skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best response is to say something that makes him feel embarassed. Like "wow. This must be a big day for you. You don't get to touch a woman very often, do you?". Loud enough, of course.
Thanks. FWIW, I haven't seen or heard about anything like this happening at the SF Bitcoin Meetup. If I did, it wouldn't be tolerated. In fact, there's been a woman running the show more often than not, and now one of the main co-organizer is a woman.
Yes, the Fed will quickly buy up all the bonds necessary to feed the USGovt appetite, allowing the USGovt to outbid any citizen for goods and services. This situation does not lead to a nice and cool inflation of 2%.

Meanwhile will the rest of the world be willing to ship real goods and services in return for promises of ever more paper IOUs from the USG, and when those paper IOUs are due, the promise of even more paper IOUs?

If this all sounds sustainable, I have a deal for you. I want to borrow $100 off you and I'll pay you $105 next year. Don't worry, I'm good for it. I'm also lending myself $200 and will pay myself back $210 next year.
So how about it?
Clearly the 5% interest rate is what has been set by the market (me) so you are getting a good deal.

Next year comes around and I hand you some paper IOUs for $110 the next year. Meanwhile, I'll borrow another $100 off you. I've been living it large and need a bit more sugar. Don't worry, I'm good for it - I'll lend myself another $200 too!
I'm doing angular.js + node-webkit for my desktop app, not bad. How is your Brackets-Shell experience?
Meritt absolutely made blaming statements. Even the most charitable reading of his post is him complaining that she decided to make clickbait.

He tried to shame her and degrade her for having shared her story instead of doing something else.

He's an asshole. Fuck him.
> double (triple?) blind study of mice

Would that be a study where the mice are not aware of if they are in the control or not?

Has the placebo effect been seen in mice?
Yeah I'm doing OK, are you?
> Your cause is hatred of white men and you find solace with others of the same persuasion.

You are part of the reason tech is a shitty place to work.
i keep trying physical/written/etc to-do systems, they continuously fail me unfortunately... but thanks for sharing, it sounds like a great method!
I have the personal space problem no matter where I go and the "frigid bitch" thing for even the slightest offense is common, so yeah it is definitely a human problem. It just seems that in the tech community there are people more eager to jump to namecalling/victim blaming/harassment or defending what happened. (Scroll down for some great examples, if they haven't been deleted yet!)

There are good people for sure here, I'm getting married to one in two months. The rotten apples are just more vocal and this is a community I'm trying to care about improving.
thanks, will try!
To be fair, most people use their 3DS/DS/Vita/PSP/whatever more like a tablet than like a phone. They're meant for curling up on the couch on a lazy afternoon (or, uh, as something to keep you occupied on the toilet...), not for whipping out in public while you're waiting in a queue. The low battery life of the newer handhelds seems relevant: iirc the 3DS's is around 3 hours, and the Vita's is comparable.
It's probably healthy for us "web people" to get a reminder every so often that vast swaths of humanity use computers in ways that are nearly incomprehensible to us.
Gates should challenge Carlsen to a speed game of Write the Disk Operating Sytem Before the Big Meeting Next Week, methinks.
Sorry, I wasn't taking it personally. I was having a meta discussion about how we were talking about it more than anything. I don't think we have a problem with each other. :)

>I claimed that this is far worse than normal behavior that is probably isolated to the "community" of cryptocurrency speculators. [...] You can disagree if you'd like, but I'm not "distracting" or "derailing" the conversation, I'm just... having a conversation?

Fair enough, I think you're right and that we simply disagree on that fundamental pivot point.

Still though, what is the point of making this distinction? Like, I don't think anyone ever /was/ asserting that running cgminer or holding some doges makes you "as legit" or "in the same vein as" someone who works in SV or works for Microsoft or something.

I guess if you think it's specific to cryptocommunities then you would advocate for crypto-currency-specific gender training/education materials maybe?
The world was fooled once by promises of US gold which Nixon defaulted on. They won't fall for that one again.
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Bieber is actually quite a good singer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko8gepM8MBU.

It's easy to lose sight of that given his stardom, but he got his start based on raw singing talent.
Don't bother. Parent commenter is your stereotypical programmer. Just take a look at: https://github.com/Imdsm/AutoGfy/issues/5

Some people just lack tact.
I think it's great that YCombinator is "eating its own dogfood" and the new site has some cool features, like instant search results.

I have a few concerns, though.

I think that there is too much whitespace, which makes content discovery take longer. An infinite scroll interface is not appropriate for HN. Content is not added as quickly as Twitter, and infinite scroll makes searching for the oldest comment or story (is that still possible?) a nightmare. Separating the username from the points/# of comments by placing it on the top right also makes scansion more difficult.

The previous search engine's syntax no longer works and the functionality it offered seems to not have been replaced (If that's not true, please let me know).

How do you:

Search for comments written by a certain author

Look at an individual comment's score

Search by date

Search exclusively for stories or comments
From that blog, it seems more like a new "alternative" to it rather than an "update" that replaces the existing one, but if it's purely a matter of semantics, I guess that's fine - just making sure I understand it right.

Congrats on getting into YC by the way! :)
My favourite was 'consbreastutional'. It even sounds like a formal thing.
If you are worried about causing a scene, butt in about something else.

Hey <NAME>, I heard somebody say you like <TECHNOLOGY>! I'm a huge fan too!

If he's resistant to your interruption, be more forceful in trying to engage him. Maybe sit down next to him. Worst-case he becomes aggressive towards you, but so long as you stay bright & friendly, everyone else will see him picking the fight. That way you can try to defuse the situation indirectly. Maybe you get him engaged in conversation, or maybe the girl seizes the moment to excuse herself. Maybe you offer to the girl, Some other girls were looking for their friend, they said she had a blue shirt, was that you?

If he seems reasonable yet misguided (rather than a total asshole who knows the girl wants nothing to do with him), you can optionally try leading him away and quietly saying something like, I noticed that girl was starting to feel uncomfortable, tone it down/back off/try a different tactic.

Anyway, that's what I'd do if I was trying to avoid making a scene.
and this
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/business/China-expected-to-anno...
Even if there is no harm in giving out your bank account number, your bank account number is longer then your debit card and harder to recount. I think this is a great idea and hope it pans out.
I see you felt the need to add a footnote when there was only one link[1].

[1]: Unnecessary
Not to defend the men in this story but I imagine they are like many guys in tech-single and lonely, and see these sorts of meet-ups as an opportunity to meet women with similar interests. Specifically the line "Oh ok cool, so if we start dating I can use the app with you!" seems to suggest this objective.

I think a lot of their statements are said to provoke a reaction from women in a "flirty" manner, not because these men are actually misogynistic. Their well-intentioned flirtatious remarks are being interpreted as sexist by women attending these events, likely because these men are inexperienced with women and unsure how to relate to them.
"Her" may captivate non-techies and romantic liberal arts majors. But "HUMAN AI AROUND THE CORNER!" must leave anyone who knows anything about AI smiling benevolently.

The guy in the article who says we're basically there sounds like a loon.

Kudos to Norvig for skipping this rubbish.
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Wasting their time via deception might be though.
No goals
I disagree. Of the comments I've read here so far, I agreed with hbags the most. There are plenty of more measured responses to be found here, but none that captured how I felt as well as hbags. I'm not someone who holds grudges, and I accept we all sometimes say things without understanding what we imply, but in the moment I was glad someone could give voice to how I felt.
I was under the impression that google was above the industry standard for up time. If not I would like to know who offers similar services with better up time.
Send out the Mythbusters bat-signal
No. The PC revolution was built on compilers like Borland's Turbo Pascal and Microsoft C. GCC was very much a latecomer to the PC revolution.
Yeah, and OP's incident doesn't even register on the radar.
It's a very practical site, but the colour scheme is ass. Massive upgrade from the old one mind you.
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Stallman made the same argument about Java bytecode back when it was the cool low-level cross-platform compatibility layer.

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-02/msg00895.html
There a bunch of facts that contradict this, e.g. the exstance of the LGPL, RMS supporting BSD licencing of Xiph codecs etc.

His approach is a lot more nuanced and tactical than it is often portrayed.
Of course he's likely in the top 0.001% of singing talent, but would you say he's literally "the best" singer in the world regardless of age?
I uh, I do understand what you're saying. My empathy is overflowing, and I've seen friends that have gone from timid to "over confident" in order to find more success in dating... so I can understand that a million thoughts were flying through his head when he decided to go for it.

BUT, the two were strangers, in a topic-oriented setting, and she rebuffed his first attempt. That could have, and should have been the end of the story...

Put another way: if he had hugged her, she said "We just met..." and that was the end of it, we wouldn't be having the conversation at all.

Unfortunately, as you allude, there's not really a definitive way of solving this problem unless we build a way of giving passive signals constantly. Some sort of an indicator or smart phone app "Yes, I am willing to be hit on by you and you, but not you and you". There's a weird idea...
You've never heard of the three blind mice? I believe the farmer's wife won a Nobel prize for her work in regeneration of severed limbs.
Not an other post about what "freedom" means :(.

Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights and in particularly about the right to be left alone (negative rights).

Freedom of speech, private property, freedom from violent crime, freedom of worship, habeas corpus, a fair trial, freedom from slavery are just a few freedoms that can only be implemented by restricting others. You can't have freedom from slavery without restricting slave owners their right to enslave. Thus the term negative rights had to be made by philosophers and political scientists.

The proprietary model is to trade software for money, and then threaten your customers with lawsuit if they share or modify the program. GPL provide software under the freedom from those threats, with the use of negative rights (ie, the user of the program has a right to be left alone). If you can not make software without threatening your users, don't try to start by taking GPL software.
[I used to be a GMail SRE]

Correct, it's pretty much impossible for an outage to not be noticed and the GMail on-call being automatically paged.

SREs at GMail are engineers, yes, but they're very much directly involved with fixing outages - not so much at the 'try turning it off and then turning it on again' level, more the 'redirect all traffic away from this cluster into a different one, while we roll back the broken update'.

SRE is a combination of problem-solving when there are outages, and building tools to 1) automate away the manual jobs involved in massive-scale system administration so that outages are less likely to occur.
I'm fine.

I'm just concerned that someone in this community (you) could be so upset about this story that you're posting things that I can only interpret as deliberately inflammatory and hostile. Instead of just assuming that you're a bad person trying to stir up trouble, I was wondering if something else was bothering you.
Unless they have the developer and cryptographer attention bitcoin has looking for flaws, a bunch of technical changes like that is not an advantage, it's a likely flaw that may make the coin less secure.

Just because someone says this list of things make it better doesn't make it so, I seriously doubt the implications of those changes on security have received even a fraction of the attention bitcoin has received by those looking for attack vectors.
I think that one's pretty easy: Why is it down? Technical hypotheses, discussion of past history of outages, etc.
If anyone from HNSearch is listening:

You should default to HTTPS for all links to HN.
is it really possible ?
I think whatever you do during your work hours becomes property of your employer, not you.
I'm not dumb enough to try to change the stripes on a proudly bigoted jerk like Meritt.

I just want anybody who sees his spew to know that his opinion is not the only one. I want any human who is harassed to know that if they share their story after the fact, that's good.

And they shouldn't worry about the fact that some utterly worthless assholes like Meritt will try to shame them for speaking out. They shouldn't be ashamed if they were too afraid, too shy, or too confused to respond in the moment.

It is GOOD that we share these stories. It is GOOD that we move towards a world where these things happen less often.

And the utterly worthless assholes like Meritt who want to shame people for sharing their stories... they might be well represented in HN, but they're a minority of normal humans.

And I'd like other potential Meritt's to realize how utterly disgusting it is that he tried to shame the victim into silence.
> Your cause is hatred of white men and you find solace with others of the same persuasion.

You're seeing a problem and making it worse. Please stop.
I love how fast it is! Two things I rely on heavily with the old hnsearch are (a) restrict to stories or comments, and (b) sort by date (most recent first). Can you please do those? Especially the second one.
Ctrl+F "white". What are you talking about?
Easy problems can become nearly impossible at scale.
Microsoft approves major update for WP8 Kraken app that adds bitcoin trading
Ok, now I buy it. ;)

5+ is a great time when they can actually survive by and entertain themselves; And, going to school during the day relieves pressure too.

My side project schedule is about the same except starting a little later. I also try to work on things during tiny breaks (5-20 min) e.g. the bus, a waiting room, etc; Most of this time is sketching some diagram/UI/schema. But I find it very frustrating.
100% agree.

I shouldn't even bother commenting here and this won't be the first time I'm giving up on HN, but seeing the replies you're getting I couldn't leave without at least offering you my support and letting the community know what a sick and twisted bunch of people tech, HN, pg, reddit and the rest of you are. Absolutely disgusting bunch of people. And that's coming from a privileged white male.
Nevermind teens. I'm 42. I use it with my adult siblings, cousins and friends. It's a delightful way to stay in touch. Sometimes it's a picture of my breakfast, or the weather outside, or our pets, or whatever other amusing moment is going on in our day that we'd laugh about if we were together. The ephemeral nature of the pictures and the ability to scribble on them is just delightful fun.
The problem is that she wants to be there, wants to meet all these people, wants to be accepted as a fellow bitcoin enthusiast, wants to make a good impression, wants to maybe make some friends, or maybe just some connections.

It's hard to do any of that when 5 minutes in, you're shoving somebody and chastising them publicly.

The groper is not going to react well to that. They're not going to think they did anything wrong (if they did, they wouldn't have done it in the first place). So they'll see her as the aggressor and complain loudly.
One reason we gather data is because our opinions of what "seems like" reality are likely biased in significant ways based on our experiences, philosophies, and wishful thinking.

Generally speaking, surveys from various western countries seem to indicate 1-5% of adults identify as LGBT, with a slightly higher percentage of adults reporting either some same-sex attraction or same-sex sexual experience at some point in their lives. It came as a surprise when surveys revealed a higher incidence of homosexuality among teens (5-7%), who are generally more reluctant to self-identify as LGBT and less likely to be sure of their sexuality; it now appears that those answers were unreliable.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientat... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United...
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I may be misreading meritt's comment, but it seems to me that meritt is criticizing the author of the article for not addressing the situation when it happened; not criticizing the author for blogging about it. In fact, meritt seems to be suggesting that the author should blog about the incident, though meritt thinks that a blog about the author resolving the situation by confronting it directly would be more effective in promoting productive discussion.

(To be absolutely clear, I am not a fan of criticizing the author for handling or not handling the situation in any particular way.)

I might be reading that all wrong; certainly I am being charitable to meritt and giving him/her the benefit of the doubt. There is a decent chance that I've gone to far, and that you are entirely correct. However your "charitable" reading of his/her post is certainly not the "most charitable".
Seriously, the number of wrong turns you had to take to get there... wtf? I kind of feel like from a UI perspective, you can try to make your site as usable as possible, but someone will always run into the dumbest edge case or contact you to ask questions which are clearly answered on the site.
Agreed that online reviews are broken. That's what drove me to co-found a company that takes a different approach to reviews, one which stresses category over individual products.

Start with the premise that the person you most want to give you advice is someone who is passionate about a topic or at least has done a lot research on it. If you ask them for advice, first they'll give you an overview, which hopefully includes what attributes you should be thinking about. Then they'll recommend a small number of models to consider, based on what you seem to be interested in. If you're doing this with other people around, perhaps a few other people will pipe in with suggestions.

So - for example - if you're looking for 3-4 player board games more interesting than Sorry and Monopoly - so interesting that they have a decent chance of getting your friends and/or family members more into gaming - I prepared a guide on our site that does just that:

http://obviously.com/619/gateway-games

(Note: site styling is incomplete - we're not quite ready to launch)

The essential idea is that if you narrow a topic down enough (i.e. 7200 RPM HDDs that are very quiet and can easily survive a several foot drop onto a hard floor), there's probably somebody out there who's taken a great interest in that narrow niche and can write about it very well.

On the other hand, it's hard to write about the too-broad hard drive category as a whole, and it's also difficult to talk about one hard drive with little context.
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Yes but it's not good coverage.
Just thinking out loud, but couldn't this be interpreted as falling under that nebulous 'unauthorized access of a computer system' law?
Yeah, I have to agree. I've burned a dozen bridges and poisoned quite a few wells before I learned that a message like that can actually be much stronger if you step down the rhetoric just a notch.

Easier said than done.
All that is needed is a standalone "interpreter" with a REPL that can do some basic OS tasks and a pretty good way of starting simple web servers. Yes, small web services that can interop with larger systems, nothing more.
Right, working on it.
> I'm pretty sure everyone younger than 30 is well aware that such things aren't acceptable

This is a severely optimistic take. There is a generational aspect but the main problem is lack of respect and empathy and those follow no generational boundary.
+1 I can remember coding up tricky algorithms on 1Mhz embedded processors back in the day which would be instantaneously responsive. Today, although we have supercomputers in our pockets that can do decent speech recognition and other extraordinary things, many really simple I/O operations seem to lag. Is it really possible that all that performance can be effectively neutered sometimes simply by too many layers of software ? If not, what else could it be ?
a version of Jacky Ryan: Shadow Recruit?
At the risk of being down voted, I wish I could upvote the comment above more. :)
I think a lot of their statements are said to provoke a reaction from women in a "flirty" manner, not because these men are actually misogynistic.

Which nobody seems to get. The victim card is laid down instantly and anyone saying otherwise is obviously a misogynist.

People should learn to draw the line between shitty personal encounter and actual misogyny.
Thanks! It's great to hear you found HNSearch useful. We were very happy to power search for HN but we haven't been able to dedicate much time to making it better. It's exciting to see Algolia iterating on HN's search functionality.
You're right, it could have/should have stopped at the first rebuff. But it does make quite a lot of sense that someone who we are already assuming is very bad at reading attraction and social clues might miss or chose to ignore the first rebuff, especially when it is an indirect rebuff like the one in this story.
That comment is 'despicable and downright fucking evil'? Why does everything have to be done at maximum emotional output these days? What about 'Hey, this isn't on, please don't do that'?

As soon as you start insulting someone, they will not internalise any lesson you're trying to make. They may moderate their behaviour out of fear of backlash, but they will shutdown any attempt to listen to the root cause of your problem.