skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is bad. It really is about the culture in which we are raised.

Boys are raised to deal with these types of insults and threats by standing up for yourself and being assertive (even aggressive) when dealing with hate.

So, boys learn to seek out weakness and exploit it. Boys also learn that from an early age, when you talk shit or are an asshole that you could end up doing it to the wrong person and end up with a whole world of shit.

And by the time they are older, boys have generally learned this lesson. Essentially, boys learn to fear other boys.

However, boys don't learn to fear women in the same way, so they continue this type of asshole behavior to adult women since they don't fear the repercussions.

Basically, women in the gaming industry are not raised in the culture are seen as weak outsiders who can't defend themselves (easy targets for assholes).

It's sad and I don't really see a way around it.
You could definitely verify that claim:
1) Try to extract your credit card from your account
2) Order something to a new address without having to verify your credit card.

You will find that both are not possible
I haven't listened to these yet, but I think this is what you are referring to:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/04/podcast-1/
An anonymous woman in tech is not the same as a woman publicly writing about her perspective on women in tech.

Change "woman in tech" to something like support for/against gay marriage.

I may have my own opinion, but once I voice it, I'm a target.
Is SDN just DevOps for the network?
Yes, entitlement is certainly a key word here.
There is more than one book by that name. I presume you mean the management one that came out this year, but perhaps you should provide a link or more detail so people know what you're talking about.
Show HN: Neptune.io, A self-healing platform to fix server alerts automatically
I see a headline like that thinking someone will take it as a dare. Of course the source is prone to overhype, so it's worth a grain (or twenty) of salt.
This is really a very deep examination about the nature of trust, online identity and its precepts cleverly disguised as a proof-of-concept. Or maybe it's just a way to get servers and pay with bitcoin. Either way, it's a potent precursor to a distributed compute exchange.
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> Then every time I see a photo of Marissa Mayer, I think, "Damn, she's hot." And then I hate myself for making that my first thought instead of something more equal like, "Damn, she's accomplished and brilliant" like I do when I see a photo of Robert Downey Jr or Idris Elba or Benedict Cumberbatch.

My first thought about Robert Downey Jr is usually something about his hair or attire.

We're primed to study the physical appearance of others when we see them. I don't see any reason that it's bad to notice that someone is attractive, has a funny haircut, etc.

The key point is that it's just a thing, and to move on to more important things (such as they're accomplished, intelligent, etc) rather than dwelling on physical ones.

Insisting you not see that she's attractive seems as weird to me as just focusing on her being attractive.
Still, I prefer Firebug. Is it fully supported yet?
Try SourceTree, save yourself $59.00.
> but that's comparing people in prison

Not really. Most of my male friends, including myself, have been assaulted (beaten-up) before turning 21 - some in broad daylight, in the city centre, or with people around them. Most, if not all, of the assailants weren't punished (or even reported - it's obvious the police can't really do anything about it).

I don't have any similar statistics about my female friends. If they were raped, many would probably not share that fact as willingly as my male friends did. Still, I wishfully believe that not all of them have been raped/assaulted.
Agreed. I'd say that most Java framework abstractions are ad-hoc and poorly thought out. Java frameworks usually do "reinvent the wheel".
No offense, but I think you misread my comment, which did not specifically single out women gamers. Women who work at game companies receive threats through the channels I mentioned with some frequency, because they have access to them.
>Am I doing it right?

Maybe. But I couldn't care less what some anonymous dude on the internet thinks about my penis. Won't even skip a beat.

Am I doing it wrong?
> I'd be reluctant to categorize sleep needs based on exercise regime.

You literally just did that.
GOG also assumed that, and made a mistake delaying the release of the much awaited Divinity Original Sin, because they weren't ready with multiplayer support in their Galaxy. A lot of users were quite upset, and GOG rushed to release the version with single player only as a first step.

They also publicly admitted the mistake. Not many companies do that.
Disclaimer: I'm male & this is my opinion.

All things being equal (content, credentials of speaker, etc), a woman speaking tends to get more attention than a male. People are naturally more attracted to the feminine than the masculine.

Exuding feminine energy draws people in. This expression may or may not be conscious. It's at least partially conscious though. It often works to that person's advantage to look good.

People are going to react to this feminine energy who also has something to say. I understand that it's not fair to emphasize the feminine, however we are driven more by emotions than by rational thought (even "rational" thought tends to be driven by emotion).

Another angle is harassment toward men does happen and is simply not talked about, laughed off, and downplayed. It's not useful to keep score and categorize who harassment happens to. If you are a victim of harassment, does it matter that you fall within a majority or minority of the demographics?
It's probably because there are also plenty of excellent reasons to have anonymity as an option online.
>Where I come from, it is considered bad engineering to build a product that can only run on a single platform, can only run on one particular OS, and the product is at the mercy of future decisions by a 3rd party.

This seems like a bit of a waste of resources to try and run an internal bespoke application on every platform imaginable. Now, if you are developing a product that you are then going to sell to other people to run on their own hardware this make more sense.

There are some very big benefits to writing to a specific platform, especially in the performance space.

In the end of the day it is a trade off between trying to eliminate every 3rd party dependency (next to impossible) or picking a solution or company you think will be around for a long time, and forging strong relationships with them.

We regularly talk to people at Microsoft (and all of the people who create and build to tools we use), give them feedback, and get bugs fixed. There is very little that comes down the pipe from them that we are not away of ahead of time and in some cases have helped shape through early access programs.

> SE has zero choice now otherwise they'd have to re-write their entire product...

This is not true at all, we have choices if MS decided to blow everything up. Not great choices, but we have them. Choosing between two or three crap options does not mean that options do not exist.

-George (SE Sysadmin)
Does anyone find it slightly odd that Snowden was (quite obviously) joining the presentation over a Google hangout? I suppose it's better than a Skype call, but shouldn't he know better? I would expect him to insist on using Jitsi or something similar, like Jacob Appelbaum does for his appearances.
Those abusers will target any woman they can find. If a woman is not getting abuse from some of them it's only because they haven't found her yet.
Spanner truly is remarkable. I've always wondered why google hasn't opened it up!
Is this Apple's new iWatch?
perhaps it's too soon to announce anything but seems promising
Hm, is that true? When I run this script:

#!/bin/bash
items=(
'a'
'b c'
"d\te"
"f\ng"
)

echo "Unquoted:"
for item in ${items[@]}; do
echo -e ". $item"
done

echo "Quoted:"
for item in "${items[@]}"; do
echo -e ". $item"
done

set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'
echo "Unquoted strict mode:"
for item in ${items[@]}; do
echo -e ". $item"
done

... I get this output:

Unquoted:
. a
. b
. c
. d e
. f
g
Quoted:
. a
. b c
. d e
. f
g
Unquoted strict mode:
. a
. b c
. d e
. f
g

Note the output for "Quoted" and "Unquoted strict mode" are identical.

(GNU bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu))
> We live in a society that’s sexist in ways it doesn’t understand. One of the consequences is that men are extremely sensitive to being criticized by women. I think it threatens them in a very primal way, and male privilege makes them feel free to lash out.

I don't mean to "Not all men" this, but I wish we would stop treating behavior like this as a normal part of the male psyche. It's not. It's seriously disturbed. It's an unfortunate consequence of the Internet and any area where you have a large audience that a small active segment is going to produce a large impression.

Yes, maybe your friend and even most men feel differently when a woman criticizes them than when a man does. No it is absolutely NOT a normal, male response to start making rape and death threats because of it.

I think these responses are a combination of seriously disturbed individuals and literal or mental children who haven't yet fully internalized that there are real live human beings on the other end of the keyboard and are trying to be shocking.

I think making a few examples would deter the idiots who think this is amusing. I mean, that one kid in Texas made an offhand, sarcastic comment about shooting up a school and got himself arrested within a couple of days. It would be nice to see police take other threats as seriously.
Bowery.io does this and is already avaiable and free. https://laracasts.com/lessons/bowery-is-pretty-darn-insanely...
This is an example of useless guilt. Strive to blind yourself when there are consequences of your bias, otherwise acknowledge it. Beauty leaks into our perceptions of all other personal qualitative - both men and women are affected by it. Short of brain-modifcation, you will find it impossible to disregard beauty so don't feel guilty about it. And don't think "I'm glad I'm not one of those guys." Women are just as afflicted by "lookism" as Ted Chaing called it. Men and woman are people. People suck.

There are other biases like "force of personality bias", too, where we assume charisma is heavily correlated with correctness, which isn't necessarily true. In terms of solutions, things like blinded hiring and internal prediction markets might help mitigate these. However, if we are going to experience beauty and charm we have to accept the fact that these qualities will affect our opinions of those who possess them. There's no way around this without changing the nature of our perceptions of these phenomena, and thus the phenomena themselves.
Maybe people just don't like to be prosecuted for what they say?

Besides there are trolls that happily ignore their own anonymity.
Me, too. Worse, when I go to sleep "naturally", the best case is that I don't fall asleep at all and zombie the next day.

The worst case is that I do fall asleep, but wake up broken in some way: usually, it's cranial misalignment which gives me a massive headache the entire day.
I never imagined that I'd someday miss Mediacom.
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Using Jekyll (w/ a good theme) + GitHub Pages is more than sufficient. More importantly, it's free, fast, and can handle large amounts of traffic, such as the front page of Hacker News.

A year ago, I used Wordpress on shared hosting, then my service was terminated once I hit the front page of HN (~300 concurrent users). I've been using Jekyll + GitHub Pages since, and I've had no issues whatsoever, aside from the occasional GitHub outages.
But note that conforming itself requires creativity. One has to (consciously or no) conjecture what is the appropriate, conformist thing to do in any situation. There's no easy way around this since most of the rules are unwritten.

What really gets society's goat is innovation, most of which fails, and all of which encounters resistance. And I think the reason for that resistance, ironically, is that new ideas and new things require other people to re-direct their own dwindling creativity into understanding or at least coping with them.
When I see a picture of Benedict Cumberbatch, I think "he looks awfully pinched. He might need more fiber."

I'm straight. Not sure what impact that has.
We asked our community if Edward is either a "Traitor or Hero" - a stunning 72.85 % think the latter :) https://pinpoll.net/poll/1804
I am not sure it's really what you need but coderwall.com is nice
You're going to again and again find that you want a lot of the functionality that a modern, higher-level web framework provides without having to implement it yourself.

That claim sums up much of what I dislike about frameworks.

In the marketing brochure, it’s your perfect dream home with everything you could ever need in a single, neatly integrated package. You get someone to do a survey to check for major structural flaws, you spend a couple of hours checking that all the essential utilities are connected up, and before you know it, you’ve made the biggest purchase of your project’s life. A week later, you’re sitting out on the deck, enjoying a cocktail with your glamorous friends on a warm summer evening as your baby sleeps soundly in the room upstairs, just like the models in the photo.

A fortnight after they hand over the keys and you move in, you often realise that what you really bought was a place that had 80% of what you needed. Unfortunately, to reach 100% you would have to knock down a few walls and rewire the whole building, costing at least half as much again as you already paid, so instead you start running extension cables from sockets in one room to appliances in the next, resort to flaky WiFi networking, and install a sofabed in the lounge because you couldn’t quite fit a double in what was supposed to be the spare room.

Over the next few months, you realise that it’s also really inefficient to run the place, because the guys who built it went for all the attention-grabbing features that would push up the price they could get, but what you really needed was energy-efficient appliances and a good HVAC system based on renewables. Also, the soundproofing between downstairs and upstairs sucks, and that baby who was supposed to be asleep during your summer party wakes up every time someone opens a new bottle.

Three years later, when you’re surprised to find you also had twins, there is nowhere to put the extra bedroom you need. A little after that, you have to move to a completely new place, because there’s nowhere to install a lift for your elderly parents, and even if there were you don’t have the three-phase power supply to run it.

Except you can’t, because in the few years since you moved in the area has become run down, the value of your place has sunk like a rock, and there is so little interest in buying it for anything but the land it’s on that you’re in negative equity and can’t afford to move.
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> "When a woman criticizes me, it goes to a different part of my brain than when a man on my team does. I get defensive really quickly."

This point isn't stressed enough. Majority of people treat criticism differently depending on the gender of the source. Other types of interaction are also hugely dependent on gender. We even refer to each other with different pronouns depending on the type of sexual organs our bodies are equipped with. This isn't right.
Am I wrong that this would have been the top upvoted comment on HN 5 years ago? If so maybe that counts as a tiny bit of progress/small strides. Or maybe this will be the top voted when I come back later, /sigh...
"Footnote: Two of the names of women that agreed to interviews for this article were changed at their request."

It's telling (about the state of the industry) that two of these women felt uncomfortable sharing their names even while interviewing for an article about this very topic.
I more or less agree with your post, but take issue with a few things:

- Maybe I come from a different kind of academia, but in my CS education they didn't force "large unnecessary abstractions". Mind you, they didn't teach Java, C++ or any particular language. Learning programming languages was something you did in special optional classes or on your own.

- It is fascinating and instructive to learn low-level languages such as assembly, which I enjoyed learning in my spare time, but I don't think that's "what the actually world needs". The world needs reliable, non-bugged software that does what we want and is easy to understand, maintain and extend. Certainly not something that would be helped by coding in assembly...

To clarify: I believe it's immensely instructive to learn about low-level stuff. It should probably be mandatory in a good CS education. But it's not a good idea, in general, to actually build programs by manipulating low-level language. Sometimes it can't be helped, of course, by I assume we're mainly discussing application software here.
The Android Flock client works with any standards compliant WebDAV/CardDAV/CalDAV server. There is nothing stopping anyone from running a server of their own, at which point you can do anything you want with the server including charge for its use.
It keeps my office warm too!
Or even C, which some parts are written in, although it doesn't look like they're particularly friendly to lots of people changing them (IIRC some of the parsing and lexing code is in C, correct me if I'm wrong).
Apple granted comprehensive 'iTime' smartwatch patent
This is the sort of topic that shouldn't be allowed to have comments. People are far too reactionary to have a productive discussion.
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Must not be using links unless its an ambassador to nothing at first. Maybe specifying your own DNS server for the container. Or maybe using --net:container somehow.
Great point. I know that when I see mildly inappropriate, my first reaction is to laugh, even if it's not always the right reaction.

My kids are at the age where they make poop and fart jokes, and I confess that I find them funny. I fear I will always find them funny. I am unable to be upset when my kids swear -- even if I don't think they should be using those particular words. (Was there ever a more sincere expression of three year old frustration than when you overhear them saying, "Fucking _bummer_"?)

But, at work, it feels like there's a different line. The things I would laugh at if I saw them on my Facebook feed (linked by ladies or men) would make me uncomfortable to encounter at work. The mild "so to speak" banter, or the (non-sexual) mild harassment that men and women friends have had has always been funny, but I feel weird when I hear it at work. My inner dialog is usually, "I'm not offended, but ... is that okay? Are we allowed to joke about ... ?"

I tend to listen a lot more than I speak at work, as you can probably tell. ;)
I would, I'm almost certain I'd probably have a laugh as well...

"I wouldn’t even fuck the corpse"

"Good! Leave my corpse alone you fucking nutter"

But apparently I've got thick skin that according to the article women can't acquire.

"I blinked at my phone, fighting simultaneous urges to hurl my phone across the room in anger and cry."

I'd be saying seriously? Why does what some low IQ retard on the other side of the Internet say about you affect you so much?
That kid in Texas was then turned out in jail. What has happened to him is horrific.
I always find it very strange that we don't apply spam filters and recent machine learning techniques to the problem of filtering comments.

If I looked at my email unfiltered, I'd think one in three of the people sending me messages in the past day were unusually concerned about the state of my penis.

From a not-adding-anything-to-the-discussion perspective, dead baby pictures and random threats of rape or acts of violence are even less useful than those adds telling me how to work at home. From a cost-benefit perspective for the people involved, it's very easy for someone relatively unimportant to get an outsized influence on social interactions if they can easily reach people who actually matter with harassing comments, at virtually no cost to themselves.

So why don't we use tools to shape the online discussion and feedback mechanisms, the same way we do with our email inboxes?

Perhaps I'm just too out of the loop to see it being done.
I don't prefer that model from a moral point of view, but it is worthwhile from a practical point of view. Lobbying the government has a higher ROI than research for most companies. As such many companies lobby heavily for loopholes, benefits, etc all in explicit name of jobs. (And private benefit for execs and owners)

Why concede that fight? If very long term basic science is of communal benefit and can't happen in the current market structure, why not use 10% of the money to fight against lobbyists asking for corporate handouts?
You got your idiom backwards: more salt = more meat and substance in the story, less salt = less substance.
I was going to write something similar to this. One issue, though, is that it doesn't necessarily track new purchases.

To do that as well, it needs to be an extension and it should also monitor whenever you buy something. If there is a concern that purchases might happen when on another computer, you could allow the user to enter their password into the extension so that the extension can monitor things for you in the background. While users don't have a guarantee that the extension is using the password securely, at least it is possible for the source code to be inspected.
How mobile communication works in underground transit
I think there is a lot of basic research to be done. I hope this research amounts to real advances!
Hehe, I did something like that once, except that I typed "rm -rf ~ /blue/". There was no /blue/, but I managed to wipe out my home directory, and I did not have a backup. :-|
It was on my personal machine, so at least I did not delete anybody else's files, but I still got burned hard enough to learn a valuable lesson.
That's an interesting article. I guess it's not as clear cut as many people believe.
Personally, I disagree. I have no problem my coworkers saying dick/sex/insulting/racist/etc jokes, whether they are male or female. If I worked at a company that claimed to have a "relaxed" office culture (i.e. most startups, not corporations), I would strongly voice my opinion that such censorship is inappropriate. The recent case of an Attlasian developer making a joke about his girlfriend at a conference comes to mind - I would offer my support for such a coworker and publicly state that I think the company's reaction was inappropriate.

Obviously, if people want to opt out of such email, they should be able to, but some might also do it for other reasons (e.g. prefer less distractions in their inbox).
Yeah, i don't earn any points for eloquence, but just looking at the side by side examples on the MathML page the contrast is pretty stark. Have often wondered if it was due to low screen resolution so thanks for confirming that. I'll try to be less grumpy the next time I get a TeX generated PDF and maybe even print it out before trying to read it ;o)
Chrome uses a separate render process for each tab[1], so when one crashes it doesn't KO the whole browser. However this also means Chrome has a larger memory footprint, since each tab is taking up the resources of a little browser. Firefox doesn't do this, and so it keeps a smaller memory footprint than Chrome (oh how times change) but the downside is--as you mentioned--the whole browser freezes if one tab fails.

[1] http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process-...
That is correct. Abusers, whether male or female, will find their target.