skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps because he would like future generations to be able to win also, rather than having the game taken away.
I think we just tend to make games that we relate to.

Look outside of games. If I told you to write a novel, would you write it from the perspective of the opposite gender? Personally my gut instinct is to write from the perspective of a male, because that's what I relate to most.
Incorrect. The paragraph I quoted is 261(b). The paragraph you are talking about is 261(a)(7), part of 261(a). Note that 261(a)(7) never even uses the word "duress".

Furthermore, 261(b) says "this section". The "section" is 261, not 261(a)(7). Note also that 261(a)(7) calls itself "this paragraph", not "this section".

261.7 is a completely different section concerning the evidentiary value of birth control methods: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/PEN/3/1/9/1/s261.7
How is it forced sex if he/she can simply quit and then go get another job ? I mean I think that it's sexual harassment and a horrendous crime, but it's not the same thing as rape.

It sounds like the young lady experienced sexual harassment and decided that it was worth it to willingfuly have sex with a coworker in order to continue to prop up a financial relationship so that she wouldn't have to deal with the burden of needing to take on some debt, or move in with a relative while she goes out to find another job.

You are assuming that she can somehow show evidence that she believed that it was nearly impossible for her to get another job, and in addition that she believed that losing her income stream would have caused her or her children to actually starve to death. Maybe if she lived in a POW camp where prisoners are assigned strict food rations and a guard was threatening her with losing her only way to get a meal then it would make sense to call it rape rather than sexual harassment. In America though you can go work at McDonalds if you don't have a prior felony record or even go to a homeless shelter.

She could have just sued the bastard to recoup those losses anyways right ? (in theory) Especially if she has that legal background.

I'm not trying to defend the criminal who sexually harassed her but I am trying to point out that falsely accusing someone of rape is a serious crime unto itself.
Here you go: http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/ You need a PC for that, though. If you want to stay on the phone, or accomplish more powerful things, you need to jailbreak. This theoretically voids the warranty, but kids don't usually care about that; on the other hand, consider that many of them would be using dedicated game consoles (home or portable) for equivalent purposes back then, and those typically required buying (i.e. for a child, convincing one's parent to buy) a physical cheating device, whereas jailbreaks are free downloads.
What is "usable"? I have Acer 4745G notebook. It has pretty big trackpad. Pinch-to-zoom and two-finger scrolling is working smoothly. Most of the time, i don't use my mouse, only trackpad.
"Reads need to be fast, even though they are rare. There are generally two approaches to dealing with this. The first is to write efficiently, so the data isn’t read-optimized per-series on disk, and deploy massive amounts of compute power in parallel for reads, scanning through all the data linearly. The second is to pay a penalty on writes, so the data is tightly packed by series and optimized for sequential reads of a series."

As the little girl says in the GIF: why don't we have both? Write to a write-optimized store of limited size that requires full access during reads, and re-write that into a read-optimized format hourly or daily. Because it's limited in size, you won't care that the most recent data isn't very efficient for reading, or isn't particularly compact.
I hear ya. But there's probably still something different that these kids will get out of their particular version of the experience.

Maybe it'll be battling Minecraft plugins and building one on their own (after all, this is still the #1 game among children from what I understand). It might be developing an instinct for great UX and media execution (games like Candy Crush for instance).

Only hindsight will tell, but I don't think it'll be entirely for naught.
Ah but it is not a defense of Midwest as a workplace. It is a defense of the Midwest as a living place and effectively working on the West cost, and by implication, getting a West coast salary.

If you can do this arangement, it is not bad, agreed.

However I found tech jobs wise Ohio was a shithole. The number of available jobs, the salaries, the expectations were just not there when I was looking.

Like he said, the people are great, I had to leave a lot of friends and family behind, which hurt. The food, art scene, music wasn't bad, so agree on those fronts.

Edit: Interesting, getting downvoted without any comments. Not sure if this is an instinctive defense "he is attacking out Midwest pride"... Like I said, I like Midwest, and would have rather not had to leave. Unfortunately companies I got offers from didn't allow remote work.
OP said "perfectly align to various norms" -- where was this or any commentator demanding alignment with norms at all, much less demanding perfection?

From what I can tell, the character already aligns perfectly with the norm of "woman as object", and if people get "castigated" (actually harmed or affected in some way, rather than criticized online by a few commentators) for creating characters like that, I've yet to hear about it.
Came here to mention, yo-yo code sometimes exists as a workaround for legacy implemenations: take XML-RPC for example, and the fact that the data types that can be passed are limited, and int is fixed at 32-bits. What happens when you need to pass a 64-bit int? You either need to convert it to its alphanumeric string representation or convert it raw into a character array, and then convert back on the server side. Often converting to the numeric string winds up producing more readable and maintainable code.
I'm not going to argue that refactoring is unnecessary, far from it. However with each refactor there is always the possibility of introducing a hard to debug regression. Even if you follow rigorous TDD, there is no such thing as 100% code coverage with your tests which means that new bugs can and do creep in.

I guess what I'm saying is that refactoring shouldn't be entered into lightly.
Address or write about the issue publicly.
This needs to be highlighted:

> “We expect every employee to be ready on day one.” What a scary proposition! Even McDonalds doesn’t expect its burger flippers to be ready from day one.

There's no other explanation for the buzzword bingo.
15 Startups Sparking Change in Detroit
From one heterosexual man to another, surely we can see that we're in a different situation than this woman was.

I am genuinely curious about this point. Why are men in a different situation? Couldn't a homosexual boss want to coerce blowjobs from male subordinates?
Techniques developed to figure out this problem can be used in other fields. Developing them against a 'fact-checkable' issue can help troubleshoot issues, as opposed to using them on a dataset where we don't know what it's supposed to look like.
That's a good point--and probably another challenge for McDonald's in the US.

In a lot of cities, McDonald's is probably one of the easiest places for homeless people to come for cheap food (the 99 cent menu), shelter and toilets.

In some places, it's also a de facto senior center for similar reasons: "They were drawn there by proximity and price, and they have stayed for the companionship" according to http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/design/lessons-from-m...

But that can't make it easy for the chain to target a more upscale market.

Starbucks, Chipotle, Five Guys and the rest probably don't have this problem to the same extent, because they don't really sell anything you can buy with spare change.
I think it all sucks... on the one hand, being falsly accused of something because someone made a bad decision in a moment, or exaggerated is pretty bad.

* Two people get drunk and hook up after a party... afterwards the woman cries rape. (there's a difference between rape and a bad decision)

* A person asks another person they work with out. (this isn't harassment, though once a firm no is given they should not ask again)

The problem with the first, is it does happen, for any number of reasons... the second less so, but often women will give a soft decline instead of just saying they aren't interested.

On the flip side, continual harassment, rape, sexism and just general asshole behavior does exist, and should rightly be called out. The trouble is, without repeated offenses, it's almost impossible to know the difference as an outsider.
Have also seen casual sexism and racism used. I assume these people aren't racist or sexist to the point it would affect anything they do professionally, however it does detract from my view of them.

On the other hand I swear like a sailor, although I try to pull back from it in public - I occasionally slip. Especially when I'm dropping the C bomb (usually targeted at an inanimate object).

Is it unprofessional? Yes. Should I be judged? Fuck yes. Do I care?

Yep.
I feel for that woman in your life, who would be called an "attacking activist" if she ever strayed outside of your proscribed guidelines of civility. It's unfortunate that women have to deal with violence and discrimination from men so much that they get tired of it and express deep anger on the internet. I as a male sympathize with the anger, not the targets of the anger.
Aspiring noob hacker mom applying to YC?
Hi guys,

Aspiring hacker mom here. I'm looking for advice on how to get into YC. The problem (other than the obvious) is that I am not a coder. I have always worked in C-suite jobs in software companies. So why YC? Because I have a scaleable biz idea I've been working on that is ready for some real testing.

I've been learning to code (C and Swift) and I can create an OK website. Yah, I can hear you laughing. All good. But I am not attempting to be the coder, just want to create a version of my product that can be proved. I may not worthy to post here, but I think a stint at YC could be a critical breakthrough.

Is it insane to apply with my non-coding sales partner and my limited, lame coding skills - is there any advice you can give us?
I wouldn't complain if the game wouldn't have male characters. What the game offers (after thirty seconds of google search [1]) is that you can play as different characters (there seem to be multiple males and multiples females), and all of them are prominent characters in the story (at least in the movie). As this isn't shoehorning something in, I can't see anything to complain about. There's legitimate reasons for including male characters and as there's already multiple females to choose from it's only logical to allow male options too.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-hunger-games-panem-risin...
Interesting that it doesn't mention CDR-coding - I guess that's considered competitive only with hardware support. There's been some work by Appel on trying to improve performance by unrolling (in his case, immutable) cons lists, too.
"I never knew what my employment would look like the following term and constantly applied for part- and full-time teaching positions in case I didn’t get rehired."

Why is the right answer to invest more money in adjuncts and not to encourage adjuncts to find other jobs? If he loves to teach, why not become a public school teacher? Many districts are experiencing critical shortages.

Nobody is entitled to a job in academia and if you are educated enough to do that, you are almost certainly educated enough to do many other more lucrative things. To the extent that an adjunct is a PhD that did not succeed in the academic job market, the right answer is not to force universities to make room for them anyway.

Universities have a perverse incentive to saturate the market with graduates that they can hire back for little to no money. That needs to change also.
Agreed. Hi neighbor. Have 200mbit fiber now. Getting gigabit fiber in a few days. Welcome to Central Illinois. NO TRAFFIC!
Also, would you mind showing me evidence of any negative thing any sea lion has ever done to you?
I live in Memphis TN and I've found that comments on HN towards the middle of the US are skewed negative. Perhaps I have a bias for remembering negative comments. Nonetheless, I find this attitude perplexing from the HN crowd.

I understand the value of physical proximity to lots of other like minded, smart people. However, I would have thought that the tech crowd would be the first to decry the inefficiencies of having one or two (SF and NY) annointed "tech hubs" and actively eschewing every other place. Why crowd every damn programmer in the world into the SF bay area when we have the internet?! That's the whole point of the internet!

There's also the cultural argument. Tech work has tended to attract people who are part of non-mainstream culture. Tech hub cities attract these people because they already have every culture and subculture imaginable and a society that mostly tolerates them. There's also a perception that other places don't have this and that their particular affiliation would invite outright hostility. That's mostly not true. Every large city (>1M people) will almost certainly have communities of people who share your culture or at least tolerate and support it.

Again though, I think that choosing where you live based on whether or not you can surround yourself with exclusively like minded people is counter to the hacker ethos. Let's not forget that Silicon Valley was not always what it is now. People built the place, and the rest of the US and the world could benefit from people who attempted to do the same elsewhere.
it's 10:30 In most places. The only thing I really eat at McDonald's is the egg mcmuffin. Actually, for whatever reason, they are the only ones to get the simple breakfast sandwich right. At one McDonald's I went to, they start serving breakfast at midnight(not sure if this is a decent thing), which was amazing and I ordered an egg mcmufffin and a cheeseburger, transplanted the patty and had a great midnight sandwich.
That's logical, I agree; I wasn't aware of that.
If you're filling out your return by hand (1040EZ, 1040A, or 1040) and doing the math yourself they do tell you to round.

However the input forms (W-2, 1099s, etc.) VERY rarely contain ALL round numbers. After analyzing thousands of returns, I can assure this is a yellow, if not red, flag.

Combine that with the other flags I mentioned, and several I didn't, and I would bet my life that the returns I'm eluding to are fraud. Clearly I'm betting my and my company's reputation, so I can assure you I'm very confident in my assessment.
You might try Kaggle: http://www.kaggle.com/
When I was a kid, hacking was a means to an end. If I wanted to play a game on my Commodore 64 or an Apple ][, I had to learn some basic skills on the computer, not tap an icon. Before I had a disk drive, I typed BASIC programs into the C64 from Compute Gazette, and learned programming via osmosis. If I got stuck in a game, the world wide web and gamefaqs didn't exist yet, so I figured out how to hack the savegame file.

I'm not a natural hacker. If I was a kid now, I'd just play games on an iPad and effectively learn nothing because there's no friction. This isn't a slam on the ipad or misplaced nostalgia, just a recognition that sometimes you are forced to learn things out of necessity, and if you're born into plenty, you never are forced to grow. On the other hand, for anybody who's a born tinkerer, the fact that iPads are locked down and super easy to use is irrelevant because you have a thousand other cheap hackable devices like Raspberry Pis or Arduino. For someone who's not a born tinkerer though, they may never pick up a hackable device, and will miss some opportunities for growth.
If you threaten to punch someone in the face if she doesn't sleep with you, that's clearly rape. If you threaten to fire someone if she doesn't sleep with you, some people wouldn't call that rape (and the law wouldn't either). But I'd rather get punched in the face then lose a job I worked really hard to get. So why do we consider the latter not as bad?

The belief that physical coercion is worse than economic coercion arises from our deep-seated deference to rich people. A migrant worker has to pull a knife to coerce someone. A law firm partner doesn't have to, but can exercise powers that are just as immorally coercive.

Would it be easier if I called it "white collar rape?"
I don't think it's quite as bad as you make out.

Like you, playing video games from a young age was the entry point for me into computing, but (partly also due to every adult saying they were a waste of time) I didn't realise until much later (17-18) that I could take that interest and make it in to a fulfilling career.

Despite the walled gardens, tools are still out there for people who want to make new or hack existing games, and people who want to do that will find a way.

They will have a curiosity about how things work that won't be quelled until they figure it out, and the process of figuring it out will be half the fun plus a large chunk of the learning.
This may be correct, legally, in some jurisdictions. I'm not a lawyer.

However, I think it kind of misses the point to adjudicate sexual harassment vs. rape in these cases. Saying it's merely sexual harassment implies that it's somehow not an issue. The point is that it's clearly a malicious act, not a well-intentioned boundary-crossing misunderstanding.
Maybe I've just had incredible luck at the locations I've been to ( West Coast & Mountain states in the USA ), but my experience has been much different.

McDonalds seem to be remodeling their dining areas - most of the locations I've been to in the past 2 years have been updated to feel closer to a 'Starbucks' atmosphere than a 'fast food' one.

As far as the queueing - even before the remodels, they've printed a customer number on your receipt and call out your number when your food is ready. If it isn't busy, the person at the register just brings your food to you instead.

I think for 'to go' orders made inside at the register - whether you're at Five Guys, In N Out, or McDonalds, people
will stand around waiting for their food. If you go during a main meal rush, there might be some confusion - but everyone standing around waiting for their food is usually polite enough to answer the question "are you in line?" with "Oh, I already ordered. Go right ahead." or "The line for ordering is over there."

I work remotely - the remodeled McDonalds are pleasant and clean enough of an environment that I'll go there to work if I'm having connectivity issues at home.
Cosmic Lens Reveals 4 Views of Same Star Explosion
Uncle Sam was happy to pay for my grad school, including books, a stipend, and even travel. But I still had to take out money to cover the cost of tuition for my kids to go to a school where teaching occurred. But that's a New Orleans problem, not a grad school problem.

Did that make economic sense? Homo economicus math said yes. I still say yes. But I sure would like that $1000 a month back.
You can be a heavily customizable girl in GTA 5 online.
In the grand scheme of things all the errors he mentioned do not make a difference to the overall direction of the proof. Syntactic errors in programs on the other hand do. Unused variables, equality instead of assignment, declared but uninitialized variables, etc. are almost always bugs. That's not the case with math.

That's not to say this line of reasoning is not worthwhile. PLT Redex already does something similar for programming language semantics: http://redex.racket-lang.org/. Catching bugs in programming language semantics works for the same reason catching bugs in C works. There is a formal grammar with well-defined meaning that doesn't exist in general mathematical discourse. There is work being done in that direction as well: http://homotopytypetheory.org/book/. I wouldn't call that linting though.
Okay, more devils advocate.

Your boss comes into the office to fire you. You really really need your job or you and your family starve. You really really don't want to. In fact you would do anything but stoop to this level. But you have no choice and you know he is into you. Your family is starving. You decide to ask your boss, "I'll fuck you if I keep the job." He agrees.

It's still sex against your will. You're only doing it to get the job, so your children don't starve. Were you raped?
There's also a really great budding startup scene in Columbus centered around Ohio State. The midwest really shouldn't be discounted for work, especially considering how cramped the valley's becoming.
What's more harmful, catching some blowback or perpetuating the status quo that tells women from an early age "it's not for you"?
Obama to announce effort to boost high-tech training, hiring
I think the prominent divide between console and casual gaming hides the fact that iDevices behave much more like the consoles of yore (Cart and early CD based systems), which were, to the vast majority of kids playing them, pure black boxes of tech. My tinkering began with Apple II/Mac/PC games.
Carnegie Mellon is absolutely in the midwest.

Pennsylvania is a big state.
An Ambassador Who Worked from a Nairobi Bathroom to Avoid State Dept. IT
> What am I missing here?

It's a common question men have about harassment or abuse of women, especially sexual. Why not just say no? Why not fight back harder? I'm no expert in the subject, but this is my undertanding:

For one thing, generally men are raised to be aggressive -- never let anyone push you around. Women are raised to be inoffensive, pleasing, agreeable. Aggression is unfeminine; it scares off or alienates males; our culture models being the kidnapped princess awaiting rescue (still true in most movies, games, etc.), not the hero on the horse. EDIT: It might be as hard for a woman to respond aggressively as for you to smile sweetly when someone is abusing you.

For another, they are physically overmatched. Probably their life-long experience and realistic assessment is that fighting males is dangerous.

Also, these things don't happen out of the blue. People are 'groomed'; attackers establish their authority and push for more and more. They wait for the right moment, when victims' defenses are weak. The attacker may have experience with these situations.

Lots of people are intimidated into doing things they don't want to do, often when they are young and little green, especially by authority figures and especially when believing something valuable is on the line, such as their career. What if you had kids and a mortgage? A sick spouse or parent and needed the health insurance?

Finally, I don't know you at all, but I know that far more people say these tough things than rise to the moment when faced with danger, with anxiety and fear soaring and everything on the line. I think panic is a more common response.

EDIT: But how sad that HN seems so male-dominated that we have to speculate about the female pespective. Wow.
Google has advertisements for Chrome on their search page -- that's why they have a large market share. They also spread a lot of propaganda about Chrome's being faster.

In reality, Chrome is intentionally designed to slow users down by sending them to Google search results instead of directly to the destination URLs. People then click on the camouflaged AdSense.

Firefox is now faster than Chrome in independent tests, and it doesn't use up as much memory. Firefox is a much better browser in many ways.

Mozilla's big mistake is that they aren't reaching out enough to developers. It's developers who set the trends. Example: I started a Firefox developers group in the Bay Area, and no one from Mozilla replied to my messages about their helping out, even if nothing more than offering us occasional meetup space.