skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't worry. I called him out on that too. He just got excited about discovering a new community (HN showed up on Google Analytics.)

/me inserts obligatory Dilbert marketing reference
It's also silly to assume that a magic # is right for most people.
In my experience, men and boys talk to each other this way too. So, if women want equality - isn't that what they're getting?
Dart is interesting but a little too Jave-ery in both syntax and tools - Dart Editor is Eclipse based. Also, not sure how committed Google is long-term.

Google's issue is too many languages and runtimes:
Go, JS/ES6/V8, Dart/DartVM, Java/ART, PaNcl, RenderScript.

With the Material/Paper UI Google have given dev's a consistent, elegant unified surface. But Google should also be moving in the direction of an (elegant) unification under the hood. Java and JS are 20 years old - but are at the core of Google's platforms - Android and Chrome/OS. But what - Kotlin, Dart, ES6/7?
I'm not shocked by this at all. Spend some time in a Twitch channel hosted by a woman and you'll see what kind of misogynist, overly sexual advances these streamers have to endure every day.

Yes, some women streamers do flaunt their sexuality (wearing low tops while streaming for instance), and while many view this as perpetuating objectification of women, I view this type of decision as a marketing decision. I think these women are intelligent enough to know sex sells, but aren't so shallow as to actually believe their attractiveness defines who they are.

Unfortunately, the average person is a moron, and it doesn't help matters when group-think is rampant in chat rooms.
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I'm not gay and that's still my first reaction.
You might be interested in the following post, which I found while researching which battery to buy to jump start mine:

http://irobin.org/prius/startup/startup.html

The required 12V startup current for a Prius turns out to be surprisingly low. The author measures it for a 2005 model directly at around 30 amp (with one test showing a brief spike to 60 amp).

Based on this, I bought a pack of 10 5Ah sub C NiMH batteries for jump starting (unfortunately there is no outlet in my car park for a trickle charger).
Oo neat I didn't know this was an option for FF
Order something that I don't want to one of my address just for trolling's sake would be annoying too.
URL shortener which creates a print. For denouncing despicable content
> I think the over-sexualization of women in games and in other places often makes men think with their penises instead of their brains.

Why do you think so? Personally, I think it's the other way around - the cause is that people (not just men) respond better to "shallow" things - i.e. pretty things/landscapes/photos/people, which is why marketers/companies create things that are pretty. If your target audience is males, then it makes sense to use what males most powerfully respond to in your ads - pretty women.
How is that faulty logic?

You can take the stance that DRM is a good thing if it's protecting creators' rights and doesn't get in the way of consumers using the product. I'd argue that most creators take this stance, because they want to get paid for the stuff they made so they can turn around and make more stuff.

Or you can take the stance that "DRM can't be good", because reasons. This is the stance that a lot of people take who don't create (or who aren't paying the bills by creating).

Personally I'm somewhere in the middle, but I see the validity of both sides. Creators want to get paid, and consumers don't want to be told how/when to use the things they own. Being anti-BAD-DRM is taking that middle ground, and in terms of Steam they're doing it pretty well.
It is sort of related. It's a rant. I have many friends in the STEM field, or friends I play video games with. And I simply cannot introduce them to any of my females friends, or any friends from different social circles for that matter. They are a special breed of people, brilliant and quick, and they are also egotistic and mean.

They are very quick to make jokes of your mistakes or shortcoming. The way they pry and tease is the manifest of how exceptional they think they are. They believe they are above social norms. Being nice is for the weak and unenlightened mass. They have an opinion, they will have you know.

They deliberately choose to ignore and not understand why making certain remarks and some conversation topics make people uncomfortable. And when they want to insult you, they will insult in the most uncivilized way. When they want to hurt you, they simply do not understand when a line is crossed.

And I am sure they are not the minority. Even if they are, they are the loud and obnoxious minority that gives everyone a bad name. I absolutely understand why people decline to be part of that community, why there aren't as many females in that workspace. Stigmas and stereotypes are for a reason.
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There's nothing wrong with registering the fact that someone attractive is attractive. Seriously, that's like waking up to blue skies and gentle breeze and saying "wow, what a nice day."

The trouble stars when a specific kind of odious and socially toxic person encounters an attractive person. The first thing they do is ignore the "person" and focus on "attractive" as though they were dealing with an inanimate object which can be owned, controlled, manipulated, and eventually discarded. Their response to the presence of the attractive person reflects their basic lack of regard for the other's humanity. These responses are both abusive in their own right, and - if unchecked - contributory to a culture in which the targets of this treatment are freely abused.

In other words, the problem isn't about your immediate, natural response. The problem depends on whether you're a respectable human or an contemptuous creep, and thus, how you respond. Needless to say, the assholes make themselves known pretty quickly. The problem gets out of hand when they're allowed to dominate a space or situation.
He explained that once in an interview - basically, for public communication, there is no reason for him to care, so he uses whatever suits the other party the best.
Yeah, I'm not supporting that case at all. I think given the context it was perfectly clear that he was not making a serious threat.

It's stupid that in these cases where the context is a LOT more ambiguous that absolutely nothing can be done about it. That energy should be redirected to where it could do some good.
We need to fix this. Whenever someone feels like they are in a position of power, things like this happen. This power can come from anonymity (eg: the internet), it can come from a position of authority (boss), or sometimes it can come from just being dominated by an in-group with a much smaller out-group.

What's happening here seems like a mix of the power of anonymity on the internet mixed with the fact that women are underrepresented in game development. The former lets people harass, taunt, and threaten with many times very few consequences, whereas the latter leads to favoritism to other members of the in-group, and derogation of the out-group.

So what can we do? Unfortunately, the issues are larger than me to grasp. But since we are on Hacker News, I'll give a few technological solutions I've taken a few minutes to come up with that may help:

1. We have spam filters right now on email -- what if those filters also watched for hate words? If it met a certain threshold, the message would not be shown in the main article. We could mark email/comments as "hateful", and when it reached a certain threshold that comment would be hashed and added to a repository that could be checked against for future comments. People would try to get around it like they do spam filters (I H.A.T.E Y.O.U., etc), but with enough training I feel a good deal could be filtered out.

2. HR departments should be moved to unbiased third party services. I feel many employees are afraid to report discrimination or harassment because many times their HR coordinator knows the people involved. If you move it to an unbiased third party, you can report pseudo-anonymously (they will know who reported, but won't tell the company until after they have confirmed or need to follow up with the company) without the worry that the third party is biased towards a specific party.

There needs to be a lot more thought put into how we can fix this than the few minutes I spent above, but it might be a good first step.

EDIT: modified for brevity's sake. (I'll replace with the original again if people want to read it)
It seems like the last few updates of Firefox are each hiding yet one more important setting... I think that is what will finally drive me away from Firefox (I've used it since the beginning even if chrome was much faster for a while) ... time to browser shop.
I'm curious about the algorithm. Is there a ceiling for book prices? I seemed to get very similar results for multiple different types of books, including being offered $3.21 for one that sells for $100:http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0575066601?pc_redir=1405401886...
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Enabling_Electrolysis
I'm glad to see more money spent on these issues, hopefully we will have some breakthroughs soon.

While the current medications surely do help a lot of people, I've watched really smart friends devolve into zombies while on some of them. People I've known for 15 years who are definately not the same people they were when they started. They themselves don't notice the change, of course, because it happens slowly.

We really need better options with less severe personality change side-effects.
Everyone is a dick to everyone and we only care when the target is a woman.
> And yet, demand for that media was nevertheless satisfied.

A quantity of one was satisfied at a price of zero. That's a pretty trivial spot on the demand curve. It tells you nothing about the demand for that same good at nonzero prices.
You can share snippets on any platform using either github snippets or an html/js code formatter like https://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/downloads/lis....

Rather than host your own, I prefer just going with tumblr or something slick. I do like tumblr for its social connectedness, easy sharing and liking. Whatever floats your boat, though.
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This should be right there at the sign in screen. This is info people don't know, but will give them a lot safer feeling using your site.
I moved from firebug like a year ago but I really miss some firebug's pluggins; like jquerify or the ace integration ..

is there something similar for the built-in console?
I don’t think you quite understood what that article was talking about … you seem quite confused. I’m sorry.
You can't suppress feelings of attraction but you can control how those feelings influence general perception of that person. It's about realizing that that there is by no necessity correlation between features of a person. It is human to eagerly seek correlations that might not be there.
I disagree OOP is the correct way of thinking about the real world, and I think the software industry is starting to realize it was an overblown fad too (and moving on to the next fad, of course), BUT...

... I agree Java is not a particularly good example of OOP. It amazes me that so many people complain about Java "forcing OOP on everything". If I read framework source code, I see very little OOP in there. It's mostly procedural-with-classes. Maybe we've redefined OOP to mean "whatever Java is doing". Which is nightmarish, the worst of all worlds.
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> How can a flawless Nexus 7 2013 be worth only $70? Where can I buy them all?

It's worth $70 to them. They are buying to resell, and they can pay a lower price for the convenience of getting the item from your house and paying you instantly.

One can always sell it on eBay/craigslist and get a bigger price, but you'll have to deal with buyers, scammers, shipping, etc. It boils down to how much your time is worth and/or how fast you need the money.
Stupid questions: does Mirage OS allow me to run C or Python programs? Can I run bash or Xwindows or do OpenGL?
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Oh, I absolutely agree there are. Maybe I didn't express myself clearly enough: these types of harassment makes me willing to forgo the legitimate opportunities for anonymity, just to be able to be able to have an environment where such harassment is minimized and traceable when it does happen.

It might seem extreme, but when you've been on the receiving end of numerous vile messages a day, including rape/death threats, discovery of your home address and gems like "Women are the niggers of gender ... If you killed yourself, I wouldn’t even fuck the corpse" (as referenced in article), non-anonymity may seem appealing.
I put a lot of effort naming mine.. Usually starts with what is behind the app's concept and then I play around with words
Despite the actual point of this article, I'm really happy to see the frequency of posts from many writers at Polygon/The Verge about sexism and related issued in the gaming industry and game development. I'd guess and say they publish at least one or two articles on the topic per week, and all of them are fantastic. To whomever at Polygon/The Verge that decided to go on this editorial route, thousands of kudos.
Perhaps another reason to use a fixed time string equality function
I've been using a similar setup for some time now. The most significant obstacle for me was user authentication. For anyone else who needs to add auth support to Angular + Rails:

https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/ng-token-auth
https://github.com/lynndylanhurley/devise_token_auth
Maybe there's some value there, but my experience is that you can rarely solve a "people" problem with a purely technical solution.

Also, as a society, I'd like to think we can do better than "sorry about the rape/murder threats, we'll try to hide most of them from you"
>One of the consequences is that men are extremely sensitive to being criticized by women

What the fuck? Only the weakest and most cowardly men negatively react to criticism from women (and other men).

If someone is objectively or logically criticizing you, then they're doing you a huge favor. Thank them, regardless of their gender.
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I'm curious to see where the pricing structure is coming from.

For example: Apple MacBook Pro ME864LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop with Retina Display (NEWEST VERSION) $382.32

It's a compelling business idea, and I understand there's a need to generate a profit, yet the math seems a little off.
The problem with such approach is that it ignores the root of the issue - the unethical nature of DRM.

I.e. to draw an analogy, imagine someone objecting to the police state methodology not on the grounds that it's evil and abusive, but on the grounds of discomfort of such invasion. By that logic, if police state would employ covert methods, that would be acceptable since it doesn't disturb one's comfort.

I think such logic is pretty flawed.

> you can take the stance that "DRM can't be good", because reasons. This is the stance that a lot of people take who don't create

No, it's the stance of anyone with common sense. Those who create including.

Examples:

* http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blog...

* http://brutalgamer.com/2012/03/09/cd-project-red-drm-no-long...

* http://www.lexi-alexander.com/blog/2014/6/1/will-the-real-pi...
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I have experienced a group of people laughing and suspected they were laughing at me, but usually when there was some reason for it, like having a bad haircut! I don't assume groups of people laugh at/about me unprovoked. I hope I'm right... :)
> That is off-topic. That cliche about the game industry is irrelevant to this question.

I disagree. A team's composition is the only thing that matters when it comes to minimizing this sort of behavior towards co-workers (whether in or outside work). And a team which is comprised of people who have not experienced a professional work environment can not be expected to be professional. It's the same reason we don't expect interns to be immediately familiar with the reality of programming in a business; they have no context of business reality.

I honestly believe that it's fair to say that vast majority of people will act poorly, when the action has no (or few) repercussions; it's why we have easily-pickable locks on our houses, to deter the 98% of people who would steal small items if there were no barriers or consequences.

Diversity and professionalism are the locks to deter people from behaving poorly in a work environment. Of course, this leaves the small minority who would act poorly regardless of the repercussions, their behavior can only be resolved through rules and contracts regardless of the team size or composition. The most you can ever hope to do is prevent the majority of attacks, and penalize the minority appropriately.
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I got a strong impression from the article that he had no idea there were extra people there, or that there was even a critical situation. He wrote as though he was doing a mundane daily task, and said he was really surprised his boss was even there. Given those details, he had no reason to have a heightened sense of awareness. He also mentions that a reset of all workstations should have had no impact at the time.

In this situation, the secretary playing the game is just as culpable as the intern, which is to say, not really responsible.
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The two aren't mutually exclusive. He's kind of like Batman. He might operate outside of the law but he's a hero to the people and fights corruption in the system.
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Did you require state issued ID? I mean if you work with contractors remotely
I was disappointed by the "Letters to Women" video because I kept waiting for a gender-specific slur, and there weren't any! A different "letter" might have been chosen to make the point better.

If you put your anthropologist hat on, being called a "tasteless, stupid-ass, bitch-ass f--ktard" who should "go f--k your slutty-ass bitch mother" is a kind of acceptance. You're on the receiving end of all the same deeply offensive, vaguely emasculating language you'd get if you were "one of the guys" who happens to be a stupid noob, being criticized for your taste in games(!) along with your general cluelessness and total impotence and inadequacy. It's the kind of acknowledgment you get when a fellow rapper pours his heart into explaining that you suck and he rules.

I guess what I'm saying is, this letter is an example of "you-are-a-low-status-male" invective, and it's pretty easy to walk into a stream of it in certain communities. The fact that it was knowingly directed at a woman is what strikes me first, and in that sense it seems less like sexism than some sort of f--ed up equality.
I find it ironic that the logo for Responsive Logos and the social media icons are not responsive.
There are lots of simpler ATM's, like the Lamassu that have not gone overboard with the ID stuff.

Of course, these are really just dispensers (or bitcoin vending machines) and only support a single transaction type.
Naturally, he is very disappointed but he should keep things in perspective. It's not that bad of situation to be in. You have 15 years of software development experience at Microsoft and there are going to be a lot of open doors. This could really be blessing in disguise.
You should try Ghost. I've had a good experiences with it. It still has some quirks though like mobile editing (viewing works fine). But it's officially still in beta so that is to be expected.

It uses markdown, has lots of themes (some paid, some free, some OSS), you can host it yourself.

https://ghost.org/
Is it possible that there might be other syntaxes with the same semantics or semantics described in OCaml that could be translated into OCaml and then compiled to unikernels?
In every other situation this place bemoans the cruelty and stupidity of "zero tolerance," which I think is the correct reaction. Other than that I agree with everything you're saying.
I was using Nikola for some time, but Github Pages + Jekyll is a good alternative. Though I am currently using WordPress (not that anyone is visiting it), I think I may look into Ghost.
If you disagree with any of the points I've made, I'm all ears.

I did not make that comment in some lame attempt to troll or stir up controversy. I have presented my case against using the harassment of women in gaming as an excuse to target and harass the male demographic, and I'm willing to discuss it further with anyone that's interested.
That idiom doesn't work the way you think it works :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_of_salt
For what it's worth, I'm putting up a more permanent resource with information, links to papers, etc., on my blog:

http://christophermeiklejohn.com/crdt/2014/07/22/readings-in...
But whispering is a deliberate attempt to conceal what you're saying. Speaking to somebody in another language is usually not an attempt at concealment, it's just about people communicating in the way they are most comfortable.

I guess I just am sensitive to the unfortunately common American assumption that everybody should speak English. My first time at SFO a hispanic woman was at the baggage carousel with her son. The son asked, in English, if he could lift the bag off the carousel when it arrived and his mother explained, in English, that he was too small to lift it. The kid didn't drop it and the mother lost her temper and scolded him in Spanish. At that point, a lady beside her turned to her and said "speak in English, please"! That blew my mind...
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Steam effortless downloads, installs, and updates my games in the background. The Gog downloader doesn't even work on my computer. I guess it depends on what is important to you.

I love both sites though :)
Agreed.

Also, a related operation that would be useful is being able to do operations on "logical characters" - I believe the technical term is "grapheme clusters".
I definitely recommend deploying static pages (either GitHub pages as people have mentioned or a static website through Amazon S3/CloudFront). Personally, I use Ghost and Hipstadeploy:

http://ghost.org/
https://github.com/proudlygeek/hipstadeploy

And demo: http://www.oddevan.com/
Which cloud platforms do you support? Does it work on private data centers?
I'm not so sure. I've had numerous problems at this point including breaking bugs where games simply wouldn't launch or install. Also, the game management ui is pretty poor by modern standards. There's no way to sort/filter by play time, genre, or any other qualifiers that would make it easier to select a game to play. I imagine after all the sales, big picture mode, and steam os there's a huge need for a better, more fluid UI. The current version is pretty antiquated these days. To put things in perspective, there are open source MAME UIs that are better now.
what if those filters also watched for hate words?

I'd love to know what a "hate word" entails. Sounds like it would gratuitously bring down all negative opinions, including ones that aren't hurtful. Especially since you give the word "hate" itself as an example, which is ludicrous.