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This piece belongs on HN as much as any of the pieces that spring up and are flag killed about feminism i.e. it doesn't.

However, the fact that it is on HN and has received quite a bit of support let's me know I'm certainly not alone in my frustration with the modern social justice movement, their antics, and its creep into the "tech media".

It is an incredibly divisive, hate-fueled movement based on flawed, debunked statistics and what amounts to a game of oppression olympics. Where once the type of person to spout their hateful rhetoric would be simply ignored, through social media they have been enabled, given a voice to, and been able to form an echo-chamber with other similarly deluded, hate-fueled people.

Through their network they have wielded an undue amount of power and we have unfortunately witnessed the result of it in real life, as a man who landed a probe on a comet millions of miles away had his team's achievement pushed to the back in favour of the furor over the shirt he wore while doing so, and who then wept on TV as a result of the sheer level of hate he received.

We have seen GitHub shamed for its rug championing unity in meritocracy, who then quickly moved to throw the "problematic" rug into the trash amidst the furor from these online "feminists".

We saw two people lose their jobs and have their names ran into the ground online by these "feminists" over a bad joke at a tech convention.

And the list goes on.

They have become simply too large to ignore. Their presence, and their narrative, drives so many clicks that we now see the "tech media" latch onto it, give their toxic views air and promote their narrative in the name of gaining clicks.

Facts no longer matter when it comes to these people, only the narrative. It doesn't matter that Ellen Pao was proven to have no case against Kleiner Perkins and was exposed as an incredibly shady person while doing so, you wouldn't tell she lost as the media driving this narrative cherry picked that which was convenient to the narrative and brushed over everything which was not.

I could go on about this, but all I will say is that I'm glad to see backlash against this movement increasing. I'm glad to see more speaking out against it. I'm glad to see their hashtags on Twitter being used against them, and I'm extremely glad to see some of their champions like Sarah Noble being held accountable in real life for the hate they spew online.
This is great news! I was one of the people who painted the first bike lane down 5th Avenue back in the late 1970's. I see that Transportation Alternatives is still alive and well.
I hate it that in this day and age people would still be passed on a job they are qualified for and willing to do because of the way they chose to dress or ornaments they chose to use.

Having said this, the article is rage-bait. Remove the "female" from the title and it's just another Tuesday. Getting a job is hard for everyone.
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Actually the movement of your cursor alone can go a long way to telling whether someone is a bot or not[0]. The ACM linked a better article a while back that went more in depth about it, but there is more going on with that click that meets the eye.
[0]http://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-one-click-recaptcha/
Lockheed Martin Compact Fusion
VCs Take the Media
Leftists ROTFL all those baby boomer liberals are Centre Right - Social Democrats at Best.
Google virtual tour lets you step inside Abbey Road Studios
I've never got into any of these Vi/Vim emulators because they vary from pure Vim in subtly unexpected ways and typically don't support plugins or vimrc setup. Neovim will change all that, being based on direct socket-based communication with actual Vim, so it really will be possible to get the best of both worlds.
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So I installed it. I know nothing about emacs, have followed setup etc. It appears I definitely dont have Vi keybindings upon re-opening it after initial install. Anyone care to help me out a bit? Really am intrigued but not sure how to get started with that as a blocker.
I've had my MBP since 2011 and it shows no signs of slowing down. It will probably get 6-8 years before I replace it (it will be sold or given to someone after I'm done). The same would be said if I bought the latest no repairable rMBP or the new MacBook. Some old classmates and friends still have the older aluminum MBPs that are still running strong.

My iPad is also 3 years old and I will probably not update it until 5 years or so. Even then I will just give it to a family member so it will still have a useful life after me.

>Creating products that will be useful for 10+ years instead of until the next model cycle.

Which products does apple sell that only last this long? Most of my old phones have gone to either family members, craigslist/ebay or resellers like Gazelle.
Missing [Show HN:] prefix.
I don't think it's that. The thing is that Common Lispers believe Common Lisp to be, well, Common. The Lisp to end all lisps, the one true lisp, the one lisp to unite the community. And some believe there should be no other lisps as they are just fracturing the community. So calling CL Lisp comes down to arrogance.
In theory, you could put the filters on for just a fraction of the time to measure the colors, and spend most of the time collecting all the light. I'm not sure how to do that and stay low power.

You could have separate smaller color sensing pixels, using only a fraction of the surface area.

ETA: There are also transparent solar panels which only absorb UV. If that were tuned for visible colors, you could have three transparent layers over an ordinary panel, and maybe not lose anything.
I'm not sure I understand the strategic benefit of the #3 player attacking the #2 player, particularly when the leader is so far ahead in terms of market share.

Why don't GitLab & BitBucket instead collaborate, for example by producing a decentralized & offline-capable version of GitHub's key features (issues, pull requests)?

Once you're #1 and #2, then you can turn your guns on each other!
I'm using it with pretty good results so far. I had to stop using Emacs for a long time because I was developing a case of Emacs pinky, but I can appreciate that it does a lot more out of the box. After switching to Vim, I really came to appreciate its idioms too. Spacemacs lets me get the best of both worlds.
I asked a couple of very simple questions. I've got a donut in front of me, some code open in another window, and enjoying a snowy Friday. Believe me, I'm calm :)

Unfortunately, once again, you kind of didn't directly answer what I asked you. I'm starting to sense a pattern here.

Let's try this again:

What is the authoritative definition you use that allows you to presume other people's ideologies in such a way?

As previously mentioned, I do not wish to be associated with feminism in any sense, broad or otherwise, because of its ever increasing association with (ir|a)rationality and toxicity. I prefer to be called a humanist, or an egalitarian, because I believe in equality for all, not just for a particular sex.

With that in mind, I'm asking you to define, preferably from a dispassionate and neutral source, how you can claim that label applies to someone. From what I can see, the "if you believe in women's rights, you are a feminist" definition is circular and held primarily by self-described feminists. If you have any evidence to the contrary, I would love to see it.
Two points:

>This person does seem rather entitled as well as naive. I think her post was used to continue the "fight against patriarchy" and, much like the Rolling Stone article about UVA, is rather counterproductive.

>I do feel for women in the workplace, in any vocation, in terms of dress. It is an unfair standard and attention, impolite and otherwise, is completely unavoidable. It is a tricky situation: I believe in freedom of choice, but i know fighting biology is futile. There must be some middle ground between the burkah and the bikini...
I've actually considered using this approach to build dynamic video game music.
I feel similarly to this. Emacs got extensibility down and probably would have destroyed Vi. Vim added Vimscript, but it is not what most would call elegant, nice, or any of the other things we want in a language. Adding extensibility is what kept Vim around.

I like the design of Emacs, and I also like Lisps in general, but the Vim editing model is the best for me.

It looks like Neovim is going to address many of the issues with Vim.
>> I live in Minneapolis and this flaggergasted me.

Minneapolis has always ranked as one of the top bike friendly cities in the country. The ironic part is most lists also include Madison, WI and Chicago IL, both midwestern cities who have year round commuters.

But I agree, I have no idea why so many southern states have so many anti-biking cities.
Moore’s Law Runs Out of Gas
Very nice presentation, although I'd prefer the graph settle to a steady state a few iterations earlier.

Ob Lou Reed quote: "One chord is fine, two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." ( http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-under... )
Thanks. I too am in favor of open dialogue, but with a couple exceptions. These exceptions really bug me, because by masquerading as dialogue they reduce the opportunity for real dialoue.

One is when open dialogue is used as a cloak for social control. The extreme example here is the Westboro Baptist Church, which pickets with signs that say, "God Hates Fags". A historical example is all the people picketing during school integration in the US. But there are a zillion subtle examples where people today, often unconsciously, say and do things that act to maintain historical imbalances.

Another is when discussion participants aren't acting responsibly. I forever see dudes sea-lioning their way into some advanced discussion on feminism, saying ignorant and/or harmful things, and then getting upset when they're called out. Real dialogue requires new participants to approach with humility and respect. Nobody expects it to be ok to for somebody off the street to barge into a graduate physics seminar and start opining. Those people will promptly get bounced, and surely go away complaining. But topics like feminism and race relations also have long histories. People jumping in to serious discussions should know something; they are not entitled to an on-the-spot education that stops the advanced discussion from progressing.

I'd also add that as I have come to better understand the experience of other people, I'm a lot more forgiving of possibly misdirected anger from marginalized people. A (white) sysadmin pal has a permanent, visceral dislike of cops because he was once assaulted by a cop who mistook him for somebody who had just shot a brother officer. Intellectually he knows that most cops are fine, but if somebody puts you in the ER, intellect only takes you so far. He just now doesn't trust cops in general; each individual officer has to demonstrate that they are safe before he feels safe.

Knowing how much bullshit has been perpetrated by people who look like me, I just accept that some people are going to initially see me as a probable threat. I am just always going to be Schrodinger's rapist [1] to a lot of women. I'm going to be Schrodinger's racist to a lot of black people. So if in a discussion on sensitive topics I am mistaken for an asshole, I try to let that slide. Heck, they could be right. And if not, their reaction to me may be wrong, but I think it's understandably and forgivably wrong.

[1] http://kateharding.net/2009/10/08/guest-blogger-starling-sch...

P.S. I am up against my noprocrast limit, but I'll try to come back this evening.
I want this. Well, in fact, I already use Emacs with Vim keybindings, so I don't need it, but I would have loved it some time ago.

What I (and I believe most vim users) like about vim is not the software itself, but the concept and ideas behind it: the modal editing, the movement commands, the composability of them, etc.

But the truth is that Emacs is, for lots of usages, better software. It's more extendable, has more features, it's even better written.

So using Emacs with a vim-friendly UX seems like a great idea.
In fact, isn't the opposite more likely? If the whole midichlorian thing was true, it stands to reason that Jedis would want to reproduce, in order to have children who would share their biology and hence their attractiveness to midichlorian... which is confirmed by the Skywalkers' "family gift". Remaining celibate would look like an attempt at actually rooting out midichlorian-friendly genetics, which is just illogical.

(Disclaimer: I'm not a big StarWars geek, I've only seen the movies and occasionally read some comics, and I loathed the "prequel trilogy")
The article points out some aspects that make this a not so great analogy - in particular, companies like Uber set the rates, and put the burden of costs on the workers for stuff like gas, wear and tear, etc. Uber in particular is taking half of the tips according to the article, which sounds unethical.

My only opinion on this is that the balance should probably be tilted a little more in the workers' favor for these arrangements, although I am not sure full categorization as an employee would be the correct approach.
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Well, "WikiLeaks is putting up billboards detailing all homes with open doors, as well as providing a full searchable inventory of the contents of all homes." - that's completely not an accurate analogy at all.

For WikiLeaks to be doing what your analogy is saying then they would of had to have figured out what systems were vulnerable on the whole of the internet, downloaded all of the contents from those servers, and then made them available.
I think the issue is not so much that they'll continue to grow -- I don't anticipate a majority of the United States, for example, becoming ideologically identical to the "SJW"-type people on Tumblr.

The issue is that a very small but loud group of online activists are becoming able to have disproportionate influence. It's easy for online mobs to form on sites like Twitter or Tumblr, which have messaging systems that promote reblogging/retweeting/"signal boosting" and are neither good for nuanced discussion nor corrections. Companies and organizations depend so heavily on Internet social media for their PR that they quickly bow to mob pressure in terms of self-censorship or firing "problematic" employees.

So it's not so much that the "social justice activists" will spread in terms of population, it's that they can have a chilling effect where the other side doesn't speak out, out of fear of the nuclear option of online shaming being used against them. This can lead to one side dominating the conversation despite being unpersuasive.
> No one uses bike helmets in Berlin, because Berlin is safe for bicycles

That's not why people don't wear helmets there, and that's not a reason to not wear one.

I would have been in a world of hurt if I didn't have a helmet on when I fell. No cars, people, or other moving object were anywhere near me. My tire hit a slippery patch as I was turning, and I went over sideways. I broke my shoulder and my hand, and my head hit the ground so hard that my glasses flattened out on the pavement. I considered myself lucky that I didn't have a head injury, aside from my bell being rung - hard.

Wear a helmet. They not only save you from dangerous environmental situations, but they save you from yourself.
Who pays ATM fees ??

Is this a US thing? Transfers between people and withdrawing money from an ATM have been fast and free here (UK) for some time...
I've also lived in both New York and Berlin. I completely agree that the US has a more powerful "car culture," but the cities are very different -- New York is incredibly dense while Berlin is pretty spread out. Wikipedia says New York has 10,756 people per km2 while Berlin has 4,000 [0]. They face different issues in developing transit infrastructure.

[0]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin
What makes you feel entitled to BBC :)? Seriously though, it's available via Google cache.
Reminds me of this:

"This hacker guessed a password for their Unix system. From there, he became super-user by planting an egg in the systems area, then sliding into my computer.

A couple days later the SOB called me. Said his name was Dave. From Australia.

"I broke in to show that your security isn't very good."

"But I don't want to secure my computer," I replied. "I trust other astronomers."

Dave had other reasons for breaking in, too. "You think that hackers are bad. This proves otherwise."

"Huh? You break into my computer to show that hackers are good?"

"Yeah," Dave replied. "We're helping you out by finding your security faults."

Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg
Het south beach- dieet, gezond of toch niet? – Leef Nu Gezonder
Twice now I've been stuck during a power failure with just a few minutes of battery in my UPS, and when I try to shutdown Windows, it goes into its "installing updates" thing. There's no way around it, and of course losing power during this is probably the most dangerous thing imaginable. Luckily, I escaped with my life on both occasions.
The field of generative music is very under-researched, but there are some great things out there, including tonal and "harmonious" ones.

Try David Cope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgG1HipAayU

And xoxos' "BreathCube" and "New Blend":
http://www.xoxos.net/software/software.html
You disagree with the tenets that make "being open to criticism" possible. Arguments do not where the skin of their speakers. They're sexless, skinless things. Your ideology destroys the fungibility of arguments, requiring that we pay strict attention to the provenance of any idea that pertains to your sacred issues, gender and race. Obviously, this poisons the information economy around these issues and much nonsense is taken as fact.
>Ironically Buddhism has now come very far from original teaching of Buddha.

Which one?
That's a bit of an overgeneralization. I'm a vim user, but am always willing to learn something that works better for me.
These lists have started coming under fire in the UK for libel. I don't know if it will get any traction but my understanding is the standard there is much lower than in the US.
Judging a candidate by looks alone may seem like a shallow thing. But the profane FB rant demonstrates a definite lack of professional composure. The company dodged a problematic hire. I'm afraid this poor decision will haunt her.
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>I don't feel safe discussing social-justice-related topics on accounts that can connect with my real-world persona

Isn't it amazing that this is a thing, and you're certainly not alone in feeling this way, and yet people can still support the movement that has you feeling this way?

On my few social media accounts, which are linked to me as a person, I'm more than happy to criticize the government(s), I'm more than happy to criticize the NSA, GCHQ, etc, I'm more than happy to criticize politicians and many other things but I'm sure as hell never going to voice my opinion on modern feminism/the social justice movement on these accounts.
- An entry for PoC||GTFO (no details yet)

- A secure code delivery project called ASGard: https://getasgard.com

- A tool to diff PHP Archives https://github.com/paragonie/pharaoh

- Confirming and responsibly disclosing a Laravel 0day

- Putting together a talk about developing crypto features in your apps (by using safe crypto libraries rather than rolling your own)
I really hate the Philips head. I guess it's good when you're building cars with cheap tools and uneducated workers, but for everything it gets used for today, a screw head that deliberately cams out and that willingly accepts incorrect driver sizes but gets damaged from it is just useless.

I'm seriously considering adding Henry F. Philips to my list of people to go back in time to assassinate if I ever get ahold of a time machine.
But now I am getting the submission credit that rightfully belongs to chaostheory, who originally submitted this link. (And to top off the irony, my comment is being downvoted into oblivion despite the fact that it's my own submission I'm criticizing!)

Here's a constructive suggestion on how to fix the problem:

1. As long as the article is not on the front page, give the Nth upvoter K/N karma points, where K is the number of karma points the article eventually gets.

2. When an article not on the front page gets an upvote, put it back at the top of the New page (i.e. sort the New page based on most recent upvote, not submission time).

This would provide an incentive for people to browse the new page and be early upvoters of quality articles. In order to prevent people from simply upvoting everything, you would need to:

3. Charge one karma point to upvote an article

and in order to start everyone on a level playing field

4. Give everyone 100 free karma points (or allow karma to go down to -100 before users lose their upvoting privileges, at which point they can only redeem themselves by submissions)

and to prevent submission spam:

5. Limit users with low karma to 1 submission per day or something like that

I'll even offer to implement this for you if you think you might make this change.
Not in a position to speak for Audacity, but in my experience of doing user support for other projects, people can live with UX quirks as long as they can get work done.

But when the app doesn't do what you need it to do at all, quality of UX design becomes irrelevant.

Additionally, very few projects have access to UX experts (whose work isn't cheap).
Just tell it the output unit you want.

30 mph in km/h
> Ask me how I know

OK, so how do you know? :)
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Just to provide a counter example... I've been a long-time (13 years or so) Emacs user, and some 3 or 4 years ago, I switched to modal editing using Evil. I find it simply simpler and more efficient than traditional Emacs bindings. I actually started using vim more often after that, too.
It also helps that it's awful to use a train to commute to Dumbo unless you live along the F or A.
I think the recruiters second two comments were the most valid. Being late and having a run in your stockings seems to show a lack of caring and professionalism.

The comment about "looking like she was ready to go out" was, in my opinion just a poor way of saying that she was too casual. I understand that the company may have a casual dress code, but it sounds like her appearance was "unprofessional" and not "overtly sexy". I would imagine that a guy showing up in a tattered suit would have gotten a similarly poor response.
Yes, we use proper TCP/IP :)
Of course it's possible they didn't mean to equate programming skill with masculinity. That doesn't mean that they don't need to update their vocabulary--just like those those elderly people I know who still use words like "negros" to refer to black folks.

Sometimes, the world changes, and it's up to us to keep up with the times.

(It's funny, I bet you anything if the original author had said "this negro gentleman at my workplace...", no one would be defending his retrograde use of language.)
NoSQL is a database choice now, a worse choice in my opinion. So, I'm not surprised they are considering Rethink and Mongo.

What's funny is how much more exciting Arduino itself is, compared to all this.
Just look at real estate development. In every bust many big names lose billions for their investors. Even recently look at the schmucks who bilked investors for the massive failure in Atlantic City (Revel). Yet the developers usually end up coming back just fine and are darlings of the press. Not sure how this hit piece is justified.