skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using this library for my projects:

https://github.com/gekitz/UIDevice-with-UniqueIdentifier-for...

MAC Address based solutions are still okay right?
The experienced cynical part of me thinks that not being skeptical about things like this makes things worse.
Cory Doctorow at the Library of Congress
Graphic Gore: Murder Suicide Photos: Love Hurts : Gore
Nice. Wordpress's value is derived from its ecosystem as opposed to its technical purity.
From the manpage of /dev/random
"If a seed file is saved across reboots as recommended below (all major Linux distributions have done this since 2000 at least), the output is cryptographically secure against attackers without local root access as soon as it is reloaded in the boot sequence, and perfectly adequate for network encryption session keys. Since reads from /dev/random may block, users will usually want to open it in nonblocking mode (or perform a read with timeout), and provide some sort of user notification if the desired entropy is not immediately available."
"Welcome to Anonymous Corps Mega Enterprise (ACME),

Our publicist team is currently writing a letter to your employer on PasteBin while all our engineers are coordinating our sheeps to take down your employer's infrastructure until they decide to fire you.

Meanwhile, please enjoy this bucket of hate messages from our most recents intern.

Cordially,
The Internet"
That's because many of the people entering the market are speculators, not users.
Here's a thought: You don't need to post every single thought you have on twitter. So many of these controversies can be avoided by following that rule
I'm sure NYC's great, but this sort of thing is just filler material. Articles with headlines of the form 'why blah is the blah blah' are basically adverts for the author. Save your mental energy.
Based on the replies to the above comment it seems like we have the basis for a geeky version of the Chuck Norris meme :p
There are some speed comparisons in the comments here; it would be really nice to see some compiled-code-size comparisons between native and asm.js.
The most important function in this context is controlling the money supply and providing stability. If inflation or deflation of the US dollar gets too extreme, the Federal Reserve will adjust the money supply in order to prevent the problem from snowballing. There is no such entity that can serve that purpose for Bitcoin. This increases the odds for both runaway inflation or deflation (deflation is seemingly more like for Bitcoin). If either of those happen, the currency has the potential to collapse.
It feels like you're missing my point a bit here, so maybe I've been unclear. The reasons that the guys clam up aren't really the issue at all, and I'm not trying to make claims about whether dick jokes are or should be offensive to anyone.

My actual point is that in practice, whatever the reason, guys typically only make those jokes when they consider themselves to be in an environment where such jokes are welcome: what I called a "male space". So what does it imply when guys at tech conferences feel comfortable making dick jokes in public? The message that "this is a male space" comes across loud and clear to everyone who hears them: men feel a bit more comfortable making off-color jokes of their own, and women feel like outsiders.

Again, all of those implications are entirely independent of whether anyone actually finds the jokes themselves offensive, and independent of the reasons that guys typically self-censor. In this case, I rather suspect that Richards herself was not offended by the joke, but was upset that the guys were (unconsciously) sending a "male space" message simply by being willing to say it out loud.
This is the best feeling as a website owner
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was put into place precisely because people in a discriminated group would speak out, only to be told that their manner of speaking out was not "acceptable." "Speaking out" under Title VII includes picketing, writing letters to customers about the discrimination, and engaging in work slow-downs. These are not acceptable actions to some, but they are legally protected actions and a company cannot fire an employee who carried out one of these actions.

Since what she wrote specifically refers to sexual harassment ("Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964". "[It] constitutes sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment", "The harasser can be ... a non-employee." - EEOC's "Facts about Sexual Harassment"), it's almost certainly a protected action under Title VII.

If so, then while it may not be acceptable to you and various others, it's illegal for her company to fire her because of that action. Assuming I understand the law correctly.

To show I'm not just making this up, I'll quote from the judgement in Sumner v. United States Postal Service, 899 F.2d 203 (2d Cir. 1990): In addition to protecting the filing of formal charges of discrimination, Sec. 704(a)'s opposition clause protects as well informal protests of discriminatory employment practices, including making complaints to management, writing critical letters to customers, protesting against discrimination by industry or by society in general, and expressing support of co-workers who have filed formal charges. See Grant v. Hazelett Strip-Casting Corp., 880 F.2d 1564, 1569 (2d Cir.1989), and Schlei & Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law, 548-49 (1983)."

See the part about "protesting against discrimination by industry"? Doesn't that describe this situation almost exactly?

Now, if she broke a law, or violated some employee policy in a way that has nothing to do with Title VII nor is some other illegal practice (eg, it's illegal to suddenly fire her for doing personal blogging during company time if her supervisors had long known about that practice and had never given a caution or warning that it was a fireable offense) then that's a different issue. But no one has suggested anything of this sort.

So, while you might be offended by what she did, that doesn't mean she "should have expected what she got" if that includes that she got fired from her job.
And it comes with the added benefit of making one able to read ancient literature in it's original form. Thanks for the link, fascinating stuff that such a language would be the perfect match for AI. Stranger than fiction.
How would you like to wake up one day and discover that your picture is all over the internet along with sexist/misogynistic accusations, and for all intents and purposes, you have no idea what you did wrong? Then you go to work and get canned.

This was a pretty scary scene she perpetrated, at least to me. You can really do damage to someone with a mere tweet. Over a dumb, overheard joke? Come on. Judging by the public sentiment, it'll probably be okay for this guy. He's been incredibly gracious publicly. But had he gone home and hung himself, what story would we be talking about?
Wow, I've been using the new update all day and never noticed that they changed the look until just now after reading your comment and looking directly at it.
I am not sure how much better their advice would be than that of the HN'ers who have enjoyed success as founders but with thinner wallets. Brin etc. experiences from ramen to $50 million are roughly equivalent to that of others, and for anyone pushing toward $10 billion from $1 billion, there are probably better ways to pick their brains than in an HN comment thread.

While it would be entertaining to see them posting here, a Reddit AMA is probably a better forum.
I don't know your history, but I've heard that you have one

Only one? I have, like, at least five or six, my friend.

What sexist assumptions is white-collar Work [sic] culture based on? And how is it designed such that it is difficult for women to fit in?

Dedication and ability are assessed, in most corporations, based on antiquated, counterproductive, and fascistic reliability measures that disfavor, for one example, taking maternity (or paternity) leave or dedicating substantial energy to childcare. For a variety of reasons, some cultural, reproduction and child-raising ends up taking more of a woman's time than a man's.

It's almost impossible to take 5 years out of the career game and come back in with the standing you had when you left. While that's not sexist per se, it's incredibly fucking inhumane, and happens to inflict more harm on women.

First off, I can tell you've never been anywhere near a trading floor, or a commercial bank for that matter. The entire industry is based on risk. What do you think trading is? The calculated harnessing of risk. You make bets. That is all. Pure risk. FAR more risky than technology.

Oh, come on. You really think making $250,000 plus commission is "risky"? Yes, if you have a bad year and the firm isn't doing well, you might get fired. Here, "fired" means you get a shit bonus, and 4 months to find another job, usually a promotion. Yeah, that's risk all right.

I know enough about finance to know what I'm talking about here. I'm not denigrating financial professionals. I've worked in a few Wall Street jobs, and liked most of the people. But it's not risky to work there. Risk (with others' funds) is part of the operational calculus but it's not personally risky to be an employee.

Sure, there's financial risk (again, with others' money) involved, but you have much bigger risks as a technology founder. Like losing your savings (bootstrapping failure) or risking 3 years of your career on something that turns into a no-name dud. Or you could do a great job, get screwed over by partners or investors or management, get fired with no severance and your stock diluted in some perverse way. Shit like that happens.

Playing games with other peoples' money (and getting a resume/credibility boost no matter what happens) isn't nearly as risky as putting 3 years of your life into something that might wreck your career for reasons that aren't your fault.

Take advantage HOW?

There's a set of very talented people who have no sense of their real worth, crappy negotiation skills, and an idealistic willingness to work long hours. Most of VC-istan is about turning them into pure gold for well-connected investors and useless executive implants (read: VCs' well-connected, underachieving friends). Who do you think is paying $2 million for small houses in Silicon Valley? Not programmers with their 0.03% slices of things that got beaten to shit by multiple liquidation preferences.

I know you have a reputation, though, and I am ready to weather a storm in the name of truth.

Good for you.
What is going on with the .hm?
I know its a dud registry, but it has been breaking some of DNS and WHOIS tools.. Not even responding to a WHOIS.

It also seems to be throwing some weird GET requests when I try to access the nameservers [ns1.registry.hm], [ns2.registry.hm]

[14:05:38.617] GET http://www.searchnut.com/?domain=ns1.registry.hm&registrar=2120BDFE9D&affiliate=ns1.registry.hm [HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily 551ms]

Should this be reported to IANA?

willsr.
What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?
>He may settle for an amazing reference and introductions to investors

Honest question: if you essentially blackmail someone for an "introduction to investors" what makes you think the person introducing doesn't pull them aside before or after and say "this guy basically threatened to sue me if I didn't introduce him to you"? I have to imagine anyone in that position would likely do that, you could never prove they did it, and the investors would likely in no way take you seriously. That seems like the worst possible parlay I can imagine.
We are NOT a sexual service - I'm not sure if you were joking, but I'm honestly offended. At the same time, if you were being serious, I'm happy that you asked instead of making an assumption.

One more time: We ONLY do professional massage therapy.
So, naming the site "9GAG for Android" was asking for trouble. That's a clear-cut trademark issue, even if the app itself was named "Nine."

Content ownership is a little murkier, of course, because 9GAG is a company that thrives off stealing and rebranding the content of others. There's also no reason they couldn't have played ball - there's lots of alternative mobile clients for sites like Reddit and Hacker News because they create a healthier community and fill a niche that the creators of those sites can't fulfill. Still, if 9GAG decided they wanted the ad revenue this app would deprive them of, I can't really fault them.

(though, to be clear, I still totally fault them for being a shitty company that steals content!)
This is the PyCon news I wanted to see!
"Due to a misplaced parenthesis..."

Is this RNG written in Lisp!?

Sorry, couldn't resist ; ) (big fan of Clojure and elisp here btw)
Maybe this brands me an asshole, but if I'm doing something that I find to be not offensive, and somebody complains that it is offensive to them, I don't honestly know that I would stop doing it. To what extent does one go to accomodate?

If someone finds my breathing offensive, am I an asshole if I keep breathing?

I'm specifically ignoring the action of the companies, the firings and all that, because honestly, while I haven't heard the specific joke in question, it really doesn't sound offensive to me, and it seems as though Adria just decided to be offended by it, and while I'm wary of making assumptions (and even mr hank himself seems apologetic), I can't help but be thankful that it wasn't something I said. I was at PyCon, had conversations, and might have even made a joke or two. I don't think I said anything that might have come off offensive to anybody, but given how innocuous this whole thing seems to me, as somebody who admittedly hasn't followed the story, I just can't help but feel some great travesty happened.
Well, it's an argument that one side does win by default, and that "racism" should be used to acknowledge that power imbalance.

"Minorities saying racist things", by this theory, doesn't hold a candle to, say, the fact that minorities are more frequently imprisoned, more often pulled over/searched illegally/beaten by law enforcement agents, more often feared, more often treated with bias in the workplace or dating world, and on and on and on and on and on. Racism isn't "the act of saying something bigoted", it's the acknowledgement of a systemic bias based on a person's skin color. And it doesn't deny that bigotry exists in both directions – it just insists that to focus on bigotry is to miss the deeper issue.

This is relevant to this thread, because gender inequality works much the same way. What Adria did was a dick move, and I think her actions were and continue to be rude as hell. But she acts within a greater context of sexism and misogyny in the programming world – hell, in America at large – and to completely disregard how shitty an environment exists for many women is to miss that Adria's behavior stems from a crappy reality. Doesn't make what she did any less inappropriate, perhaps, but it suggests that maybe there are issues here more important than what she did which may be more worth focusing on. I mean, any ills resulting from her behavior have been more than counteracted by the death and rape threats that have been fired her way – she may have started this, but the backlash against her has been obscenely disproportionate.
Maybe it does, but they won't be looking for misplaced parens.
Seems like they are saying "Take down your app or we will complain to Google and have them take it down". If this is the case, what is the harm in leaving it in the Play Store and forcing them to jump through hoops?

If they do get it taken out of the Play Store, you could always provide the .apk for people to download.
This article is a great read, I read it a while back and was blown away. I never gave any thought to the advantages of any language over any other, I always looked at it with the programmer's lens. Just as all modern programming languages are Turing Complete and therefore equivalent (preferences aside), I assumed that the same would be true for most spoken languages. Ithkuil and the like really show that there is a lot more room for variety than most people imagine.
Well yes... That's the point... I also think it's crazy that forking and dongle jokes are shame worthy. And yet, here we are.
And what a classic passive-evasive BS way of saying it. "Mistakes were made."
Does vim have a plugin to detect unbalanced parens/brackets/braces etc?
To the top with you! This almost exactly mirrors my experience, right down to last year being my first PyCon and giving a lightning talk this year for the first time. It was an amazing experience, and I applaud all those who worked so hard to make it great for everyone, Jesse Noller especially.
Do realize that your superparent (who you are associated with by arguing with your parent) is not criticizing Critical Race Theory. They are claiming it is racist.
Doug Walton, Canadian academic and author, has argued that ad hominem reasoning is not always fallacious

Argumentum ad verecundiam fallacy (argument from authority), supporting argumentum ad hominem fallacy.

Nicely done.
Hey, I'm the creator of the app.

I can't deny the website domain is asking for trouble. Truthfully, I wouldn't mind taking it down, it's just a marketing stunt anyway because back then, they haven't have an official Android app.

What irks me is that they refuse to work together _at all_, and worst, their Android app is not up to standard.

But well, now that it has come to this, I will pivot to another service which has a healthier devs and community.
You write in such a protracted, drawn-out fashion that it is hard to understand what you are saying. Please permit me to clarify.

>Dedication and ability are assessed, in most corporations, based on antiquated, counterproductive, and fascistic reliability measures that disfavor, for one example, taking maternity (or paternity) leave or dedicating substantial energy to childcare

White-collar work inherently discriminates against women because they could possibly get pregnant. Is this what you are saying?

>You really think making $250,000 plus commission is "risky"

Yes, that is why people are hired at such high salaries. Because they do well for a couple of years and then flame out, never to work in the industry again. Again, you are clearly far removed from the industry so I don't fault you for not knowing how compensation works in said industry. But it isn't like you're walking into a golden ticket. If you don't meet bar, you don't get your bonus, which is more often than not the bulk of your "salary". And then you get canned. No remorse. that is risk.

>it's not personally risky to be an employee.

I don't understand how you can say this if you've actually worked for Wall Street firms.

>Like losing your savings (bootstrapping failure)

Smart founders don't tap their savings dry on an unsure bet.

>Playing games with other peoples' money (and getting a resume/credibility boost no matter what happens) isn't nearly as risky as putting 3 years of your life into something that might wreck your career for reasons that aren't your fault.

Except that it is way MORE risky. If you start a company and fail, at least you can say "I started a company and failed" and the Silicon Valley Brigade will give you a job as a Rails programmer. If you fail slinging options, you're never working in that field again. Literally.

I agree with your assessment of VCistan, now that you've expanded on it.
It goes backward. It goes wherever you just were, unless it takes you up a level, and if you just press it again, it takes you back to the app you were in. It's really not hard.

Contact app -> app an email address -> Gmail Compose window -BACK-> Contact app on the contact you were just on.

It takes you backward, it is what makes intents and app interaction work. I can understand why its confusing to an Apple user because there is no equivalent functionality in iOS.

Here, pretend there is no back button, yay! Android works like iOS and I'd go freaking insane. It sure as hell beats what happened to me in iOS tonight, who on Earth finds that usable? Every time one app invokes another I'm expected to go back to the homescreen and drill back down into the original app? Just shoot me.
True enough. But they can always send a legal time my way at the same time. As an indie developer, ain't nobody got time for that..
The popular definition of racism is popular because it robs the word of it's purpose, which is to fight power, not pattern matching.
I am considering linking to this on ycuniverse.com because it uses TeeSpring.com. However, the shirt doesn't seem available in ladies' sizes. Given the cause, I would think you'd want to make the shirt available in ladies' sizes. Can you enable that option?
That's a very fair answer, and I thank you for it.

I suppose, in regards to 'privacy', I mention it because at least early on, Adria was commenting on her 'personal' Twitter feed. Understandably that Twitter account is public, I'm sure at least in part because of her role, but at the same time, I routinely make comments on socio-political issues on Facebook or Google Plus which thankfully have better privacy filters (to my knowledge at least, I don't use Twitter for much of anything).

Do you consider your role as an 'always-on' sort of position? If you're at a dinner party that consists almost entirely of close personal friends, do you still monitor your actions on the chance that the one person there you don't know might be a potential customer?
Why do say it's a private joke? If it was private, no one else would have heard it.

It was joke between two people but told in the open, where others could and did hear it. It was in a semi-public venue, open to some 2000+ people who had purchased a ticket, with no expectation of extra privacy, where the number of cameras was likely more than the number of attendees (phone and laptop camera), and likely with several (laptop) microphones within 10 feet of them.

That is not private.
Everyone needs to do this regularly. You'll realize how pointless so much of your internet time really is. I've quit forums/sites I was addicted to quite easily by just getting away for a while then never checking those sites again when I came back. Your brain needs a break, too.
A friend of mine uses it to send money to family in Russia as well. Lower overhead than Western Union, wire transfer, etc, for small sums of money.
Oh I'm sorry about that. I thought that Teespring would give users the option to select whichever size they wanted. I'm creating a new page for a women specific shirt size.
I have this reserved feeling about kickstarter - if only kickstarter can give out equity in the venture, instead of just act like a pre-order system where the customer takes on all the risks, but only get the merchandise, while the owner of the business reaps the reward(profits) if the risks don't pan out, but suffers nothing if the venture fails.
Ironic that a site that runs on borrowed content is suddenly appalled that someone else borrows their content.
I love the idea and who it sponsors. Own it!
Is purchasing said T-shirt explicitly financially supporting Girls Who Code?
As a man, let me state that the phrase Fork My Dongle makes me a wee bit uncomfortable.
Instruction Relationship Framework in LLVM
Life in prison for a police officer who commits perjury might carry a risk of convincing the honest potential police officers who don't quite trust the system to not become police officers, while not deterring those who have no long term fear of consequences.
Good point.

Dongle is a funny word. Buy this shirt and support Girls who Code. 100% of profits will be donated to charity.

I suppose that "charity" could be clarified a little better.
I am uncomfortable with the implied support for out of date hardware copy protection practices.