skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are now going to penalize people for standing up for themselves? She faced sexist remarks, she shamed them. Good on her. I'm an outside observer and I've never been to the valley but SendGrid comes off as irresponsible and not backing up their people.

> What if I Accidentally say something she finds offensive

Accidentally offensive? Like calling someone a nigger? Or a faggot? And at the same time you make it sound their fault for making you "next".

If you say something. Own up it. Anyone could qoute you. If you're uncomfortable with that you better watch what you say in public.
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...smart ways to separate notifications from emails requiring response, better tools for consuming email can significantly reduce the time burden required for email.

Indeed. This is the entire concept behind Inky's Smart Views. (http://inky.com) Still beta; we're focused on stability and bug fixing.
The company is Steve Jackson Games, their telling of it is here: http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
Sure, it happens to men in the much smaller number of much less well paid jobs that are female dominated.
Yeah, I read it it the first time it came up. Doesn't really change how it reads to me; IMO at least it becomes so ridiculously difficult to not dig an even deeper hole that comments like that really can't be taken at face value. Maybe he's the rare exception for which it is, but on the occasions where I've had to eat dirt for a screwup like that I'm pretty sure I wasn't thinking "man, I hope I see this person again!".

Or maybe I'm the weird one. Who knows? =)

(EDIT: I'd also like to note that that is a pretty well-written apology. It's also, you know, an apology. Which Ms. Richards's is not; hers is more of a "non-apology apology", an "I'm sorry that you X" which we really, really need to stamp out as a "thing".

Good on him.)
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This is what's commonly known as the ignorance of privilege. It's white people saying, "Why can't I make jokes about black people, when black people can make jokes about me?"

It demonstrates a total ignorance of what it means to be a discriminated against demographic.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

It in the Fixed price listings—basic fees, under "All other categories". It's 11%.
I use TDD most of the time when I'm developing, when I'm writing tests I'm really writing specs. I'm almost thinking out loud, what is this thing I'm about to create actually supposed to do? When writing like this the rspec syntax is far more natural, it matches the internal dialogue that's going on in my head. And the syntax is designed to encourage exactly this, thinking about the code you're about to write as though you were describing it to someone else.
The question isn't so much "can she grow and change" as "will the wider world let go of her mistake?" People as a group seem prone to not let things go if they get out of hand past a certain point (which this seems far past whatever that point might be).

Is it fair? Not really. Does that change the fact she's potentially damaged her ability to get another job like the one she was just let go from permanently? No it doesn't. Mistakes have consequences whether it is fair or not, and it will likely take a LOT of work to undo what one stupid tweet just did to her life.
There are literally millions of people thinking the same. Of course getting business permit is costly, onerous, full of meaningless bureaucracy and nonsensical rules and power grabs, and sucks the life out of anybody for months - but if you think it can be done otherwise, you're a nut. How one could just come and start a business without some very smart and knowledge people in the government validating him? Then we'd have businesses which aren't perfect!
Expecting services to continue forever is like expecting that you will never be laid off.

It is a rude awakening when it happens, but it should hardly be surprising for anyone that has been around for a while.
This is a very interesting potential experiment, and I would love to see this.

Is there any way to track adoption of Bitcoin? I would wager that it's more popular inside a financial crisis (like gold hoarding). Does the anonymous nature of Bitcoin prevent data like this? Maybe you could index it via: how many businesses accept bitcoin.

Edit: If the economy was bad enough you could set up a bunch of machines to mine bitcoin and wield quite a bit of coinage.
Let's not play Opression Olympics here.
You're absolutely right, to be more accurate I should have said that if I witnessed someone performing those acts I would dissociate myself from them.
they are not attempting to shard

True, and thanks to whoever edited the title.
> This is a good point, and unfortunately it means that most of the advantage of using _.defaults() goes by the wayside.

How and why? I don't consider mutating the original object to be an advantage of using _.defaults, unless the object is completely under your control and you're essentially calling `_.defaults(this, defaults)`.
You're correct. This isn't about women, just one woman in particular.

If there's one thing women don't like, it's being lumped together and generalised... :P
I'm a little unclear, can i connect via an IRC client to this?
I didn't mean to indicate that I had a problem with her reporting conduct that is in violation of an event's attendance agreement. What I intended to express is precisely the other part of what you said - that the joke was not sexual, but anatomical in nature, and did not target her in as a female (Read the blog post if you haven't already - it clearly illustrates her position on the matter.). This is what I take issue with. That in framing it as an instance of gender discrimination or sexual harassment is a dilution of those terms that is damaging to these problems which absolutely do exist in the modern workplace.
These guys are also fond of censoring posts, shadowbanning and slowbanning people.

Fortunately, it is easily defeated once one realizes the issue, but hopefully $deity will punish them for their deeds.
It's hard to say, when a blog blows up in traffic it can be really difficult to moderate comments effectively. A lot of times people will turn off comments altogether since the load is too much.
That's his LinkedIn, which simply may not be updated.

He's not mentioned in the OP-- which seems to list everyone in the company by name-- nor anywhere on Vidyard's website.
He cough cough was being sarcastic about the bravery bit.
Suppressing what a lot of us consider news based on assumptions seems extremely presumptuous.
> but I can speak for the other women that I know.

Are you certain of that? Really think about it. Put yourself in the shoes of these women you know. Would they really want you speaking for them?
Anyone doing this needs to have showdead turned on - there was a bunch of stuff posted by new accounts that got downvoted.
The problem here is that the jokes were so innocuous that it would be difficult to tell just what would set her off and potentially get you fired.

It's very easy actually. Sexuality jokes. That's it.
Not sure if you're kidding, cynical, or serious.

The entire framework of the US government's core documents and the non-legal documents written by the founders around the same time completely support the notion that these documents have purposes, chief among which is the defense of citizens from the government itself.
That's because it's PR spin, and Apple is getting out in front of it to shoot it down before the circlejerk starts.
I love how Google kills reader and newsblur's Alexa graph goes off the charts

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/newsblur.com#
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> Slow down, everyone. Injustice will still be there for you after your blood pressure goes down.

That's why you should follow Prussian military complaint rules. The Prussian military allowed all soldiers to file complaints, even against officers. However the rule was that you could only file a complaint after one night had passed.

The idea is of course that you can think about what happened and reevalute it. Naturally the rule has its limits. If you are actively harassed then try to find help immediately. But in most cases it is a pretty good rule.
As was pointed out, that's the whole world, not the United States. And the Sahara Desert is 3.629 million square miles. Sounds like that would be a great place to site 200,000 square miles of solar panels. Of course, this would be infeasible for any number of reasons ranging from geopolitics to superconductors, which is why it's a thought experiment.
At least they don't request that every transport company has to police the cargo on their behalf and remove anything that the dealers say is a car (to be later decided that maybe it was not a car after all, or maybe a car but one that does not threaten their monopoly.)
What is Wrong with You Monkeys?
If PlayHaven had reasons to fire someone, that is private between them and that person: just because it affects you does not mean it suddenly that person should have to lose their privacy. PlayHaven should not divulge any more information than they already have on this matter: it would be up to the person fired to authorize that and provide an explanation.
Which feminist circles are these?

How many 2nd wave feminists do you know? The only ones i know of live in all female enclaves in rural areas.

I kind of regret the knee jerk posting, because i think camus intent wasn't to convey what i was accusing him of conveying. I think it was just a poor choice of words.

But I do think that equal attention isn't necessarily paid to issues of discrimination against white women vs women (or anybody) of color. But that doesn't negate the legitimacy of the offenses that folks have to bear.

But solidarity in the face of discrimination is like one of the most important things for actual equality. If those who believe in equality don't support each other, then we're all really up shit creek.
I don't really want to devote more mental energy to this topic than it's already consumed. I do agree that there are problematic elements within the tech community, and HN. I acknowledged this in my post:

"Of course, there is some overlap between [extremists] and the tech community..."
Thanks. It's been hard to tell sometimes, in this thread.
I agree with a lot of the sentiment you've expressed, so I want to share my perspective.

> She said she didn't want the guy to get fired and apologized to him.

She may have expressed sympathy, but she did not apologize. An apology may have gone a long way at stemming this disaster, but that's speculation at this point.

> I'm horrified by what happened to her and now afraid the same could happen to me.

Likewise, I'm horrified what happened to the men involved could happen to me. From everything I've read (which is not all-inclusive), their comments occurred in a 1-1 conversation during a loud presentation.

Moreover, frankly, it was innocuous if vaguely inappropriate. The dongle joke was not beyond the pale. It was not a firing offense, and it certainly did not deserve anyone's face being blasted all over Twitter along with harassment allegations.

Rest assured, we're all quite paranoid as a result of this.

>The nature of the attacks against Adria are EXTREMELY misogynistic (rape threats, death threats, people calling her a c_nt, b_tch, wh_re, etc) and many people have taken up a "burn her at the stake" mentality. They've also pulled into question her professional credibility and called her an affirmative action hire. They are saying this kind of behavior should be expected from someone with the domain "butyouragirl".

While I haven't spent much time on Twitter, I don't think it's really fair to draw a line between some of the extreme views voiced there and the tech community. This transcended tech very quickly, and never recovered. My sense is that many of the most vocal contributors to the discussion arrived at it second hand.

> I'm not mad at Adria. The larger and more striking problem is how much hatred for women exists in this community and how threatening that feels.

I may be blind to this as I'm not a woman, but I honestly don't perceive hatred towards women in the tech community.

The Twitter & internet mob response should not be taken to represent this community. It [tech] may be flawed, there may even be overlap, but they are not one and the same.
Heh, true. We'll cull all but the first.
Well if you're at a conference with a publicised Code of Conduct that says no sexuality jokes, then... well... maybe don't do it there?

They literally wrote it down.
I'm willing to bet a large amount of money that you misunderstood the point of that lesson/class.
I'm more than happy to have companies exploit me via being honest
This is one of the interesting things about this pycon story in that Adria Richards is a black woman, experiencing the sexist and racist parts of the tech community. This whole incident highlights the intersection of those things in regards to how the tech community and internet at large reacts to someone who challenges micro-aggressions.
Honestly, I have no idea. The only reason I provided the definition was because I had never heard the term NSL before.

May this wikipedia page bring the answer that you seek.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter
While misogyny has gone on for centuries and needs to be stopped, obsessing over two (relatively) harmless jokes that aren't sexual in the slightest pales in comparison to the genuine problem, which is verbal abuse and sexism, as clearly evidenced on Richards' blog.

Sorry to say, but forking and dongles are just bad jokes. Not sexual or inappropriate ones. If Richards wished to take action against sexism in the technology field, she could have spoken out against it with proper evidence, because getting fussy over harmless fun is not the way to deal with it.

I understand her predicament. Sometimes you have just had enough to deal with, and you can't stand it. You have to release. But reason triumphs over emotion. You can't just go completely nuts over the wrong problem. Calculate your objective and create a plan; if you can't do that, honestly you don't deserve to be in the software field.
To rewrite WordPress successfully (so it doesn't break everything all at once) would take a hybrid approach, making hundreds of rewrites of smaller chunks over time, maintaining compatibility while improving the code, allowing theme and plugin authors to support new implementations as they are offered, deprecating old ones over time.

Which is exactly what's already happening. ;)
> Was Adria's reaction, to this as an isolated event, out of hand? Yes.

No. Someone said something sexist in public. She put it out on Twitter. If you don't like that. You better watch what you say in public.

We should back up people who stand against discrimination and support them. SendGrid firing her basically says she shouldn't have stood up for herself. Which is pitiful.
Question is, what the heck is he on to by exploring the ocean?
> you can quibble over yelling "fire" in a theater

FYI, even this argument has been rejected for decades. Now, your speech must be likely to cause "imminent lawless action". [1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
There would be several ways to index it:
1. People buying (or selling) bitcoins (through money in-out flows on exchanges, perhaps creating a local exchange)
2. Businesses which accept them
3. Downloads of apps or other tools which let people transact with each other
The dongle remark was less sexual than many jokes on children's cartoons on Nickelodeon or on prime time sitcoms on network television. This is orders of magnitude below "lewd" or "frat house" level. You'd have a hard time getting even far right conservative family groups to get worked up over it.
Evangelism and PR in the Developer Community
No. This is a massive step backwards: please reconsider.

At my own company we use vagrant for developer environments. And we do so using per-project ruby environments and bundled dependencies. Setting up a new developer is as simple as a git clone followed by running make. It works on every platform and requires ZERO system dependencies.

I understand the reasoning. I understand that most people should be using the installers not the gems. But is it really that hard to package a gem for each release and just throw a warning on it?

PS: Someone change the title from "Abandoning Rubygems" to "Vagrant no longer distributed by rubygem" or somesuch.
I sympathize with environmental pressure, but strength and fortitude must still be striven for. As a hyperbolic (but real ) example, I would not forgive a soldier who has spent years embedded in Iraq snapping and mowing down a bunch of civilians, but I would understand and sympathize with the situation that would bring him to it (it's a common defense I get thrown at me when debating such things). But yeah, it sucks, for everyone.
How do you explain that nobody working there is talking about being hacked? Do you think everybody there was using the same password for their Twitter accounts, Facebook, etc...
At the risk of getting into a conversation I really don't want to, I'll see if I can help (I'm British and live in the Bay Area).

I think that there is a different cultural thing in the Valley that you don't find elsewhere due to the gigantic number of people working in just one, male-dominated, industry. I would guess that there is a fixed X% of men and women who are jerks. In a male-dominated industry, the absolute value of that X% is pretty high, so everyone is going to get a dose of them at one time or another.

Everyone in this industry has to rise above those unfortunate encounters, but gender puts a nastier spin on things; what might have been a trollish rebuttal to a male gets gender thrown in as well. And there are women who are not happy about that situation, and the Internet gives them a venue to disseminate their upset, which is all fine. Getting things out in the open gets us to discuss it and try and move things forward.

I don't think that what the guys did was sexual harassment, just silly. But when taken with context of a history of meeting jerks, you can kinda see why Ms Richards may have been sensitive towards it. No-one has the right to not be offended, but PyCon is also not a pub. There's a certain expected level of decency.

I think PyCon pulling them in and saying "hey guys, make the jokes in the bar afterwards" and letting them on their way was a proportional response. I don't think that broadcasting photos on the Internet of people who you don't like is at all proportional. That's vilification, and I think Ms Richards is also very much in the wrong. No-one should have lost their job, everyone should be able to get along better.
"Almost every decent developer I know has no problem spending a weekend learning some new and cool tool, but sadly, this spirit seems to be absent from the web culture."

Hrm... the majority of web developers I know are constantly trying new tech, but they aren't just limited to front-end js. They're learning JS frameworks - trying out knockout, angular, yuk, dojo, jquery, ember, handlebars, mootools, extjs, gwt, qooxdoo, zk, and more. Plus they're learning about and using server-side caching, security, performance, server admin, graphic design, version control, search technologies, mobile development, database work, in addition to any language-specific stuff they're dealing with on a day to day basis.

I'm sort of sick of this attitude of "if you can't spend 2 days learning X, you're not a real developer". Or, more precisely, "web developers" don't do this stuff. I'll tell you what - if I spent 2 days on your latest framework, then asked questions about 'how do I do XYZ?', I'm more likely to get told off by self-appointed kingmakers that I'm not worthy of using your framework because I don't have the capacity to think at your level, or I'm not willing to commit enough time to learn it, or whatever.

So..., as they say in England, get stuffed.
I think part of the issue is that the 4th and 5th generally are seen as protecting "bad" people who have already hurt "good people" and make it harder for other "good" people to do their jobs.

Guns are pretty benign when they're just sitting there, and there are plenty of existing laws to criminalize bad things done with guns. The arguments for restricting the 2nd are mainly about preventing bad people from acquiring guns from good people, which is only an indirect thing.

So, even an organization as effective as NRA/SAF/GOA would have a hard time being as effective in protecting the 4th/5th as they have been in protecting the 2nd.

(of course, IANAL, and I assume someone like rayiner will say something much more intelligent here)
In-deed! As a tool, a slot screwdriver is very useful.
If someone emails you on an identifiable account, asking you to commit a felony, you should always say no, regardless of financial state. If you're going to do illegal stuff for a living, you should, at a minimum, have another identity.

It is funny how many people will email you though. I wrote a tiny, babycakes cracking tutorial, just to demonstrate how reversing most "protection" that average devs do is pretty easy. Even years later, I get emails from people begging me to crack stuff for them. I always tell them off. But sometimes they're persistent and come up with stories as to why they really need help and here's the DLL.
I guess their plans changed.

Here's Jobs saying that they'll be producing their own power using natural gas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=g...
haha, that was a typo.
I'm with the OP on the 100's of badly implemented, slightly-sucky UI components. Cappucino did this brilliantly... but it was a too big paradigm shift.

Give me a beautiful UI library written with elegant and performant JS behind the scenes, but let me implement stuff in a non-desktop way using standard web technologies.

I like the concept of GWT, but Cappucino fell into the ExtJS/Sencha category for me - trying to reinvent the web using web technology.
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We were surprised to see our account go from paid to free this morning. Hipchat has been a great tool for our startup. We had initial pushback that IRC implementations could cover us and be free and better.

Hipchat was extremely easy and multiplatform. It just worked. (except animated gifs sometimes) Even our strongest holdout for IRC has at least stopped talking about IRC.

The company has been iterating on their new mac os x client with releases every week or two since it launched. I'm still impressed with this company's quality and am psyched that we now have one less bill to pay.
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I'm confused. Are you saying that just because a person is white they are not allowed to be offended by stuff and not allowed to question the validity of others who are offended?
> The last time I innocently chatted up a "taken" woman next to her boyfriend, I was later told that by a number of individuals that it seemed like I was hitting on her and it was inappropriate. The allegations totally blew me away because that couldn't have been further from the truth. I was not flirting, I was not touching, I simply asked a lot about her work. I guess old school "bro code" says you shouldn't be too friendly with taken women. Personally, I think it's dumb. Maybe your "perp" thought likewise. And I too would be a little curious why a front-end non-entrepreneur would be at an entrepreneur's conference. Maybe he has some hot new app idea, maybe not.

This is actually a common sexist micro-aggression for men, that there interest in a woman is solely due to a desire for sex. It should be noted though that some men do engage in that kind of thing and masculinity through sexual conquest is a big social message for men. That said, that in no way invalidates the parent poster's story and that story and yours go hand-in-hand in describing sexist, heteronormative attitudes society has in general.
can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Do you have a source?