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> it is refreshing to hear someone talking about how they just want both sides to shut up so they can get back to building and hacking.

I think this is an unfortunate (though entirely relatable!) attitude because it ignores the fact that there are groups whose needs for a comfortable, collegial hacking environment are poorly met by many communities today. For people in these groups, and end to the ongoing inclusiveness debate would, in itself, prevent them from getting back to building and hacking in the same way that others can.

I agree that having this discussion can too often get in the way of everyone's ability to focus hacking in the way they want. Sometimes this is because feminists (and advocates for other groups) come on too strong, or call names, or use other unproductive (and sometime misdirected) tactics. But I think it equally often is a result of others' being unprepared to listen to others' reasonable demands for inclusion, resulting in battle instead of growth. I also think that "we" (i.e., those whose needs are already well met by the hacking community) should happily tolerate some degree of distraction from hacking if it will help make our communities more open to others who share our interests and goals.

Edit: Your edit is welcome. "I like building things because I am curious and I pursue knowledge for its own sake" certainly is a welcome message. In the context of this discussion, though, I still get the impression that this is supposed to imply: "can't we all just leave this arguing behind and get back to building things?" I think the answer is 'no' if we are committed, as we should be, to ensuring that the pursuit of this ideal is equally open to everyone. In fact, what makes that hacker ethos so important is exactly why it is important to engage in these debates. Of course if you instead mean "can't we all just listen to each other and try earnestly to meet one another's needs so that we can all focus on building things" then I say merely "amen."
But banks also employ technical analysts who use well known technical signals like support and resistance. Your and lumberjack's theory does not apply to them and yet they get paid.
even going in to the discussion you let them drag you down to their level

Not only that, it also encourages them to argue even more in future. These types of people have already formed an opinion and then search for reasons to believe what they chose to believe. The best thing to do in such situations is to walk away.
Technically, you can create a bijection between all natural numbers and all even numbers. For all natural numbers k, there is an even number 2k (and for every even number 2k, there is a natural number k). So, the number of even numbers and natural numbers is the same. That's what happens when you try to reason with infinity ;)
I suppose my point is merely that I believe there are colorable arguments to bring forth to hold both WB and their lawyers accountable for these antics, if you look at the text of the law. Like many legal arguments that haven't been heavily litigated, the outcome is somewhat uncertain.

For various political reasons, the parties with standing are either too poor or have various incentives to cooperate with WB, and so we don't see how these arguments actually play out in courtrooms -- we just end up with a de facto system that favors big players.

This is frustrating, because people buy in to the argument that the law is the problem, when really, it's the politics of corporations that cause the problems surrounding takedowns, and that's the issue we should be addressing our energy towards. (Were, for instance, Google to have the opposite incentives for some reason, again, it wouldn't matter what the law said, the de facto system would tilt the other way.)

I don't think we actually disagree on that point, and I think I articulated it poorly the first time.
Totally agree and it's in the plan to add the security page (I don't have an ETA honestly). I will add you to our program shortly, thanks!
I agree. I even more hate the situation where knowing the right doctors or even living in a country with more prescription-happy ones gives you advantage though.
Or any other language. I'm sure if someone wanted it enough a client-side implementations of PHP and Perl would turn up so you could use those languages in the browser. We might think it a bad idea, but for people who use those languages day-in-day-out elsewhere there is a possibility it might make some sort of sense.

My point is that the "same language both sides" argument is relevant to any language, be the language Go, Javascript, or anything else, and be the client a native app on a mobile platform or running in a browser instance.

If there are people who want to use Go client-side, why not let them? Just because it doesn't make sense to our workflows, doesn't mean it isn't the right tool for somebody else's job.
Meredith makes some interesting points. What I think is missing on both sides of the conversation is that guys will attack whoever they can - male or female - and the things they'll do or say tend to be what will make you feel the smallest. People are hierarchical and like to probe where they sit on the imaginary ladder of life by having a dig at those in their proximity. Meredith alluded to an interesting point towards the end of the post - not to confuse the motivations behind sexual assault/rape with the culture of insulting people for the purpose of securing a place on the social ladder. When a guy makes fun of another's dick-length or orders a female to get back in the kitchen the same thing is happening: making them feel small or ineffectual so that they'll consensually walk down a few rungs of that horseshit ladder.
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> The problem is to accurately put a value on your company
> and it's future.

Valuing companies is "essentially complex". [1]

(edit: Estimates have both accuracy and precision. Determining the precise value of a company with a high accuracy is very, very difficult. A less precise value (i.e. a range of values) for a company is much easier to do with accuracy, but a range runs contrary to the idea of finding the "correct" value.)

[1] "Accidental complexity relates to problems which [people] create and can fix... Essential complexity is caused by the problem to be solved, and nothing can remove it"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
Exactly, given how atypical the author's experience and outlook is, her advice doesn't translate well to others, and unfortunately, she fails to realize this.

I have to admit, I never imagined the mindblindness of ASD could ever result in a misguided empathy article.
Who's the guy in the in-flight entertainment system?
I also used InterLisp. I had a Xerox 1108. The first 5 minutes I used my 1108 my mind was blown when it corrected a typo in a short program I entered and ran.
People don't want to get locked into a proprietary interface.

Doesn't chrome and firefox finesse the target interface and rely on a portable C/C++ core?
That's not a "crazy behavior", it's a limitation of the algorithm they use. mt_rand() only has approx. 2^32 possible seeds; why would you expect it to support ranges larger than 2^32?

The best thing to do is to not use mt_rand().
Count from 2 to infinity and 0 to -infinity and you will get the opposite result: you'll have an extra odd number, 1.
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That's what I'm hoping for as well. It would have been a completely different situation if this patent were granted to a non-practicing entity with a track record of litigating in the Eastern District of Texas.

If you search for other patents/patent applications by the same inventors, you get the picture, e.g.:http://patents.justia.com/inventor/kareem-sherif-aggour
Not very different, from my perspective as a biologist. Evolutionary psychology is largely about assuming adaptive causes for things you don't bother to do any genetics to confirm. Why are other people killing themselves to prove genetic associations when you can apparently do "science" just by assuming there must be a genetic underpinning to any phenomenon you fancy?
Can you explain that?

I wouldn't have expected every possible situation to have occurred given the finite history of the universe.

But I really have no idea what I'm talking about, so my request is serious.
It's amazing how libertarians and others who see free market and the invisible hand as sacrosanct principles don't see how rent-seeking[1] including the private ownership of land is antithetical to those very principles.

Libertarians claim far too much as "the product of their labor." Firstly, they immensely overvalue their individual contribution to a product and undervalue the contribution of all who came before them. Secondly, the finite natural resources and space (land) of the planet can NEVER be considered the product of anyone's labor, and thus can NEVER be treated as private property in any strict sense (exclusive ownership in perpetuity until sold, zero property or inheritance tax). The later point is conceded by Geolibertarians[2][3] and Georgists[4].

The notion of perpetual ownership of any finite resource is antithetical to the principles of the free-market, because it allows one to purchase an infinite amount of something (i.e. perpetual rights to a piece of land, including perpetual rent collection) for a finite sum.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

[2] http://geolib.com/welcome.html

[3] Are you a Real Libertarian, or a ROYAL Libertarian?, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7076632

[4] http://povertythinkagain.com/controversies/a-word-from-the-s...
The First Steps of a Programmer into Machine Learning (pt-BR)
It's really important to keep focus as long as we don't oversimplify the issues.
... and accept nonsensical SQL queries, returning whatever it feels like.
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Does this mean that upcoming Firefox builds won't run on RHEL6, or does Firefox bundle its GTK3 build?
The Ugly, Fascinating History of the Word 'Racism'
And is strongly discourage in boys/men.
Or there are a lot more women that can be "one of the guys" but their upbringing and the culture imposed onto them fucks them up?
What about the Vagina Monologues?
Even worse, some of the Internals teams argue in favor of silently trucking along instead of, e.g. throwing an exception: http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?7,1250372

EDIT: because of HN's annoying "you are posting too fast" limit I cannot reply to the comment below.

The arguments against Exceptions began in the comments on the relevant pull request: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1397
And hilariously/ironically/awesomely, it turns out that Meredith is according to her Facebook page:

"Principle NLP engineer at Nuance Communications"

So although she says she struggled with fast communication and language and talking to people directly, she now works on speech processing software :)
I think I made a misunderstanding by the |q1>|q2> notation. Consider the entangled 2-qubits system a|00>+b|11>. The prob of the 2nd qubit is |0> is |a|^2 and the prob of 2nd qubit is |1> is |b|^2. Now apply I(x)NOT, then the system is a|01>+b|10>. The prob of 2nd qubit to be |0> is now |b|^2 and prob of 2nd qubit is |1> is |a|^2. The same can be obtained by considering the 2nd qubit only as a|0>+b|1> and apply NOT only on the second qubit, without making any operation on the first qubit and without breaking the entanglement.
After reading this article, I just went ahead and did a floatation session and here I am back after my first 1 hour float.

It was a great experience and 1 hour is definetely not enough to understand it all, but there is a lot of potential there.

The physical sensation itself is really interesting - you feel like a fish and you want to move like a fish in there (doing S movements with your body), then you hear the sound of your bones cracking and liquids moving through your body. The most disturbing was the sheer noise that I constantly have in my ears - a kind of tinnitis which resembles the sounds of a modem and it felt like the noise amplified as I was thinking about emotional things.

You also realise just how much sensorial input our mind processes at any point and how much of reality is filtered away automatically.

I had just a couple of instances when I really 'floated away' for maybe a couple of seconds, but then my mind would always jump back and take control of the situation.

I suppose if I go to more sessions, I will learn how to extend them and go deeper and deeper into the meditative trance state.

The feeling of not having all this sensory input made me feel small, almost microscopic to the point of wondering - who am I, really ?

And that is a good question to ask yourself.

35 EUR/hour is a bit expensive though - but they have sliding prices if you buy more sessions so I'm probably going to do that.
France Moves Ahead with Sweeping Surveillance Law
Ideally, management should be open to hearing criticism, and employees would feel safe giving their feedback. In reality, management is self -serving and hostile to dissent. If you get to the point where you have to make employees give comments anonymously, you're culture is already screwed up. And maybe you should focus on being less of a jerk boss.

As an employee, I would NEVER fill out this form. I'm the only guy in my department, and as soon as I started talking about aspects of my job, the boss would know who it is. And retaliate. Cuz he's a jerk.
I'm sorry to say that the "mailing yourself" strategy doesn't work in most countries (doesn't work in the US, for example).

Edit: here's a snopes article regarding "poor man's copyright" with a few links to sources/more information: http://www.snopes.com/legal/postmark.asp
Working in corporate America is such a disaster. 10 freaking minutes, really?!
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There are almost no jobs where two people are doing exactly the same thing where experience doesn't matter. It's idiotic to think an employer would prefer someone with less experience to do a job, regardless of responsibilities. Because employers prefer experience, that is reflected in the market value of the employees.
Can You Be a Project Manager in IT Without a Technical Background?
As someone who has lost data on _EVERY_ single linux filesystem listed in this thread, I can say what I want out of a filesystem is code that hasn't changed for years. Once the "filesystem experts" move on to the latest code base, then I start to feel confident about the stability of the ones they left behind. As other said, what I want first out of a fileystem is "boring". I would much rather be restricted to small volumes/files/slow lookup times/etc, than discover a sectors worth of data missing in the middle of my file because the power was lost at the wrong moment 6 months ago.
I'm a big fan of Meredith. She's one of the few "women in tech" (yuck) that I feel like actually speaks my point of view and articulates how I feel about all of this. My impression is that most of the people that spend their time pontificating about women's issues in this industry are doing so from the outside, and I kinda resent that.

This article by Susan Sons is also good: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software
No, but social anxiety, and a strong preference to communicate in non-realtime text does fit with autistic behavior.
You don't have to charge $1,000 for a DMCA to ensure it's only used for "serious" violations. You could at least punish the "wrong" DMCA with a $10,000 fee. It won't be quite as effective, but it wouldn't affect starting artists and it would still be orders of magnitude more effective than the current system in weeding out the bad DMCAs.
Is this just an issue in the USA, or perhaps just radical San Francisco? In other countries men and women tend to work together quite happily in SW development jobs without all of this nonsense.
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I'm a man and have spoken with many other feminists over the years, and read a lot of feminist literature, philosophy, cultural criticism, etc. In my experience I'd say that more than 99% of feminism/feminists have all to do with being against men. I'm having a hard time thinking of anything, actually, I could reasonably describe as not promoting this view. Maybe some radical stuff from the 70s, like Firestone, makes this hatred explicit, but these days the hatred is expressed more subtly, typically in legal initiatives that clearly disadvantage men, for example the insane rules around divorce and alimony.
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Geofenced catalogs, two-year delays between bluray releases and getting to netflix, lack of blockbusters because they are too expensive to license...
Cool vision !
You joke, but I'm pretty sure this is one of the reasons why that stack was so successful. Same principle behind HTML rendering. "It's displaying something, isn't it? Errors are only suggestions."
A lesson they're learning right now, I suppose.
A knowingly false DMCA claim can result in a perjury charge.

https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2004/10/15
But calling the police is placing responsibility with the perpetrators, right? Sort of like going to a manager or project maintainer to report harassment. To me, this is closer to "try not to care so much about people breaking in; I don't, and it really works for me".
The "shut up and build things" position embodies the tacit assumption that the world naturally pushes itself to an equillibrium that is fair and just. The assumption that racism and sexism result in elastic deformation of society that will go away as soon as you remove whatever force is warping it.

I don't think history bears that out. Society is a soft ductile metal. If you bend it, it'll stay bent. You have to hammer it back into straightness. Talking (and browbeating and prosecuting when necessary) is how you do that.

PS: I don't disagree with the author that not everyone needs to be on the front line of every culture war. But I think someone needs to be.
LASIK patient here too, 8 years ago then at age 29, about 90% satisfied. Yes, it is life-changing, especially for one such as me who couldn't tolerate contacts. I played noticeably better in pickup sports games now that I could move freely without always subtly adjusting to balance the glasses. My one problem is persistent dryness, which is manageable with eyedrops but does require keeping that with me.

My one particular miracle moment: stepping out of the shower, onto the scale, and holy crap I can see the dial without squinting or bending! The other great convenience is lying sideways on a couch watching TV without glasses digging into your pillow.

That 4k vision is great but it's not permanent. Lasik doesn't stop your eyes from changing, so it's now as if I'm wearing a contact prescription that's 8 years out of date. It's still perfectly fine for driving and should stay so for several more years, but I do have trouble now with things like reading signs from far across a train station. It's normal to need a Lasik redo or lenses again after 10-20 years.
I had the LASEK (also called PRK) and the recovery isn't as bad as it sounds. The next day was painful and I had patchy vision for a few days afterwards but within a week there was no discomfort at all and my vision was fine. (It does take a month or 2 to settle down but your vision is competely fine during this period).

It does have the advantage of less risk due to no cutting and allowing natural regrowth of the removed upper layer of cornea.

The procedure itself lasts about 10 mintues for both eyes. You lie down and they put numbing drops in your eyes and wait a minute. Then the alcohol paste (for removing the top layer of the cornea) is rubbed on to your eye with what looked like an eyeliner brush. This was the only uncomfortable bit of the procedure - even then it wasn't physical as you cannot feel it, it was more just the idea of it.

A few minutes later they apply the laser; this is over in a matter of seconds for each eye. Now with the expensive procedure I opted for (called wavefront) they do a 3D mapping of your eye and program that into the laser so it's not a random shot. Also the laser tracks any eye movement at 200 times per second.

The LASEK carries less chance and severity of halos (according to studies I believe are referenced in wikipedia). I have them but they are hardly noticable.
Spreadsheets rule. For ClojureScript there is the Javelin library: https://github.com/tailrecursion/javelin

It has a few novel features like transactional input.

We use Javelin for state management in the hoplon.io web framework.
One of the touted benefits of containers is shipping images to people with your software. That means as a customer you cant rebuild the image yourself.

It's exactly like statically linked binaries.
Not any more.

https://www.autismspeaks.org/dsm-5/faq#asperger
> If there was a digital notary service where you could digitally sign and timestamp a file, that might help a bit.

The Bitcoin block chain might fit this need. There are already multiple[1] services[2] out there[3] doing block chain notary.

[1] http://www.proofofexistence.com/

[2] http://www.blocknotary.com/

[3] http://virtual-notary.org/
When you say that the risk with LASIK is lower than for contacts for younger people, does that take into account different habits? My guess (and this is totally a guess, barely informed) would be that the statement is true for the general population, but that it is not true if you actually do everything properly and consistently.

There are a frightening number of people out there who don't wash their hands before they insert or remove their lenses, or sleep with them in, or never get new ones. I'd wager that problems are greatly concentrated among those people, and that if you actually take them out every night, wash your hands thoroughly before you manipulate them, and throw them away at the appointed date, the chances of problems go way down.

For a common example of this at work, if you look up the statistics for the effectiveness of condoms, they look like they barely work at all. Then if you look up the statistics for people who actually use them properly (which includes such subtle things as actually using one every time instead of occasionally just doing without) they get a lot better.
That's what most people are doing. Unfortunately, the people that actually do spend a bunch of time writing essays and Twitter blasts are the ones that, somehow, get to speak for everyone else. I hate that. I'm glad Meredith takes the time to provide a counter viewpoint.
I have wanted this solution for years. Is it posable run Spotify out of speakers, but something else out of headphones?
There is a caution box in the description, which contains a different warning, and then the warning you have cited is in a second caution box in the "Notes" section, after the changelog and the examples.

It doesn't surprise me that people might not notice the existence of that second warning. I believe that most developers wouldn't scroll down to read the changelog and the example if they think they understood what the function does from its description.
>When one side has a clear advantage, it is not.

I suspect this is the big difference driving a lot of this debate. You see a clear advantage, I see a lot of small advantages in specific situations, along with personal preferences.

To a lot of us, it's not a clear advantage.

I definitely make more money, but I'm much more likely to commit suicide or become homeless. I'm a lot more likely to be injured on the job.
Dogs probably use quantum simulation of light refraction to figure that out ;)
Not available here in Spain.

Besides, these services usually let you watch a movie months after it has been released, wereas you can usually see the movie on torrents the day they're out, often in HD quality.

A service which does the same legally has my $20 every month.
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