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> If we continue to censor ourselves, it will destroy us.

Hence, the title of OP's post.

It was all really inevitable though.. The collective code we write spawned this. We make it increasingly simple for humans to share.. and equally as easy for humans to collaborate. These forces will combine for good and/or evil.

Take this past week on reddit as an example... If you don't know it, one of their most prolific users, Violentacrez was forced to close his account for simply sharing controversial photos. As a result, he became a target of ShitRedditSays, Project Panda, and RedditBomb. He was doxxed and threatened IRL.. He is now offline.

If we were to listen to Voltaire unequivocally, then the same should go for OP, and Violentacrez.

How would you respond?

http://i.imgur.com/AL52y.png
I bailed out after two paragraphs - couldn't stomach the screaming. But it was clear that the outrage was due to a gross misreading of the original piece. antirez was not writing about women attempting to claim respect that they did not deserve.
Perhaps I'm crazy but didn't this just make the front page a couple weeks ago? Interesting though it is.. has anything changed?

Edit: I must be crazy because the date on that says 14..
Crysis 2 came back once no more DLC was going to be released - hence 'maximum edition'.

The no in-app purchases which don't cut in Steam was introduced when they began allowing free-to-play games on the service (which are usually monetised by microtransactions, and would be a money-loser for Valve if they didn't make a cut from them). I don't know why Steam can't make an exception for EA titles (or those purchased from the store rather than F2P), but that's the reasoning.
What sorts of things are you interested in? You'll have better luck working on something you find exciting.

If you get stuck on technicalities, two good things to try are (a) Google code search (http://code.google.com/codesearch) for examples related to what you're doing (for example, if you were trying to make an S3 connection from Python, you could check http://code.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=s3connection...) and (b) a relevant IRC channel if there is one.

If there are any programmer meetups in your area, try going and asking for help in person. When I was your age and trying to learn programming, I didn't know anyone who could help me. In retrospect, that was the #1 thing that held me back.
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Letting such perspectives pass without criticism does not help us solve problems; quite the opposite. A few outlandish suggestions are amazingly useful insights, but most of them are outlandish for a reason; it's not a case of every idea being right and wrong in different ways, there really are objectively good and bad ideas, and being able to cull bad ideas quickly is vital to progress.

To my mind this is a case of "if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen". If you're deliberately offering an unusual perspective, you should be prepared for it to be rapidly shot down. If it's on an emotionally charged issue, you should be prepared to be shot down viciously. The author can't have been unaware that his original post was going to offend a great many people.

Do people's emotional reactions get in the way of solving sexism? Maybe. But if you've found a way to take the emotion out of it, you're probably 9/10 of the way to a full solution already; if not, complaining that people treat the issue emotionally without offering a solution is rather empty.
I think it is a little more nuanced than simply being 'not okay'. Whether it is 'okay' or 'not okay' is a personal moral decision, which though I might agree with you (for myself), I would not push that morality onto someone else. I would however give a reasoned argument as to why I think it is or is not okay. Ethics are not clear-cut, and ethics do not equal the law.

As dkokelly points out, this cannot be thought of as lost revenue. The vast majority of games taken here would never have been bought otherwise, and it is unlikely that any of these games will be devalued by having a wider audience. So it is spurious to describe this as simply stealing.

EA has a history of disrespecting their customers' privacy, security, payments, and computers, as well as (as the op mentions) questionable ethics. They don't seem to value their customers except as a cash cow to be milked to death. This is a message, an imperfect, impure, but pretty bloody strong retributive message. To draw a long bow, think LA riots.

But still, does that make it okay? I just think each person needs to assess that for themselves. It certainly has a ring of just desserts about it. Speaking for myself, it would depend on my motives. I would put that if the gamers are more interested in getting a positive response from EA than they are in free games, I would suggest they protest by dumping their EA games in an online equivalent of a big bonfire.. 4chan maybe :|

But I would agree that a more ethically clear-cut channel could be actually more effective - but just not because it is more ethically clear-cut. if they really want a positive response from EA, rather than just to protest (or steal), they need to publicly and loudly stop buying EA games.
Yes, sometimes being rational and having common sense will get you flamed but what's that got to do with twitter? Antirez is a well known programmer and the amount of reaction he gets is above average. Was anybody expecting anything else?
Moreover, a container forces elements in it to stay contained while I don't want them to be contained.

Why can't get row and span work without a container?
I own a print copy of this book, it's good stuff.

I picked it up soon after reading Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed [1], an incredible book which recounts development of the U2, SR-71 and F-117A.

1: http://amzn.com/0316743003
Less cyclical arguing, more redis.

Win-win.
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I spent 4 years freelance writing long-form narrative journalism stories for a foreign magazine, and let me tell you that I wouldn't even consider getting out of the house for less than $1500 per story + expenses. And that's for a short one.

(Oh, and I find Harper's to be the king of general-interest magazines.)
This isn't about censorship, but sensitivity. I don't see how you drew from this that the world of blogging is in peril--if you write things that generate tons of hate comments, and you don't want to read those comments, disable comments. The discussion will continue elsewhere regardless. The haters aren't even censoring themselves (I guess you could make a case that their existing biases prevent them from seriously considering opposing views, but that's not exactly "self-censorship"). If you want to solve some of the problems exemplified by this article and its responses, talking about censorship isn't the way; instead, encourage people to grow thicker skins.
It doesn't translate well into Japanese.
"They must be allowed to do whatever they want even if it hurts the industry."

Isn't this the kind of thinking that led to the banking crisis?
There are always reasons why unauthorized access may be needed (or, to phrase it better: where authorization should be dynamically extended), however. For instance, if a patient arrives in the ED, then a doctor who has never treated them before and normally should not have access to their records, may need to view them. So long as access is audited correctly, then the issues involved are mitigated.

FWIW, "eel case" aside, I know of clinicians being unceremoniously sacked for breaching patient privacy; and I know of NZ hospitals hiring staff to monitor the audit logs on a daily basis. It's a very big deal, and something that a lot of work is put into getting right.
"Simply sharing controversial photos"... nice disingenuous way to say "creating a platform and framework for sharing sexualized pictures of preteens and photos of women taken without their consent, for years, while doing everything in his power (and mostly succeeding) in normalizing the process".

Honestly, it's like when people say "free speech" they really mean "be able to do anything I want no matter how horrible with zero consequences or criticism." I'm glad VA is gone. I hope he gets thrown in a jail cell.
Is this your site? Please trim the blurbs to complete sentences. It is so frustrating to have so many sentences cut off in
Because you only need to build one page, and it looks how you want on any device. You no longer need to build separate templates and forward using server-side browser sniffing.
Was this it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4582253
No, thats defamation/libel, and it is a civil offense, even a criminal offense in some cases. Free speech is not an unconditional right, it places responsibilities on those who exercise it.
You aren't crazy. Engine Yard routinely syndicates posts they find interesting and relevant that they wish to reach their audience. That is fine. But in this case the HN entry is a dup of a previous post. :)
Most responses were zingers or did not show a basic understanding for what he said. They are noise, and noise is not worth defending.

I take his argument as supporting individual merit, and condemning praise for the seemingly meritless based on being a minority (what is often called affermative action). A proper disagreement with this position might be based around a purposeful cultivation of the minority to overcome the historical imbalance or avoid a flawed evaluation of merit. Debate then between cultivation and pure meritocracy is a valuable exchange, both sides of which are worth defending.

There appear to be many responses to sound bites taken out of context. Many of them are additionally vitriolic reiterations of much less insight and nuance than what antirez said. They do not contribute to progressing the core discussion, and are only valuable to the extent that we attempt to answer a subtle social issue by taking a vote of twitter users. Which is to say, they are not valuable at all.
I remember being in your shoes. My advice is to get a web server and to start hacking it. Create websites, mess with databases. Install some open source apps and figure out how to create a module. You can do it; one step at a time; the daunting feeling will turn into great gratitude. I feel like there are better people here that can give you more overall sound advice, but hopefully this provides you with a platform to at least keep moving.
It doesn’t demand anything other – but don’t be surprised when other people then tell you that you are wrong, misguided, ignorant or biased. It’s a quite unsurprising consequence of only relying on your gut-feeling when you opine.

Convincing opinions are supported by facts and theories, by knowledge of past thinking on the topic at hand. All opinions are not created equal.

I’m sorry, but if you write a stunningly ignorant post on sexism that takes so many wrong turns, you shouldn’t be surprised when other people are offended by your displayed lack of knowledge and care. I don’t want to apologize bullying or harassment – that simply isn’t something you can ever apologize – but anything below that line is perfectly ok.
One thing to keep in mind is that unless people strongly agree _but_ even mildly disagree the will post something in reply. In rest, most people who kind of agree or the ones that are sort of neutral will not feel the need to click reply or post. So anything controversial is bound to receive more negative feedback. Any positive or supportive comments might come as a second wave, in response to a slew of negative comments but those are sort of a second order effect.

Trolls will just detect this is a sensitive topic, and regardless if they personally care or not about the issue, will see a potential for flame war and will not resist the urge to dump a can of gasoline in the fire and then watch the show.
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Skunk Works is a great read. It's enlightening how advanced these guys were in the 60's, I tend to think of the 80s and 90s as being the time when we raced forward technically but it was probably the 60s and 70s were the fastest pace.
If it's against the law, report it to the police; Don't take the law into your own hands. It makes you no better than what you're trying to expunge.
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Just cover the suits in ceramic tile.
Pretty sure that'll replace the contents of the document with "[object Object]".
For everything we do to astronauts, why not give them some skydiving experience?
This was special for me. I wasn't alive when the moon landings or early space program happened. Space shuttles were exciting, but mechanized and somehow predictable; I was probably too young to appreciate them and by the time I was old enough to appreciate what was going on they were routine (even that disasters were disasters not because it was crazy to try an launch some massive machine with a bunch of people in it into space, but because some sort of process or engineering failed... we expected success).

This was different. A balloon, a capsule, and a single man with a suit supported by years of engineering and hard work. My whole family watched as Felix stepped out onto the little skateboard sized step; we held our breaths as he jumped. We watched the infrared camera as he started to tumble and I wondered how I would explain his death to my 4-year old who was watching too. I'm glad I didn't have to. I'm glad I get to explain how hard work, engineering, bravery, a very talented team and a little bit of individual craziness can do some amazing things.

For me this was special to watch. Thanks to everyone who participated in making this event happen.
> The best moderation I've experienced is here on HN, and on Slashdot.

Certain (small!) subreddits have these places matched, if not beat.

The key word is small: Once the community grows to become a true microcosm of Reddit, which is a microcosm of a good bit of the English-language Internet, it becomes cat pictures and memes as far as the eye can see because that is what most people want. Individuals decry it, but there is no single countervailing force big enough to do anything about it except, you know, start a new (small!) subreddit.

So /r/politics is a hole but /r/sex is a good place for adult discussions about human sexuality.

(The only alternative to big-is-banal is a very active group of dedicated moderators empowered to remove posts and ban users. This seems to be hated by a lot of people but, dammit, it works.)

I also recall that Slashdot used to be a lot bigger and more important as a news aggregator.
Perhaps it's just me (and the irony of me saying this will be obvious after reading this post) but if you are writing blogs, isn't it obvious that eventually you will get negative feedback and in some cases verbal harassment? My perspective on such things is that say you have 1000 followers of your blog and you write on a topic. Odds are that out of the 1000, 75% of them will likely not give any feedback, 10% will give positive, 8% will give negative and then there's the 2% that may verbally harass you because they are offended. Does this mean that they are bad people for doing something like that? Well I guess it's up to you to decide whether they are.

However, try to remember that there are people out there who were not taught or never picked up on the idea that you should be courteous when talking to over individuals. Maybe they were never taught it, taught the opposite, or have difficulty in controlling their anger. They can also believe so strongly in something to the point of doing something unethical.
The point is not to take things personally when people attack you directly versus your ideas. Instead why not ask them why they felt it was necessary to talk in that fashion?

Apologizing for offending them can also help in alleviating any direct attacks as it makes them aware of how they are acting. A little social engineering is a good thing to know.
Don't just run away from it. There are so many better ways of going about it.
Very cool! This is my first exposure to markdown. I could see convergence of this and latex, surely.
I read the Gawker piece [1] on Violentacrez, and I think saying that he was "simply sharing controversial photos" is a bit of an understatement.

[1] http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the...
Some planes sound fine. Airlines just don't care. The in cabin intercom is not the same feed as the ATC feed.
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I don't think we have to behave positively towards all behavior that falls short of illegality. In Violentacrez's case, he was long-term harassing people, posting creepy photos without their consent, etc. It may not have risen to the level of a crime, but I don't see any reason people shouldn't strongly criticize his behavior, including criticizing him by his real name, if they can discover that name through legal means. Why should him posting sexualized photos of people (including kids) without their consent be tolerated, but suddenly one violates some threshold of civility to say: "I've discovered that the guy posting these photos is Michael Brutsch, and I would like him to stop."
Is that a diver challenge or a suit challenge?
> The parent is correct, the claimed relationship being y ~ rank^a for some a<0

You clearly don't know the difference between exponential and polynomial relationship.

rank^a is polynomial.

a^rank is exponential.

The data is neither (unless you can demonstrate it with the actual formula).
I think you're greatly exaggerating the tendency of technical people to value accuracy and truth over personal opinions.

...

* If I had sided with Samsung for example, and spouted the popular (but wrong) opinion that the decision hurts innovation.*

Irony.

That aside, voting systems by design favor majority opinion. From the few stories that discuss it, the behind the scenes moderation that goes on here is likely the differentiating factor in comment quality from sites like reddit. The ability to down vote only after participating in the community for a while is just one of many heuristics for moderating the community.
It's not entirely clear to me what prompted the “Mack truck’s worth of vile, misogynistic, sexist comments and pictures” that caused Sierra to change her point of view (after twenty years of positive experience!) and how exactly it relates to the Tech industry?

I can appreciate the argument that just because you haven't personally experienced sexism that doesn't mean it doesn't occur, but the logical equivalent of that is that you can't point to a few people's (subjective interpretation of their) experiences to conclude that sexism is prevalent in the tech industry.
Thee are many factors.

There were a lot of new buyers. Those older owners had more incentive than ever to cash out during the housing bubble. There was enormous turnover in ownership.

And for all of the old owners, their taxes can be increased by 2% every year. So they do eventually go up, even as values are dropping, until they reach a ceiling of 1%.

Here's what the data looks like for the last 17 years:

http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/united-states/state-taxes/ca...
My theory on this is that entrepreneurship has become more accessible in recent years. This means more Americans are starting companies thus reducing the proportion of startups founded by immigrants. Of course foreigners can do the same from anywhere in the world; a startup based in India can serve US-based customers just as easily.

Many tech startups from the 80s and 90s were started by founders with advanced engineering degrees, many of whom were foreign-born. But times have changed and now you can found a tech startup right after high school.

Tech startups are also not as risky as they used to be, and they've become more glamorous and fashionable in recent times. I've heard the number of American kids enrolling in CS programs has also grown in recent years.
With Marquez I picked up One Hundred Years of Solitude years after I finished my undergraduate education. A quote on the back cover declared it to be second only to Genesis in profundity and importance, and I was curious. Certainly I did not have any literature professors breathing over my neck, I feel I did have a chance to come to terms with it on my own terms.

I don't recall sensing any elitist veneer. Rather, as I recall there were multiple male characters named Jose Arcadio Buendia and I could never keep them straight. Moreover, there seemed to be virtually no sense of cause and effect, it felt like a bunch of shit just happened to the characters and they never got to make decisions. Their personalities would change, seemingly at random, and I kept getting confused.

I'm sure there is some significant literary reason for all of this, but I lost track of the characters and the plot, got frustrated, and gave up.

My loss, presumably.
I think it's even more fun to think about the premise that I should forget about all the times I've been passed over for a job or education because of my gender just because some people I would never work with are jerks.
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The gist is basically "People should be treated the same way regardless of gender/race/...", which I agree to entirely, people who are trolling are probably incompetent women or sexually frustrated nerds afraid of losing the few female interactions they are exposed to in the workplace.
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Then again, they had a brilliantly working "don't panic" mechanism built in :-)
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> I think if you disagree with (software) patents, you must also disagree with these anti-monopoly laws.

...Do you have a reason for thinking that? The connection isn't obvious.

If your reason for disagreeing with software patents is an aversion to government intervention then, ok, sure, that reason would also extend to disliking competition law. But if your reason for disagreeing with software patents is, say, because you don't like that they grant the patent-holder a monopoly on the subject of the patent and you don't like monopolies, that's pretty compatible with having a high regard for competition law. And if your reason for disagree with software patents is something else entirely, that might not point to any particular position on competition law at all.
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" The correct reaction, for me, should be against Reddit, the company."

And similarly, against Facebook, G+, or Twitter for the content of their users. Anytime anyone posts something on a commercial site that we don't agree with, we should turn to the infrastructure provider for censorship!

Is Reddit responsible for censoring the user-generated content of their site, provided it is not breaking any laws? I was pretty certain we had a mountain of case law to the contrary.
I'm not defending anyone.. other than Voltaire's quote.

I don't really have an opinion on the situation at reddit.. I was just mentioning it as a related current topic.
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The idea is good i.e. teach journalists to hack.
But there's a conflict of interest. Look who's doing the teaching. Mozilla and Google are in business together.

Mozilla != journalists

Mozilla == web developers == middleman

FAIL. (It's been tried before: Web developers purporting to "help" journalists. The results have not been good.)
Hey, I'm 15 and feel like I was just in your position. Emails in my profile, if you'd like to talk, or you can Skype me at michaelhfine
I don't think "You are wrong because of things you cannot know" encourages people to seek knowledge, but rather the opposite. If I cannot know something, why should I waste my time on it?