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"Photographing someone without consent at a conference is really not minor"

It's a public place. Do you really think you live in a bubble where no one can take pictures of you without your consent?

"posting said photograph to Twitter"

When did that stop anyone? We see photoshopped images of politicians make the rounds and sometimes show up on Hannity (Fox News television show)

"enlist an army against someone"

It's far from clear that she wanted to enlist an army against them. And she was clear in her apology that she didn't want this to end with the other people getting fired.

" It's full scale bullying."

You should probably steer clear of politics and success in general. Worse stuff happens to less notable people on a regular basis. Doesn't make it good or bad, but this is the nature of social media discourse.

"The idea that these companies just randomly happened to fire these people coincident with high-profile, contentious events (for unrelated reasons) is actually absurd."

It's doubtful in PlayHaven's case, considering that they kept one of the people in the circumstance, that the other person was fired just because of the comment. It was probably the straw that broke the camel's back.

I agree that death threats, DoS attacks, and general witch-hunts are not minor. I also think that the issue would have died down if playhaven had not fired mr-hank, but we have no details regarding what actually happened.
It's true that part of the attraction of meditation for a lot of Westerners is that it seems "exotic" and "different". However, I would strongly disagree with you that such an attraction to exoticism is a reason for completely disregarding meditation.

After all, many things that are common in Western societies (some of which you might actually value quite highly) are considered exotic in non-Western societies, and might be valued for their exoticism. Usually, these are material goods such as cars, houses, clothes, food -- but not always -- Western music is also quite a hot cultural commodity. Do you avoid listening to Western music because it might be considered exotic in some other culture?

Something else to take in to consideration is that meditation is highly valued in many non-Western cultures. Even in non-Western cultures, meditation is rarely considered "worthless" to the same extent as common fruits and berries would be in South Africa. Common, maybe. Worthless? It would really depend on the person, but many in non-Western cultures value meditation quite highly (more so than most Westerners would value it, I'd wager).

Finally, I think that many strongly negative views of practices that are strongly valued in other cultures usually are rooted in xenophobia and deep ignorance. Some people don't know and don't want to know about such practices simply because they seem strange or different. I find that really sad.
This reddit post sums up everything wrong with this, quotes the broken KS rules, and links to evidence: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1awnzx/so_you_know_th...
Any comment that doesn't mention that she publicly shamed the wrong guy is an obvious troll attempt.
Fair enough but the basic point stands - a fast charging facility would be harder to set up than a Tesla "supercharger" (it would, in essence, need to use capacitors to provide the necessary power and would be limited by its available power.
I was once told by a flight attendant that the actual reason they don't allow electronic devices during take-off and landing is because these times have the highest likelihood of incidents, and if their was an emergency, the flight crew, it is felt, need to be able to communicate effectively with passengers without needing to be heard over headphones or competing with games, etc.

I believe reading is felt to be less engaging than other forms of media, and therefore more easily interuptable.

I was on a domestic flight in Australia last week, and was surprised that my entire row kept reading their kindles through take-off and landing, and the flight attendants didn't say anything, even though the announcement of no electronic devices was still enforced.
Some of the best meditation tutorials I know of:

http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/video/

http://m.youtube.com/#/yuttadhammo?uid=QJ6ESCWQotBwtJm0Ff_gy...

He is a true hackermonk.
Sure, they sold something. This is the first "high-profile" (whereby that I mean I'm actually seeing it on HN or some other aggregator that I read) Kickstarter I've seen that isn't really about the actual thing being created. That said, backers are actually getting a copy of the game, plus other perks, just like any other video game kickstarter. The only reason there's any controversy seems to be the fact that the mother in question could presumably have afforded to do this without the kickstarter. But as others have said, just because she could have afforded to do this another way doesn't make the kickstarter somehow wrong.

(And yeah, HN did [dead] the dupe, which I then deleted, I've just never had this happen before).
> your comment ought to be the topmost comment :-)

Indeed!

tags.push("ressources")

In general, I find that comment which links to a PDFs tend to be good. Especially when the linked-to PDF is formatted in two columns ;)
the perp is actually the guy on the left side of the picture

I think it was the guy on the right, after initially making the same mistake as you about the grinning individual in the middle. From start to finish finish, the whole episode is just one poor decision on top of another, by everyone involved.
Except that "0123456789abcdef"[x & 0xf] is just normal array dereferencing syntax, not the backwards kind you pointed out. The backwards version would be (x & 0xf)["0123456789abcdef"], which isn't really useful, I think.

Oh well. If you happen to find the funny but semi-legitimate one, I'd love to see it.
Or the smaller ones for 2 people...
On Error Resume Next.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa266173(v=vs.60).as...
Come on now, he's being extremely charitable to Adria here. Some guys making a dongle joke is not oppression of women. It is at best a distant tangential symptom of the problem.
"A Brit is someone who thinks 100 miles in a long distance, and an American is someone who thinks 100 years is a long time."
The default assumption now is that people are living off government handouts until proven otherwise? Huh?
Are you really sure about "money shot"? I know the porn reference, but I've heard it in multiple contexts over the years to refer to the photo (or in a more modern context video) that will sell it (whatever it is).
For a couple years I practiced Bikram Yoga regularly, a practice I gradually found to overlap with mediation and led to my current involvement with a meditation group and development of my own practice.

A Dharma master spoke at my school and said we should strive to meditate for an hour twice a day. I'm up to roughly a half hour twice-a-day on my own, and 2 or 3 times a week I sit for an hour thirty with a group (three session of ~25min with walking/kin-kin in between, which really helps stretch out the legs). I've only stepped up my practice regularly, but after the group sessions generally end up feeling amazing, both exhausted and refreshed. The sleep, oh my god my sleep.

I'm a pretty busy thinker with a degree of anxiety as I've always been somewhat of a perfectionist with high-expectations of myself. Lots of internal pressure with a high caffeine intake. The benefits of a practice cannot be overestimated.
Yes, indeed, some people will do anything for money.

And, believe it or not, women are people too!
To give you some sense of how "local" 60 miles can be in the US, I live a more urban life style than most people in the US (although likely less than most people on this board), but I frequently drive 60 miles simply to have dinner with friends or family. We never considered that a hike, it's just a quick trip in the car.

Our 2005 Honda CRV is approaching 120,000 miles, and both myself and my fiancée telecommute.
How many people looked up "aircraft carrier" sales on ebay after reading this article?
A rate which was fixed by the buyer, with no protestation allowed by the seller.
Sprinter speed is mostly determined by genetics and training (and often, PEDs). Diet is largely irrelevant - Usain Bolt's "power food" is mcnuggets, Yohan Blake's is a 16 banana smoothie.
Difference Between Protoype and __proto__ in Javascript
AS3 example creates class with a method but doesn't call the method. Also it subclasses a sprite but then uses trace (console log). Fractally bad.
Bravo. +1
My meditation is going to the gym. Would try other ways to mediate too but I'm sure I'm not able to find more time than the few hours I need to go to the gym three times every week.
It also inspired perhaps the greatest review ever written [1].

[1] http://innerlea.com/aulit/paleFire/notes/mccarthy.html
Thoughts (and thought experiments) on the calorie issue
I faced the same challenge. Jon Kabat-Zinn removes religion from meditation and makes it sensible and accessible. I have gone on to read several of his works and now practice religion-free meditation with positive benefits. Probably the best introduction to his work is via his interview on the OnBeing podcast: http://www.onbeing.org/program/opening-our-lives/138
sorry but that is a very long time. Branching is something I do dozens, if not hundreds, of times a day (creating, checking out, deleting, etc).

svn doesn't fit the sane modern workflow and everything it does can be done by git in a less painful manner. I think the only use case I can think of for svn is a very binary heavy repo that needs global locking.
The obvious attention of her photo is the guy who is smiling at the camera; most of the Internet thinks that he was the perp that got fired. Turns out that it's the guy in the grey shirt on the left side of the photo.

She publicly shamed the wrong guy! How is what she did ok?
Combine that with a fairly sophisticated highway system that runs everywhere around the country, a post-war boom in car and suburban home ownership, and low cost of fuel, and it becomes imbued within the culture as the norm.
"but it can't tow a boat"

It probably could and where the hell would I even put a boat. Silly americans :D
I don't know what the net worth of Brian Fargo is, but I would imagine a not-insignificant part of it is invested in InXile. He's also pledged 100k toward their current Kickstarter, Tides of Numemera. And I'd imagine the ratio the cost of a game to to his net worth is wildly different than the ratio of paying for your own child to attend RPG camp to Susan Wilson's net worth
"Porn is deeply offensive to many groups of people on religious as well as gender grounds". Interestingly enough, many white male christians find it offensive as well. That's not an exaggeration. It's really poor form to draw an analogy to porn in a tech conference (and I'm male, for the record) and makes our industry look really boorish.

"things that tie members of the coalition together."

Does decorum or decency or sensibility count?
Research link:

http://glpiggy.net/2013/03/20/identity-of-dongle-micro-aggre...
the kind that is fashionable in "western medicine" at the moment is called "mindful meditation". if you google that phrase you can find more info.

it's basically practicing not giving a fuck (whatever you are thinking about you try to give up thinking about - you are aiming for a kind of "not caring about anything" state). so if you think that would be a good thing to practice, give it a go. i do it because it was recommended by my doctor for coping with the stress of having ms. which makes sense - that's the kind of thing it's easy to obsess over, but where you have little control, so being able to stop worrying is helpful. and i think it has helped. but i only do it for a few mins a day - i'm kind of surprised people are discussing doing it for hours as it's actually pretty hard work at times (also, i have better things to do!).

ps it's easy to understand. you just sit somewhere and you'll notice that you're thinking about something. so you say to yourself something like "ok, i was thinking about X, so let's just drop that" and then start thinking about your breathing. at some point you start worrying about something else. and then you realise you are thinking about it. so you talk to yourself again and get back to thinking about breathing. that's it. at first you can spend a fair amount of time going round in circles thinking about not thinking about thinking, but eventually "putting it to one side" becomes easier and you more quickly get into a kind of calmness, just listening to your breathing, for a short while (but you're not supposed to go to sleep - you're still kind of focussed).
I would have said yes until the music part turned out to be non-technological.
>how having 500% more female engineers made Etsy ship a better product //

Presumably because it panders to female sexism and they're targeting their product at females?
He lied. She didn't.
There have been states since 1984 was published that seem to have used it as a template. See Czeslaw Milosz's comments about the book's impact behind the Iron Curtain. Or just consider the DPRK today. Both authors got it more or less right, in other words.
If you check with Oleg, it actually is wrong! Delimited continuations are strictly more powerful and composable. We're supposed to be using shift/reset or prompt/abort.
I've actually used "istan" for things I like also, e.g. I might use "high-IQ-istan" for the collection of intelligent people. It's just that a negative one (VC-istan) stuck. I make up lots of words and only a tiny percentage catch on.

There's nothing pejorative about "-istan". It's (probably) a cognate of "stone" and means "homeland" in Farsi. Nothing pejorative.

I agree that it's probably distracting or confusing and I know some people don't like it, but I can't come up with anything better. "VC-sphere" sounds more ethereal (so it might include the blogs and stray comments), "VC-land" sounds more concrete (like it might pertain to the land, e.g. Silicon Valley, in particular).

Your point about the 3 startups makes a lot of sense. I've heard the same about records. The first makes the name (because new artists can't get decent terms), the second makes the money, and the third is for creative vision.

The issue with companies is that so many more people are involved. I'd want to be in someone's 2nd if optimizing for money and 3rd if optimizing for interesting work.
Yes, it's really, really a reference to porn. The abstract even mentioned thinking like a porn director to get the money shot.
With Google Reader gone, is Google Scholar next?
I don't quite understand why that would be necessary. Nginx has no business accessing other users' files in the first place.

I mean, I understand why Apache needs to do it: with Apache, you have things like mod_php running in-process, so it makes sense to restrict Apache, running one of Bob's scripts, from accessing Alice's files.

But with Nginx, anything with "intelligence" runs out-of-process. What Nginx expects you to do is to run it as one user, but run each app server (in PHP terms, each FCGI socket daemon) as the user whose files that server should access. (Or, better yet, run the app server in an LXC container along with a bind mount to only the files it needs to access. Very Plan9y.)
Kids know I am harmless
> Driving, and worse parking, an american sized SUV in europe is very painful.

This is a very important distinction! What a European considers a huge SUV is a small town car in the US. At least judging from what I've seen on my visits.

Some of those cars are just uncomfortably big.
I personally agree with the point about porn not belonging in a professional conference, but I would have cast my vote by skipping that presentation.
Hi - 1st post on Haker news. Please be nice :)

Aren't debates over energy density of super conductors v. Li-Ion batteries missing the important point, relative cost?

E.g. If the energy density is 1/4 lower but the cost is 1/40th as much then electric cars get ALOT more viable. Can anyone guess at the relative cost?
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Sounds like you're taking a Romney-esque "binders full of women" approach to getting more women into tech, as if to say that unequal access is the major reason that women are underrepresented in tech. Guess what? Putting a big neon sign in front of a strip club advertising "50% off drinks for ladies" isn't going to drive more women to the establishment. Turning the strip club into a dance club, however, will bring a ton more women.

The problem we're having is that men in tech love their strip clubs so much that they'd rather just get rid of the woman patrons altogether.
The default assumption is that, when you have to ask money from strangers to fund your kid's holidays, you're not flush with money. I used "government handouts" to drive the point home.
::sigh:: this article got shadowed off the front-page. And we were just getting started.
It's that Erlang doesn't have strings or characters. It has string syntax on input, which turns into lists of small integers, and also on output. But under the covers, those apparent strings are just lists of integers.
The clearest lesson I take from this article (and from this week's reaction on HN) is that it's very easy to feel defensive when someone accuses you of sexist behavior (or even someone you merely identify with). When that happens, a lot of folks lash out at the person who raised the issue, often more intensely than they deserve.

I rather expect this is one of the factors that leads women not to speak up when they feel uncomfortable. That's bad, right?
I've been using Headspace to help me mediate every evening for the last month. I never really saw the point of mediation until I tried it out but it's been really useful, especially if you're working on a stressful startup!

http://www.getsomeheadspace.com/
Come to England. Steam train driving sessions are a common way for the restored branch lines to raise funds.
My dislike for "VC-istan" isn't uniform. There are good VCs and good VC-funded companies out there. And as you said, pragmatic concerns (cost/benefit) are more important than hollow principled stands that make no sense in the context of individual variation. If you can get a decent VC and it makes sense for your business then, by all means, work with him.

If you are someone who believes that good startups do exist, then it is very easy for your monkey-brain to short-circuit to "sour grapes" whenever he discusses the VC ecosystem, even though I mostly don't believe that to be the case.

I'm a hard-core cynic about the VC scene and even I will agree that plenty of good startups exist. :)
Have you read the article? I agree that Adria screwed up here. Absolutely.

However, Amanda Blum paints a pattern of behavior that just isn't there when you really read into those stories. THAT is what the "teardown" is about. It's not saying that Adria did nothing wrong.
Mechanic's Institute Library. It's right around the corner from Montgomery BART.

http://www.milibrary.org/
When you notice that you are thinking, go back to the breath. You don't go back to the breath so that you can meditate, going back to the breath is meditating. It can happen dozens, even hundreds of times during a session. That's the point, in as much as there is a point.
I haven't meditated somewhat regularly for years, though I want to pick up the habit.

Meditation might be a good practice for many of us modern critters because it is the exact opposite of what we usually do - get a lot of stimuli from all kinds of sources. Some get addicted to all that stimuli - I know I do.
First off, I said tantamount to fraud and you are the one who said "it may be an unrealistic campaign". And trust me, I believe many Kickstarters are pretty much scams and frauds, not just this one. But usually, that is just due to humans' natural tendency to plan over optimistically. This case is different. It goes directly against the rules of no tuition funding projects. It misrepresents itself by claiming to be about creating a game when it is really about funding camp tuition. The original Kickstarter says she is going to camp already and this is all to prove some nebulous thing to her brothers. This is obviously an extraordinary case.
Please explain the statement "Photographing someone without consent at a conference is really not minor."

PyCon has no prohibitions on taking photographs, and neither does the venue. Taking pictures in public without consent is legal, with only a small set of exceptions. PyCon by default inherits those rules, so I don't see how it's illegal. Perhaps have some moral code in mind?

Here is a picture of people at PyCon 2013. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianly/8583308663/ . Do you think the photographer got permission from each of the people to take the picture?

Here is a picture of Michael Foord and Guido van Rossum, where Foord's name tag is clearly visible. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianly/8583315245/ . Here's one of Shane Grigsby http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianly/8584459432/ , with name tag clearly visible. Do you think the respective photographers asked for permission to take the photo first? I doubt it, but it might be possible for those specific cases.

I have taken many photographs at PyCon over the years, without asking for permission. Many photographs were taken of me, including this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/uhop/400449848/ while I was speaking. I never granted Uhop permission to take the photograph. Under what basis do I have for complaining that it was illegal, immoral, or unjust for that photograph to be taken and published to flickr?

I agree with "is really not minor" only if by that you mean "perfectly acceptable." However, I don't think that's what you mean. You imply that it's a serious ethical transgression. I don't understand how, so I request enlightenment.
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Porn is a thorny issue—there's really no need for a slide with softcore porn in a tech presentation unless it's a conference for developers of porn websites ;) However, the specific example Adria objected to ("Getting the Money Shot") is simply a pop culture reference. If I am a wireless network specialist and I name my presentation on wardriving "The Fog of Wardriving", it does not mean I endorse the military-industrial complex, imperialism, or the actions of the U.S. government. I'm just referencing something vaguely related, or making a dumb pun. It doesn't indicate that Danielle Morrill loves porn and wants everyone in the audience to start an orgy mid-conference, with live streaming. It's just a cultural reference. Also, while Adria has the right to not attend an event which does not follow her personal values, other people don't have any obligation to share her values. Danielle, or any other presenter, male or female, is free to not feel so strongly about porn.

What I don't understand at all is Adria's questioning of the WordPress t-shirt.

T-shirt: "Hey, as a developer, you don't have to care about content to love WordPress! And if you're a content creator, you don't have to care about software development to love WordPress."

How is this misogynist, and how would this stop being misogynist if the comic had men instead of women?
The biggest problem with PostgreSQL is the lack of a REPLACE statement and in general first-class "upsert" support.

This is the most fundamental mutation operation on dictionary, in all programming languages, denoted by:

map[key] = value

It's truly mystifying how something so basic could be missing from something that is supposed to be a better system for storing data.

It also doesn't even fully implement the SQL standards, missing for example the MERGE statement in SQL 2003 standard, which is also utterly baffling.

Note that all databases have catastrophic issues like these, it's just ridiculous how they can be in this terrible state.
> Is there some sort of crazy game of one-upmanship in the USA as to who can drive the most impractical gas guzzler?

No, this is just one person, don't think it's representative of Americans.