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Lots of comments here focusing solely on the beer pong aspect of frat parties. You guys aren't wrong: there's nothing sexist about beer pong.

The use of the word 'frat' really is the difference here. Beer and beer pong are the obvious connotations with frat parties. Scantily clad women, roofies, and rape, are some others, even if those associations are unfair. Why in the world would you associate your company with something like that?

The party itself isn't some egregious, unforgivable mistake, but the fact that while under investigation for gender discrimination, it does something like this, illustrates to me that Twitter is pretty oblivious to the problem.
Get together, auction the 6 point slots. Then, depending on whether it works or not, either evenly distribute proceeds to everyone or return the money to the auction winners.
I'm sure the media is sensationalizing this particular party, but the key isn't to have parties where women aren't "forbidden", it's where they feel welcome and comfortable.

That is the whole problem with the existing culture of tech - we want to see more women engineers, but there are all these subtle things going on in the industry that make them not want to be a part of the scene. With my data set of sample size of 1 (my wife who is an engineer at a big tech company), it's all those small things that make her want to quit and do something else. There is just this bro culture, where she always feels left out. Simplifying it down to what's wrong with beer pong, beer pong is fun is really missing the big picture.
I agree with your message, but that quote could be applied to any company ever. Case studies would be more useful.
This is not a hard one to fix but it didn't make the final release and had never been reported before, despite being largely the same for 9 years. It will be fixed as soon as we can get to it.

I will echo what others have said, though...closures capture and share a lot of other state. $~ and the related vars like $1 are supposed to be "special" but there's other state you're going to stomp on all Ruby impls. It's better to avoid using closure state if you know it's going to be called across threads, because most of that state will be shared on all Rubies.
Well hey, listen, when you hit that level of maturity you talk about, we'll have a party or something.
It says in the very first paragraph of the article: "All selections are anonymous, and the course grades are not curved."
If I was a technical editor, I would encourage my authors to keep the word count down. I think Feynman knew time was limited; why wast it on bloated, badly written research papers?

I don't buy bloated books anymore. My reading skills have never been great. I drift--unless I'm reading Vladmire Nabokov, or the like?

If technical books were in comic book form I would be happy--kinda like some military manuals? I just want the information. When I'm learning someting, I like a brief summary of what we're doing, or explaining. Then, I like simple numbered steps. Then give me the theory. The least amount of words; the better! I do like a lot of relevant pictures.

In college, I think I was a visual learner? In pretty much every class I ever took-- I would sit down-- I would open my organized binder to the corresponding course. I would get a visual picture of what the professor is trying to teach us that day. I would draw a picture in the middle of the page.(someting that correlates to the lecture. Draw a femur in anatomy, trig--draw a funny looking triangle.) I would then write my lecture notes legibly around the picture. I would never re-copy my notes. When taking the exam--even if I was unsure of a question, I could usually recall that distinctive looking picture, and recall some of my notes that day. I used this technique all through college. I got good grades.
If you are a visual learner this technique might work for you? I guarantee it saves a lot of time. I never had to cram, or spend a lot of time studying. The night before the test, I would thumb through my visual notes, and try to get a good nights rest.

I had a learning disorder before they tested for learning disorders. I went to someting called early primary. Basically, I flunked kindergarten. How does a kid do that? I managed to do it. I then flunked second grade. I have never been a natural reader. I need to be interested in the subject,and the author needs to write well. Personally, I'm in awe of natural readers. I can't even get through a thick Steven King book? I can get through his short stories, like Dolan's Cadillic! Maybe, his best writing though?
They're what MRI calls "svars", or special variables. They're thread and scope-local, and regardless of your feelings towards them, they're still used all over the place, in old and new code alike.
Absolutely. One thing I forgot to mention is that most chefs have 2 knives because they find that after you sharpen the knife it leaves a bit of flavour when cutting for 24 hours. So the idea is to sharpen it at the end of the evening and then use the other knife the next day. Personally, I have never noticed it in my cooking but that's probably because I'm not that good.
Really odd that the professor does not mention carbon taxes in the story. It doesn't make sense to borrow game theory from economics but completely ignore the idea of taxing externalities
Just call it a Beer Party. That's what frat parties are, really.
Those things did come to exist in the '80s, and they were what helped the Mac to survive that decade. PageMaker and the Apple LaserWriter were announced on the same day in early 1985. And while by the late '90s it was mostly lock-in and loyalty that were keeping graphics and publishing professionals on the Mac, in the late '80s the Macintosh clearly was the best platform for GUI print and graphics applications (unless you considered workstation systems maybe, which most users weren't doing). Windows didn't take off until version 3.0 in 1990; Photoshop wasn't available for it until 1992. (Photoshop itself wasn't so dominant at that stage though.) The Mac was the flagship platform even for Microsoft's GUI office software: both Word and Excel were originally Mac software, Word for Windows didn't arrive until '89, and WinWord didn't become a hit until Windows 3.0 and WinWord 1.1 in 1990. In fact, it's not too much of an exaggeration to say that "core" Microsoft—the MS that dominated computing with Windows and Office, rather than the earlier company that produced good BASICs and got lucky with MS-DOS—was fundamentally a Macintosh ISV (a good Macintosh ISV, mind you) that got ideas above its station.
Cofounder splits are the most common cause of startup failure [1]. Nevertheless you need a cofounder for countless reasons, primarily for perspective. Perspective is probably what you're missing in this disagreement. Can you see the issue from your cofounder's point of view? What deep down in your cofounder do you think truly causes this issue?

You (both) should have a mentor throughout the startup process -- this is a mistake I made myself until too late. Have (either of) you discussed this with your mentor? What does your mentor think?

Last but perhaps most importantly: What are you legally (contractually) obligated to at this point in the venture? How is the company split and who owns the corp and IP? Depending on the legal structure you may have limited options for resolution.

Best wishes, protect yourself legally but always take the high road in your founder relationship. It's like a marriage and there may be rainbows on the other side if you can learn to help each other through the low spots.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/24/smallbusiness/startups-entre...
Matz himself has said he regrets putting these variables in the language, and some day they may disappear. We'll match behavior as much as possible, but they're a relic no matter how you slice it.
There have been many such systems. I built one in the early 2000s and tried to raise money around it, to no avail. At the time there were several commercial competitors, including one well-funded venture called ThirdVoice. Wikipedia has some information on the history of the genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation .
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I actually got hungry for roti writing this piece.
Fraternities generally don't include women.
If the embryos were not viable, can you really call them humans? In my opinion they're really not more human than a cell culture of human cells.

By "in humans" I meant using cas9 in vivo to edit the genome of a living human person.
Surprised no one's doing the obvious startup metric joke.

Sex, Sleep, or Cashflow: choose one. If see that you're getting two, you're doing really well. If you're getting three, it's time to sell the company.
Or the writer has already decided 'tech is sexist' and then tries to slant the story to reflect that.
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I guess that is what you call a PR disaster.
To me it looks like Google is shutting down services randomly.
We welcome GAE users of JRuby but they never seemed to be a big segment of the community. And we continue to maintain non-native IO and process logic for limited environments. If that is not sufficient for GAE, we'll work with you to make it so.
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Perhaps it's just cultural differences, but nobody getting extra points sounds like the most desirable outcome to me. Perhaps in a setting where the exam doesn't count for anything it'd be okay, but it just seems so juvenile.
Fraternity parties sure do.
The comments so far seem to be ignoring how the frat culture at American universities contributes to a culture of gender discrimination. This issue has been discussed for years, and was highlighted further with the (discredited, but important) Rolling Stone article about frat culture at the University of Virginia.

The problem is not just the name, and I recognize that drinking games are not fundamentally sexist, but the structure of a party with this kind of theme pays homage to a culture that has some deeply-ingrained gender discrimination issues.

It's not "ill-timed", it's just wrong.
Actually, the past 70 years, of productivity gains accruing to labor and being fairly widely shared in society, is pretty atypical (over the past couple of hundred years). In most western societies (and other where records are available) those owning production (typically land, but sometimes factories) captured most of the wealth.

Source: Capital in the 21st Century by Piketty.
I got a free copy of the lot back around 2003, but when I looked recently they've officially switched to printing on demand (priced at ~cost) via Lulu. I first got them for hobbyist operating system development - their residual utility there should remain high for a while. Plus, bookshelf cred!

http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/processors/architec...
This might be problematic but it isn't sexist, and the media's obsession with linking every tech story to the Pao case is getting old.

If anything, this discriminates against older employees. When I was in college, there were always a lot of girls at house parties, but never any 50-year-old VPs of Engineering.
In general everything ActiveRecord does should be supported by JDBC. The pg port is for cases where you need features the JDBC driver does not support but the C driver does, like geocoding etc.
This would be even more useful for audiobooks
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They're adding integration in with Docker too for Criu:
http://criu.org/Docker

Here's a fun example of it in action:
http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/07/how-did-quake-demo-from-do...
I empathize with the plasticity that comes with repeating gender nouns over and over again. This and humaaaans.
And I'd say, you really need to step outside the YC bubble

YC has nothing to do with it. We're not a YC company, and we have taken no outside capital at all, which is one major reason I've been working so hard... because everything that needs to be done, falls on the founders to do. There is nobody else, since we can't afford to hire anybody. OK, we did have a paid intern one summer, but that's the only time we paid anybody anything.

Now, of course, you could say "well, then go raise a round and hire people". To which I can only say, we have made the decisions we made, for reasons that are important to us, and we are happy with them. I think the day will come when we will look to rise outside money, but it'll be when the time is right.

Anyway, just wanted to make it clear that my personal story has nothing to do with YC, or the "pressures of being a VC funded company" or anything of that sort.
No, that's why I took the job, and why I'm doing the bare minimum to not get fired.
> discredited, but important

It was important only insomuch as it highlighted extreme bias in mass media. It was a wholly fabricated story and should not be used to shame frat culture.

Edit: to those downvoting, I'd love to hear how a fabricated story is somehow important. It was a huge blemish on Rolling Stone.
The signs in the article photos will do nothing to reduce confusion around parking signs. They're all special-purpose Clearway signs. The intent of the sign is not in the e-ink part; that bit only gives you some timing information. As a result, it has no bearing on the problem of locations with multiple parking rules - it is still 'just another rule'.

Have a look at their sample photos. Two of the photos have the sign by themselves. This clears up what kind of confusion? How are they better then a normal sign in this location? The remaining photo has two other signs, which work together fine with a non-e-ink version of the e-ink sign. Hardly a monstrosity.

The only advantage the photographed sign really has is that the council can easily change the details on it between different roadwork events, without having to glue a new set of numbers on it.
Do you really think describing women in technology as "the females" is something that should pass without being called out?
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>it's understandable that the text has remained unchanged //

Understandable but not true. There are, currently extent, versions of the text with variations. There was a significant effort made to create a single authoritative version to enforce the narrative of the text being a perfect copy of one in heaven.
So? That's not a reason for me to bust my ass. You're not gonna get anyone going the extra mile by doing that.
The essence can be reduced to this quote:

"He sees it as a sport. He would like his daughter in Romania to grow up well, so that she can go to college later and live in a nice house. If he obeyed the German rules that wouldn't be possible. So he does what he must. And Germany does what it must. And Europe too. "

This article is too dramatic and generalizing too much.
Of course fewer and fewer Romanians are like this, things have changed there. And it's one of the most beautiful countries in Europe.

Romanians I know are programmers, start startups or work at Microsoft or Google, are quite hip, go to music festivals, take acid and travel around the world.

It's all a matter of perspective (and selection bias :).
My wife and I are fairly evenly matched but one thing we do is combine our scores at the end and compare the total to past games.
Tailing =/= tailgating.

Tailgating does apply to officers of the law, they need to act in a way that reduces the possibility of serious harm proportional to any criminals being pursued. Police on duty can be guilty of DWDC&A or dangerous driving.

Example - not tailgating - http://road.cc/content/news/64021-speeding-police-officer-co... an officer using sirens & lights convicted of dangerous driving.
Perfect summary. Don't forget racism as an additional association. I'm not sure why there is an overwhelming atmosphere of denial on HN whenever the topic of women in tech comes up. What's the deal? Do you think women are adequately represented in tech jobs? What about minorities?
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A Fraternity is all male. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternity

It would have been different if they called it a college party.
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Ask HN: Efficient Algorithm to Compute the Summation of the Function
We are given N points of the form (x,y) and we need to compute the following function:

F(i,j) = ( | X[i] - X[j] | ) * ( | Y[i] - Y[j] | )

Compute Summation of F(i,j) for all ordered pairs (i,j)

N <= 300000

I am looking for a O(N log N) solution.

My initial thought was to sort the points by X and then use a BIT but I'm not being able to formulate a clear solution.
That's what we do as well. It works well enough.
Yes, this is YC acting more like an investor and less like a founder-supporter which may turn into an interesting trend. However, I don't think pro-rata or participation rights are problematic as they encourage follow-on investment which is usually desirable. The downside to rights like this is a minor increase in the complexity of completing investment rounds.
Congratulations, you just independently discovered the sixth paragraph of the article!

"But many students choose the seemingly selfish option. Why? Perhaps to increase their own grades, or perhaps because they fear that they will be taken advantage of. No one wants to be the chump that chooses fewer points when they could have had more."
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I'm getting paid, but so are they. And seeing something like that makes it so that I work just hard enough to not get fired. Not the kind of extra mile stuff that these companies typically complain that they want to see from their employees.
The professor omitted the sole interesting number: what percentage of students choose 6 points. Is it typically 15% or is it typically 80%?

It makes a huge difference. Most likely, it's a percentage low enough to indicate that the 10% threshold is carefully chosen. Otherwise he'd tell us.

This is evidence that he has an agenda to promote (that people are too selfish), and that the facts don't support his agenda (most people actually cooperate). So he omits the facts.
Your comment is so hyperbolic, it's as if normal logical discourse is a puppy and your comment is a hammer that you are using to bash it's head in.
Actually, I think in this case the only rational choice is to ask for the 6 points. One of two things will happen:

1) Less than 10% will follow suit, in which case you'll get a 6 point boost, and you'll have secured an advantage over 90% of your classmates.

2) More than 10% will follow suit, and noone will get anything, in which case you will have no advantage over your classmates, and neither will any classmate have an advantage over you.

If you select 2 points, then either:

1) Less than 10% will opt for 6, in which case you'll have no advantage over at least 90% of the class, but some members of class may have a 4 point advantage over you, or

2) More than 10% will opt for 6, in which case the outcome is identical to choosing 6 in the first place.

Because the "points" have no intrinsic value except in comparison to your classmates (unlike a true tragedy of the commons, where the scarce resource such as food, etc, has real value), there is no reason not to roll the dice.

EDIT: Many people think the fact that the course is "not graded on a curve" makes a difference. It does not, at least considering the class in isolation. I took courses in college where an A was pretty much a dead certainty, and other courses where getting a B was actually quite an achievement. In all cases my performance within a course had to be judged based on my performance against the other students within that same class.
This is exactly it. A lot of these speculations are not scientifically tractable.
>What does "disembodied" mean here? Whatever you use to emulate a human brain is going to have a physical substrate and support system (body). It may be differently bodied, but its not going to be disembodied.

If we surgically implanted a human head on a cow it would be "differently bodied" too, but it's obviously not what the parent means.

The casual use of "physical substrate and support system" as if it means the very specific "body" parent talks about, which is obviously the human body the simulated brain originated in, is bizarro.

A PC box won't cut it as "body".
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Definitely. A more recent example is MLK's "Letter from Birmingham Jail", where he responds to white clergy who complain about his activism:

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h...

A lot of people seem to suggest that society will magically get better without people getting upset about the bad parts. But when I ask them for examples, they get mysteriously quiet. A pattern nicely parodied by this cartoon: https://thenib.com/great-moments-in-peaceful-protest-history...
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I think it goes without saying that there's a line. And also that they're still famously robotic.

The police should react appropriately when faced with violence or an especially difficult customer, but their focus on duties should be to minimise fiery situations where they can.
What VM doesn't ship with bugs likely to be a problem in actual use, though?
This is really an unfortunte side effect of every Rails AR adapter being a one-off piece of code. In JRuby, there's not much code different between the databases, but in Rails they're all completely different. That means we basically have to emulate N different codebases just to be compatible. If they settled on a common database layer, our job would be done. Write your congressman.
Thanks, Julian.
I have an excellent example of this.
Despite having both Chrome and Firefox installed on my home desktop computer, my wife continues to use IE 11. Even with her own profile for Chrome, and using an Android phone with Chrome, she still sticks with IE for some odd reason.
Some organisations won't allow use of a product unless there's a support option. I can understand this after a complete system failure a few years back on an open source unsupported product. I was hired to fix it! :) Mostly though in comes EnterpriseDB and support costs then. Problem is always staff availability here in the UK though so we always end up with SQL Server and Orscle bodies.
That's also what postgrest documentation suggests as the way to deploy it.
> A Fraternity is all male. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternity

From the second paragraph of your own link: "In many instances membership in a fraternity is limited to males, but this is not always the case, and there are mixed male and female and even wholly female fraternities"

Particularly, in the collegiate context evoked by the phrase used, "fraternities" is generally the term used for all-male or co-ed societies of a particular type, while the corresponding term for all-female societies is "sororities".

That being said, "Frat party" certainly has a gendered connotation/implication, its just not a simple definitional thing of the type you present it as.
You really think if they called it a 'Greek party' instead there would've been no 'offense' taken?
...and downvotes. Pathetic guys, really pathetic.
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I'm curious as to what happened here:

Text entered: this is a test of handwriting generation

Style sample #1 selected.

All other settings at default.

http://imgur.com/6b1G5Tj

Edit: I've tried a couple other styles and haven't duplicated this craziness.
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