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I'm sorry, I was overreaching. Your reply seemed to support the OPs idea that Adria Richards was harassed for no reason by "MRA losers".

>These are the people I'm talking about - the ones who've largely left this place behind because the tone of the community has shifted to one where any talk of race, gender, or even age (or in fact any talk of institutional problems in the industry) is automatically the work of professional victims (and a largely fictional narrative of a "social justice warrior") out to oppress techies.

I won't deny that the MRA side is often reactionary, but you must admit that the "social justice" side is just as bad. The internet of today is designed for reactionism, makes it so easy to react and so easy to find controversial conversations.

This is something I've noticed a lot - both sides are as bad as each other. Both claim to be better people, but both are so mired in faeces that they haven't even noticed they're throwing it themselves. (I've been up for 36 hours that's the best I can come up with).

> (and a largely fictional narrative of a "social justice warrior")

That's a very opinionated statement. Unfortunately, few agree on the definition of SJW, so everyone makes up their own. Pretending that there isn't a clique of 'progressives' in the tech world doing their best to cause trouble is just fantasy. Look at Adria's creepshot/dog whistling, the elevatorgate thing, that time Ben Noordhuis was forced out of the Node community because of a SJW hate mob enraged over a pronoun, or this thing: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32778.html. SJWs exist, and have done plenty of damage to the industry.

They've also no doubt scared many young women away from STEM careers through their wild stories about misogyny and dudebro cultures in the tech world. Would you, as (possibly) a woman, want to work in an industry frequently proclaimed to be an unaccepting boys club? Funnily enough, the proclaimers of such always seem to benefit personally from such attacks, landing cushy "developer relations" jobs and hefty sums on patreon. That's where the "professional victim" label comes from.
I think it is a mistake to think that most people were actually offended and didn't get the joke. There are definitely much more offensive things out on the internet than the examples in the article.

I think it's much more likely that people revel in seeing someone go down; the article clearly alluded to this sadistic aspect I think. As soon as there is enough critical mass for a public shaming, people will jump on the bandwagon.

What needs to change is that this kind of public shaming on the internet should be looked down upon in the future, just at is now in real life. The first step is for employers not to be so spineless to immediately fire an employee that is talked about.
That's weird, I'm the opposite--I read HN specifically for the comments.

It's not true for articles like this, which I generally don't read. But when the link is a programming article expressing an opinion on _______, I definitely want to read what HN has to say.
Are 'admins' on wikipedia more like 'moderators' than actual admins? The word admin to me makes me think of someone who runs something and makes the rules, not always being held to them themselves.
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You're forgetting the power draw of the radio. To actually last a week on 3,000mAh you'd probably be stuck with EDGE at best.
Generally: a requirement that candidates hold CISSP is a strong negative signal about the job. This observation would have qualified as "insightful" 10 years ago, but in 2015 it's verging on conventional wisdom.
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> A robust society can take the jokes.

Let me rephrase that:

> A robust society requires everyone in the minority to shut the fuck up when anyone in the majority makes them feel invisible

> An irony is that many of the people calling offense don't realize their own transgression in becoming part of a self-righteous mob meting out punishment at the speed of thought.

There's a difference between pointing out someone acting obnoxiously and couch-fainting.
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Agreed. If I see a link to a video without a transcript or description or even a TLDR, I just won't bother. Maybe to some people I am just another impatient millenial, but I can't help but feel like I have better things to do than to sit through bad jokes, equipment problems, stuttering, and umm-ahhhs.

I'm usually pretty critical of a lot of Amazon's culture, but one thing I think is absolutely brilliant is its reliance on whitepapers and its shunning of presentations. With a presentation, the presenter retains 100% control over information flow, which can magnify the agitation that you feel when they just aren't spitting it out fast enough. With a whitepaper, a quick skim allows you to know exactly where you want to focus and you can control the information flow from there. Whitepapers take significantly more effort, which is why a lot of amazonians criticize them, but the reward is easily proportional to the effort.
Please don't project your confirmation bias onto me. How you got that from one comment is more than just a bit absurd, especially considering I said most, not all, so there are definite outliers as you mentioned.

I also specifically said eastern cultures, which are not limited to Chinese, and the example I gave is in fact a Panchatantra fable, making it Indian in origin, not Chinese. But don't let that stop you from making assumptions and blasé accusations with your alt Hacker News account.
See the 3rd Bourne movie - he recorded the guys name on the phone and it opened the safe. Not sure how realistic the quality has to be.
Unless you have a particular reason to worry about your connection to the grid, it's better to use demand management than batteries.

Let's take a Tesla S battery. It costs $30,000 [1]. It has a capacity of 85KWh, which lasts 265 miles. [2] The battery is down to 80% life after 100K miles [3], which is 377 cycles.

Say you fill up the battery at 5 cents/KWh and sell it at 20 cents/KWh. You've made $12.75. After 377 cycles, you've made almost $5000. You still have life in those batteries, but they are going to keep on getting worse, and the efficiency of energy in/energy out will start falling as well. Once you hit 40% they are probably useless. You might be able to run that $5000 two or three more times before you hit that.

You could only barely use the batteries to prolong their life. But you spent $30,000 on them! That's a lot of capital costs for something that isn't doing anything. And Li-Ions will gradually lose capacity even if you don't use them and store them in ideal conditions.

There are certainly efficiencies of switching from a car-bound battery to a stationary battery, although a lot of people posting on this page are talking about hooking up a car to do price arbitrage.

[1] http://my.teslamotors.com/it_CH/forum/forums/battery-replace... and watch how hard it is for the guy to get an answer

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+car+battery+capacity&o...

[3] http://www.plugincars.com/tesla-roadster-battery-life-study-... don't just read the headline
Tactile keyboard on touchscreen devices works by microfluidics
Hyperbole. Clearly, it's not a username. Touch ID has improved security for most users, precisely because it works more like a password than a username. (We all know it's not as secure as a real password.)
CFLs require a switching power supply because they operate at far higher voltages than line voltage. LEDs require some sort of current regulator, and a switching power supply is far more efficient than a series resistor. So, you don't gain anything for them by using a different voltage.
That sounds strange. Unless you're doing a lot of performance expensive stuff in your test scripts, you should easily be able to reach a higher RPS.

Also, are you comparing a single Locust process to Gatling? Since Gatling runs on the JVM, it would be more fair to compare it to a Locust cluster with one locust process per processor core.
See the point of view of Jon Maddog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Kun7oiUfc
How much does the Renault Twizy cost?
One of the cited cases was a person whispering to a friend during a conference, and a stranger who listened in felt offended.

Not only is it easier to publish things, it is also easier to attack people. The only thing needed to begin a shaming, is a large list of followers and the ability to tell a narrative.
Neural networks are universal function approximators, not Turing machines. They can theoretically learn any series of "if...then..." functions with enough neurons. But there are a lot of functions they can't represent very efficiently or without absurdly large numbers of neurons and training data.
3 weeks ago, Expedia acquired Travelocity for $280M.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/expedia-buys-traveloc...

This Orbitz deal ($1.6B) makes the Travelocity deal ($280M) look cheap.
Is this referring to free MOOCs on Coursera/edX/etc and free published course videos? Or online courses that enrolled students are paying for? Or both?
> Maker culture, as far as I can tell, is a term that applies to people who have never built anything in their lives suddenly figuring out that they can.

Aka the difference between people who can wax poetic about a '6502' and people who can do so about a '6011'.
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Does it really need to come to litigation?
Why not just read books then?
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She tried, very intentionally, to use the social media "machine" to punish what she deemed deviant behaviour, the fact that that same machine turned on her is both unsurprising if you're paying attention, but also a little deserved.

While the original joke was childish, I cannot think of one adult working in any industry who's never said something in a similar vein (or pointing out someone else's phasing might have a double meaning, and so on). It really has nothing to do with gender politics, she was just on a quest and picked up any small examples she could find.

Nobody should have been fired. That's on the employers. However if anyone was going to be fired she deserved it the most, simply because she started this ball rolling on purpose, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
But you still have to open the iTerm with split panel and navigate to the correct folders the first time you open a project every day. These are the steps I want to automate.
I believe people are fundamentally unable to comprehend the impact of having anything they do or say available to anybody in the world to witness and critique (probably a reflection of Dunbar's number - as social primates, we've been limited to small social non-anonymous circles for the majority of our evolution).

The issue is that up until the development of the internet (and particularly the social internet), most people weren't subject to this degree of anonynous public exposure. Before twitter and facebook, news outlets were the only exposure, and because of scalability issues, they typically only targeted 'noteworthy' individuals to catch them off guard. So those people learned to hide behind PR individuals, and carefully guard their words and actions when in the public eye.
Yes, bulk is quite important factor too, especially on storing energy on large scale. Agreeing with the "can do a week of battery phone" on the other hand depends. The problem is that smart-phones have achieved lately their acceptable speeds with quad core (and up) processors. Resolution of screen makes less impact than the mere size of the area that has to be lit, but nobody wants to surf web through a peephole. E-ink would rescue if it could play videos and games fast. A lot of people want to do exactly that. And there are a lot of additional features we are used to keeping active (gps, wifi, ...). Turning these off will decrease the value of having a smartphone. Based on current battery sizes a week of battery would probably mean about 5 times the battery of phones now. That is not pocketable computer territory anymore.

In addition I would really like to have the phone component moved to watches (with at least 3 days battery) and leave all the rest for a pocketable computer to handle.
Economic Profit (EP) is a better investment methodology than EPS
Nice! Easy $12500. I'm kicking myself but then again, who woulda thunk?
https://twitter.com/peterpham
"I thought I was good.."@WSJD: http://Jet.com hasn't launched yet, but it has already raised $140 million http://www.wsj.com/articles/jet-com-raises-140-million-led-b... …"
Your CISSP point has an is/ought flaw. It would indeed be nice if there was a sticker you could look for on a candidate to know if they were qualified to do security work. But that sticker does not exist. The competence of candidates with the CISSP sticker varies wildly, all the way down to barely- computer- literate. Over time, the top end of that range is trending downwards, as well, so to the extent it's a signal, it's a negative signal. (It's such a weak signal that I wouldn't make any kind of decision about it. There are very smart people that have CISSPs.)
Sounds like you're not a scientist or a mathematician then. No problem there. But why litter a discussion clearly not meant for you with rude and irrelevant comments? Breaking hashing functions is not related to the article, nor is it equivalent to the problem of P versus NP.
Turned off by what? A tweet ... unless for couple of million participants in the oppression olympics, for the sane people having said or done something offensive is not a big deal.
Yes, all the sites use the same backend. But customers just like you are fiercely loyal to their brand.
Interesting reasoning.

PS: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/1140149...
As over the top as the internet lynch mob might have been, I don't think a private company opting to fire a PR director for badly misjudging a public communication falls into the same category as making blasphemy a capital crime.
As you probably know, lead-acid also requires more maintenance than Li-Ion. Li-Ion's nice selling point for consumers is that you don't need to (especially) worry about stuff like battery memory.
According to his wikipedia article he also is releasing a book called "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" on March 2015.
Ask HN: Sources of people for very early app testing
Hi,

Does anyone know places for early app testing? E.g People who are just interested in giving something new a try?
HotSpot is a pretty sweet piece of technology, with an illustrious lineage back to Ungar and Smith's beautiful Self language[1] and the Strongtalk[2] Smalltalk VM implementation.

If this kind of "black magic" excites you, I highly recommend digging into both of these decades-old projects.

Terrific link, luu.

[1] http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~urs/oocsb/self/papers/papers.html

[2] http://strongtalk.org/history.html
FWIW Quanta magazine (which I think is has a syndication agreement with SciAm) does an excellent job on theoretical CS topics.
If you take that tweet in isolation and read it as a comparison of female developers to unicorns, then sure, I can see how you arrive at that conclusion. I think it's a faulty conclusion, and I think that its faultiness is further illustrated by his response to the whole drama, in which he explicitly clarified his stance of female developers. My reading of it is based on what I know of him, which does not consist solely of a Valleywag article and four tweets.

You're exemplifying the worst of the Twitter lynchmob problem here; you took a tweet, extrapolated it into a full sum of a person, and then don't bother to establish any further context and have decided that the author is a racist, sexist psychopath based on a context-free reading of a one-sentence statement. That's great for feeling superior to people, but it's pretty awful for useful dialog.
+1, It's understandable when websites aren't perfect across browsers, but when they don't work at all it just seems lazy.
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Microsoft has released the first build of Windows 10 for phones
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This is also the missing piece to move over to a more renewable energy source. Coal is on demand. If there is a need for more, you can spin up more factories, and many site waiting just for this.

Most renewable energies are reliable, but over longer periods of time. With a way to store energy, and have it dormant in the grid waiting to be used, this creates the surplus needed so we can switch to solar and wind and be able to rely on output.
As a german i have to ask: Why do people get fired over things like this? Are american worker employee protection laws so weak that there is no recourse whatsoever for them?
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It would be useful to have some explanation such as a tooltip for the icons at the bottom of the board. Their functions are not necessarily clear.

I appreciate a game like this: simple, but challenging and entertaining.
How did Edison win out? Our electric grids are AC, right?
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If you magically made the Tesla S battery last 1000 cycles, it could make $12 per cycle, grossing you $12,000 over its life.

The replacement cost of a Tesla S battery is $30,000.
I'm suggesting pay reflect many things, including how willing people are to do it.
"when it's done even despite the objections of the ethnic group in question"

I thought I addressed that with part you omitted quoting, "although there are of course the inevitable malcontents."

Who speaks for these people? Have they ever submitted these sorts of questions to a vote?

As long as e.g. there's a reasonable number of Apache tribes-members who are proud our biggest, baddest, proven in combat attack helicopter is named after them, I don't give a [expletive deleted] about the malcontents, most especially including the SJW crowd.

And if Sherpa has mutated into simply "guide", that's also addressed, in my "I can't speak for post-70s" qualification. Given your closeness to that situation, are all or even most of the "Sherpas" upset with all the connotations the word had accumulated in English over the decades? If you claim the latter, how do you know?
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It looks like the title was originally the former; probably a late change by a copyeditor.
My points:

- Normally is easier to sell software support than software licensing and for this is good to open your source, as will be possible to gather collaboration of other people;

- Gathering collaboration for other people is easy to recruitment of new talents;

- Larger market players will offer different services if they try to take advantage of open-source, and even if they offer the same service, costumers prefer the core maintainers when making big contracts for support.

- Open your code will help to make a software with better quality, as when you can't get time to fix some bugs some people can do this if it is of big priority for them.
Can you make it bigger than 8x8?
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May Bayes Theorem Be with You
I always get a laugh when people look at these articles and say "Oh, that's old. Things are totally different now." And then they find out the hard way that, actually, people change much more slowly than computers do.
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Well, that's why in-house work tends to come out much better than stuff that's contracted out.
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Here's an idea, a transcript where you can click on a word in the transcript, and it jumps to the point in the presentation so you also have the context of the slide shown during speaking.
French guy here. This article only speak about employees in american company getting fired about some data shared on the web. But I would be curious to know what happened to people who faced the same situation working in continental european companies. It would be surprising if people would lost their jobs so easily. Either because I think it's culturally better accepted for private people (I mean not public figures) to have unappropriate expressions publicly, plus the law don't allow companies (at least in France) to fire someone on a basis of only one unappropriate expression not even targeting another employee or customer of this company.
> The downside, though, is so much of the web has become homogenous. It feels like every start up has an out-of-the-box website build with bootstrap, complete with a full-width parallax header image and liberal use of Helvetica Neue.

Really, that's a win in the eyes of most users, who are more interested in easily finding what they were looking for than whizz-bang features.
Using a Tesla S battery as a baseline, it gives you 85KWh at $30,000, or 2.83KWh per $1000.

$1500 would give you 4.25KWh. The average home averages 1KW, so you'll have 4.25 hours.

Obviously you could get more efficiency with a stationary battery.
I don't like this type of precedent.

If I make a video wherein I teach some concept, but don't provide closed captions, and then distribute the video for free, am I discriminating against the deaf? If I knew I had to create closed captions, and then make a braille transcript, or maybe even make my video colorblind friendly, I just wouldn't make the video in the first place. I sympathize with folks with disabilities, and I applaud those who go the extra mile to accommodate them, but making it mandatory under the law seems ridiculous to me.
Perl 6 elegantly blends static nominal typing and arbitrarily loose or tight dynamic constraints.

The following slides were published a week or so ago and should demolish most folks' overly simplistic view that one or other is best or indeed that they don't play well together:

http://jnthn.net/papers/2015-fosdem-static-dynamic.pdf
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I've found that the same sort of thinking that's useful for nonograms is useful for this game.
Comcast MAC address spoofing, a potential hack for data caps
Nootropics aren't just for tech millionaires
People are really shocked when I tell them a car in motion uses 10 times the power of a house.
Instead, she said, she just felt personally humiliated.

Well, if I'm wearing a Nike hat, Nike t-shirt, Nike running pants, Nike shoes, and a Nike employee badge and make a joke in poor taste at a bar / mall / airport / etc, and the crowd turns to look at me with contempt for the humor in poor taste, it might reflect bad on Nike. The personal humiliation part is being called out in public on making a bad joke. She wasn't just personally humiliated, she was professionally humiliated. Job in PR = maybe know about PR...at least the "Do's and Don'ts" for survival.

It happens, which is why I suppose my Dad taught me early on that if I make a joke at the expense of somebody who is bigger, stronger, and angrier at the world than me, they might punch me out. Can happen in a bar, a grocery store, a parking lot, a motel lobby...it's life. That seems to apply to the internet as well, albeit with some caveats...never let your private thoughts wave around a company banner...
You have no idea how good that sounds. "Enterprise" programming is soul-destroying, and the current vogue for mile-high node-based JS stacks looks even worse.

I miss the good old days of futzing around in 68k assembler for fun and... well, just fun, really.
So you choose to believe she meant she literally cannot get AIDS?

Come on.
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Nope. My apologies on behalf of our profession. This is probably just a shakedown -- it'll be cheaper to settle than it will be to defend against this lawsuit, so the game is to find a mistake that could plausibly fall afoul of the ADA and file away.

I hope they don't settle, to put it mildly. Few institutions are as well-equipped to combat trolls as Harvard.