skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if you say "that's just how it is some times" you are a part of the problem.

Come again? How is astrocyte part of Jessie's problem? People are responsible for their own choices, not the choices of others.

> Never say it's OK.

Although I agree, I don't think astrocyte is saying that harassment is OK. (I assume that's what you're referring to.)
Wow, completely insensitive to reality. Photoshopped photos of blood and so on represent serious intimidation. Which one is the troll and which is the one who follows through, finds your address and makes it physical?

This dismissive attitude is part of the problem.
How is what the author described "one pronounced incident"? One email or IRC message could be a "pronounced incident". What she describes is clearly much worse, and points to a deep problem - not an one-off "incident".
>it's obvious that a much higher percentage of them get this sort of shit than men

No, it isn't obvious, since even in the case of women all we have are lots of really visible anecdotes, not statistics.

It could easily be the case that the number of death threats received by males heavily outweighs the number of death threats received by females.

I know that I don't write reactive blog posts every time some troll threatens to gut me via PM. I wonder if other men disproportionately act like me (compared to women) and thus since we aren't screaming about troll death threats it is assumed we don't receive them.
Why do people continue to use aggregate debt (including domestic bond debt and outstanding liabilities) to present GDP ratio as though it is a meaningful harbinger?

Any non-superficial analysis of what that entails and means should show you this is - while not entirely irrelevant - mostly meaningless as an indicator of economic health.
Hope this helps.

Was that intended to convey that you are speaking authoritatively and I'm uninformed? If so, what is the basis for your authority on this topic? The vast majority of economists recommend income, consumption or value-added taxes, not land value taxes.
Telling people to stop complaining about what is clearly criminal harassment because it makes the industry look bad is a pretty disgusting sentiment.
I realize you're trolling but you might consider that thought a bit more carefully. In particular 'notation for beginners' is simply one instance of "<x> for beginners" which, doesn't scale to "non beginners". I have had a lot of UI's foisted upon me with the admonition "Its really easy for beginners to come up to speed!" and often it is, but as they get up to speed their ability becomes hampered by the design which doesn't support "non beginners".

It isn't surprising, the first time anyone tries to master something a bit more complicated their initial thought is "this is soo confusing! Why doesn't someone design something easier to learn!" and for the motivated ones they may follow through.

The problem is then that they have mastered their "easy" thing and now their trying to do more complex things, or in this case describe more complex music, and wham, suddenly they just can't seem to make it work. But had they actually mastered music notation first they would have mastered a system that has successfully expressed a wide variety of music, styles, and levels of complexity. So they wouldn't end up stopping in the middle of their "progression" to go back and learn a new system because their old system pooped out on them.
nice! https://github.com/realpython/list-of-python-api-wrappers#go...
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If someone sent you an email every day from different email addresses with the same text saying they were going to rape and murder you, and included your home address, pictures of your family and pictures of weapons, that wouldn't bother you?

How do you know there are no real-world consequences? You're just gonna assume it's some 14-year-old kid trolling you and not one of the many insane people in this world who might actually do something? Based on a hunch?
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Someone shouting and being rude is a little different to gory Photoshopped photos.
Why are you so sure that it's not common? I keep reading articles like this and I'm inclined to believe it's more than a coincidence. I dearly wish this woman's experience was an outlier but that is hard to believe.

I truly wish that there was a bright light I could shine over the world of software relieving the clearly disturbed souls of this woman's abusers from whatever pain it is that they act out of. It's extremely sad that my faceless colleagues have so many issues with women, and sadder still that these innocent women have to bear the brunt of it.
Not sure I agree. Whatever reason the city has to allow cabs on market should equally apply to uber or other mass transit. The reason they want to allow cabs could be because it optimizes transportation for the residents of the city if there is less car owners and more shared vehicles. That would apply to uber as well. It could alternatively be that the city believes professional drivers (those that do it for a living) are safer drivers than the average car owner. This would apply equally for uber as well. I can't think of a reason that the city would want to allow taxis but not ubers to use market.

In fact the only thing I can think of is that the city actually supports the crazy medallion monopoly we've built which is insane.
I already thought this was something of importance, like, talking about a bubble or concerning trends in the industry. What I got was an emotional rant of someone who got trolled. Our digital media have more than enough possibilities to blacklist the baddies, or even whitelist the people you want to be in contact with. Don't look at things you don't want to see, nobody is forcing you to.
>Those sorts of messages -- even in isolation -- have real-world, often physical, consequences.

No, in the vast majority of cases they don't. Trolls gonna troll, sorry. I'll bet we can count on one hand the number of times Internet death threats have led to actual deaths.

There's a reason authorities don't investigate or prosecute stuff like this.

>This attitude that sexual harassment is only harmful if it's a physical assault

Sorry, what? How is a death threat sexual harassment?
Absent any binding reputation system with meaningful consequences, making such a registry public would be a pretty broad abuse risk; you'd need extremely heavy moderation, distributed over a large number of people, and even then you'd just be increasing the effort required to abuse the system, rather than eliminating the possibility. Given the potentially serious consequences of being blacklisted this way, I'd be very hesitant to make a registry like this public.

On the other hand, I'm really not sure anything less would be worthwhile -- keeping such a registry, but having it be private, would I think be hardly better than nothing, in terms of actually bringing this kind of misbehavior under control.

There's a tradeoff here that I'm not sure I'm qualified to evaluate.

On the one hand, I don't really care for the idea of an industry blacklist in general, on whatever grounds.

On the other hand, I'm not having to put up with death threats, rape threats, depraved sexual harassment, et cetera ad nauseam, simply in order to try to do my job to the best of my ability.

Taken all in all, I find myself in favor of a public registry. After all, no one has to act on anything they find there, and having a solid base of information out there would give the industry at large an opportunity, heretofore lacking, to put up or shut up -- either demonstrate that this kind of malbehavior is beyond the tech industry's civilized pale, or demonstrate that the tech industry is the boys' club it's been accused of being and has no particular desire to see that change.

I'm honestly not sure which is the more likely result, but I have to say I'd be interested to see the experiment made.
You have a good attitude about insults aimed at you. However, many people have lived lives that make such a healthy attitude impossible for them. I don't think progress is served by saying, "well it sucks that little girls are taught to stay 'safe' by taking the opinions of fuckwits seriously but I didn't teach them that so tough shit!" I doubt there's a magic bullet, but it would be better if we could build communication mechanisms that didn't expose women to the vilest excretions of the world's collective mental sewer.
I'm new to Javascript, and am wondering if I be writing ES6 instead of ES5. Is that a good idea, or should I wait a few months/years?
W.r.t. branch delay slots.

An interesting idea: instead of fixing a number of branch delay slots (or none), what about splitting branches? That is - you have a branch_commit instruction, and anything between the branch and the branch_commit is treated as (a) branch delay slot(s), with the processor either filling in pipeline bubbles or stalling the branch as necessary. If you want to get fancy about it you can start doing matched branch / commit pairs (like nesting brackets), or potentially even start dealing with general matching.

Although the decreased instruction density may kill the benefits.
Hm, at first glance I am as well, especially with tagged template strings. Those look particularly simple but powerful.

Generally though, is it reasonable for features such as these to be included at the language level? I primarily use ES5 JavaScript so I'm used to pulling in a decent amount of modules (in this case handlebars, underscore, etc.) for things like templating.

But I will be relieved to have a language-standard solution to what feels like such a common problem for the environments in which JS is used primarily, despite the tradeoff that's made in accessibility due to feature bloat.
I've just been playing with Promises and like them a lot. But one thing I find strange is that ".then()" creates a new promise, but with no way to reject it.

ie. I can't write:

return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
// Do some stuff, call resolve()/reject() on success/failure.
}).then((step1Val, resolve, reject) => {
// Do some stuff, call resolve()/reject() on success/failure.
// But this doesn't actually work, because the "then" callback
// doesn't get resolve/reject as args.
});

Instead I'm having to write this as the following, which is more verbose:

return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
// Do some stuff, call resolve()/reject() on success/failure.
}).then(new Promise((resolve, reject) = {
// Do some stuff, call resolve()/reject() on success/failure.
// But this way I don't get access to step1Val.
}));

Another bummer of this style is that that the second step doesn't get access to the first step's value.
Coroutines are the game changer imo. I wrote a little presentation to illustrate code flow: http://afc.neurosnap.net
true, but that didn't happen to my colleague. I'm just pointing out that one data point for people who are suggesting "ask your female colleagues".
lol @ all the downvotes I'm getting for this and the swift retracing of upvotes of my initial thread due this extended commentary.

I would delete this but i'm going to let it stay...
Just goes to show you the depth of people's view on such issues. You want to go on and on about surface issues and foolishness that has nothing to do w/ the root. Yet, the minute someone brings up something real.. Oh no !! That's too much for you. Back to regularly scheduled program of man/tech bashing/white knighting a woman who was a victim of internet trolling and making all men out to be savages..
Another major WTF - the OP's link is auto-playing audio about a solar powered flight from Japan. It is not clear which widget the audio is even coming from.
Part of the problem of course if the naive notion that you can fit words into a single grammatical category, like species in a taxonomy, while word usage ends up defying this simplification.

The real problem is that taxonomic classification is rarely correct in nature.
If Japan owes debt in its own currency, can it just print money to pay off the debt?

That's effectively what Japan is doing, by having its central bank loan money at 0.1%.
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That's true of the majority everywhere, I think, but the minority in this case has a disproportionately large impact -- for example, in running Kathy Sierra, a highly competent professional with a great deal to contribute, out of the industry entirely.
...every time some troll threatens to gut me via PM.

Has that ever happened?
It is not normal or okay to receive death threats after presenting at a professional conference. I've presented several times and have never received a threat. I can't even imagine that happening.

Maybe there are some subcultures where this behavior is something "Everyone" experiences. Certainly that's not the case in mainstream tech.

(As an aside, techies aren't the only people who use the internet, and I'm pretty damn sure that receiving death threats via email after presenting at professional conferences isn't a thing.)
To put it bluntly Astrocyte is telling Jessie to shut up. They aren't saying harassment is OK, it just shouldn't be talked about.
This edge is so sharp you cut a portal through time from 2010.
Being a second derivative, I suppose it would be.

So does that mean that there are other kernels that approximate derivatives "better"? Like with finite differences?
interesting -- never heard of Estrin's method; thanks!
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There is also a mediocre but surprisingly endearing Adam Sandler movie about this condition.
the matrix multiplication will be done behind the scenes; you can just pay attention to the output: a number for each other person, saying how much you are likely to respect them, given who you say you respect.

it's like a count: how many friends respect this person, how many friends of friends, how many friends of friends of friends, etc.
Up to a certain point, yes. But, in the short term, firms must increase their production by, say, hiring more workers. They might now have a less optimal worker/capital ratio which would increase their per unit costs. In the long run, their costs are flatter but still could eventually increase with quantity, imagine they're using all the resources locally available and have to start importing from somewhere else, that's going to increase costs.
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> there are no real-world, physical, dangerous consequences

Tell that to Val Adams or other women who have been sexually assaulted at tech conferences.

> and it happens to men too

My mistake. I thought you were serious, not that redpill was leaking.
>You're just gonna assume it's some 14-year-old kid trolling you and not one of the many insane people in this world who might actually do something? Based on a hunch?

Based on evidence and reasoning through probability. Thousands of Internet trolls send tens of thousands of death threats every day. On a given day, the probability that even one of those death threats is acted upon is a sliver greater than zero. As in, maybe there are one or two cases per year worldwide where a troll brigade carries out some real-world action corresponding to its threats. Though even that, I suspect, is an overestimate.
"This is not common…"

It's fucking outrageously common. It might not be in your face, but it's an insidious and unrelenting horror to everyone it does affect.

It happens to be particularly bad in the tech world for a bunch of reasons, but women have a shitty time pretty much everywhere. On social media (mansplaining, innuendo, inappropriate messages, stalking, trolling, death threats), on the street (catcalling, abuse, stalking), in their homes (partner abuse)…
> This is going to make a great case study in the future on how to manage the relationship with user generated content sites

By providing members of the general public with quality news aggregation and community management tools, Reddit has thrown a wrench into the gears of public relations, which today still resembles the model Edward Bernays outlined back in the 1920s. (Aside: I highly recommend "Crystallizing Public Opinion" for anyone who cares about PR. It is sill relevant after 90 years.) For decades there was a gaping chasm between the general public and public figures, their representatives, and little need to revolutionize the field. Today that chasm isn't closing gradually; it's collapsing with enormous force. The bubble is bursting.

On Reddit, it just doesn't matter how much money you have or how much you've invested in the community or how much perceived legitimacy you have outside Reddit; anytime you make a comment, you're throwing yourself to the lions. Lions who upvote the most caustic, brutal, and incisive questions they can come up with, focusing the community's attention and demanding more of public figures in a way no one could have predicted in 1995 or even 2005.

Do you know what happens when you type "reddit new york times" into Google? The top result is /r/nytimes. As a subreddit, it is essentially dead. Do you think it would be dead if the New York Times did not have its own user-generated commenting system? Do you think the New York Times would like to remain in control of its own user-generated commenting system? Of course it would. The point I'm arguing is that Reddit, by its very nature, has helped push the New York Times to adopt a policy of accepting user comments, and many other news sources have followed suit. Of course this point is impossible to prove, but even if there is merely a grain of truth to it, the implications are that those who own the news business are no longer living in a unidirectional media world.

The larger argument is that Reddit (and its predecessors such as Slashdot and Digg of course; I've unfortunately unintentionally marginalized their role in this comment), by its very nature, has systematically and irrevocably altered the public's expectations for online participation and engagement. There is much more going on here than textbook case studies.
There is no harm in either. Overall, just have fun and learn JavaScript :)

ES5 is the current standard in all major browsers, so using its functionality could be considered "safe". Thankfully we have transpilers (will convert your ES6 code to ES5), so you can use ES6 features in production today - just remember they are converted to an ES5 implementation of said functionality.
John Oliver's segment massively downplayed the fact that men also get harassed online, to the point that I lost a lot of respect for it. It effectively made online harassment a female only problem, which it most definitely is not. This is an issue without gender. A perfect example is reddit's Unidan, who has received multiple death threats.
You can say 'this isn't a problem with our industry, it is just internet trolls' but people outside our industry aren't going to docker conferences or paying attention to presenters at them.

It might not be YOU that does this type of thing, but someone you work with is. You know who I'm talking about and you don't shun them or expose them... and until you do, author is correct, this industry is fucked.
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"The deeper problem is the school tradition itself. It's a TRADITION, after all"

Interesting point and I agree. Why are we identifying metalinguistics with words anyway? Why not just use symbols so we can actually compare them across languages?

Is the tradition so inherently rigid and stuck to the written/spoken languages - rather than moving beyond words and use a system of symbols?

The tradition obsufcates the universality of grammar and semantics by adding words atop words rather than simple symbolism.

Doesn't this make internalization harder? You don't teach math just by numbers but also with symbols and real-world references.

As for internalization and understanding what and where 'the' belongs...There has been astounding success in identification and understanding when metalinguistics is entirely removed and replaced with simple symbols like grmmr (http://green-bridge.org). I've seen results upfront and it seems a non-word approach eases and solidifies linguistic understanding in ways far more profoundly than metalinguistics ever can. Teachers and students alike have said this system has taken away all the cloud of uncertainty in language grammar and semantics.

If you are a linguist and you are interested in helping grmmr become a standard in the studies of metalinguistics, please do let me know! I'm the design partner of the company. We are eager to open source this knowledge into a simple but reliable notation.

This system has been in use for over 20 years in classrooms, colleges, and adult education programs. It has been redesigned from bottom up in order to be as accessible and consistent as you would expect from a grammar categorizing system.
Every time I see posts like this, I see people commenting on it with varying statement to the effect of "that's a shame, but most people in tech aren't like that", or "I'm so tired of seeing posts like this, quit making a fuss."

And that makes me so angry.

Sure, maybe not everyone in the industry is an arsehole. But enough people are, and those people are vocal enough, that a significant number of people feel disgusted and threatened. That should be enough to tell you that even if the majority are lovely people, the industry as a whole still has a problem.

(also, for anyone wondering whether the number of people affected really is "significant", I would consider even one person to be a significant number)

I also get really angry at posts like "This has never happened to me, so I'm sure it's all ok". This may come as a surprise, but individual experiences are not universal. That something has never happened to you doesn't mean it's never happened to anyone else.

And if you're getting tired of seeing posts like this, don't complain about the people making the posts. Complain about the people harassing them. It may seem counterintuitive, but the fastest and most effective way to stop posts like this turning up is actually to make more of them, until the harassment and abuse stop.

"This happens all the time" is never a valid excuse.
Please do not bring the Adria story again - she made a fuss because of an adolescent joke she overheard two rows behind her in a private conversation, which was NOT DIRECTED AT HER, and was not about females or sexual or any other interaction with females. All the same while making crass jokes herself in her social media accounts.

As opposed to this case, where some sickos clearly send very troubling messages DIRECTLY ADDRESSED to Jessie.
She should call the cops immediately.
Linguistics is the only field I can think of where the general public does not take seriously the knowledge of the experts (linguists).
async/await solves error handling and hanging onto values quite nicely.

IMO you should use Babel and take advantage.
I don't know how to respond to your assertion that receiving violent messages on a regular basis is only harmful if there's a credible threat of follow-through.

It's simply not normal to have to read email threatening you or making sexually harassing statements. No one should have to put up with that. The fact that you seem to think that this is normal is deeply concerning to me. If you regularly receive harassing messages, that's not okay and I'm really sorry. I'm really glad that you're apparently able to handle that without lots of mental anguish, but it's not something we as a society should shrug off.

> How is a death threat sexual harassment?

Please read the linked post. If you can't find the instance of sexual harassment in the author's blog post... god help you.
Reading this, I have no idea if you're saying it because you know how modern syntactic theories work and how they're developed or if you're just saying it because you thought it sounded good.

Don't leave us hanging!