skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being rude as in 'joking during a talk at a conference' and even more being rude while being paid for attending (which seems to be the case) said conference might not enter into 'freedom of speech'. I a more with the 'honorable behaviour' than with the 'sexist' argument.

The fact that you can say whatever you want does not mean you can do so at any time or any place.

You can enter into any (judicial) court and shout "I hate the Queen" but then you will probably be expelled from it, despite your very rightful speech.
Of course it is! Either you're free to say anything or you're not free at all. There's no relativism here.
Sapphire might start replacing it in a few years:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512411/your-next-smartp...

Full phones or tablets made of sapphire could be very interesting, too, like the ones we get now out of glass.
I appreciate the irony of being outraged about someone else's misplace outrage. But I am.

As a female tech co-founder I am disgusted by the actions of Adria at PyCon.

First and foremost, other than the irritation of chatting during a presentation I see nothing sexist about the comments made by the guys. Sexual innuendo != sexism

Secondly, if she had an issue she should have let them know. Posting their pictures to Twitter along side allegations of 'harassment' is orders of magnitude worse than anything they may or may not have done.

Adria, your actions were not in the interest of furthering women in tech. If anything these ostracise women further by making men feel uncomfortable about what is and isn't permissible to say.

Not in my name!
The difference between sarcasm and trolling might sometimes be rather subjective, sorry.

I agree with you that people are allowed to be offended, but I also think that people should be allowed to offend – if we tried to never offend anybody, we wouldn’t get anywhere[0]. I take it it depends on your personal values whether you think that free speech is more important than feeling well, but I hope we can nevertheless agree that it is neither possible to never offend anyone nor is it wise to always offend everybody. Things are unfortunately rarely as black and white as we would like them to be.

[0] http://abstrusegoose.com/47
I've been reading up a lot on functional programming, and by know I think I get most of the principles and techniques.

What I'm mostly struggling with is how to structure my code within this paradigm. While this struggle is not limited to FP, I'd be very curious to find resources that don't just show code snippets, but explain the greater architecture of FP implementation.
There really needs to be one of those signs, y'know, "You are now leaving the Solar System - please drive carefully"
Copyright Chief Urges Congress to Produce 'Next Great Copyright Act'
I don't think she shouldn't have said anything. But taking it to the Internet without talking to the guys was her choice.

If someone is making you uncomfortable, you say something. You don't go nuclear just because someone else, somewhere else called you a whore.
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Some people here rightly question why he got twice as long sentence as the top guys. This is the key to understanding what really happened in this case (see below).

What case? Pure hearsay by real but <cooperating> drug traffickers, woven into a skillful tale of bespoke swimming pools, deliberately painting him as a drug dealer in the jury's minds. The intimidation charge, btw., is explained: it was needed to discredit the traffickers' initial account of him not being involved. Of course, the true reason for changing their story, i.e. successfully reducing their own sentences, would not have played so well for the prosecutor. The only remotely substantiated 'evidence' against him was that he saw some cash. By that count most bankers ought to be in jail with him.

So we come to the explanation of the glaring discrepancy in the sentencing:

1) His skills were making life difficult for the police, so he had to be <dealt with>, regardless of justice or law. This is why the prosecutor offered to cut sentencing deals with the real traffickers, just to get him.

2) Being innocent and <not cooperating> are the worst crimes in the US of today. The same principle as in Aaron Schwarz case.

Regardless of the details of this case, don't you think that it is just plain wrong that prosecutors can order any 'witness account' they want from most people in their clutches? Years in jail at their discretion is a very powerful inducement, one that must be distorting justice (read framing innocent people) on daily basis.
29 ways to stay creative - Infographic
Coca-Cola: the 's' in social media stands for 'no shit, Sherlock'
She's Not Talking About It, But Siri Is Plotting World Domination
As Xavi (the author of the post) told me, the engineer had to fly to Thayland for business reasons. He managed to get a good connection overthere and get the file back to the guy who bought the documentary in a pendrive.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of KiteBit service.
Quantity vs Quality
I'm just saying, it's been 10% (with a £75 cap)[0] for ebay.co.uk for as long as I can remember. It's still widely used.

The news to me is that other countries used to get lower fees. I wonder why.

[0] http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html
I don't get the point.

1. A said something to B (doesn't matter what he said)

2. C overheard and found it offensive.

3. Honestly, why should A & B care? (that wasn't intended for C!)

I shudder to think of a society where I must consider every word I say, just to avoid offending someone. Doing this will lead us to the kind of world described in Fahrenheit 451, where nobody can really write about anything or anyone because their opinions might offend someone.

Also, I guess someone doesn't understand the difference between `sexual` and `sexist`.
If anything, aren't you treating men as sexual objects?
Using Your Own Design Voice
Oh come on, Amy Poehler made a dongle joke in Best Buy's Super Bowl ad!
Naming in OOP
You should seriously consider running mono>=2.10 with asp.net mvc. It completely fixes your rails security issues, while still letting you use ruby as your main languages.

Also you gain a _lot_ in security by obscurity and hipster points. I don't know about stability, haven't tried this myself.

Check out the mono project for details: http://www.mono-project.com/Mono_Project_Roadmap
this is personal privacy violation? Two people're just making joke and someone just listen them and publish on media and then messed up their life!
Last time I checked, China was a very large and quite diverse country. The comment has a touch of jingoism about it, but racially motivated, hardly.
It is also in people's nature to make fun about those that are similar, the same, or even about themselves.

I make a lot of jokes. About women, blacks, jews, ... also, about men, whites, programmers. I don't discriminate; I make fun of everything and everyone!
Imagine Google Keep on Google Glass [video]
> We believe in the importance of discussing sensitive topics such as gender and conduct

Is that so? Because judging from your concrete actions, one would be led to presume that the preferred course of action is to do anything to prevent such a discussion.

> as a company that is dedicated to gender equality

So, I noticed your leadership list (10 people) does not mention any females. I don't assume you are sexist; there probably just aren't that many competent ones that are fit for the break-neck business of peddling templated casual games.

> In that spirit, I would personally like to hear your thoughts and concerns.

I, too, like to judge people based on hearsay; fortunately for the general public, I don't have the power to let my fear of public opinion affect the lives of those who depend on my rational judgement of situations. It's too bad that a CEO position does not come with a spine and a pair of testicles.
A great way to destroy company moral. I would never work for a company or ceo like that. Even if this was "the straw that broke the camels back", I don't see how this incident was a straw let alone a feather.

I wish this ceo and the blogger would just admit they overreacted.
JQuery Mobile 1.3.0 SASS / Compass
As I had replied to Eliezer, investing in a deflationary world will be tilted towards capital that yields a regular stream of real dividends: actual goods, not money. That is, there will be fewer corporations that will be expected to give money as a yield and more consumer cooperatives that will yield goods and services. Farms that yield food, NG well and that yields NG, a power plant and get a yield of electricity and so on.
github/twitter: xetorthio

thanks!
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gg=G

Was I not supposed to get exactly what I wanted? http://i.imgur.com/P6YLdRA.png

I do use the mentioned javascript-vim plugin. However, majority of the plugins I install are because I'm simply one short "Bundle 'user/repo'" away from trying out something I may choose to use. If I was to purposely cut down my number plugins, I probably would only keep minibufexpl and language specfics. The most important vim plugins are those that are simply improvements of basic vim functionality that are more aware of language specifics (i.e. javascript-vim, erlvim). Plugins like NERDTree look nice, but do I actually use them in practice? Not really. I barely use even use ctrl+p: most of the time using :e and tabbing my way to victory is quick enough to be a moot point.

There are costs and benefits to using any editor. I've spent a large amount of my life ssh'd into remote boxes from a Windows machine. It was pretty natural for me to pick up the most common and still powerful command line editor available. I was born into a generation of kids more comfortable using 'WASD' than walking around in real life; it wasn't difficult to get used to hjkl quickly. I don't really consider there to be a learning curve more than 'it isn't obvious how to do things unless you read documentation first' which is actually to be expected. Most of us won't work with a programming language until we've read a book on it and sufficiently experimented on our own. Programming languages are a tool. A text editor is a tool. A similar learning curve seems fair to me.
i dont agree. Most breakthroughs in Science for example are done by people with massive experience and certainly not in their twenties. There are alot of brilliant scientists older than 40.

Example:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/laureates_ages/...
"If a statement is false, that's the worst thing you can say about it. "

I have to disagree with that. There are many possible things worse than being false. People are not computers and speech does not happen in an ahistorical vacuum. It would be nice if we could debate everything dispassionately, but it's simply not the case.

Let me give an extreme example. A few years ago in an English football (soccer) game, one player had his leg horribly broken in a bad tackle. He was out for about a year and a half. As he was being taken from the field, a few of the opposing fans were chanting, "You've only got one leg!" Now this was not literally true, of course, but it was to most intents and purposes. I don't think many people would think this behavior was all right.

Just to be very clear, I'm citing this example to explain why I disagree with the statement I quoted at the top, not to draw a comparison with today's story.

But not all examples are so obvious and concepts like 'hate speech' are introduced in an attempt to point out the sometimes subtle problems with particular examples. Of course, such concepts are like any other tool or shortcut: they can be abused as easily as used for their intended purposes.
You are speculating about someone else's motives and conduct. Unless you have evidence to back up the assertions you are making, you are behaving in exactly the same manner for which you are criticizing others.

Also, private conversations held in public are no longer private.
Sure ebay has always charged huge fees for absolutely nothing other than having a recognised domain name. Their software is terrible they've just been around forever. They don't actually do anything, their terrible software keeps churning out money for them because they were in the space first.

This entity encompasses Paypal too, another very terrible service that simply won't ever go away.

Allow my distain for other people to show through. People will continue to use ebay and paypal, as they have been for far far too long regardless of any fee increase. It is the same reason people still use Facebook. Because the synapses in their brain get configured one time, set and forget. Use facebook forever.

Use ebay forever, use paypal non stop. Buy EA products. Keep paying your cable tv bills. Oppose change when it is ever actually finally suggested and put fourth by congress.

God this world is stupid.
Unfortunately no. How about other HN + BitCoin users?
This Is Not True. sexual Harassment Law Is More Nuanced.
This Data Center Comes With a Theater on Top
This is not about men or women. Some people are just twats. Without exactly knowing the context in which this happened we don't know who the twat was in this case. I probably wouldn't want to work with either of them.
Saw this mentioned in another thread and it's a great point. SendGrid is going to back her 100%. They now realize, if they didn't before, that they have a risky employee on their hands - the type that would sue them and make a huge public spectacle (comparing herself to Joan of Arc, etc). They need to keep that bomb from going off and eventually she'll move on to focus fully on what she's passionate about.

@adriarichards Black people CANNOT be racist against White people. Racism is a position of the oppressor who has the power - http://i.imgur.com/ou8JZVu.jpg
As far as Playhaven is concerned, I'm nearly certain that the person in question wasn't simply fired for making a sexual joke (I could be wrong on this, but that would typically be a pretty strong reaction).

They were forced into making a strong, public response by having one of their employees, wearing their shirt, being called out as a sexist. Think of it from the perspective of the company - the potential downside if you choose to protect this employee is huge, and it's far safer to err on the side of political correctness and quickly eliminating any hint that your company supports and protects sexist employees.

Once pictures are posted to Twitter clearly associating your company with sexism and harrassment, it ceases to be an HR problem, and becomes a PR problem.
>It doesn't mean that a private company cannot fire you or a conference cannot ask you to leave etc.

True, and I can respect how they were representing their company at PyCon, but it just seems silly.

But what's done is done I guess, the only exit strategy for the whole event is to move on and get on with our lives.

And I am well aware of our laws, the chap who was jailed for joking about a bomb plot at Robin Hood Airport, which was heavy-handed, but our archaic laws are catching up with tech eventually!
It's funny, really. Coming from an OH&S perspective, you want good OH&S not just because it's nice, but because losing a worker is expensive - rehiring, retraining, refamiliarising (it always takes a new employee time to learn the ropes). Scrooging people on basic benefits seems to be in the same bucket as scrooging them on OH&S - saves money in the short term but is overall more costly.
It's not that black and white. They were at a public conference surrounded and within earshot of many people they may not have known.

If you're at home, then that's private and you can get naked. But you can't do that anywhere at a conference. The conference is 'mostly public'.
How insightful is the India Startup Report?
So you are arguing for a dictatorship?

[NB I wish you hadn't deleted your comment, I thought it was a reasonably interesting point even if I don't agree with it!].
So, making a joke about a "dongle" with your friend is a firable offense, but taking a photo of someone without their permission and publicly calling them an "ass clown" is okay?

It's not about what was done, it's about who did it. Because the latter offense was done by a member of an oppressed class, it's automatically OK. Because the former offense was done by a member of the oppressor class, it's punishable.

(Some people actually think this way.)
and they same to have a native client for win/lin/mac ... which is nice... but wouldnt a web portal be the way to do this
Gendered slur. Where can I report you for firing?
Her actions reveal her motives. When someone offends you, are you more likely to ask them to be quiet, or take to your blog to write a lengthy post about it, trash them on Twitter, and get them fired? I'd hate to see what she's done to her ex boyfriends or girlfriends if this is truly just her standard reaction to being offended.

By the way, she has posted a message on that blog post thanking HN users for stopping by and taking interest in her. That pretty clearly reinforces the idea that she is quite happy and cognizant of the fact that she managed to turn this into something far more than it was.
pycon isn't unique, or special, in this regard.

I've lost count how many conferences I attended, or read about, that had some form of sexism scandal.

My initial response to pycon-gate 2013 was just 'every.fucking.time!'
"sexism" is an adjective/adverb that means actions & speech that's designed to maintain & reinforce the institutionalised power structure among the sexs/genders and/or that re-enforced gender roles.
This is a completely different story with new information on the topic.
It reads to me like "we just wanted to fire the guy, this was the perfect opportunity, keep walking, nothing to see here".
What is GreatSeaBattle.com? Or - Charity sum is up to 200 000 USD
No, the de-standardizing of Google Calendar is Microsoftization.

1. Release something that's compatible with another popular thing.
2. Build up a huge following.
3. Remove the compatibility.
4. ???
5. Profit!

It's the same thing that happened with NT and OS/2 compatibility. I'm not sure if Excel can still deal with Lotus files, but Excel got popular because of its Lotus compatibility.
Intuit's Early Days: Let’s Either Go Out in a Blaze of Glory, or Grow Big
Is gumtree a thing in the US?

Worked very well for me in Australia and was mostly free (you only pay for 'premium' listings). You did have to sell locally and usually actually meet the people you were selling to, but it did seem to work.
If playhaven can't handle a employee that makes off-colored jokes then being fired from that company is a blessing in disguise.

Why would somebody want to work for such fuck-heads?
Sounds like a European definition to me.
Brit web biz waves white flag in Python trademark bout
Will the lightning talks also be uploaded? I heard there was a Docker talk.
Meanwhile, the Persona vs Personas mess is not fixed yet:

http://www.getpersonas.com/

https://persona.org

Context: Personas should have been renamed to "Themes". But apparently it's not done yet.
Shameless plug: HgLab[1] does support ACLs, which can in turn be coupled with LDAP-based authentication.

[1]: http://hglabhq.com
As told in the prophesy, forever more Playhaven became known as the 'Dongle' joke guys rather than whatever they do. And for every conference they attend in the future they shalt be asked by the lowly what was said and if they over reacted.
Actually, for some people, spending time looking around for a new service, deciding which service to use, learning to use that new service, configuring it for whatever you need, etc, is a LOT of work.

If your whole business is pointing to eBay, or all your friends and photos are currently on Facebook, you've got to tell everyone that you've just changed URL.

There's a lot of cost in changing. Sometimes the cost of staying with a service outweighs the cost of changing. You shouldn't assume otherwise.

My Nan has never changed her gas or electric provider in the UK ever since energy utilities were privatised 20 years ago. Sure, she's probably wasted thousands of pounds and she knows that, but she's happy. Meanwhile, we've changed provider about 10 times - and I honestly can't say that the savings have brought extra happiness.
Launching of mysterious project "Great Sea Battle" has begun with no less mysterious international contest of posts "Guess, what is GreatSeaBattle.com?" on February 20, 2013. The authors ask everybody to answer the questions about what is waiting for ukrainians and all the people in the project GreatSeaBattle.com.
From February 20, 2013 to March 30, 2013 in Ukraine and all over the World, the International contest of posts "Guess, what is GreatSeaBattle.com? is being held"

Summing up the contest will be on the 31th of March 2013

Before the official opening of the project GreatSeaBattle.com, the authors wished more people to know about the project. Therefore it was announced about the beginning of the contest of posts "Guess, what is GreatSeaBattle.com?".

Contest rules are described in two languages - English and Russian.

The total prize fund is $ 500! However, each of the seven winners will also receive a prize, giving a chance to win up to 41,000 dollars!

All the posts in the contest participate in two nominations:

- Nomination "Captain Obvious" - for the first published and the most exact guess, what GreatSeaBattle.com is, in contestant’s post(one winner);

- Nomination "The most active" - for the greatest number of "reposts" and “likes” in the social network Facebook.com and/or VK.com(six winning places).

Detailed terms and conditions of the contest: http://greatseabattle.com/

Everybody can participate.

About the organizer : GreatSeaBattle.com - is a private informal organization, one of the aims of which is charity.

Planned amount of charity sum ( including - in the CIS ) is up to 200 000 USD.

Links to resources of the project:

http://greatseabattle.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Great-Sea-Battle/4850465215421...

http://vk.com/greatseabattle

https://twitter.com/GreatSeaBattle
https://plus.google.com/u/1/105507081629977726768
For those keeping score, this is also OK: @adriarichards Black people CANNOT be racist against White people. Racism is a position of the oppressor who has the power
- http://i.imgur.com/ou8JZVu.jpg
Well freedom of speech legislation just guarantees that the government cannot prosecute you as a criminal for saying something.

Which is funny because some US states have laws that criminize you for saying something about someone, even if it's true! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation#Criminal_defamation_...
Take a look at the world and all the shitty stuff happening every single day again. Then, think about a joke referencing a penis.

Do you really feel the need to be offended? Do you really think it is worth to tell the world someone touched a broken braincell in your head because of a penis joke? Clearly, you have your priorities wrong miss Richards. Same goes for the company firing the guy, why would you care about a crazy woman with penis issues?
Does that apply to a guy who adjusts his underwear during a meeting to reposition everything and make himself more comfortable too?
SourceTree : Un client Git et Mercurial pour Windows et Mac
Atlassian, qui propose déjà pas mal d'outils pour les développeurs et la gestion de projet comme le très réputé JIRA, viennent de sortir SourceTree pour Windows et Mac. C'est un logiciel client qui permet aux utilisateurs d'accéder à des repos Git depuis leur ordinateur. Ce nouveau logiciel affiche les commandes Git les plus importantes sur une interface utilisateur simple.
Gumtree is owned by eBay
Here's what I desperately want: A ranking of these videos so I could tell which ones are the best. There are going to be so many and I don't have time to go through them all. If people were able to vote on the ones they liked so I could see just the top 20 videos, that would be superb.
One problem is that for every joke like this that was reported there are often many many more that aren't.