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> “Wow. Women don’t usually say that type of things”.

To be perfectly honest, this is something I might have thought (but even then had the sense not to say) when I was working as an engineer. The mere lack of women in tech leads to perceptions that make it unpleasant for women to enter the field. Most people interact with just a few spheres: people they work with, people they meet on the street, and their friends, which are often drawn from people they work with or people they went to school with. When you go to school with very few women, and work with very few women, as engineers usually do, your perception of the whole gender is disproportionately shaped by those women you meet on the street, in the course of day to day activities. For people who work in intellectually demanding fields, the people you meet on the street are quite likely to not be as smart as the people you work with or the people you went to school with. And that as a real impact.
I moved from Albany/Corvallis (around Portland OR) to Raleigh, NC for school (I go to NC State) and the difference is clearly perceptible. Everyone waves & smiles to each other, people say 'bless your heart,' please & thank you etc.
In general they don't give off the impression that they want to minimize human contact as much as possible like in Portland.

I guess it's worth mentioning that there is a lot of animosity here towards people from NY and NJ (I have heard this from 3 people off the top of my head), but everyone I've met from those parts is cool too...
Article is lacking. Does "frying" mean deep frying, or also pan frying? All types of oils? In the end, which way should we be cooking meat?
I don't know. Doing that would probably, consciously or not, forever put the author down in the other attendees' "difficult to deal with; better to stay clear of in the future" list. On the other hand, chances are the social repercussions the groper will suffer for his actions will be minimal regardless of whether he is called out or not.

There is a lot the unmentioned presumable majority of perfectly reasonable guys at that meeting could have done to make the few bad apples feel excluded and uncomfortable in a way which would far surpass any explicit callout by anyone in its effectivity, but unfortunately, in practice, most people are very reluctant to use social signalling in any rational or deliberate way.
I wonder how many moves a random valid move generator would be expected to survive against a master.
Mexico here, same thing.
So you didn't immediately tell him to stop and continue on with your life and fled to the internet just so you can get HN karma? Yeah I stopped reading right there. This is why "women in tech" are a problem, because they constantly put themselves on a pedestal.
It is a trick actually. The more time the opponent has, the easier it is for Carlsen, as he uses his opponents turn time to think. An average player doesn't have the skill to put him under pressure.

+edit: you also usually get an extra second or two ( depending on the total time ) per move.
Clang/LLVM does not restrict users from developing their own extensions and licensing them as they see fit which ironically makes the software not free (according to the RMS ideological software freedom purity test).

This restricts users freedom, that is his point.

GPL is not about the rights of the programmer, it is about the rights of the end user.
Actually, the saying is that a few bad apples spoils the bunch, which refers to the tendency of decay or infestation to quickly spread throughout the bushel: http://www.npr.org/2011/05/09/136017612/bad-apple-proverbs-t... ("But as the memory of rotting apples fades, the meaning of the 'bad apple' proverb has changed. In 19th century America, it was a staple of Sunday morning sermons: 'As one bad apple spoils the others, so you must show no quarter to sin or sinners.' Or it could suggest that finding one malefactor in a group should make you suspicious of everybody else. 'A bad apple spoils the bin,' one journalist wrote in 1898 of the Dreyfus Affair; if one officer is capable of forgery then why wouldn't others be as well?
Back then, nobody ever talked about 'just a few bad apples' or 'only a few rotten apples' — the whole point was that even one was enough to taint the group.").

In this case, the saying, the real one, is apropos. It might just be a few bad apples, but they taint the whole culture.

{I actually used this phrase a couple of days ago, at which point my wife hit my with some FFA knowledge.}
That's not exactly true. You need to have a published game or a working game demo of a certain quality level prior to them giving you a XBOX 360/Xbox One dev kit. XNA is no longer supported or a thing at all.
"IBM will retain its System z mainframes, Power Systems, Storage Systems, Power-based Flex servers, and PureApplication and PureData appliances."
To RMS and the FSF, what users need/deserve is Free Software.
No, rms doesn't really care about source code. He cares about user freedom. He wants every user of software to have the same freedom to experiment, modify and redistribute that its original developers had. Placing source code in escrow would not accomplish any of these goals.
My guess is everything is SF is more expensive than in Chicago. Housing is 4X more expensive and other things as a result, are somewhat more expensive. Of course, you can still spend the same amount on housing in SF by living in a much smaller place, but that's besides the point. per square foot it is still more.
Funny how far removed real problems are from our society.

"The intimidation, the mental abuse aspect of it is enough."

versus

Collecting wood in a forest 40km away so you can stoke a fire and your family can eat.

Tell the guy to get his hands off you, grab a seat, introduce yourself. Everyone needs an emotional baby sitter and therapist nowadays.
What exactly do you want her to say? "Hi, stop being a dick, because this kind of behavior is a serious turn off to women who want to be involved in tech?" That's obviously not going to fly.

So what about, "Hi, could you not awkwardly hug me?" What people say in response to that is, "Why are you being mean to me? I was just trying to be friendly." It's extremely hard to say something in the moment without getting stereotyped as a frigid bitch.
It's not on the author to say something. There were a handful of other people there who could have spoken up.

Please, everyone, if you witness this type of rude behavior, speak up. We are all, male, female, undecided, both etc. responsible for improving treatment of non-males in tech. Take an active role.
Seems fixed, I google gmail and I don't see the link.
I hope we're intelligent enough to differentiate between "unwelcome physical groping" and "overheard some guys make private a joke about 'dongles' and overreacted" but you do bring up a valid point certainly.

I guess I just get tired of people in general who complain about things and never take action to remedy it, then go back and garner support by preaching to the choir. I'm absolutely aghast that it happened to her but I just wish people would start being as vocal in person as they can be on their blogs.
Ah, yes the "get rich through stock options" myth again. It is funny how everyone uses Facebook and Google as examples not realizing that they are pretty much unicorns. The truth is that 7 out 10 start-ups fail, and your options will be close to (or completely) worthless. Even if your start-up does well, are you really going to get rich with your 0.05% share of the company? Except for VP Eng or CTO positions, it is rare that anyone in development gets more than 0.5% of shares. Which are diluted at every round of subsequent VC round.
> How many more posts like this are needed to convince you that the whole community of tech meetups is hostile towards women?

A whole lot more, because I don't see this shit at the tech meetups I go to.
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I am French, my GF is in San Francisco, and I am trying to get a decent company to avoid that. And it's hard... :/
Then again, what kind of person gropes a stranger, in public, in front of a bunch of people who are sure to see and know who you are?

You really can't put anything past someone who has absolutely no restraint or regard for people.
Some fishes climb trees. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003c3jk
There is an idea of feminist perspectives helping find a way past the current zero sum dog eat dog approach of society. Aping a bunch of dysfunctional men in their self-serving comprehension of governments and money systems is not it.
One of the interesting early Bitcoin websites was basically that: a micropayment Reddit called Witcoin https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Witcoin

I used it for a bit. It was actually fairly nice, but it never picked up much traction and was shut down years ago.
Repeat this bug for the self-driving cars and you'd end up with thousands of cars driving to some random guy's house.

That'd certainly be an interesting news story.
Awesome. I really appreciate the feedback and the kind words. Cheers to you.
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So, the woman is dumb for leaving the home without having a plan to deal with people who physically assualt her in a public space?

Is that what you're saying?
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As I'm reading, all I can think "Are you even remotely serious? We now can't have a discussion about gender without rfnslyr derailing the conversation, this time because he wants to harken back to early pioneer days?"

Your trollish derailment of gender threads on HN is rather telling. Or do you have any point related to how this woman was groped without her consent, repeatedly?
Yeah, not so smart. A quick look at blekko's crawl data says that about 1/2 of the urls matching /sex/i are not objectionable, assuming you don't mind your kids seeing something labeled 'sexy'. A pretty crappy filter.

Here are 10 random urls that have /sex/i in them: 2 overblocks, 1 news article about sex offenders, 4 urls that mention "sexy", and 3 sex sites.

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/news/3322/essex-history-revealed-through-photographs
http://trace.tv/en/urban/video/1345_top_sexy_boys_rihanna_s_special
http://nutrius.tumblr.com/post/33689144704/sextafoil
http://www.tribunetimes.com/article/20121016/NEWS/310160041/Treatment-being-sought-juvenile-sex-offenders
http://sexypornocams.com/
http://macys.tumblr.com/post/34356483165/spotted-and-sexy-a-leopard-eye-makes-for-the
http://www.platinumsexpass.com/
http://520sex.530video.info/
http://bocadelrio.olx.com.mx/sexo-masculino-limpieza-para-restaurante-en-veracruz-iid-373475442
http://www.waycoolgadgets.com/sexy-tron-costume/
Sounds like "no true Scotsman", to me.

Women have faced, and continue to face, challenges in tech circles. It's hard to make progress because the first step is admitting you have a problem, and it's easy for the tech community to think it's someone else's problem. Keep an eye on your own thoughts and challenge assumptions (yours and others) that marginalize gender issues.
"[The Clang and LLVM developers] object to the measures we have taken to defend freedom because they see the inconvenience of them and do not recognize (or don't care about) the need for them."

I would call this an Orwellian use of language. Stallman and the FSF have adopted a particular definition of "freedom", which is a good deal more particular that the usual definition, but they seem to consistently act as if it was the one and only definition, and therefore that anyone opposed to it is opposed to freedom.

Nevertheless, on one reasonable definition of "freedom", permissive licenses are more free than copyleft licenses. On another reasonable definition (the FSFs), copyleft licenses are more free than permissive licenses.

The statement quoted above implicitly assumes that there is only one definition of freedom, and it's the one the FSF favors.
I don't even question the feasibility. If we can create strong AI and/or self-aware AI, we can make Samantha. If we can't, we can't. It doesn't seem to be any more complicated than that.

(The other natural follow-up question to "how feasible" is "how soon". Again, I simply point to AI research)
I've seen a one guy sucker punch another over a woman, dropped him straight to the floor. All three were total strangers to each other, also everyone was probably drunk though. I agree that it is unlikely, but it isn't beyond the realm of possibility... also to assess the violence situation you have to factor in the crowd. If you're going to potentially start shit it matters if you happen to be surrounded by his friends.

Anyway, although I agree with treating unwanted advances with reciprocal escalating naked hostility, the meetup organizer is really the only one with the power/knowledge to enforce standards of behaviour.
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I guess I'm sorry (sarcastic). Thanks for the knowledge, though. That's helpful (not sarcastic).
I doubt the others noticed the groping but you're absolutely right. People need to stop inappropriate behavior when and where it occurs.
Yeah call it a "pseudo-poll", I am not empowered to poll formally yet.
I hear you. I've lived in Seattle for 8 years, and my impression is that people here are professional. They say polite things. Even friends I've known for many years talk to me like they're composing a formal letter. I had a girlfriend that talked to me like she was conducting a business meeting. I realize some of this might have to do with my circles (mostly professionals, duh), but even in more diverse groups here I get the same impression. There's no real connection beyond that surface niceness. It makes me want to get out of here. Hence this thread.
... or through the lens of "Stephen Wolfram has a huge ego".
I get only 8 results. Fascinating.
The article seems to imply that this behavior isn't limited to just this particular meet-up, but is characteristic of her experiences in bitcoin/tech/etc.
Yeah he has time to think when the opponent is moving, but 30 seconds just isn't a lot of time if you consider there is a minimum practical time per move just based on the physical reality of being a human that has to move the piece and hit the clock, as illustrated pretty well by Carlsen's move where he knocked over a piece and burnt something like 3 seconds on one move.

I think any decently skilled (but non-world-class) chess player could have run him down just by playing defensively. Of course, that would have been terrible tv, so we got someone who probably only plays casually getting steam-rolled by the "Justin Bieber of chess".
Congratulations, you have successfully determined that scumbags are everywhere.

The behavior of these people should not be directly correlated with bitcoin/tech/startups/whateveryouwanttocallit.
And "If we can eventually create a strong AI," is basically the same as saying, "If minds are physical" (hint: they are). In fact, we create strong intelligences by the tens of millions each year. We just currently only have the ability to do it biologically.
How about we just meet somewhere in the middle of "rushing to open the car door for her" and sexual groping?
I think that says more about the Bitcoin community than it does anything about the tech community, though. I imagine the average Bitcoin user as more a fedora-toting internet troll than a crypto-enthusiast. If you look at various cryptocurrency forums, the average user barely knows anything about computers, has little interest in learning more, and just wants someone to hold their hand through the process of getting loads of money off their parent's/school's/employer's electricity. It's totally unsurprising to me that the kind of person this attracts would start imagining themself as some kind of sleezeball investor on top of the world ("can I buy your affection, milady?") just because they're speculating on a couple hundred dollars of cryptocurrency.
The Gates biography 'Gates' by Stephen Manes recalls that Gates used to play chess against Paul Allen a great deal in the early days. IIRC, Gates would play very aggressively, leaving lots of opportunities to be attacked, and Allen would usually win the games. He was more of a poker player though.
I've been running my mail server from my home for months. There is one block list that my IP range is on due to the nature of it running from my home. But, I tested with the big free providers and haven't found a single email provider that blocks me as a result.
When did we all start agreeing that some amorphous force called 'culture' is out there compelling individuals to act badly?

It seems like an extremely convenient gremlin. It can mean almost anything in any context and can act as both a sink and a fountain for blame.
Actually, Carlsen was playing for tricks (as might be reasonable when you have just 30 seconds). Bill Gates had a winning position on the 9th move. If instead of 9. Nxe5?? which allows an immediate checkmate, he had played 9. Re1!, he would have had a huge advantage. I'm an international master, and more importantly, my computer backs up my opinion.

I'm surprised Carlsen played a game with just 30 seconds on his clock; it's easy to lose in that situation since you simply don't have enough time to make more than about 30 moves. And by the way, the best player in the world at ridiculously short time controls ("bullet chess") like 1 minute for the game is Hikaru Nakamura, the top-rated American player, not Magnus Carlsen. Nakamura tends to play soundly in these time controls. Look at this video for a game where Nakamura plays against Grandmaster Max Dlugy (another bullet chess expert) with kibitzing by Grandmaster Ben Finegold:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzrap8Vtyq8
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The crawler hopefully wouldn't be logged in as everyone.

I guess the links are just posted to pages by accident.
This is perfectly valid, selling GPL software is fine if you can find someone to pay for them. Wrapping them up in a nice installer and selling a support package, also A-OK, and a frequently recommended business model. Free software doesn't mean free as in price, it is free as in freedom.

Keil is a bit different in that you are also paying for their IDE and debugger and such, which are of course non-Free.
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Well, how about this analogy--you see a really beautiful girl and you try to hit on her. You're not afraid she'll throw her drink in your face, because most beautiful girls would never do such a thing, but wow, she's really drop-dead gorgeous and you don't know how to handle yourself and you find yourself getting really, really tongue-tied.

It's like that for women confronting large men, except without the happy butterflies in your stomach.
I certainly wasn't "correcting" anything. He gave his schedule, I noticed he seemed to be single with no kids, and showed him my schedule (which is pretty light in comparison to other parents or parents with two high school kids with activities, etc)

Yeah, there's time leakage, but not as much as you make it out to be.

Up at 4:30, ok, I hit snooze for 10 minutes once. I then sit and drink some coffee and look at hacker news. 15 minutes or so. I shave (my head too, I'm a baldy), do my morning business, and shower. That's about 20 minutes. I usually have some dishes from the night before that need cleaning, or a dishwasher that I empty.

Like I said, I could work during Movie time, but you know what, I love my wife and enjoy spending time with her. I also have other hobbies (seems you mentioned above that your work is your only hobby)

I also notice some of the other wifes don't work and take care of the house and kids. My wife works full time, and I'm a good husband that does my share around the house and and equal share raising the kid. Sure, I could push more on her and be selfish, but I'm not going to.

My only real time leakage is in the mornings (I like and feel I need time to wake up) and on Friday with a weekly movie. I don't really care that you think it's odd. 2 hours a week watching "TV" is so minimal people I know call me a freak. The fact that it seems alien to you to set aside time to relax and not think about anything says volumes about you (not necessarily bad things, mind you).

Thanks for the link. Looks a little, uh, suspect. My wife is a Physical Therapist though, I'll run it by her.

Edit: Link might not be relevant for me, only been doing OT for a couple months, before that had an EMG done and nerve damage was shown to exist.
Great job! Hope you find success with it and thank you for open sourcing it.
I would agree that the men who would hit a woman would almost exclusively fall in to the group who would grope them and say inappropriate things to them. However, I know way more otherwise well-socially-adjusted men who would make sexist comments but would never hit a woman.
If an amateur had 10 hours to think about each move of a chess game, and the GM he was playing against had 1 second for each move (and couldn't think on the amateur's time), the GM would still _crush_ the amateur. GMs kind of are super heroes of chess.

(it is true though that 9 moves is a silly short game. most amateurs would last longer)
If nobody bothers to challenge or set boundaries with cretins like this, how will the situation ever change? I don't think this is a situation where you'd have to fear for your safety for showing a little bit of a spine. It's not as if people who are socially retarded enough to think that behavior is okay will change without negative repercussions for their actions.
I've read many posts from people who think that the government controls the filter and controls what is on the filter and that the filter is mandatory.

It's important to correct that misinterpretation.
Today's breakdown was a huge warning flag for me. I'm heavily integrated with Google Services, and use Hangouts as my main messenger and SMS app on my Nexus phone. While Gmail was down, I couldn't respond to anyone who was using hangouts to contact me, couldn't share any documents on Google Drive, etc.

I'm going to have to seriously think about the risks of being so heavily reliant on Google services.
Spot on response. It's pretty absurd the number of people whose knee jerk reaction is some variant on "deal with it the way a man would". That line of thinking is so screwed up on so many levels to be absurd.
Not a woman, but perhaps something like "This is much too forward of you", in a disapproving tone. Nothing makes me quickly reconsider my actions like this words, even if it turns out she was kidding.

It provides the suggestion that if he proceeded differently, there might be a chance, but if he continues this way there is not. That suggestion might be enough to restore at least a semblance of normal interaction?
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Maybe it isn't related to Bitcoin and Tech so much as it is related to, say, USA and SF?

Because I can't imagine such stories materialize in other places (of developed word and large parts of developing world either).

You just seem to have enough peculiar traits from both gender sides for a perfect storm.
Well if there is a UK filter for porn I can assure you I appear to be on the right side of it. ;)
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If an ISP blocks port 25 then it means they'll have a bunch of support calls from people who's email client doesn't send email because SMTP is blocked. So, in my experience not many ISPs do that anymore. Besides it isn't actually an effective way to stop spam.
> Why do you say that lxc (and cgroups) are less powerful than FreeBSD jails?

If I was wrong about this it's because I'm not up to date on things that happen in the Linux kernel, it wasn't my intention to bash it or anything like that.