an epidemic.

I have no solution to this unfortunate situation. Perhaps open source conferences should ban alcohol, so everyone can stay properly inhibited. This hardly seems fair to those of us who enjoy having a beer and can do it without molesting others, but a minor inconvenience to the majority is usually acceptable when it prevents a devastating experience for a minority.
Not sure why this headline says "Office Building". Calling this an office building is like calling the Internet tubes.

It's a colo hotel, with floors an entire block in size that are nothing but vast datacenter spaces.

Here's the cable conduit:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/78888924@N00/3808798230/

Here's Google's "office". Each of the colos fills this kind of space with cabinets or racks:

http://www.sawagoodidea.com/wp-content/uploads/2005_11_googl...

If you walk up or down 15th or 16th street and look at the windows, you'll see which floors are datacenter space because their windows are blocked out. For example:

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=111+8th+ave&...

// We've been colo'd at 111 8th for a decade.
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A website where Ghostery blocked 14 different scripts... record so far.
Through numerous wars, periods of famine, and economic hardships?

I didn't get the feeling that the parent to your post was suggesting that the EuroZone was the only way to possibly survive.
Excellent question. I'm sure Amazon's executives and shareholders are wondering the same thing.

I'm not sure about the US (polls show most people here are against Wikileaks), but internationally I think it could hurt them badly.
You're confusing people valuing something with it's actual worth. What the parent is saying is that the article isn't really worth much, but might be valued by those who don't know any better.
The universe is a big and mysterious place. It's doubtful whether the all-pervasive influence of human civilisation on earth would be that evident to a sentient barnacle anchored to an isolated islet far from inhabited land.
While Rebecca does discuss that they have the right to do it, I think you're distorting her point.

"While Amazon was within its legal rights, the company has nonetheless sent a clear signal to its users: If you engage in controversial speech that some individual members of the U.S. government don't like -- even if there is a strong case to be made that your speech is constitutionally protected -- Amazon is going to dump you at the first sign of trouble....

The future of freedom in the internet age may well depend on whether we the people can succeed in holding companies that now act as arbiters of the public discourse accountable to the public interest."
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Why the link to Reddit instead of the (fairly interesting) map?
So the same kind of thing one could do with an irc bot in your dev chat room that monitors social media for mentions of your name? That would actually be useful if you didn't know how to do the above I think.
From the TFA:

>> when we’re at a business networking event, and we exchange cards

You're really stretching the definition of subtext if you're suggesting that a woman giving you her business card actually means she wants to get personal with you.
Who ever use imaginary/complex numbers anyway?
I normally just do my tunneling with ssh -D. Is there an advantage of using SSH VPN instead of SSH as a SOCKS proxy?
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Programming through interpretive dance. It's time for the joke to become reality.
I agree. This is not the first time that Amazon have targeted the companies that can/could be used to add value to their offerings.

There was a company (cannot remember the same sorry) that provided MySQL in amazons cloud before they launched their RDS service. And an much better service it was too. The startup did not ask you to give them a 4 hour window where they can bring down your DB. But still it was an Amazon service so the brand awareness was there.

This seems like a direct attack on the likes of cloudkick. I do not understand the motivation to be honest. They were making some money from their own monitoring and not they are making none, but they are pushing companies like cloudkick away from survival and innovating more.

While the free micro instances offer was obviously a push to put the boot into Rackspace and attempt to take the remaining % of the IaaS market this I understand less.

It seems Amazon have ignored the old rules where in a new market there is less direct competition as there is plenty to go around and have gone straight for total market domination.

Disclosure: My project has(had) as a highlight feature IaaS monitoring, metrics and alerting. So if the above sounds a little unreasoned please forgive me while I contemplate a pivot. :-(
In this case Amazon couldn't avoid making a choice.

Hosting Wikileaks is a political action; deciding not to host Wikileaks is a political action.

I agree, though: they would have looked a lot more honest if they had just said that they were doing it as a business decision.
Awesome, thanks for the heads up! Looks like a few people have already found some vulnerabilities. =]
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Wait, you mean viruses? :)
A party isn't a sexualized environment unless there's some overtly-sexual influence. Similarly, open-source conferences are completely tame until the organizers hire strippers. And strippers are as "sexualized" as it gets (well, except for orgies or prostitutes).
this list is completely useless don't waste your time... most of those points are just describing current trends which you don't need any list for... just look around.

I was expecting some time-proven list of fundamental design rules. Sorry but I find it rather insulting that this was posted on hackernews.
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1965820
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I can't speak to what actually happens when she's at one of these events since I'm not there. But given that her whole blog is a coy, disingenuous photo-shoot, I have to say I look askance at this woman in particular. It's not difficult to imagine her interpersonal style being similar. That's where the above comment was coming from.
Let me add: If you get rejected, be gracious. Say she looks beautiful and any guy would be lucky to receive a kiss from her.

I say all this like I'm Mr. Smooth. Nothing could have been further from the truth and I've been in a committed relationship for 13 years. Watching an episode of Freaks and Geeks last night just brought back a lot of tough memories prior to meeting her.
awesome, sending you an email.
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To say thank you to the authors and help them keep doing this, even in cases they only get a small cut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number#Applications
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It looks like this guy just reimplemented the worst parts of ATM (directory lookups don't scale) without any of the good parts (predictable bandwidth guarantees).
No, it would be like tearing down the Empire State Building to build a new one. By volume this building is currently the second largest Manhattan building after the ESB. It also sits directly on top of a Fiber hub and excellent subway access directly from within the building to the ACE & L subway lines.
speckyboy is awesome, but "best ever"?

http://www.iconfinder.com <-- for those who dont know
If this is true... (?) I wonder how many are aware of that? I wasn't.
Counter question: How many times do you read your downloaded app?
Thanks for your support. The reason I mention "on a white board, no syntax errors, compilable" is because I've been dinged at the whiteboard for these silly reasons. No shit ! And Gayle Laakmann, author of "Cracking the Coding Interview" actually says it's important to write nearly perfect code at the whiteboard.
Your not the only that does that, I think most people who tinker with computers professionally do that.

Its kind of funny: computer programmers browse the internet the way an operating system does IO.
What is this... digg?
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Ask PG: Why stories with "wiki*****" in the title don't hit the frontpage?
EDIT: As explained by mooism2 in the comments, this can be explained because flags count as downvotes even if they don't affect the point score (BTW, then I think that the point score is broken).

Maybe I'm having my tinfoil hat on, but I see some stories that have more upvotes and are more recent than some in the frontpage, but they aren't hitting it. Examples:

- WikiLeaks as a Preview of All-Out Cyberwar (voipsa.org)
4 points by danyork 14 minutes ago | discuss

- WikiLeaks.org domain killed by US (twitter.com)
4 points by wiks 25 minutes ago | discuss

And in the frontpage:

- The end of a single global namespace? (christopherkullenberg.se)
3 points by unicornporn 47 minutes ago | discuss

- Protect yourself from FireSheep with Amazon EC2 + OpenVPN for $0.50 a month (stratumsecurity.com)
4 points by packetwerks 40 minutes ago | 1 comment
Close is relative.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Wal...

That's closer in "speed of light" to Wall St than the Newark / Jersey City colos, but computer trading tends to be in Jersey so that's where you'd go if wire speed is your goal.

Try 165 Halsey St in Newark. Here's a map of who is already on each floor. Morgan Stanley has the entire 2nd floor:

http://www.165halsey.com/ourbldg_bldgarea.asp
When I saw the title, I imagined several hackers sitting around with a handle of vodka and all eyes on a terminal running tcpdump.
Dude, we get enough wikileaks crap already... and it's not like there aren't plenty of other places for wikileaks stories. Maybe somebody can create a /r/wikileaks subreddit (if there isn't one already).

Personally I want technology / entrepreneurship news primarily when I visit HN... but that's just me.
Old story, submitted before but hard to find. Here are some recent versions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1957776

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1961969 <- This one has comments
HTML5 has acquired new meaning, its definition has changed

That is categorically untrue. There is a W3C specification which defines exactly what HTML5 is (or more correctly will become).

The specification is a proposal, but this still doesn't mean that the term 'HTML5' is able to acquire new meaning.

This is because it's technical shorthand used to describe a group of technologies - and the group of technologies it represents can be specified precisely.
Presumably people are flagging them for being off-topic.
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I think this is the crux of what happened, but I don't really understand what it means:

"he suddently turned weird. There was 2 or 3 people around, and he started telling about us about growing in Illinois, having had bullet wounds, knowing how to defend himself, and finally threatening violence."

To me, this sounds like someone with PTSD, (sort of a Walter Sobchak character, if you're familiar with The Big Lebowski). Could you explain a little more? Is the main idea that the guy threatened violence when you thought you were playing something akin to tag?
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If you rotate your phone's keypad 90 degrees, you can call Hogwarts!

To actually answer your question, complex numbers make signal processing algorithms much more tractable, and also make it easy to visualize many commonplace quantities and phenomena in electrical engineering. Anytime a value has both a magnitude and a time- or phase-based aspect, chances are you can use complex numbers to represent it.

Put another way: just as negative numbers allow you to specify movement along an axis, complex numbers allow you to specify rotation around an axis. Both are obviously pretty fundamental.
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in case anyone is being blocked at DNS level.
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I think tablets are the reason clicks no longer make as much sense as they used to. Clicks are built into our mental model because of a lifetime of using the mouse.
I have Schwab, which promises this.

However, most shitty ATMs coalesce the charge and the amount withdrawn into one amount (e.g. you get a charge for $41.75 or something). In that instance, you have to file a claim with the bank. Waste of time.
A few thoughts:

* This is one of the most factual, well written articles that I've encountered on the subject.

* It's just sad to see socially awkward people manifest their sexual frustration in this manner. And it's even sadder to see that the few women we have in our profession feel threatened at conferences. The overwhelming majority of good people need to intervene to interrupt any form of harassment towards anyone and above all report them to whoever appropriate.

* It's important to remember that sexual harassment is not simple unwanted attention from someone you find unattractive. magamiako deleted his comment, but he was right on the money when he said that certain actions will be interpreted as innocuous flirting if the person perpetuating it is attractive, and as harassment if their are not. It may not be PC to say this, but it's important to distinguish unpleasant, but fundamentally innocuos flirting from awkward people, from bona fide sexual harassment like groping or inappropriate touching. The latter must be eliminated from tech conferences.

* Sexism and unprofessionalism can be avoided without being prudish about the content of your presentation. This is a slide I used in one of my Italian presentations. The title reads "Eye candy is important": http://grab.by/grabs/bd8b294c0aa850b4b577012a258979a3.png (Actual slides here: http://www.slideshare.net/antonio.cangiano/tu-vu-fa-lamerica...). This was just after the "CouchDB performs like a porn star" scandal, and several women at the conference complimented me for pulling it off without objectifying anyone.
I wonder how they know this? Do they just assume that neutron radiation will cause the same radiation sickness as other types of radiation? Extrapolate from animal testing? Or have there been tests with humans?

My understanding was that the high-energy neutrons interacted with the hydrogen nuclei (singular protons) in the body, due to the extremely similar mass; conversely, ionising radiation, well, ionises molecules, that is to say, interacts with the electrons.
According to a Q&A with Assange:

"Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit inorder to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assa...

I think that the hosting with Amazon was more a PR move than anything.
Joe Lieberman has been a pro-censorship force for years. I'm not surprised that he's continued here, though I'm still disappointed.
To my utter shock - I thought it'd be one of the last bulwarks against premed memorization. When I learned otherwise, it was sad to think that those students who flocked to non-calc physics (and floundered; the classes are of course curved) really would have a good shot at medical school.
To generalize from my very limited experience, people doing this use the same hiring strategies as companies, but 1) rely on personal connections and relationships more, since they're often trying to stay a bit under the radar, and 2) are more connected with academia than your average hirer. One approach could be to network at non-mainstream events in your area that are more about creating and seeing cool stuff than networking, such as dorkbot. Also, probably just networking aggressively would work, at whatever are the best gatherings in your interest area, such as the web 2.0 summit, or health 2.0. These people are probably there somewhere, and if not, their friends are.

If you're awesome and into bioinformatics, and are in austin, the bay area, or the pacific northwest, ping me. I'm not in the same league as the folks in the article, but this is more or less my approach right now, and I know another couple people in similar situations.
Clickless browsing is just another way to say "mouse gestures". Yes, future interface devices may not have a 'click' function and may be gesture-based, but as for my mouse as it stands today, a click is extremely helpful.
That’s not how it works.

If most people use HTML5 to refer to all new and upcoming web technologies the meaning changes. One person using it that way is an error, nearly everyone using it that way changes the meaning. You can’t impose definitions top-down.
(not rhetorical or trolling) What will the police do to help?