skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This bit of definition only matters if there's someone involved without power.

Presumably Adria is claiming to be without power. She has the power to get someone fired with a single tweet. She has so much power she's gone mad with it.
Eventually the mining reward will be almost completely be based on transactions fees. That should make for different dynamics, than mining being paid almost exclusively from new coins.
If you stop thinking of the world as a giant game of Boys vs Girls, it might start making more sense to you.
Conferences are generally professional environments, which means that some degree of strictures on behaviour is normal. Conferences that are trying to be welcoming to groups that historically have found them unwelcoming try to limit the things that make them unwelcoming. Things like 'Dongle jokes' have been identified as one of those things. The Pythonic way is 'explicit over implicit'. So, Pycon's code of conduct. Can you understand this?
Many companies limit the number of languages used internally. There are both positives and negatives of course. The biggest positive though is that it makes it easier for programmers to understand code written by other programmers. It also means code written by one programmer will be usable by other programmers.

If the code is in a different language then both of those are often false. The 2 programmers don't speak the same language and even if they both happen to understand both languages they can't share code.
As a dev, I feel really really sympathetic towards your situation. However, it's the reality of the business. I've written things that leverage certain APIs and ended up getting replaced by "the official version." Yes, our apps bring traffic to their site, but it's also a two way street. By leveraging APIs, we are taking advantage of their users and infrastructures. So yeah, it sucks that it ended, but at least it was fun (hopefully profitable) while it lasted. Move on bro!
Start drinking lots of water.

But you could also spend every three minutes to try to speed up the build. Dependencies, compiling unchanged source, tests, etc. There are so many ways to speed this up. If that's not possible, maybe you can step back and think of something more creative.
Note that the amasci.com article is about David Swenson's conference talk about the phenomenon, here's the copypaste:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961226041803/http://www.att.com...

SESSION 7: SPECIAL SESSION, 17th Annual EOS/ESD Symposium
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1995, 8:00 am

SESSION 7: SPECIAL SESSION: ELECTROSTATIC CONSIDERATIONS IN INDUSTRY

MODERATOR: D. Swenson, 3M

7.7 CASE STUDY - LARGE PLASTIC WEB ELECTROSTATIC PROBLEMS, RESULTS AND
CURE, D. Swenson, 3M Company
Tremendous static charge generation on a plastic web causes unique
physical phenomena and special problems. Solution was simple and cost
effective.

The real question ...was this "star trek physics," or really just a human-nerve TENS effect; temporary muscle paralysis caused by static discharges all over the victim's skin? They never threw a baseball down the tunnel to see if it halted.
Thanks for detailed reply. Actually we are mostly worried about _phred's interpretation :)
Sure, drop me a note.
Sure, I can think of plenty of ways it could arise via metaprogramming. I don't know if I would want such a warning enabled in my own template-heavy C++ code.

But it perhaps it could be useful for those following the NetBSD style. :-)
As a woman I'd probably be afraid to wear a "Fork my Repo" shirt. I think you can guess why. Just some food for thought...
In Silicon Valley reputation matters far or than law so the whole at-will thing is rather meaningless.
Yes, I have also read "the Black Swan". "Fooled by Randomness", too (which is much better), and "Antifragile" as well. Let's all go read some books. I am unsure of the point you are trying to make, largely because you don't make a point in this post.
The conclusion is simple - economies of scale for larger businesses are incredibly powerful.
It is very wrong to judge Freshpaint by the static screenshot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

Note how the wet paint mixes up on canvas.

More on mixing colors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

This app is really the best skeuomorphism out there.
I don't know if you are US citizen or from other American continent citizenship, but I, as a Frenchman, had the same impression, reverted, with fellow Quebequois boys. When we were casually talking between us about girls, they had a kind of transgression excitement that I did not understand. When asking, they told me they kinda weren't allowed to even think this way in their countries, let alone talking about it.

For me, it was just normal boytalk sharing personal preferences for small or big female body parts, for them it was as exciting as leaking out of school to smoke a cigarette.

I think it goes deeper than that. A remarkable well-documented(#) fact in the history of sexual life is that sexual perversions were much worse in places where sex was considered a sin (eg. the West), than in places were it was considered natural (eg. China).

I am really concerned that, after a while, the sexual PC pressure could backfire in North America. We all know how "Hell is paved", right?

(#) http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Life-Ancient-China-Gulik/dp/B00...
And, as usual with ad hominems, we must be careful not to throw out too much.

She argues that the joke was offensive. Her evidence was that she was offended. Evidence that her concept of offendedness is flawed does argue against the offensiveness of the joke.

Had she asked three people sitting near her if they were offended, and they had said yes, then she would no longer be a part of the argument and her hypocracy would not be relevant. But she didn't so it is.
The Death of Portability
Wise advice.

I have a hard time insisting on certain things but I will need to work on that. I know successful folks are insistent and never accept no.
Respectably, I disagree with the OP on this entire subject. Yes, the Adria scandal was not constructive to any party involved - but the way it's being analyzed is dead wrong:

When women in this industry are hurt, we’re all hurt.

No. No. It's exactly this kind of thinking that got us here in the first place. It's this kind of thinking that perpetuates the very dissonance inherent in stereotypes. There is so much anti-racism/anti-sexism/anti-everything-slightly-inappropriate recently that some days I don't want to get out of bed. I don't want to watch what I say at every turn. I don't want to limit my vocabulary when there are so few English words in the first place. I don't want to change what I find funny because society has all of a sudden deemed it possibly inappropriate under certain situations. So what's the solution?

People need to start recognizing others as individuals--people need to start recognizing themselves as individuals. I'll admit it: I make inappropriate jokes all the time around my friends: every sort of inappropriate joke you can imagine. Why? Because the whole concept of shock humor is poking at things that are obviously not true. Why would people laugh if women actually were bad drivers (I am a terrible driver)? Why would they laugh if Asians could actually all do backflips (I broke a finger trying). If forking someone's repo was actually sexual, why would it be funny? "I'm going to fuck her" surely isn't funny.

The moment we all recognize that people are individuals, and not just subsets of classes, is the moment where all this ridiculousness will go away. Thinking that a blow to one woman hurts all women is as ridiculous as thinking a blow to one Asian hurts all Asians - or a blow to one person in tech who has large muscles is a blow to all people in tech who have large muscles. The association is ridiculous.

I don't know any women in tech. I know people in tech, and some of them just happen to be women.
The email clearly states "using our trademark and CONTENT". That's what the email is for. Furthermore, their TOS is worded to be confusing (at least it is to me): http://9gag.com/tos

Anyhow, I'm not going to make this into im-a-bitter-dev commotion. Some here even state that it's not the users I'm worried about because if I am, then I can just direct them to the official app.

My real concern is that my app existed before 9GAG's, and although 90% of my users are using it free, there are some who appreciate the work I put into making a nice-to-use app and bought the "Pro" version. These are the people I would NOT want to disappoint. I'm still weighing solutions and brainstorming on how to make their dollar spent worth it. But for now, I've removed 9GAG references in the Play Store listings.
A bit weaselly to say "she can no longer be effective in her role at SendGrid" without saying what it implies, whether her employment at SendGrid is ending.
The original report was a presentation at an ESD conference, not a rumor or FOAF.

I heard about it from a tech at an EMI testing lab in 1996, tracked down Dave Swenson's email at 3M, and posted the article on amasci.com.

Some extra info: Dave S. mentioned that the experience was a bit painful, since corona discharges were leaping from his whole body at the time. He said he was unable to turn around while near the "invisible wall," and had to walk backwards to get away from it.

Also, he described the whole plant having serious ESD hazards: tape on floor to mark pathways, and if you left the path, you might get zapped by a mini-lightning from some ungrounded machine.
Well that's bullshit (the law, that is)
I will forever remain at a loss about how dongle jokes perpetrate injustice. All I know is that they really got under the skin of an all-too-serious, uptight prig, and the overreaction of that prig means it gets even deeper under the skin of prigs everywhere. And that is always funny.
"Anyway, whatever, her reputation is kinda ruined now"

I think her position, which was originally extremely weak, has been reinforced by the large misogynistic response. She's a public speaker, and once people forget about her offense, she'll roll this into five years of lunches, keynotes, corporate re-education, and books.

This backlash has given her a level of credibility as an expert on gender-based harassment that she would not be able to attain on her own merits. She needs no academic background after this. She needs no list of petty "I thought of a four year old girl..." stories.
Yes, it is. The reason is that a single person doesn't have other people dependent on their income.
What language are you using? There can be different strategies for different languages to speed up things.
It's a bit surprising that someone who behaves as screencapped here is capable of getting through an interview and N weeks on the job as a professional PR person.

There must be some awkward conversations over at SendGrid HQ about how she got hired in the first place and what might have been happening since that they haven't noticed yet.
How much can you do without compiling? One of my current projects involves a painfully slow SharePoint system. Actually building and deploying takes forever, but most pieces of code that I need quick feedback on can be built outside the main project then integrated later, which is much easier.

When I do need a full build, I make sure it is a single step run from the command line so I can go get a coffee while it runs.

Sure, actually speeding up the build would be better, but sometimes that isn't an option.
There is a partial_search available with chef server 11 that makes this problem much less painful. Search returns the entire node object for each match, which can be a ton of data as the node count rises. With partial_search you specify just the attributes that you to be returned.
> What optimizations are available to the C subset of C++ that are not also available to C?

I thought C++ had some stricter rules about aliasing, allowing more room for optimization of the same code, but I'm having trouble finding out exactly what the difference was.
Perhaps white knights like yourself are the real sexists here.

You buy into, along with Richards, the notion that all women are victorian prudes and can't deal with off-beat humor.

These men didn't direct their lowbrow humor at adria. In fact they didn't even direct it at women. They compared their dongles and joked about forking the 'male' speaker.
It's certainly a much bigger deal for someone with 3 kids to lose their job than for a single person... think about the burn rate and possible consequences of running out of money.
I think you'll find that a major part of South Park's popularity is not its satire, but its juvenile humor.
This is so accurate. Let us mourn.
Do you pay the tax in BC or CAD?
>Tablet PCs didn't even get capacitive touch until after iOS devices came out.

That's not true, I own a HP Tx2 which was released before the iPad and it has a capacitive touch screen it works great and before it there was the dell XT2 too.
I'm confused by the OP's use of the word "Bitcoin currency". Did you mean to say "Bitcoin exchange between EUR and BTC"? I suspect the peeps in Cyprus are def dumping some cash into BTC already. So they probs already know about that currency.
Depends on your threshold for "rich", but the #1 in the list of HN posters (https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders), tptacek, sold his startup for >$10m.
I don't think I implied that's how I saw the world? We're talking specifically about a situation that was (very literally) girl vs boys.
"People who get offended should be offended" - Linus Torvalds

I see a lot of offended people here...
It's not efficient to hunt rabbits. You have to lay traps and just wait for them to come. You can eat them as soon as they are trapped (sell them an app) or keep them in the trap (sell them a service, like Dropbox, or rent them to the zoos, like all AD/social-based sites). You have a problem when your rabbit trap starts attracting deers (the elephants are too big to see it) and you're not prepared. They can break your trap and also release all the rabbits.
In both cases, it seems to work more as extenuating circumstances than as a blanket permission to say inappropriate things to another human being based on his looks. Or in other words, it's not OK to discriminate against somebody else solely for the reason that you are part of a group discriminated against. It just makes you part of the problem.

I think having a definition of racism to be "discriminate against somebody else due to skin colour", as well as a notion of "institutional racism", which is the same thing but on a systemic level, would make more sense than the more academic definition of racism.
I agree with you, but this excitement is a fundamental "thing". Its a "thing" that people chase because it adds something to their day. Bored unexciting people flock to the drama and this will always be the way.

(I'm about to generalize based on my experiences)
This is why I love living in Australia. I moved from the UK about 5 years ago and people here in Perth generally have more interesting lives and there is a lot less useless drama. I remember the UK as being so much drama about nothing, our lives consisted of so much rubbish in comparison. Granted I lived in a poor part of the UK. I just love this place (Perth) so much.

Sometimes I tire of the drama, although sometimes I join in because i'm a little bored from studying and I disagree with what someone said.

Not really sure where I was going with this. Something alone the lines of people need drama. blah blah.

:)

... back to study time!
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It's almost impossible to take 5 years out of the career game and come back in with the standing you had when you left. While that's not sexist per se, it's incredibly fucking inhumane, and happens to inflict more harm on women

This is not good, I agree with that, but how can it be different? After 5 years off, your lost track of everything that happened, you're 5 years older and 5 years rustier, and, most importantly, somebody else took care of those things you were taking care of - you're not needed as you were when you took off. Now, in big impersonal bureaucracies, this can be not so big a problem, but in most places it is.

IMHO the solution to the actual problem can't be in just saying "that's not a problem, it only is because of sexism/tradition/whatever". By the way, I don't have a solution.
I agree. However I still don't see how a "dongle" joke (regardless of conference policies) makes it to "sexism towards women" as appeared on the Richards' blog. I think the point is to say "I myself am not comfortable with this kinds of jokes, stop it". But making gender generalizations and "taking actions for the community"... well, this is sexist towards women and assumes no personal responsibility. I'm a woman, but I didn't appoint any "evangelist" to speak for me. It's actually more alienating then any off color jokes.
Dont bother reading it and thinking its true.
Gary shilling is same guy who predicted S&P 500 to fall to 800 in 2012.
I am from India and he has no ideas of the problems we have here.
This kind of story would give you a better idea on whats going on.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-03-18/news...
Thats like the Tier 1 of our MBA's having problems getting a job because of the 'growth engine' economy
Or you can look at office space growth in India(something like 3% YOY)
It's a weird, weird culture we grow up in.
The motivation problem behinds Online learning (MOOC)
Thanks for a fascinating comment! Do you have any opinion on the parenscript project? http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
Verification by alibaba--Lean pipe and joint system SZYMS
A currency which changes value by more than 100% in 30 days (either up or down) is not an ideal vehicle for storing value.
I couldn't agree more, the only thing that would make me rage even further was if the girls shirt was pink and the boys shirt was blue.
I just don't get it how is that they don't understand that they really impair the growth by not having cross-account chatrooms... We switched from Skype to HipChat for our internal company communications, but we still use Skype for chats with all the clients. IF only I could tell them to create an account so we can chat... ugh. And no, I can't just give them access to our account, we have plenty of open rooms that should still be company-only.
Very nice... It's good to see that complex UI components can be handled so elegantly in ember.js!
> I don't know if you are US citizen or from other American continent citizenship

LOL! Although the Western Hemisphere is a big place, and North and South America comprise a lot of countries, I can assure you, in standard English, and fair or not, "an American" === "a United States citizen".
You could reach me at nanu.clickity@gmail.com.
Thanks for the generous reply.

However, Someone already hired me.
Leave a contact... I'll be free in few weeks.
I'll contact you back if you need something done. :)
Exactly. Being offended in and of itself is worthless (I'm sure we can find that Stephen Fry quote somewhere in this thread), it is not a motivator for a behavioral change, at least for me, unless I care about the person being offended.

When I do offend people, I often like to probe as to _why_ they're offended. In my experience, most people seem to be incapable of defining any concrete reasons as to why a given statement is offensive other than circular, "it's offensive because it's offensive" reasoning.
Not for the next 50 years (at least). India has major problems to solve before catching up to (leave alone displacing) China as the 'Global Growth Engine'.

Said as an Indian living in India (and prefers living in India to living in China, but hey that is hardly surprising).
Sorry, Bitcoin Isn’t a 'Currency'
Breathing is a bad point of comparison. Stopping breathing is much, much more costly to you than making a certain sort of joke.

I think if someone said "Could you stop using words containing "e"? Such words hurt my brain." I think I would.

If someone said "Quit your "e" words, you bad guy!" I'd be less inclined to. "Words with the letter "e" are bad words, and you need to stop using them" even less (the difference between these two being hypocrisy).
I'm talking about spoken languages. Spanish, for instance - low amount of concepts per syllable, which is why it sounds so fast.
Taking advantage of an inoffensive joke to start a battle for feminism is very hypocrite if I might say. Sexual harassment is not hearing a dirty joke in someone's private conversation! What should actual victims of sexual abuse think about such drama queens?
Their TOS makes it pretty clear that the user-supplied content doesn't belong to them, under section 3 "Subscriber Content":

> Subscriber shall own all Subscriber Content that Subscriber contributes to the Site, but hereby grants and agrees to grant 9GAG, Inc a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right and license (with the right to sublicense), to use, copy, cache, publish, display, distribute, modify, create derivative works and store such Subscriber Content and to allow others to do so (“Content License”) in order to provide the Services.

And under section 2 "Site Content", they claim ownership of everything except user-generated content (emphasis here is mine):

> All materials displayed or performed on the Site, including, but not limited to text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or source code, audio and video, animations and Themes (as defined below), including without limitation the 9GAG, Inc Template Code (as defined below) (collectively, “Content”) (other than Content posted by Subscriber (“Subscriber Content”)) are the property of 9GAG, Inc and/or third parties and are protected by Hong Kong and international copyright laws.

Even if they did try claim ownership, one can't transfer a copyright they don't hold, which is the case for most of 9GAG's user-supplied content.
My local laws would be irrelevant, I'm in another country, which is why I can't take your comment apart very easily.

But paying extras sounds like publishing likenesses in commercial work, which is (AFAIK) usually under a different part of law than publishing noncommercial photos.

And recording conversations on the phone is nothing to do with anything pictorial, that comes under telephony and wiretapping laws.

And "official disciplinary capacity"? What does that mean? What office was she holding what discipline did she decide on?

Harrasment? Overhearing? Troops rallying? Responsibility to talk? All irrelevant to picture publishing, I suspect.
"Talent" + "rue", without knowing what "rue" really is in this context.
On the Internet, there is no place to go drink and talk quietly with the reasonable people about complex subjects while the inpatient people, polarized to one side of a multifaceted issue, try to out shout each other. So when I don't say something in a thread that has degenerated, nobody sees me leave.

I do try to leave something in such threads. But nobody is reading them for carefully considered takes on the issue.
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wonder if its got to do with credit card fraud on iTunes than any specific sensitive data concern.
Do people use iCloud a lot?
or maybe they are thinking of providing some cloud service this year which needs the added security
Reddit AMA is completely saturated. In order to read the good stuff you have to go through so much noise.
The legal advice that companies like IBM and intel would have gotten in these situations would almost certainly precluded firing people over it, conservatism runs both ways.