skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment wasn't about poverty in general but about whether poor people work and how much. The ill-designed incentive structure and generally disappointing performance of government bureaucracy in helping anyone are worth noting, however, if you don't work, you clearly have the time to go do some grocery shopping.

Which was the gist of that comment as it was a response to

A poor person is probably working some physically taxing job and is just too tired to cook a healthy meal. Or too tired to get to the market selling healthy food

Probably not.
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> I don't understand why randy would focus on making tools for blocking people on Twitter though

She received over 20k mentions in one month, mostly insults and attacks. Trying to actually talk to people while having to filter through all that noise is impossible.
As an outsider reading this, I feel like there is a missing side of the story. Did those people really do all those things for no reason? What prompted them to harass her? Edit: I'm not saying there are ever circumstances where what they did is warranted. The story just seems to be so one dimensionally against her, couldn't help but feel something was missing.
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The title does not reflect how good the article is. I thought it was very interesting, and I also found the next article on Indianapolis interesting also.
AOT: ahead of time

JIT: just in time

Compiler applies to both of them.
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Oh, it's totally all mixed up. It's intersubjective, which means you can sorta rank stuff but not really.

However, I do think culture is primarily about culture, i.e. mutual grooming and good feelings with our fellow monkeys. I speak here as a superannuated rock journalist with a ridiculously large record collection.
Gamers for a long time wanted people to treat games as art, as high class, as legitimate forms of media and entertainment, like how they treat books, tv shows and films. But people deconstruct and criticise films and books, and when people started doing that with games, the gamers got aggressive and violent.
₹35000 (rupees) and not $ 3500 (US dollars)!
I've had similar experiences, but I think it's more that Germany is inefficient only in comparison to the (I suspect) very few countries that do some of these things as efficiently as Holland.
No worries, I upvoted you to balance it lol. Thanks for helping.
You know, life gets pretty hollow when everything is 'billable time'. It's also fun to just hack and tinker.

Also, if maximizing billable time is the goal, maybe the guy learnt a lot playing with another UNIX and increases his worth :p.
The 'harassment' of Anita is the result of a few trolls. Gamergate even identified one troll, a Brazilian videogame 'journalist.' Death threats were sent to Brianna Wu and Zoe Quinn by the GNAA.

http://theralphretort.com/gnaa-trolls-admit-gamergate-sabota...

https://archive.today/gTA9s

https://web.archive.org/web/20140913162412/https://twitter.c...

The problem lies in equating a twitter hashtag with several trolls. GNAA gets off on infuriating all parties.

Where is the proof that these trolls are GamerGate supporters? Randi links to none.
This is more or less a practical thing. I think you would agree that there are more males in IRC than females. Which personal pronoun would you choose by default to address someone without explicitly knowing their gender? Would you always ask them beforehand? That might get weird. Would you use some weird Internet pronoun like "xe"?

Statistically speaking, going "he" is not a bad first guess. I'm not saying it's helping, though.
OK, so 'food desert' means something different to what I thought it meant.
There are clear business cases where this may be a correct approach. If you've enable comments as an ad-hoc form of viral marketing, or you want to provide a place to engage people with your brand, then the last things you want are comments which don't reinforce a particular idea or identity. I suspect the explosion of commenting systems relatively recently has more to do with a vague idea that "social" is good and that "comments" make your site more "social." And also, no doubt, wordpress.

There's no implicitly right or wrong decision. Some sites, and some authors, may benefit from the potential controversy of allowing comments, and might be willing to chip in for actual moderation. The key to remember, though, is that hosting comments imposes a technical and social burden on the content which you might not be ready for. You can't fire and forget.

But I do find it odd that the author cites third-party control as a downside to comments, then suggests as a solution allowing social media sites to host comments entirely. If comments suck then surely they suck on Twitter as well?
It would be better to ask if there are any circumstances under which those things were reasonable.
Those of us who remember SMF from a decade or more ago, weep at how systemd is a poor shadow of it, dressed up as "progress".
I'm all in for more choices in AMD implementations, but why doesn't this expose the standard `require` and `define` methods? I do get that I'm supposed to map them myself, but then again I have no clue what advantage I get from this?
Um, I'd just use singular they (which has been in use in English for literally centuries), or rework the sentence to avoid the pronoun.
That speck appears to be there in the first image as well, though not as bright...?

I wonder if Philae actually landed exactly where computed (the green square), and if so why the dark dust does not radiate from that spot, but "down-wards". Perhaps Philae hit the surface at an angle?
I am sorry but I do not see that directly addressed at all. I have now read it 3 times. There are selected examples, personal experiences, the Gamergate shitstorm which is beyond the point of sanity by a long shot and a lot of rambling. And that lead to my conclusion of being not something one has to read if one is interested in making the situation for women in tech better.
Because voices other than Matt's prevailed, presumably.
No, this is not about some inaccuracies, she many times has declared to have some very extreme perceptions:

"Not a coincidence it’s always men and boys committing mass shootings. The pattern is connected to ideas of toxic masculinity in our culture."

Source: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/10/26/on-friday-anita-sar...
>If another search engine crawls the open web and returns better search results, people will switch to that new search engine immediately

I don't think people would ditch Google so easily or quickly.
Unfortunately, it seems the git repository mentioned is not publicly
available. I searched for 'apodolsk' and found one on github, but the
nalloc code is not there. Luckily, it seems the author is on HN (user:
"gosu"):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8613038

I toyed with scalable allocators for a course a few years back.
It's a little embarassing, but if you want to see what the costs
actually are:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/apodolsk/418/finalreport.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8613156

With luck he'll notice that his nalloc work is on the front page of HN,
and possibly tell us if the nalloc code is available somewhere.
> [A specific company I won't call out explicitly] sucked contacts out of Gmail but refused to export contacts back out.

I'm guessing everybody read [A specific company] as "Facebook", but I know for sure of at least one other company, and possibly two, that it could refer to :-) In fact, now that I think about it, I can think of several candidates.

But let's talk about reciprocity. Who owns your contacts? You, or Google? If you want to export contacts out of Google's services, why should Google stop you just because the other service does not reciprocate? Sure, Google makes it easier than most, but isn't that also what their users wanted? If the user truly wants the other service to also export contacts as easily, that's between the user and that other service.

Now consider that Gmail is in the top 3 biggest email providers next to Yahoo and Hotmail/Live/Outlook/Whatever-it's-called now. Very likely it is now the biggest, and so they have the biggest set of contacts data in the world. If any 3rd party service wants access to those contacts, Google wields a disproportionate amount of power over them, and as this post shows, is willing to apply it by "requiring reciprocity".

"Level Playing Field" indeed.
Interesting.

In German speaking media, the universal recipe I found is to use any high-heat oil (canola, sunflower, etc), fill the pan with a lot of it (3 mm of oil in the pan), then add potato peels and a lot of salt. Fry the peels (and flip them in the process) until the peels are completely charred, done.

I haven't tried either.
I'm surprised weev hasn't been prosecuted for the numerous campaigns of individual harassment he's instigated and been involved with. Does the USA not have any law against such behaviour?

He's been responsible for deliberate and persistent personal abuse, causing much alarm and distress, and has bragged about it openly. Does this genuinely come under the protections of "free speech", as is claimed by those who defend him?
I wonder though, has he actually turned a statistically significant number of people off?

Suppose field X had a crazy person so dedicated that he shot a US president in order to send a message to a woman working there (far more than Weev has done). Suppose that pervert letters to women in field X were completely expected and commonplace, and had been for many years. Would women flee from X?

Surprisingly, acting has no shortage of women. Pervs sending creepy letters is a topic of humor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmeh7EHpIE0

Journalism has similar issues. Still plenty of women. Seems like there must be something else at play.

[edit: replaced the word "anyone" with "a statistically significant number". This better expresses what I meant to say.]
Careful, that question is forbidden. You will probably be accused of "victim shaming" in a minute.

Sadly most people seem not interested in the psychological or sociological motivation of those abusers. There is always something that triggers abuse (no, I am not saying that it must be something the victim did). I wish we would investigate into that and help people stay clear of the psychopaths that way.
Is that really an extreme statement?
I took that to mean that, in the GNU/Linux context, the two were interdependent.
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Unlike the article writer who is suffering by this harassment, Anita actually feeds herself from it. Such notoriety helped her get some of his goals, including being invited to the Colbert report and other high-profile shows.

This is not a FreeBSD contributor we are talking about here, this is someone who actually makes a living out of being a professional victim, this is the only thing she does for a living.
> As long as he has not physically harmed anybody, he should be a free man.

This is an interesting theory of law, but I could go quite a way naming crimes that don't result in physical harm. Fraud, theft, harassment, threatening physical harm, rape, slander, kidnapping, slavery, forgery, theft of military plans, obstruction of justice, treason, drugging someone, criminal negligence, impersonating a surgeon, arson, blackmail, trafficking in stolen property, child abduction, and basically attempted anything, including attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, incitement to murder, and solicitation of murder.

Setting aside your novel legal theories, you apparently don't believe harassment, stalking, rape threats, and death threats cause real harm. But neither victims nor perpetrators agree with you: often the explicitly stated purpose is to cause harm.

The "just ignore the trolls" position is fine advice for a very specific sort of troll, the ones that are motivated by attention. But for the ones who are motivated by harm, it doesn't work. Indeed, it helps them operate by giving them cover.
To everyone who wants to answer "Fuck the police": No, don't.

If your hometown has a police department that acts like a gang:

Don't fuck the police. Don't date, them, either.

Don't sell to police. If they want groceries or gas, let them have to explicitly confiscate the stuff.

Don't talk to police officers unless they force you. Don't talk to them at all when they are off duty.

There are two ways a community can fight against a mafia -- a shooting war, or comprehensive shunning. Guess which works better in the long term?
I chalk it up to Inexperience, personaity types, and lack of focus. If you don't have the inherhit abilities to focus, get things done, block out un-important tasks (strategically or tactically), and focus while you do so - your frame of mind is that few others can do it. The human psyche I've learned tends to dis-believe that others are much better than the individuals' own self-awareness.
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Idle speculation: tech attracts more than its fair share of introverts relative to those career choices, and for someone who needs just a little positive social interaction from time to time, the risk of extremely negative social interaction being the norm is too great.
This question should really be answered (props for bringing it up), without that being the case the value of the research is severely compromised!
Yes it is. Psychotic and mental illness are very serious issues, and trivializing them as caused by "masculinity" is as sick as it gets.
Well to be fair, there the harassment comes from industry outsiders. Here a lot of people in the mob and part of the abuse are people who could be considered in 'tech'. That hurts a lot more than if it's just weird schizophrenics sending letters to the people they see on the telly.

Further, we're not even really talking about pervy letters so much as dedicated campaigns to get people fired, etc.
Thanks for the list, was it researched today or is this an ongoing passion of yours?
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How does that actually help? Who would even think that those things are reasonable? It makes much more sense to try to understand why it happened and how it can be prevented.
It turns out he has actually turned someone off. Kathy Sierra is a fine example of that.

Also, you are smart enough to know that "acting has no shortage of women" is a dumb argument. The question of whether the distribution of women in field X is affected by historical events cannot be determined only by looking at the current distribution of women in field X.
After all is said and done, Google is still the fairest company and the Google ecosystem is the most open. Seriously, can you imagine a world with out Google? Can you imagine a world were we're at the mercy of Apple & Microsoft? I just can't stomach that with Apple & Microsoft you have to pay to program your own device! You can dislike and criticize Google all you want this doesn't change the facts.
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Why do you claim that this is trivialising mental illness? The potential influence of culture on mental health is surely a topic of some pertinence and interest.
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That's survivor bias [0]. The point isn't whether there's still at least one woman in the field, or whether there's "plenty of women" (what does that even mean, anyway?). The point is whether anyone was stopped from entering the field at all.

The ones who are still in the field are the ones most resilient to the abuse. But you miss out on the contributions of all the people who left and did something else. How much farther along might we be in software engineering, or sculpture, or architecture, or <insert your favorite field here> -- had the toxic environment not been present in the first place?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
When looking at data like this, I'm always reminded of Schelling's model of residential segregation, which suggests that even a small preference for living near like people leads to high segregation in the global system.

Example: in this simulation, agents are willing to live in environments where only 30% of neighbors are like them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnffIS2EJ30

Another good explanation of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFl3Cfw12bo

I wonder if anyone has done a "reverse" model, taking in census data and trying to estimate a rough "Schelling threshold" -- like if all the dots started out randomly placed on the US, what percentage of "tolerance" would lead to the clustering we have in reality.
I wasn't following JS loaders for sometime. Are you saying that most people now use ES6 modules instead of AMD?
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This is a good post, I want to make that clear because that's about all I'll say about the rest of it beyond the second part being marred by a flaw that deeply bugged me:

Idle speculation about 4chan causing the Pilchuck shooting was uncalled for, and as somebody who lives fairly close to the events very insensitive. It's one thing to talk about Elliot Rogers where it was made very clear that his motivations were pertinent, but turning whatever shooting tragedy into a political billiard ball is one of those things that we should stop doing because it's not improving discourse.
Sidebar, but everyone mistakenly thinks things that they do are therefore normal. I think the difference between "normal" and "common" is a little vague. If you define "normal" the same as "common" then we could do a study and see if it is normal or not (my guess is that it is not). However "normal" can also be defined as "not unreasonable", in which case I would agree, 71 tabs is normal.
I'm not going to Google it for you. But they could settle the case, e.g. Groupon could agree not to use the name after it becomes clear that Gnome has spent enough to assemble a legal defense. And Gnome decides that the cost of pursuing further action makes it too risky.
This is a false dilemma. Do you know people in real life who are "social justice warriors"? I know one, and only one. But I know many feminists. They tend to be very reasonable.

The "shirtgate" story got spread precisely because it created outrage. Outrage goes viral. But most feminists are not bullies.

Whereas the problem described above appears to be pervasive in tech. I've seen enough stories here on Hacker News that fit into the same trend. I have no reason to doubt these women.

You're contrasting a broad system of oppression against a (vocal) minority within the community that criticizes this system. It's not apples to apples.
I'd rather see technical details too plus maybe a comparison between require.js/almond and define.js. Currently it's not clear what are the advantages of define.js.

N.b. another AMD loader (30 lines of JS): https://curiosity-driven.org/amd-loader-with-promises
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I'm willing to bet that some non-trivial percentage of computer users are unaware that tabs exist, and do not use them period.
This is definitely an issue. One of the people I mentor is a shy young woman. She will make an awesome developer.

A few weeks back I had to sit her down and have The Talk explaining that if she rose to prominence, she could well be the target of hideous attacks where guys would have no problem at all. Her eventual conclusion was to stay in the field, but it was definitely something she had to weigh.

I've talked with a number of women with established tech careers who have been questioning whether their work to get women into the field is even a good idea. Women drop out of the field at twice the rate men do.
A portion of those do cause physical harm, or are virtually guaranteed to result in physical harm, if not inherently implying it. I think you meant to say that they might not leave any physical marks. That's quite different, though.
In acting and journalism, the pervy letters come from people outside the community which, ironically, can strengthen the sense of community becase women have a common external threat which unites them. In tech, the letters come from within, often from "well-respected" members of the tech world. It's no wonder this has the opposite effect.
Bill Burr made a sketch about this kind of reasoning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlvvCYUDHrQ
> What prompted them to harass her?

She was a woman on the internet. That's all the reason they need.
Ok, so the real argument is that a few weevs + mysterious unspecified historical circumstances is necessary to cause a shortage of women?

Hmm, pretty hard to refute. There is a phrase to describe ideas like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

You are correct that he's turned one person off. Next question: has he turned off a significant number?
Oh come on! This is the second comment in this thread that seem to claim Linux is so special and glorious. FreeBSD definitely does this, maybe even 3BSD or 4BSD did this.

The modern VM architecture was definitely introduced after 3BSD or 4BSD, since NetBSD only introduced a unified buffer cache in 2000 and is also derived from 4.4BSD.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
They're less labels for purpose and more labels for lifecycle - data you'd consider "cached" can appear just about anywhere. From what I remember (corrections more than welcome):

Active is fully-fledged in use memory, mapped into one or more processes

Inactive is where Active goes when it's less in-use. Cheap to reactivate, but relatively costly to free: can still be mapped into processes, and may be dirty (modified) and thus require writing to disk before being unmapped and cleared for reuse.

Cached is where lesser used Inactive cached data goes before it dies. More costly to reactivate, but cheap to free: No longer mapped directly into any process, and strictly consists of only clean (unmodified) pages that don't need writing back to disk before clearing.

Wired is pinned-down memory that can't be swapped out. ZFS's data and metadata caches are counted here, since it maintains its own (known as the ARC - Adaptive Replacement Cache, after the algorithm it's based on) instead of just relying on the traditional VM page cache.
This was on freenode, on the channel for a development tool. I'm not going to name names because the people involved weren't actually members of the project IIRC, just regulars on the channel.

It wasn't nasty or anything, just... weird. It gave me an overpowering urge to uninstall irssi and go outside.
The TI Calculator scene is one of these cool scenes that's both vibrant and well organized.

Some fantastic low-end hacking going on there, from software to hardware.

More here.
http://www.ticalc.org/
Interestingly, I see here a very similar spirit to the one of GPL - you only get to use our stuff if you share yours on the same terms. Many people avoid GPL exactly because of that. There are arguments though that this feature of GPL is what safeguards freedom, and I think one could try and make similar arguments in case of reciprocity here.
Most of the blogs I read generate reasoned and cogent commentary in the comments. If that happens "probably never" for you, you're reading the wrong sites.
Fine, but the Fourier part is really
in the violin and not in the human.
Listening for beats is very old stuff
in signals, and no doubt circuits
and/or software are sometimes used
to detect them; if so, then we can
do the stuff with the beats without
humans.
I don't know, which one? Because I have never seen shunning work, ever. Aggression seldom helps, but at least there are documented cases where it worked. I have never seen any documented case of shunning producing any effect.