skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This works fine if you have a unique, identifyable name, and aren't afraid of the consequences of that name.

Exposing that you are a woman via your name over the internet results in harassment. Same with being black, Arab, or Asian. Same with Gay, TG, etc.

If you'd like to experience this effect, create a fictional profile which publicly advertises you as a "furry", and try and interact with the internet. You'll be amazed (and repulsed) by the responses.
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The Pico CMS website features an attractive description / value proposition: "Pico is a flat file CMS, this means there is no administration backend and database to deal with. You simply create .md files in the "content" folder and that becomes a page." Perhaps you can add a similar sentence to the Baun website as well?
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> Suicide rates are underreported.

Can I just check: do you mean under-reported by coroners? Or that the statistics are available and not reported by the press?

Many startup founders are adult men without families. That's a high risk group for death by suicide. Add the financial pressure and you have another risk factor. The lifestyle can be another factor.
1) Can't you just use a contactless card for this?

2) Are there any taxis you can pay with a phone but not a card?
> Are you suggesting she is delusional because she felt something that you cannot imagine feeling?

If she felt in physical danger when in reality she very much wasn't, then yes, that's delusional, almost by definition.
The most powerful point is about the small, loosely coupled teams. Organizations pay a big coordination cost keeping teams tightly-coupled. At HubSpot, we break large teams up into smaller groups and break up the deployable components of the system in the same way. This gives our teams the ability to move really fast and make decisions without less coordination.
The reason why jock/macho type cultures should be suppressed in software engineering is because they end up being fairly exclusive cultures which engender and reward levels of masculinity.

Many companies (possibly correctly) hire and fire based on perceived culture fit, and if your is less accepting of anyone who doesn't fit your slightly macho mold, then women will find it harder to get a job.

This means that such working environments should be thought of as unacceptable, yes.

Obviously there are different levels, but yes, a culture where it's acceptable to make crude sex jokes on the job would deter many of the women I know.

It's just a joke doesn't cut it - especially when you extend that to 'any joke'.

I am not saying that this specific case is such an example
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Document everything. Get a sample [tested]. Talk to a lawyer. I hope you and your family get well soon.
You say there are "plenty of articles", but that MailChimp one is the only one I ever see cited. Do you have any other good examples?
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This is the first thing I thought too, their position relative to the observer is a property of the object, it seems obvious.

This applies to programming as well, in most OO languages two instances of a class with identical properties are still different due to their locations in memory. Most of these language have a distinction between value equal and reference equal.

Also in databases you have the issue as well. Relational purist tend want natural keys for a item, but the reality is most database make artificial keys such that two items may have the same properties and are yet distinct due to the artificial key. For instance what is the natural key of a person? Even their DNA sequence may not be unique in the case of twins, or you may have incomplete information, either way you need to give them an artificial key.

Much of seems to come down to the observer. In the case of the two spheres, two where observed and given a mental haecceitas instantly. If I examine the identical iron spheres then close my eyes and they are moved into opposite positions, then observe them again I will not be able to determine which is which or if they have changed. Computers are the same way they are typically recording facts and modelling things from the real world, imperfect models based on whats observed. What may be two objects may infact be one, a dup, etc..
On your first point, what about credit card tap? no signing needed and no entering pin on orders less than $75...

How is paying with a phone more useful than that? (other than you could keep track of you transactions offline I guess)
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so he could actually apologised to her and none of this would've happened

"I'm sorry you're irrationally afraid of overheard immature jokes"?
London tried to have a form of that, where pedestrians could go on raised walkways, while the cars owned the roads underneath. Fragments remain around the Barbican in the City of London, and you can see blocked off unfinished walkways.

Underground roads are being suggested in many places as they free up land for buildings.
The idea itself seems nice, but it remains to be seen how useful it will be beyond learning basic language concepts and syntax.

However, I would like to compliment your website. I run an extremely restricted browser that blocks most JS, cookies, XSS, etc. by default and most new project announcements I see on HN I close immediately because they haven't demonstrated enough value for me to bother unblocking the ungodly mess of JS on their sites. Your site isn't just well designed, concise and readable, it actually works out of the box (the only thing I blocked were the social buttons), barely uses any resources and looks lovely. I wish more web developers thought this way.
The trouble with payments is that end users don't see a problem with the current system.

Vendors hate the system because they'd like to pay less in fees.

Banks like it the way it is but they know they'll need to innovate in some way to stay on top.

As for Apple, it is one more way to differentiate their products. Note that they are working with and not against the banks on this one.

And the media? If they had made 1% as much noise about google wallet, which isn't too different from apple pay there would be an entirely different conversation. These are the people who get excited about every android game 'console' you can play candy crush on but censor the PlayStation vita which has real games.
I'm in the payment space, so I have a few thoughts on this.
1. Payment through mobile wallets prevents employees and corporations you're paying from actually getting access to your card number. This removes the risk of fraud and theft by employees skimming numbers from your card and from corporate DB breaches

2. I am absent minded and often accidentally leave the house without my wallet and this allows me to still pay for things

3. Phones might die if you drop them or the battery dies, but I'm a lot more attached to my phone because I use it several times an hour. I'm a lot more aware of it and am able to make sure that it's charged and available. Occasions of it breaking only occur at most once every year or two.

4. By using my mobile payment app, I have a clear view of my current balances in one place without having to open banking apps or websites and allows me to view my current financial profile without having to log in anywhere.

5. With cards, the company I do business with is able to build purchase data profiles on me and sell the data onto other parties without my control. With Apple, I know it's just about their 0.15% processing fee without data mining. With google, I know it's just for Google's internal analytics and not being sold onto data brokers for sale to potentially hundreds of purchase analytics companies.
So cancer, then.
Why would you want to use a credit card over cash, or checks?

There are certain advantages. Not in all cases, but having it as an additional option may afford additional security, anonymity, and faster transactions.
These people are early- to mid-20s. Americans generally get fatter steadily from their 30-60's. So, the differences are likely to compound. Also, as a country Finland is more fit, so it's likely the gap would be wider in say the US.

Finland Adult Obesity rate: 23%
America Adult Obesity rate: 35%
Think of it as a stepping stone. Someday you'll likely be able to walk into a store, grab what you need, and walk out, all without stopping at a register to pay.

To (3), your credit card company already sells your data to advertisers. I'd be surprised if the googles of the world don't already have a feed of that information.
Where in the article were they directing it at the talk? I didn't catch that happening anywhere? It seemed like the two guys giggling amongst themselves to me.
Go, with its simplicity, is a gift from the generation of masters to today's professionals, but many of today's professionals appear too ignorant to see the wisdom of the language. It used to drive me crazy when I would read negative comments in r/programming and HN, but I don't even pay attention to the negative comments anymore. The adoption is far better than I was afraid it was going to be.
This has been in beta since Facebook's F8 conference nearly a year ago. Has anyone here tried it out in their app yet, or encountered it in the wild?
I mean underreported by media/social.

Not SV, but last year there were a series of suicides in the Las Vegas tech hub. Submitted stories were buried in sites like HN. Just an example of the culture.

I'm not saying don't do it, just be mindful it's very hard and has a lot of factors out of your control.
That's what terrorists do - they are trying to make an impression that their possible actions are much for dredful that what they'r asking from you. But it doesn't make you particularly bad if you feel scared, does it? And act out of fear? Like giving up something yours - one of your employees or, say, one of your freedoms?
I've had tons of fun with Go, and I've also used it in real production code!

I don't think it is really fair to say he "only" made it this far. It's something that actually brings enjoyment and productivity to possibly millions of people!
I don't think Adria's company really over-reacted; she achieved the opposite of what her job of 'developer evangelist' was all about.
That's your opinion. My comment was to express my outrage - if that can't be part of a discussion, then...?
I was very excited to discover Nautilus at my local bookstore, and bought what turned out to be the first edition. In the end, it was a lot of fluff. They've since continued to churn out articles with fascinating topics and disappointing content.
Maybe so. I think this could be made more confusing if he was at the conference while on the company dime.
So you believe that it is more energy efficient for a ton of compost to be moved by humans than by a single truck making one trip? What about all of the oil it takes to generate the food to feed the humans who move the compost? I don't have time to do the math at the moment but I hope someone else does. That sounds dubious at best.
Is it EA or just how game studios work?

Historically, studios either put out zero games or one game. I think it's the fairly extreme outliers that do it over and over and most of them deal in sequels. If you look inside the game industry, I think I would be hard pressed to do a second game if I made games. It doesn't look like an easy feat to keep the team magic working. Likewise, there seems to be no shortage of up and comers that want to make a new game. The studio might not be as valuable as we want to think.

Which would you bet more money on: Maxis coming up with a new hit game concept or the masses going ape over sim city 2015 on ps4? And by "ape" I mean willing to buy it for over $30. I have a hard time with both options, just like ea.
1. Frameworks _are_ libraries with inversion of control.

2. It is harder to write a library than to write a program, because you have to design an API for the calling code. This is a higher order task than just writing a program, because the library has to generalize to all applicable use cases. It is easy to get it wrong (Java Calendar API for example).

3. It is even harder to write a framework, because not only will the framework provide an API to the calling code, it will also take control of the program flow to some degree. If not done correctly, then there will be cases where the calling code could be unable to satisfy some reasonable requirement because they are unable to influence the control flow in that area of the framework. This is an even higher order task than writing a library.

It's akin to the difference between solving a specific problem in math (solve this particular quadratic equation), or solving the whole class of problems at once (derive quadratic formula) or showing that two apparently unrelated problems are actually isomorphic (Galois theory - linking theory of equations to permutations).

The alternative, writing lower level code that you understand, is also bad once scaled out team wide.

It's one thing to write you own bespoke code for everything in your basement, but when scaled out across a team of developers, if there is not a lot of attention paid to consistency of the various parts of the application, then you can get into nightmare codebases that become big balls of mud.
1) Well, if you don't buy it then I don't know what to tell you. But I am constantly forgetting my wallet and cards, while I rarely if ever forget my phone. Tim Hortons app has been my only option to pay for lunch more than a couple times.

2) Nobody (or at least hardly anyone) is advocating eliminating hard currency or credit cards. Phone payment is just another option. Why do you see this as an either/or situation?

3) Google is not the only player in this game, and even then I don't think I share your concerns. Ad targeting based on purchase history has been a thing for many years at this point, and it's never been an issue for me. If it was though, I would just switch to Apple's solution.
It doesn't mater to my argument whether you think the comment was misogynistic or not; that's a red herring and figuring it out is not the most important thing regarding the incident. What matter is that Adria thought making sexual jokes in a conference was disparaging towards her, so she had every right to express her discomfort in public; what she had no right was to link her shaming discourse to the actual person who made her uncomfortable, without even letting him know about it. Personal affairs need to be kept private and discussed face to face before shouting them from the rooftops; that's simply the adult way to behave.

Many women in the tech industry have stated a legitimate concern that, being in a minority, they feel very disturbing a "bro culture" in professional settings where sexual innuendo is unabashed, even when those are not directed at women - if not for other things, because that culture encourages some black sheeps to perform regrettable actions which are misogynistic, like unwanted sexual advances while discussing a business deal.

After being made aware of such frequent and repeated complaints, the responsible way to behave in such contexts, when there are women present, is to restrain yourself and avoid such comments even if you don't agree that they are misogynistic, unless you're 100% sure that all the women present are OK with them.
Could be an issue for local wildlife? http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n1/full/ncomms2380.h...
I thought that here in the US only applied to a specific list of disallowed reasons (race/gender/etc). Which don't include "being targeted by the Internet Lynch Mob".
Slightly OT, but some here might be interested in a minimal wallet. I use something like this:

http://toolsandtoys.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/cinch-min...

I don't carry cash, just cards. This is much, much smaller than a wallet. Completely removes the pain of carrying one around.
It's also bizarre.

The interesting thing that happened: A bilious internet mob.

The thing being discussed: The legitimacy of an individual's mental state. Not even the reasonableness of their reaction to the mental state, the mental state itself.

I can certainly empathize with feeling fear that I am perfectly aware is irrational, looking at pictures of people up high makes me queasy and I stop looking before I break into a cold sweat. Pictures!
The two biggest pain points in the payments industry are convenience and security. Our most secure solution, cash, is pretty inconvenient. You need to know exactly how much you are going to spend and need to get more from an ATM or bank. Our most convenient solution is credit cards, but these have proven to be fairly insecure because one account number is linked to many transactions which can be duplicated. If paying with your phone could give you the security of cash with the convenience of a credit card it would be disruptive. Let's wait to see what happens in the mobile payment space.
Nope, there are systems in which it's in /bin/env, though you have to go fairly exotic before you find one that doesn't at least have a symlink in /usr/bin. I don't believe POSIX says anything about it

http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/#env

In fact, POSIX doesn't even standardize the shebang at all; it is simply mentioned as a possible extension.
As long as they aren't engineering interns, my sister cleared 30K in a summer in SV during her internship. I was floored because I felt lucky to even get an internship 10 years ago.
This is solely made, because people are afraid to use facbook to login anywhere, becuase they don't want their friends to know.
Ah, you're absolutely right, thank you. Please accept my sincere apologies. I've corrected the wording in the original post.
a) mortality deprived us of the Isaac Newtons, Einsteins and all the other bright minds already

b) why would there even be a discussion on 'who deserves' to be immortal? is there currently a discussion on who deserves to live based on what they contribute to society? crime would still be crime, and dealt with as it's always been dealt with

c) let's distinguish between mortality based on aging and mortality based on other unforeseeable causes ( violence, accidents, etc. )

d) mortality currently binds us to our solar system, and humanities' possible ultimate demise

e) we are at a stage where human evolution has stopped. the way to push it forward is now through our own means

my question was rather related to the technical issue - as it is a technical issue. not if it's desireable or not; that's besides the point and has to be dealt with separately
Adria's immediate comment on the situation [1], conveniently not mentioned in the article being currently discussed, expressed anything but hatred for Hank.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399047
OK, so I take it this is "anonymous" only for the application owner, Facebook still knows exactly where you log in, when and whatnot.

So, and please correct me if I'm wrong, this is just logging in using Facebook without (probably) sharing "any" data with the software provider, right?
>There are, of course, a lot of definitions of frameworks and libraries. I don’t want to get into those, rather I’d like to illustrate my view on the differences by means of this picture

Kudos to this... it is the clearest visual expanation I have seen regarding the differences between a framework and a library
#2 is a big one for me. As a father of two kids under 4, I can't tell you how disappointing it is to take the time to load them into the car take them to the grocery store, only to realize that I've forgotten my wallet while I'm standing in the produce section.

This happened to me about a month ago, but unfortunately my local grocer didn't accept NFC payments, so I had to leave.
"a social faux-pas"

..

"Have any white men on this site ever been on the receiving end of a campaign of intimidation and fear?"

Did you hear what happened to this "Hank" guy when he made a joke once, a "social faux-pas"? I heard there was an article about him on HN recently.
> Not to mention the part where she herself tweets dick jokes.

Only Jews can tell Jew jokes. Only black people can tell n* jokes. Only a woman can tell dick jokes without shame?
> She took a picture of two people, without asking for permission - She twitted said picture with negative comments

That's the main thing imo. One may not expose normal persons in such a public way without asking for consent. If I attend a conference I have the right to stay anonymous.
In one sentence: you can mix-and-match libraries, but you can only use one framework.
Please excuse my ignorance, but could someone explain to me how the joke about a big dongle was threatening or sexist?

A lot of people seem to just be accepting that at face value and I'm having issues understanding why that joke in particular would make her feel unsafe or uncomfortable. It just doesn't strike me as anything that could come across as such.
Thank you very much for your kind comment!

Our intention is actually that there would be different levels of difficulty, but for the purpose of showing only the main idea we skipped all additional features. But it really remains to see if this kind of learning would be appropriate and functional.
Does anyone believe this? This seems like justification for why we should be able to have all of the sex, with none of the consequences. This article is presented as a cause and effect, but the statistics only give us a single data point. Basically it provided some data (which isn't even published) and gave the authors feel-good opinion. Utter garbage
> You talk to a woman on an elevator... and
> everyone assumes you're a sexual predator
> because penis.

A woman's fear of unwanted sexual advances, assault, or rape from an unknown male when she's in a vulnerable position is entirely reasonable. Many women receive unwelcome sexual advances on a regular basis. Most men have basically no point of personal reference for this fear, but we should try to be aware of how the woman might perceive us rather than whining about being unfairly slighted.

According to the CDC, 18% of women report being raped at some point in their lives, versus 1.7% of men.[1] Given that, I think it's reasonable for women to feel a need for caution when dealing with strange men talking to them in elevators.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/sv-datasheet-a.pdf
I just think they could have had the same questions asked by a potential customer, in a real sales pitch, and then they would definitely need more patience and stronger answers to win the client.

They seem to know their technical needs, but I would spend more time talking to possible early adopters... that would help the project itself and also their pitches for VCs and accelerators :)
Why... that isn't what they do. There are people more qualified that actually are working on the future.

More qualified because Kernighan isn't a programming languages researcher, what he has done and does may be great, but just because he is great in one section of computer science doesn't mean there is any reason to expect or even want him or others to venture into other sections just because.
We shouldn't chalk up her feelings to "her own insecurities" and we should assign them up to a serious lack of diversity in our field, which can make people feel excluded and unsafe.

If we can't acknowledge this woman's feelings seriously then we can't include her. That's not good enough.

I've seen Adria called "delusional", and "in need of therapy" in this thread. It makes me sad to think how quickly and easily we dismiss her.

The joke was innocuous, and I agree that her response was over-proportionate. I agree with you. The difference is I don't blame her for those actions because I think I can see how she felt in that situation. Same way I don't blame Hank for making a stupid joke because I've been there too.
So you're saying that you'd be irreparably damaged for life? Overcoming those past experiences means understanding that they were aberrations.