skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this the real problem? To me, it seems like the solution. The whole situation is absolutely ridiculous and sounds like a scene from a third grade classroom. To accuse these guys of encouraging sexism or whatever you're implying is akin to accusing Stephen Colbert of spreading anti-intellectualism.

Part of being a mature adult in 2013 is having the ability to not be offended by silly, immature humor. The childish response is to cry and tattle.
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AFAIK we haven't quoted the original remarks and the phrase on the shirt is a nonsensical paraphrase of what was said. Part of the intention was to neutralize the words. Really, it's just a bit of fun and the best outcome would be to raise some money for women in tech.
It was really, really cool to see all the young folks around this year. I'm glad your son could come.
All the letter is missing is a "via 9gag.com" watermark added to it (well, i guess someone would have to post it to reddit first)

Interestingly, the only actual 9gag trademark i can find is for a character mark that was registered 2 days ago.
Hi georgeorwell. I just went through your one comment above.

You just told somebody who complained of getting death threats because of his comments here to watch how he comments so "his life might get a bit easier?"

I can't imagine anything more cowardly that you could have possibly posted.
Agreed.

Additionally one might go as far to suggest false positives are more problematic than the occasional spam mail.
The real story here is not the UDID ban which we knew was coming (and is easily counter-able as demonstrated in the comments already), but the forced iPhone 5 support.

Now this wouldn't be an issue except that Apple doesn't allow you to support the iPhone 5 without targeting iOS 4.3 or higher. So this kills off support for iOS 3.1.3-4.2. This might not seem like such a bad thing, but if you're targeting certain demographics like kids (as I am), it cuts off a significant percentage (7% in my case) of users.
Well, the collective donating power of many is much greater than a single donor.
I find it distasteful because it's not really that funny in this context. Dongle's a funny word, sure, but here, it just feels meanspirited. It's taking sides in an issue where nobody looks good.

I don't have a problem with the joke being made. I don't have a problem Richards being offended and reporting it to the convention staff, and, as a matter of fact, I applaud her decision to do something about it. And PyCon's staff, from all reports, handled themselves very well in this situation. Could the two guys in the photo been a little more sensitive to those around them? Sure. Could Richards have followed the advice she wrote in her own blog post and talked to the two men or alerted the staff privately? Absolutely. Would this entire clusterfuck have been avoided if one of those two things happened? Yes.

But both of those things happened, and it spiraled out of control. Because of one somewhat insensitive joke, and a really bad twitter post. Everything that's happened after: the twitter posts, the blog posts, the firings, the harrasment, the DDOS', it all leaves a really bad taste in my mouth, and I don't see anything funny about this at all.

Because nobody involved here came out looking sympathetic. Richards used her soapbox to publicly shame two men who really didn't deserve much more than maybe a simple talking to. The two men who made the joke could have shown some restraint, but did not. Both of the companies probably made the wrong decision to fire the two, though in Play Haven's case, there could be other things we don't know about, and Richards dragged in her company into the conversation probably without their approval.

Because it's been twisted into everyone's pet racism/sexism/ism trigger topic. Bigots are using Adria's behavior as an example of why women can't be trusted. People sensitive to issues of gender, sex, and race are using it as an example for why the entire industry's a cesspool of bigotry and sexism. For those of us who know that the truth is neither of those, it's incredibly disheartening, because you can choose your belief, and there's something here that will validate it.

So yes, this just feels meanspirited.
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My immediate thought is that it's a name trying too hard to be clever. Some portmanteaus are clever and I like, but this one feels forced. It's like my mind can't skip over the fact that there should be 2 't's in the middle of the word.

Are you worried about the TalentTrue / TalenTrue confusion?
Here's the announcement from Apple: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=3212013b
It's going to be tougher than an area where budgets are high. Many PHBs don't understand the need for dedicated testing.

Most jobs I've worked, people just assume the developer needs to do the testing. It's an uphill battle to convince someone otherwise (again, just my experience).
> " ... but just as much risk, ... "

Why just as much? It is often said that, but in reality it is not so. Employee risk is vastly higher.

Essentially an employee has 1) all the risk of a founder; 2) plus more uncertainty risk; 3) plus the risk of founders screwing up an employee stock options; 4) plus the risk of getting a bad reference from a founder who screw an employee up.

On "uncertainty risk". More uncertainty always means more risk. Founders have all the information and control over what is happening in the company, while employee only has indirect access to both. That means more uncertainty for an employee. And consequently more risk.

Also, consider employees and founders future career. Founder don't need good references from employees, and an employee does. That actually means, that an employee has take that into consideration as a risk. Should there be any falling out between an employee and a founder, than not only stocks options and position, but even future career of an employee can be impacted. That is a huge risk for an employee. And, it is not so for a founder.
Get shamed for this? Sometimes I feel I live in a different world to the people in this forum.

Even my feminist friends would have no problem with this stuff, its all a bit funny.

What did Linus say? "I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended"

I like that quote, why? Because some people get offended too easily which makes everyone's life a little harder.

I think maybe Adria wanted to be the center of attention, and she was on a "Joan of Arc" mission which is a little self-involved. Wouldn't you agree?

At the end of the day, it was a joke, you people in the tech community need to lighten up, everyone is so serious here. You should come to Australia and have some fun, although you will probably get offended.
It's an interesting technical question: analogous to the quantum fourier transform, is there an algorithm only quantum machines can run that computes sha-256 hashes faster? I don't have the answer. (I know sha-256 is O(N) normally.)

As for bitcoin, though, I don't think there's too much to worry about. If a quantum algorithm grants a complexity speed up (or some sort of deal-breaking cryptographic weakness is discovered in sha-256 for that matter), I imagine the network could agree to update to a new protocol using a different hash, if that was the proper solution. If a quantum computer just gave integer-factor speedups such as ASICs are currently doing to GPUs and FPGAs, then I suspect by the time a quantum computer is made that can efficiently mine bitcoins, enough can be made at once that, just as we're seeing with ASICs, quite a lot of miners will grab them (avoiding a 51% issue) and the difficulty will simply rise.

Edit: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78693.0 tells me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm would work, making the algorithm O(sqrt(N)) and effectively making the problem of finding a sha-256 hash into finding a sha-128 hash.
Don't worry, I did not take it personally. Besides the link is interesting :).

OTOH, I was talking about autonomous cars. AFAIK none of those was hacked yet (but regular cars were hacked, as proven by your link).

Peace!
Speaking of Scott Aaronson, he's got a new book coming out, on this topic and more:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1277
I don't get it, are you mad that you actually paid for AutoCAD?
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I totally agree with this. I learned so much about iOS and Objective-C from starting development with RubyMotion.

I guess that's my gotcha: you'll end up in Objective-C even if you're trying to avoid it, and that will be... just fine!
Of course she didn't. But she greatly devalued herself by showing poor judgement - at this point, unless she was highly influential in the organization or her value (in other projects) was high enough for the company to support her regardless, she had committed a career-limiting move [1]

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CLM:+Career+L...
How will this affect TestFlight and other such apps? Don't they still need your UDID?
And more than 30% for me.
A reddit post from awhile ago explains pretty accurately how 9gag gets all their "content" http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/zacju/9gag_repost_mac...
Antennae gate, flash not on iOS, maps, no new Power Mac, new magsafe plug, new smaller idevice plug, making a bigger iphone when they said they wouldn't, making a smaller ipad when they said they wouldn't, introducing reading list in the face of instapaper-like services, the crappy icloud service, crappy mobileme service, the gizomodo raid, the lack of blocks on children buying in app stuff, blocking 3rd parties if they don't give 30% of in app purchase price to Apple, taking 30% of app price, imessage bugs, email search, ITUNES (all of it).
> And yes, I realize how ridiculous that is, but that's just kinda how these things work.

Maybe they work that way in the common view of things, but if you think it's ridiculous, then why do you think it? You get to decide.
"Then you were basically acting as AngelHack's sock puppet."

So then, if I didn't have a green color on my account name, I'm not a sock-puppet?

Or are you saying that you disapprove of upvoting for a ticket?

Just asking, since I don't know the ins and outs of this site. I just read the headlines and jump to the articles. I don't read the comments or make posts.
Ahh.. BC = British Columbia, not Bitcoin.

I thought there was some loophole in shipping or tax regulations with Bitcoin :)
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I'm not saying Anaya wasn't an idiot — even willfully so — or that he shouldn't have been charged under California statute on traps and their being used to transport narcotics. The issue in his case isn't that he wasn't guilty of a crime; it's that he wasn't guilty of a Federal crime — both because there is no such Federal crime, and because he could perfectly well have been prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced under perfectly applicable State law.

Contrariwise, do you seriously believe that he deserves more than twice the sentence that the people who actually trafficked the drugs got? Do you actually think that your notional door-blocking person should have his case usurped by the Feds and get a stiffer sentence than the bank robber he aided and abetted?

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I spent a considerable amount of time studying the existential feminism of Simone de Beauvoir; not sure that matters here. I think it's simpler than you claim! I wasn't aware Adria Richard's ridiculous tweet had such intellectual depth.

My example was not that the rich guy was the racist; it was that the dirty white guy was the racist but that he had no oppressive power, in a meaningful sense other than the actual bigotry, over the rich guy, as you put it.

Adria Richards was not making as far reaching statements as you claim. This was not an epistle on sociological performances. This was a statement that "X" group "CANNOT" be racist. I understand the position you want to make, and claiming "the experts on this stuff" doesn't really impress me. I am not denying any such concepts as institutional racism or anything of the kind. You can have all the racial performances you want, that's fine. But the idea that X group cannot be racist is just stupid. The idea that only one group can ever be in a position of power is flawed and "position of power" does not only have to refer to status in society as a whole but can be applied to particular communities and so on and so forth.
>>>> Importantly, however, only e-mail addresses were obtained. No names or passwords were obtained, and no accounts were actually accessed.

Why is it important? If, as Orin Kerr claims, emails were public information, so were names and passwords, if stored under the same scheme. So if he accessed names and passwords, it would be also authorized access by the same logic. But it seems to me somehow Orin Kerr feels the weakness in this argument. Since he doesn't really expects people to believe that if you find a hole in a site that allows downloading account passwords via exploiting some vulnerability in HTTP server sending it some specially crafted data - he feels that it is necessary to emphasize that passwords weren't accessed. But many people consider their personal email no less private than their password - so if it wasn't OK to take the password (and by emphasizing that no passwords were taken Orin Kerr seems to implicitly admit it would be important if the passwords were taken) then it also wasn't OK to take the emails.

On the question of felony though he may have a point. Felony is a grave crime that renders the criminal second-class citizen long after the prison term has been served. I think for non-violent crime that did not result in actual grave harm it is too much, and while I remain unsympathetic to Auernheimer's person, I think if Orin Kerr succeeds in somehow reducing it to lesser grade (or cause a change in the law that leads to that) it would be great.
If you had gotten a CTR on the low end of reasonable, I'd suggest optimizing your copy. Since you didn't, my impression it's one of two things:
1) people who liked ebay != ebay sellers
and/or
2) facebook ads aren't very effective for this market

Try a more sophisticated targeting on facebook (can you target by people who have posted a link to an ebay item?)

If that doesn't work, I'd try a totally different channel. Seems like there should be lots of forums, blogs, and websites where ebay sellers congregate. Shoot for those.
In the same way Lisp or Haskell enable us to solve entirely different problems from writing directly in assembly perhaps, since you avoid having to deal with all the mundane details and can reason about your program at a much higher level?
Why? Because the honest citizens allowed it to. Sometimes actually begged it to.
Regardless of what happens I hope both employers at least offer to hire them back. People make mistakes. Figure out a way for everyone to learn from it and move on. There will be better times.
Paid products aren't immune to unexpected changes or shutdowns - it just takes a little more money to exceed the direct revenue from customers.

All you can do is make sure you aren't completely reliant on something without viable competitors, and move on if you need to.
FWIW, I think it's great. One of the things that bugged me about this whole sordid business was the crazy and untrue implication that women are too dainty to handle off-color jokes, or that if you think they're funny, then you're against women in tech. I think this is an appropriate and reasonable, not to mention fun, response.
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I really wouldn't hire someone who wants to use grep to parse out html[1] :P

Then again, I would not like to work for a place where engineers don't understand this ;)

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/366152
Humor is the last refuge of those who refuse to be tied down by other people's issues.
It's kind of sad that it's taken Apple so long to do this, and they've done such a mediocre job of it. Offline verification vs. SMS, taking advantage of the secure element in 3GS+ phones, etc., and supporting credential management for third party sites, all would have made Apple superior to desktops or Android for enterprise use, or high-end consumers. But they did none of that.
Great idea! We were able to do this - both campaigns now on one page!
In some cases yes, in other cases not as well.
I think that way for the same reason most people think that way: It's OK for the oppressed to mock the powerful, but dickish when it's the other way around.
The advertising identifier does not change on every call.

Using "CFUUIDCreate" IS WRONG, though. It generates a GUID. That's what CFUUIDCreate is supposed to do. But it's the wrong method to call to get the advertising identifier.

You get the advertising identifier from ASIdentifierManager, and it does not change unless the user resets it.
Karen, the designer of the shirt, is a girl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5421513
Increment is the wrong word. They implemented the Luhn algorithm, which is not the same as i++
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Decode this - 25599cbb64c13f5385d1a4b3acb946f27f350b9

I'll give you a billion dollars for it.
Are you kidding me? The number of tests has nothing to do with the quality of "testing" being done. You could have 5 billion tests and still miss obvious bugs. You're one of those who use LoC as a measure of productivity.
Tried the demo in Chrome and FF-nightly like everyone, and like everyone I guess, I was really impressed. it's visually twice faster in Firefox.
Firefox seems to have come a long way.
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Write what you would read
I think it can still be terrible, even if women are doing it. Women do all kinds of terrible things.
In the Adria Richards trial there are 2 upstanding people. Jim Frankiln (CEO of Sendgrid) Who offered not only a pertinent, but fair fair reaction to this entire thing, but also The Pycon staff members. Who, without ego or vendetta, enforced the rules as described. I salute both of these people.
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Why should installing hidden compartments be illegal? As the article states, they are "a popular luxury item among the wealthy and shady alike". Is having large amounts of cash in your vehicle illegal?

Do you believe distributing BitTorrent and Tor should be illegal as well? After all, they're used for copyright infringement and other nefarious purposes, but also distributing Linux distibutions and avoiding totalitarian government surveillance.

If we considered providing everything that could possibly be used for illegal purposes "aiding and abetting" then nearly everyone would be criminals.
The fact that you have a green name as an individual means nothing, just that you have a new account. But a bunch of green name posts to a single thread here creates a pattern that looks like a single user or group of users creating throw away accounts in order to spark fake conversation about something.

In this case, things weren't quite so clear cut, it seems like it was actually a bunch of individual users all trying to take advantage of a lottery that a third party had slyly set up so they didn't have to do their own sock puppeting, but the end result is basically the same -- a bunch of useless fluff posts.
When people ask me "So what technology are you using for transcription and sound editing?" I answer "Humans. The end product is to be used for marketing. Computer technology is not good enough today. That is also why my price per transaction is so high".

Them: "But that will not scale, your costs will be too high!"
Me: "I really want that problem. I also want to have the problem of having to pay too much in taxes"
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So, to be clear, unlike submitted link's teespring payment arrangements (100% of proceeds will be donated to Girls who Code), 100% of proceeds on your link will be going to your pocket. Not knocking on you, just making it clear you hold no affiliation to the 'Girls who Code' organization as well.
> Even though they have done nothing to deserve such backlash

They fired an employee without due process. Apparently a knee-jerk reaction rather than considered disciplinary process.

They capitulated to an anonymous DDOS. Even with a ridiculous demand. Giving the impression they were not technically able to bring the service back up by themselves.

Neither of these gives me confidence in trusting SendGrid with email. The first makes me think they'll be happy doing rash and possibly illegal things like sending email data in response to a subpoena. The second makes me doubt their future reliability.
>they are unlikely to go down the overly skeuomorphic route as seen in the Podcast app.

The worm has already turned - the reel-to-reel tape deck is gone from the podcast app, replaced with a simpler cover art + buttons view.
Wow. Indeed, that's a pretty clear pattern. Looks like she spends her time looking for ridiculous things to get deeply offended by.
Exactly what legal risk for the employer are you referring to? "Termination suit"? You've assembled a series of statements that certainly do sound credible, but I can't figure out how to actually attach them back to employment law.

Firing someone without cause or even for a demonstrably faulty cause is not a tort, Michael.
I'm not sure why it's cowardly to suggest that. Could you elaborate? I thought it was good advice. If inflammatory comments are even possibly leading to death threats (and it seemed to me like they might be), it's probably a good idea to not post inflammatory comments. I mean, surely nobody wants to receive death threats. Are you saying that his/her comments are not inflammatory?

My standard for cowardly posting is verbal abuse and death threats, but YMMV.
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kernels provided this feature since forever. selinux, trustedbsd, you name it, provided this.
seccomp on linux is just a "in code, per process" version, while selinux, or earlier things like RSBAC or LIDS provide more flexibility (but apparently, nobody understood how to use any of this in the past :)
Bitcoin = BTC
I removed email field in the signup page, seems like it's redundant.
you seem to really care about standards!
so basically, ActiveX is faster than dart. you should probably use that. you know. its actual native performance:)
I have. When I started at Arbor Networks in the early 00's, we needed a fine-grained timer library that was millisecond-granular and could efficiently manage thousands of scheduled events. I stole mine from the MIT-licensed Athena codebase, which dates back to the '80s.
I think Sweden needs a dose of Ayn Rand then. It's not a great idea to have every single financial transaction be monitored and controlled by the state.
Just to be clear - Fork My Dongle has no affiliation with Girls Who Code either. We absolutely plan to donate 100% of the profits from this shirt campaign to them, though.
Now I don't wanna play cards against humanity with any of my co-workers ever...
we are a team of four developing a webapp aiming to disrupt aftermarket performance parts industry and change how car enthusiasts interact now. We are looking to pitch the idea and get some help on feedback and advise.

Would you mind I drop you an email to explain in more detail about us?

btw. I was a big fan of Delicious back in the days. :)

Thanks,
Ken
Sound advice wrapped up in a very understandable analogy.

I have a little side-project going on which could easily cater to all three of those categories and, to be honest, in the back of my mind I have always thought about the Elephants when the realistic part of me knows I should only cater to the Deer.

Nice to be reminded to focus properly, I guess that elephant-related feature I was thinking about can be deleted