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> "you are gay", "fagget" etc.

> Because that is what they believe to be the best way to hurt my feelings

TLDR: These people probably aren't trying to hurt your feelings, their language -- while shocking to you -- is a product of a different culture.

I think this is a cultural difference between you and them. You must realize that much of HN -- I'm assuming this includes you -- lives in a bubble of left-leaning people from left-leaning urban areas.

Growing up in a different time and place, in middle and high school I always thought calling someone "faggot" or "gay" was roughly the same as "idiot", "jerk" or "asshole" -- a generic insult not meant to be taken literally. And in the context of a multiplayer game, especially online, such a word is typically used to express momentary anger at the in-game situation, not trying to attack you personally.

It was quite a culture shock to me when I got to college and discovered that most people on campus viewed insulting someone by calling them a "faggot" to be political incorrectness of the same order as calling someone a "nigger" or "retard".
Reread yourself next time. There's many typos and places where you used the wrong h̶o̶m̶o̶n̶y̶m̶s̶ homophones. It's hard to take you seriously when you write "left in piece"...
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Do you really need 64 bit? Could you manage with more processes and more servers?
This police state we are living in currently will only end once we vote in politicians that actually care about the politician. We can decide as a society whether or not we want to get distracted by things like gay marriage, abortion, swift boats, birth certificates, or if we care about things like liberty and freedom.

But it's up to us. We voted in these monsters, and we need to vote them out.
If large deflation was planned in the beginning, it would very much benefit the early adopters. Also you're misunderstanding me a bit: I didn't mean the difficulty would only be tied to demand, but to have it factored in in addition to the current hash rate. Of course difficulty would still increase in proportion to the hash rate. I mentioned elsewhere that it might make more sense to vary the mining reward based on the demand, instead of the difficulty, such that blocks are still verified at a predictable rate, but the reward for each block can change.
As an introvert, I disagree. Simply being around more than 2 people stresses me out... and part of that stress means that I'm quieter and more reserved. But that stress does not apply to me online, perhaps its the lack of face-to-face contact.

Besides, the whole Youtube experiment has proven that "anonymity" means absolutely nothing to your typical troll. Forcing people to display their names has only made the system worse.
Bullies will find a way to harass people, regardless of gender, is your point? I agree with that. The article is trying to point out that the gaming community is hostile towards women. I don't think your point is all that relevant to the discussion.
Do people not test their sites on the most popular browsers?

(I have the same problem with Opera 12.16.)
I understand what you are saying but I can assure you this isnt delivered in the same way you are describing, its not hard to misinterpret the intent of someone sending you all caps messages and screaming down their mic.
So you think she shouldn't feel resentful for people being nasty about her?
Doesn't Peercoin behave this way to some degree?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPCoin#Money_supply
Both my girlfriend and I play games regularly online and alone (and have all our lives). She has never received a rape threat. I wonder why?
In this context, probably not. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6938877
Are you suggesting that this hypothetical situation is much more likely to bring up traumatic emotions, or are you suggesting that more women are actually attacked as a result of online encounters? If the former, then I'm not convinced that other peoples' reactions to things that somebody says (over the Internet, no less) should be that person's responsibility. If the latter, then that's quite the claim, and one without a shred of proof from you.
What never stops amazing me that Feminism which is Left ideology, it's almost like Marxism in action. Well, it really is Marxism in action when I think about it. Well, this Marxist ideology is all about women being these capitalistic successful CEOs of these international corporations that are all about greed, greed, greed and profits. I'm sorry but it's quite literally impossible to take all this nonsense seriously. Feminism in all about special treatment for special interest group, that's all, just open your eyes to see.
Yet ironically, perhaps a great programmer is a hybrid of all of these archetypes?
What does the term of a loan have to do with anything? It's a meaningless metric in your context.
> Would you agree that there's a difference in severity between telling a man "I'm going to come to your house and rape you, you stupid faggot" and telling a woman "I'm going to come to your house and rape you, you stupid whore"? The latter has much more weight, as at least 1 in 5 women in America will be raped in their lifetime.

Granting, for the sake of argument, the basic premise that the latter statement would have greater weight if the proportion of women who would be raped in their lifetime was greater than the proportion of men for whom that is true [1], and granting the assertion about the lower bound on the prevalence of rape victimization for women [2], you would need to also provide [3] an upper bound on the prevalence of rape victimization for men that was lower than that lower bound for women for this to work.

[1] Which I would not grant except for the sake of argument, without additional argument for it, because there are a number of problems I see with that premise on its face, but they are secondary to the more glaring problem of the missing comparison.

[2] Which really should be supported by something.

[3] And, as in [2], support.
Why do I always seem to be running into the word "shitty" in criticisms or attacks that can't substantiate themselves?
I think that you should discriminate between "violence" in Physics and "violence" in Ethics.
I wish he would do more free online course funding and less lobbying of trying to force the terribad microsoft ranking system into public ed.
Most of the time, your ridiculous looks are your own damn fault, and deserves ridicule. Yes, this includes fatness.
Because anecdotes aren't data? This is a site aimed at hackers and programmers and you really think the utterly thoughtless logic underlying your post passes muster?
You misunderstand. This has nothing to do with comparing two torrents. Comparing two torrents solves the wrong problem.

Clients that have downloaded all of the data for a single file (but may or may not have downloaded all of the data for the full torrent) have the data for the file and can calculate the Merkle tree root for that file, and advertise availability on the DHT.

Clients with new style torrent files that included Merkle tree roots in file descriptions would then be able to download those files. This has nothing to do with comparing torrent files.
It's an attempt at humor - why would you take it seriously in the first place?

P.S. Fixed the typo.
I don't know...I feel like a lot of the emacs stuff is half-broken in weird ways (e.g., iedit mode doesn't work when editing grep results with grep-ed; hl-line-mode doesn't work if you're on the last line of a shell buffer, etc.). If I, as a programmer, tried to fix every broken elisp/emacs edge case I came across, I'd never get anything else done...and still not have a bug-free emacs, ya know? :)

Agreed the ease of modification of emacs is unparalleled (and tricks like dynamic scoping can be handy at times), but I'm not convinced that it wouldn't be possible to get something aprox. as flexible and easy to modify with a more robust culture and langauge. (But not a classic "real OO" language, which I agree would be very annoying -- I'm thinking something with a strong functional flavor and static structural typing...)

Whether this is really possible or not is an open question, though.
I agree and think that much of that line-noise style was prompted by the wild west nature of the web at the time, more than Perl itself.
It's not ironic.

The middle way is the path to enlightenment. Few of these are bad because of their spirit, they are bad because of their extremism.
There is a difference between "shit talk" and rooting out personal contact information to then send death or rape threats.
I don't think anyone expects an experience akin to high tea with the Queen, but no one deserves to be threatened. Everyone, consciously or not, wants respect.

It's simple in theory but hard in practice. It likely has to come from guidance. As a parent, I expect I will have to teach her how to engage with people both on and offline.

There's a reason we force kids to line up and shake the opposing team's hands after a soccer game.
One small flaw with the plan -- Woolsey has no shame.
It is EXTREMELY disturbing and a TRIGGER WARNING should have been included in the title.
As I've gotten the opportunity to run some game events or moderate discussion, I have some thoughts about this.

Making a space positive and inclusive is not a magical process, but it means going a lot farther than telling victims to "ignore the noise." It requires the stakeholders to be proactive. They must consider how to moderate the space in such a way that minority voices are protected.

If this doesn't happen, by default, the loudest majority will command the framework and drain points of discussion into fallacious, self-serving thinking like the low-level insults that permeate most online games. It can happen in many ways, shapes and forms(whether the hotbutton is gender, sexuality, politics, race...), but this quality is true of every space I've observed.
Back when I was a really dumb undergrad, I did some work for a company & they asked me where to mail the cheque. I gave them the University address. So I was chatting with my professor & we walk by the mailboxes, and by pure reflex, I reach out into my mailbox & grab my mail & he does the same & we say our goodbyes & go home.

Now, I open the mail at home & am staring at my professor's salary! You see, the secretary had switched our mails by mistake because our last names began with the same letter. I was quite stunned by the number - it was a measly sum, and I did the math & worked out that the Professor's salary was about 60K. Now, I knew my Professor was an important CS scholar & had tons of papers to his name, but that low number irked me. After the PhD and all these papers, just 60K...why..?

At the same time, my Professor had also gone home & opened his mail & was staring at my salary! So much money for some dumb undergrad who was basically an average student & had no major publications or research! He was quite bothered.

The next day, we had a very awkward exchange of mails. But from then on, the student-teacher dynamic completely changed. I suddenly began getting B's instead of C's & even occasional A-. He probably felt, hey if this guy can get so much money in the market, he probably knows his shit. otoh, I began to respect him & the CS program less & less. So I still have to spend 3 more years & take 45 more credits & do the qualifiers to get the PhD & then write all these papers & for what..60K ? That was my attitude at the time.

Needless to say, I dropped out of the PhD pgm with a Masters & went to work full-time. That was the stupidest thing I ever did, but I just didn't know it then. Now, I look back & think...hey if I hadn't known about his salary, I'd have slogged it through & actually gotten my PhD instead of half-assing it out here :(
These numbers are heavily skewed by the fact that the Top 200 on both iOS and Android are dominated by IAP based games. E.g. Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans are not significantly different on iOS vs Android, and that is where the narrowing gap is coming from.

But for independent app developers (particularly those making paid apps), the numbers that I've seen from many folks (and also from personal experience) are strongly weighted towards iOS. Every single developer I've talked to who has released an app on iOS and Android has come to the same conclusion: Android users simply don't pay for apps.
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> Stalin's KGB

KGB was formed in 1954, after Stalin's death. It is historically meaningful because of all the changes that were happening right after Stalin's death when USSR was changing from mass violence oppressive state of Stalin to the totalitarian state with more targeted violence. In particular the role of agency like KGB (while still having the same goal of state security) was shifting to being of less of enforcer/executioner and more of information gatherer and "mind controller" Big Brother style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Soviet_secret_pol...

As for the rest of your post - it is just propaganda blabber.
In my experience non-techy people of any age think he still heads up Microsoft, and blame him when Word crashes.
The former. If you're not convinced other peoples reactions to what you say matter, then try making dead baby jokes in front of someone who's had a miscarriage.

As for the latter, I would suggest instead that more women are driven away from the gaming community because of online encounters. People can say "oh just ignore it" or "grow a thicker skin", but with that reaction eventually you'll have a community of just male gamers who don't mind being told they're going to be raped while playing a game.
Are there any resources or groups dedicated to getting ahead of overzealous prosecutions like this? I know there are options one somebody has fallen victim to a misguided process, but it would be nice if there was a constructive effort to make sure law enforcement maintains some perspective from the onset.
> “Business-critical compliance system?” Mongo.

Some speculate that Coinbase's problems may stem from their use of MongoDB (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428382). I wouldn't be surprised to hear that someone tried to implement an EMR system in MongoDB either
A lot of them don't trust charities due to management scamming so Gates has built one of the first orgs other billionaire's feel comfortable donating to like Warren Buffet who signed over basically his entire fortune to Gates.
You're really going to argue that more men are raped than women in America?
As an opinion piece I think it does more of a disservice than anything not just with the blanket statements but the author basically does the very thing he's criticizing only in more civilized language, essentially calling "gamers" (of which he conveniently disassociates himself from) a bunch of socially-stunted basement dwellers.
Hey now. Mongo is web scale.
Is asking for what you want pushy? I'm not sure we want to be praising people for being good little doormats.

Learn to defend your work and ask for what you deserve.
I've seen two libraries suggested on the React mailing list:

http://swannodette.github.io/mori/

https://github.com/hughfdjackson/immutable

The first one uses the same data structures from ClojureScript.
> nginx supports it

Well, one hopes. nginx is still on SPDY/2 which browser vendors are already preparing to remove support for ...

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spdy-dev/XDudMZSq3e4

So hooray for more up to date implementations!
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So kids are playing COD at a rate of more than one thousand years per day? What does that even mean?
A machine like that runs vim/emacs perfectly, I don't see the problem. And for compiling you can use build farms if you're serious. We're getting way to used to our shiny modern toys to realise that it doesn't take much for an OS to run and do actual work.

Up to last March I was using a first generation eeepc with a resolution of 800x480, 512mb of ram and 4gb ssd. It was stretching it but didn't stop me from doing actual work with vim, compile programs (although slow) and push to github. Plus ssh on my server for heavier work.

now... browsing the Web with elinks and framebuffer was kind of a pain...
What happens to that facility if the Supreme Court/Congress bans mass surveillance - which would imply they don't need it anymore (to host that many servers)? I fear that if we let them continue to use it, they'll keep running the mass surveillance in secret under new names and with new secret budgets. That's why I think it should be closed down and sold off. Make it physically hard for them to perform mass surveillance even in secret.
You know what, here's a few representative snapshots from the backer forums. http://imgur.com/a/oUd1p There may be duplicates.
I am not sure why you think its realistic to take the threat of rape while playing a video game seriously. Do you have any data to back up this claim that it is in fact a serious threat? I am not trying to detract from the message that it is bad but this seems silly.
While you're at it why don't you fix: (needle, haystack), (haystack, needle)? :P
But wouldn't the same user a fool as well using FB connect as a login to all the forums and marketplaces? If one manage to crack his FB account, then go to the apps list, and sure the hacker has access to all of the forums, marketplaces, and other sites that uses FB Connect.

On the other hand, if you use one email and same password across all sites (but different email password), even if the hacker hacks the email, the hacker does not have the access to forums, marketplaces, etc. The hacker would have to hack each individual sites.
Looks pretty cool. I'll have to give it a shot. Look forward to the other features being implemented, specifically scatter plots given that I do a lot of work with them.
I have you ever thought that maybe human beings are not computer programs that you have written and so therefore there may be a reason someone may be unhappy someone sitting next them makes 20% more for the same work? You act as if it is some logical fallacy because you were naive enough to accept the smaller amount or something. I'm not surprised. This kind of reasoning is very common on here.
I can't help but think this is an east-vs-west thing. Ghandi calling on the Jews to resist the Holocaust through non-violence sounds "silly" to western ears. Orwell argues that non-violence only worked in India because the British weren't as ruthless as the Nazis.

There's something to that, but consider the case of Tibet. Ok, China isn't Nazi Germany, but they're pretty totalitarian, particularly in Tibet. They certainly don't allow "a free press and right of assembly." The Dalai Lama, as spiritual and political leader of Tibet, has insisted on Ghandi-style non-violent resistance for over 60 years now. Instead of jumping into the ocean, Tibetans protest the occupation by setting themselves on fire. It happens so often that gasoline is a controlled substance in Tibet.

We might note that non-violence hasn't been very effective against the Chinese, (at least so far) and if that's all Orwell was getting at, fine. On the other hand, I think it's safe to say that the Dalai Lama and his followers do understand the nature of totalitarianism, and it's not just naiveté that makes them continue with non-violence.
>There is a difference between "shit talk" and rooting out personal contact information to then send death or rape threats.

Of course there is. The problem with this conversation is that it appears to be a polymorphic one. Which of the two are we talking about? I would imagine that there is no consensus on this.
Show me the bit in the 80s where Microsoft sued with a claim to have the exlusive right to develop GUIs, ever.

There's a reason the FSF blacklisted Apple, but not Microsoft, for many years.
Of which the article linked is a shining example of evidence-backed reasoning.
But it masks the true problem, that online communities tend to be hostile to everyone. Not just gaming communities and not just women.
> Having employees not discuss salary is all about the employer having more power/control, and the employees having less.

You seem to imply that just because the employees know all the salaries, they have more control. This is not accurate.

They have more knowledge but certainly not more control.

If anything, the fact that the salaries are the result of a simple equation means that the employees have close to no control over the money they make. Also, a lot of factors contribute to the productivity of an employee, most of which cannot be accounted for in a simplistic equation, things such as working long hours, working on weekends, good attitude, willing to take on unpopular tasks, etc...
I don't mind using named returns a lot--they can help to document, and sometimes they save you a declaration you were going to do in the method body anyway.

There are times they can be redundant (Sum(ints) does not need its return value named), or make the code less clear, or they indicate that you're trying to work around having overcomplicated methods by documenting them--I'm not saying always use them. But I don't try to avoid them.
They might as well force the employees to disclose what they spend the money on.
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It's called the climate change apocalypse, and every major government is hurtling our species toward it. Hawaii University just released the best data we have so far: sea level rises are inevitable, mass destruction of coasts worldwide, hundreds of millions of refugees, famine, drought, and extinction of huge proportions of higher life forms across the planet.

The only remaining debate is whether we will experience apocalyptic horrors of Biblical degree, whether just humans will go extinct, or whether all life on Earth will go extinct. These are our three possible futures. The Permian mass extinction has oft been cited.

You are morally condemned for your ignorance. You are part of the problem. Shame on you.
Blackjet didn't own the jets.
I know Devon Energy pretty well. I know they have a strong PR department and their is no way they want this to be blown up. They need the Keystone XL pipeline built. My guess is this is a case of overzealous security guards and OKC police. Time will tell though.
Right, but - Virgin upper class if you're flying out of NYC, for example, can get you to....the UK. And a limited number of times a day.

Private planes are absolutely awesome for getting between inconvenient points domestically. Have to get from San Jose to Austin on short notice? A quick skim of ITA shows coach fares of $1k and they all require a stop somewhere, with an average duration of 7-ish hours.

Or, hop on a private jet, skip security, take off pretty much whenever you're ready to take off, nad then come back when you want it.
What a bunch of HacknerNews groupthink nonsense or at the very best, hippy dribble. You think it is just some sort of cultural problem for someone that they may not really want the whole world to know what they make? It's one thing for the echo chamber here to be way outside of reality ... it's another to think it is normal.
No, it's not, though I will cede that the distinction is a subtle one. My point is that their specific words are not important to them. They're just saying whatever. By the letter of the definition, it is sexual harassment, but by the spirit of their actions, it is not. And if you don't understand why someone is acting the way they are, you stand little chance of persuading them to change their ways. You can stand around and quote rape statistics all you want - it will fall on deaf ears. It has.
> You're really going to argue that more men are raped than women in America?

No, I'm going to argue that if you choose to make an argument implicitly premised on the different rape victimization by sex, you can't support it with just an unsupported statistic for one sex.