skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The focus on women as opposed to creating an appropriate environment for EVERYONE is a little disappointed."

This is one of the "nuances" where I wasn't completely in accord with you. I agree that it would have been better (and made her seem less opportunistic and attention-seeking) if she had made the point that this kind of behavior was unproductive for everyone, whether straight white nerd man-boys, children, women, etc. However, I think that focusing on the female aspect is legitimate as her personal view.
The open-source situation at Microsoft has really improved. Source is available for a lot of their web stack, contributions are accepted, and there are some nice open-source frameworks (like Nancy, MIT-licensed, inspired by Sinatra) that run on IIS or another Owin-compatible server these days.

I generally prefer Ruby-based things myself - this post isn't trying to sway anybody to the MS side; just wanted to give a bit of credit where it's due and perhaps a bit of news to those who haven't looked over onto that side of the fence in a long time.
Is that based on fact, or opinion?
I hate the way feminism was portrayed as the victim in this post - an innocant was the victim of an undoubtably misandristic female.
You read too many fairy tales.
I'm not a VC so I can't say I've sat around in the above scenario a million times but I don't think a series B or C involves giving stock grants to founders just to keep their % high and avoid the impact of dilution. (someone correct me if I'm wrong). Every round they get diluted, they've just started out with more. I think the founder advantage might come in to play when a B or C actually liquidates founder shares.

Potentially later stage startups that retain founders as C level executives grant stock but that's a separate distinction I would think.
This woman is bad news, and she's making all women look bad.

Option 1 - Hire a guy
Option 2 - Hire a woman, and out of nowhere she'll cause me trouble with some random harassment charge.

Harassment is a SERIOUS offense. If everything becomes harassment then it stops being serious and it becomes a reason to not hire women.

How many men have caused a stir on a conference over sexism?
EVERY single woman so far behaved correctly, in every single conference?

Or is it the fact that when women misbehave men laugh it off (cause it's cool, right? She made a pass at me, right? right?) and women get on a stupid crusade over ANYTHING and EVERYTHING???
i dont know what to say... this is getting quiet common in the internets to first bully over the internet than speaking to the person directly... just makes me wanna shutdown my twitter and my facebook account
How so? There is an Apollo rocket at Kennedy Space Centre complete with engines. Surely there are others around?
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Also worth looking at are the Drift HD, Contour+2, Panasonic A100 HD.
members of the public have a very limited scope of privacy rights when they are in public places. Basically anyone can be photographed without their consent except when they have secluded themselves in places where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy such as dressing rooms, rest-rooms, medical facilities and inside their homes

- Source: http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm

That's about the USA, which is where they were, but I'd be hard pushed to see a public conference as a place with a reasonable expectation of privacy even in a country with no law about photographic privacy.
> 1. Take the least amount of stock possible - your startup is statistically unlikely to succeed. It'd be better to bump your salary up $10-20K than to get the stock.

This is a worthwhile suggestion regardless of startup or not. You don't want a large portion of your assets tied up in the company you work for, where a calamitous event can both cause you to lose your job and your savings. Take the cash, invest it in / bet it on something where there is low correlation between the investment performance and your probability of continued employment.
You're thinking too much. Unless it's a "the world is ending" level security fix like the recent yaml stuff, wait a couple weeks for this stuff to come out and get fixed. Then upgrade.
She NEVER had to take a joke. The joke wasn't directed at her and she wasn't part of the group talking.

She OVERHEARD them talking. Completely different matter.

I, for one, am offended when people eavesdrop me.
If I plan to live in London I will contact you. :)
There's probably a way you could have expressed that without using such a loaded word of "whore" especially when allegations of sexism are in play. At least choose your words well. Adria is a prostitute because you disagree with her sensibility and judgement? I may not agree with her either but I'm not going to resort to name-calling. Be more mature.
Amen brother!

And she REALLY hurts other women when they have legitimate causes of concern.

Also, she makes ALL men uncomfortable.
Asking that she be blacklisted from tech conferences, and suggesting that he take legal action is a "death threat"? What have you been smoking?
My first response is the pitch-fork one that seems prevalent. However, what if the person was making a comment about the housekeeping at the conference hotel, or were cracking a joke about "rollin on ma 20 inch rims all up in da hood" that were overheard by a minority? Would the same objections about it being a private conversation apply?
Adria-chan likes jokes guys. Let's give her some
https://twitter.com/gatordri/status/314456657340010496
I drew the same conclusion from reading the tweet and looking at the photograph, and reading her blog post reinforced that conclusion for me. Raising the issue with organizers is fine, putting it out onto Twitter, definitely not.
Dispelling FUD About Ubuntu
I'm sniping this from a reddit comment, but I'm also now (jokingly) hoping that Voyager just ends up hitting a spherical wall that's covered in painted stars and galaxies. Could you imagine the ridiculousness of that, and the conversations that would occur? Ah the potential hilarity...
I'm still not seeing the part where their reputations were publicly dragged through the mud. To do that, you would have to identify them, and the only people who know them are the ones who paid for their trip in order to represent them: their employers.

It's a shame he got fired, but I don't necessarily blame his company. I wouldn't want someone telling dick jokes and making me look bad doing it on my dime.
Many thanks! And bummer for no FF support.
There's a difference between "use" and "rely on," and I think one would have to be a fool to not factor in a startup's viability (as best as possible) when deciding whether or not to integrate its product into one's workflow. If you use dropbox, do you use it the same way now as you did when it was in beta? Or do you trust it more now? If you don't use dropbox, I'm sure you can think of similar examples that make the same point.

For various reasons (that have nothing to do with their viability as a company) I don't use Evernote and didn't use reader and I'm not going to use keep. But I think it's fair to consider google's track record with similar products over the last decade when debating whether or not to use keep.
Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself
"Storehaus is built on top of Twitter's Future."

I go check what it is, and find this WTF (line 158 and on):

https://github.com/twitter/util/blob/master/util-core/src/ma...
In that light, I do not understand how this woman is still employed.

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/6039856858

Who exactly is she "evangelizing" for? All developers? I find that really hard to believe given her extremely public politics.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_mathematics
I had the joy of seeing 2 F-1 engines in one week. The first is at the old RocketDyne (now Pratt & Whitney) facility in Woodland Hills, CA (on Canoga, I think), and the second at the NM Air and Space Museum in Alamogordo.

http://campl.us/jisP4TQtMJg (Alamogordo)
http://campl.us/i26CYMtwf8K (Woodland Hills)
People will give up their personal info if you give them a good reason
It will be awesome if we can couple Backbone with NodeJs to build SEO friendly web apps like Yahoo Mojito.
This was solved 50 years ago. Interesting read: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/transcripts...
Consulting evangelist. :)
This accurately reflects a particular academic school of thought. But this whole discussion is gnarly enough already without further complicating it by adding race issues into the mix. I'm not prepared to parse that without understanding the context in which the remark was made, and I have no intention of digging through a conversation from 2009 to do so. I can't help feeling you went on a fishing expedition here.
So, I'm wondering what world you all live in where posting a photograph of someone with no name or identity attached is "publicly shaming" them.
The takedown notice specifically cites the review page, not the product pages, and the product pages are still up [1]. GoPro are lying.

[1] http://www.digitalrev.com/product/gopro-hero3-black-edition/...
It just feels like we're not doing this (news) right if smart journalists can't be compensated well for their work. I think someone is going to come along and figure out a way of doing news that is spectacularly better than what we're doing ... kinda the way nobody got mobile correct till Steve Jobs came along.

... but then again I'm kind of a romantic when it comes to the news.
I dunno. What I know about patents is what my lawyer has been telling me.

There's basically about a zillion ways for a patent to fail, examination is only one. For example, when I lodge in national offices, my application will become public. Anybody will be able to lodge objections and I will be on the hook for the lot, basically.
I haven't found this to be true, and I've dealt with a lot of customers.

Even Facebook uses email for login, as does google and just about every other website I use.

It's an interesting and bold statement that needs some supporting eveidence and explanation.
A small post about the Casablanca project
I don't; I'm just guessing.
/r/Mensrights is a cesspool right up there with SRS. It's best to ignore both of them as much as possible and be wary of brand new accounts on this thread.

I've seen a recent upswing of accounts created just to troll one-off topics making me wonder if new accounts should be read-only for the first week or some such.
I've noticed a tendency of people outside of finance to exaggerate the salaries inside of finance.

You're right: $1m/year is very rare overall even for the world of finance. And I assure you someone with that salary on Wall Street is working 80 hours a week at minimum and has been for quite some time.
There are less women at C++ conferences.

http://boostcon.boost.org/photos/
Looks very interesting, look forward to testing

https://github.com/da-n
I think you may have a unique case on your hands. I am a web developer for a big eCommerce site and we use emails to identify users (we switched from usernames to emails after a few months of testing actually). After three years of the site being up we have only had a handful of people get confused about their email changing.

If a user does change their email they can log in as their old email and simply update their account to their new one.

Email is a much better system than username because people constantly forget the unique username they created for that specific site. You don't really forget your email very often.
Hmm, that 'teach them a lesson' part sounds like you're projecting, but I won't make any assumptions about your beliefs.

I'm curious though, what evidence are you looking for exactly? A signed paper where both men agree that their conduct was inappropriate and violating Pycon rules or something? A recording of them saying it? Your argument seems to be built around this idea of proof of someone's speech and I'm just wondering how exactly you would have a proved it. Because it definitely happened, maybe not exactly as she retold it, but it definitely happened.

P.S. Your example is extremely creepy and out of context, entirely. There's no logical reason to believe she would do that. But there's also no logical reason to boycott the company because they won't fire her either, so YMMV.
Wow, if half as much attention and thought were put into how to fix real problems with sexism in the tech community instead of on pissy temper tantrums (on both sides), think how much actual progress we'd be able to make.
Women deserve better than to be coddled like children. They deserve to be given a reality check like adults.
Another KickStarter Scam
If you take any comment to its absolute extreme, it will stop making sense. If you consider my comment from the more reasonable stance that startups have limited resources compared to large companies and come with extra risks for employees, the fewer benefits can be valuable for dissuading people who might not otherwise be good culture fits.

For example, a 45 year old father who might be screwed if the startup shuts down 2 months later probably should not be applying to startups. However, a young recent college grad will have a much easier time bouncing back if the startup shuts down, simply because she has fewer responsibilities than the father. As a result, a lot of those benefits that the father is looking for are also less important to the recent college grad.

Of course, the startup should give the best possible benefits it can afford. But I don't see anything wrong with the startup focusing its limited resources on finding the employees that are better fits.
All of the above is also true regarding Silicon Alley in New York. Just visit expatistan.com and do a comparison. Housing is actually slightly more expensive in New York. As for your point two, Wall Street pay is not what it used to be while software engineering salaries outside of banks have been increasing steadily for a couple of years. Nobody doubts NYC status as a startup hub anymore.

Point one is also increasingly true for the SFBay area itself, but there are not enough banks there for them to be a problem for startup recruiting. You could also do a comparison on expatistan.com and see that housing is only 7% less expensive in SF than in London. However, IT salaries there are probably the highest in the World.

If current trends in London continue: startups start to pay more and banks keep laying off people. This is probably a good thing.
I can't imagine what an HR department would have to say about the advisability of firing such a person.
We've been generally happy with TriNet, and it's worth having a great benefit package and an HR call center. It's not free, but I think the math works out about the same way free meals do.
Hey, the guy had a wife and kids. He is just trying to make a living. Come on...
I agree. Having been suddenly thrusted into the world of Ruby, Rails (and web development in general) from Java and C, Micheal's tutorial was a real life saver. I would have been lost in the crowd had it not been for this. Excellent!
My experience with Blogger began after G acquired it, and it never changed (over a few hundred posts) ... just languished, like someone got a new toy and got tired of it.

"Embrace, extend, extinguish"? Maybe, or was there no potential profit in it? Reminds me of when Apple let Hypercard stagnate, then assigned someone to overhaul it, then quit that with it half-finished ... just before declaring HC "over".
My impression is that Adria Richards is not that kind of a person to apologize.
If that's really the answer they are looking for then it's a stupid question.

Trying to write a timing attack sounds much more interesting.
Link seems to go nowhere, unfortunately
Well, these might not be "proof", but would she be wrong in saying that?

HINT: Look at the assumptions in your post.
Not to mention most of the vim keybinding benefits are already there in Sublime.

Most developers I know now know enough vim to use it in a pinch for editing on remote servers. What I'd really like to see to handle even this edge case is a browser implementation of Sublime. Now that would be cool.
Just curious, how did you manage to recover her story?
What's your point, exactly? Slaveholders and abolitionists certainly chose to respect different people in the 19th century. That doesn't change the fact that slaveholders who judged people based on how large their plantation was were horrible people not worthy of our respect.

And to drive the point home: those diamonds you see in rings have a non-negligible chance of coming from child slaves, who have been torn from their families in civil war and will probably be setting off land mines once the diamond mines run out. I actively disrespect the choice to purchase them.
But if I cut the pipe leading to the faucet then merely shut the cupboard door, my cupboard is not going to be very happy.

I think he's comment was that the gel isn't necessarily sealing the arteries/veins, only the 'hole in your leg' - the assumption being this could still result in fatal internal bleeding - that more traditional methods such as pressure on the wound or a tourniquet could have had better success with.
Or if in the US, dial 911 right now.
Well, GoPro's just been added to my shit-list, joining the illustrious ranks of Sony, GoDaddy, and Chick-Fil-A. Well done, guys. I was actually considering purchasing one of your products at some point.
I think it's auto generated from GWT?
>Would it be okay then or would I still be a colossal fucking idiot?

If your response to your first example was to do what the person we're talking about did, then yes, you would be an idiot.

>Okay, how about if someone was threatening to harm a political figure as a joke?

Yup.

>Or what if the joke insulted people of a different race for their cultural beliefs?

Yup.

In my arrogant opinion, nothing short of lewd and obscene sexual discussion or threats of bodily harm should have led to the sequence of events we have here in front of us.
My version of rails 4.0 won't work without ruby 2.0 but I'm not complaining. Works like a charm as far as I have tested it.
Right, you let two guys in private conversation snicker about the word "dongle" and the next thing you know people will be threatening to kill political figures with impunity.

I've got one word for that: Lol.
can someone explain this to me please?

> The YCombinator company probably didn't care enough to have
their lawyer draw up the paperwork so that their employees can execute on their stock options from the first day to avoid AMT.

what does "executing" on stock options mean? how does it work with vesting?
If I may ask, what made you think it was appropriate to take a picture of this person and distribute it without his permission or the permission of the venue?
Ultimately, the Discourse OP just wants a better guide. Would someone with a Discourse account be willing to rephrase the OP's issue with less sarcasm?
And just to add: you can't be denied for coverage in a group plan (AFAIK)
Yeah... these trolls (and yes, I am name calling, but look through this thread and what it has attracted...what else would you call them?) can't be dissuaded. These Men's Rights guys are frightening. I know you meant well with your original comment, but if you read it again, I think you might see how some parts of it seem to make it sound like you might be interested in joining their little club. I know you're not. You know you're not. They, however, are not yet convinced. They think they can talk you over to their side.
Welcome to planet earth. Have you met women yet? They are quaint and gross.
With my due respect to guys behind Ember, I don't understand why Ember gets so much attention. It has been in works for 4~5 years now but has not reached its 1.0 status. I've seen many complaints about its learning curve, documentation etc. However, when people talk about Javascript web frameworks to learn, it is often brought up as a candidate. Maybe someone can tell me why people think it will be a serious contender in this fast moving area.
I am very happy with the way persona works, both as an end user, and how easy it is to integrate into applications. I am hoping it gets some good marketing done or whatever is needed to make more sites start using it.
You'll have a much better shot at getting it if you explicitly make it part of your negotiation process, since most companies won't think to include it on their own.
It's not a matter of course, but if anyone sitting around the board room table has found their investment dwindle away, they will get grants enough to have them stick around.

If you aren't around that board room table, you are SOL.
A name isn't the only form of identification, which is proven by one of the guys getting fired.
There are numerous benefits to using a presenter, or at least a "renderContext" object. Most conversion, formatting, predicates, and lazy attributes won't come through with toJSON(). The performance penalty is negligible compared to the benefit of testable presenter methods, logic out of the view, etc.

Performance isn't the only thing to consider.
I just want to say I enjoy your input here. I obviously haven't experienced being teased and harassed over the size of my breasts, but I've been awfully close to the damage that causes (which is still very far away). It has had a profound impact on the way I see things, obviously. I really admire and appreciate you speaking out about it, and particularly the frankness and calm with which you've shared what undoubtedly must have been a really difficult decision for an 18-year-old in a society that seems excessively focused on defining sexual identity by what's hanging between a woman's shoulders and stomach. That couldn't have been easy.

I hope that none of my comments on this particular issue have created problems for you, particularly in my choice to make some rather stringent semantic and philosophical distinctions--e.g., between a sexist joke and an anatomical one.

Your final point here is quite in line with my basic sentiments on the appropriateness of the behavior in the given venue--a very poor choice that has, regrettably, resulted in some very unfortunate (and, I think, unwarranted) consequences.

Anyway, thanks again. I hope life has measurably improved since those earlier years.
It could well be life-changing, depending on your circumstances and condition.

There are parts of the US where it's a big house and almost enough to retire on, if you're lazy and willing to live cheap. It's definitely a few years of runway, if you've got an idea you want to explore. It's definitely a no-loan college education.
Here's a pointer to the security fixes in the release as a monkeypatch to 3.2.12, without any of the other cruft:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/freed...

The discourse folks who threw this together have an app (Rails-based forum software) that was hit very hard by the performance regressions.