skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's not sexist to make a jokes about the word "dongle" sounding like "dong". They sound pretty similar. It's not very funny unless you're bored stiff or in grade five, but nevertheless it's pretty harmless joke material, and it isn't sexism."

I really have to disagree. Dick jokes are perceived to be almost exclusively a part of "guy culture". Want proof? Watch how fast a group of guys making those jokes suddenly clams up and changes the topic the moment an unfamiliar woman walks up. (And when a woman joins in and shows that she's comfortable making those jokes, too, watch how glad everyone is that she can be "just one of the guys".)

So when guys at a conference routinely make dick jokes in public, that contributes to a sense that the conference is a male space. It's not a conscious thing, but it's a real thing, and it would be good for it to change. I don't know that the public shaming in this case was the right way to go about that, but I'm not sure that I have a better alternative to offer, either. (Women are all too aware that quietly saying "Please don't act that way" tends to have no impact at all, apart from the guys thinking she's a humorless busybody.)
No, she said she as a black woman cannot be racist towards white people. On an individual level, sure she could be racist towards a white person. However, the social power imbalance is way against her in almost every way compared to white people with institutions enforcing racist actions and policies against black folks way more often and more severely.
And, I understand that. But, the drawbacks of the security implications of your development/developer browsers being thus weakened is, IMO, a decision heavily weighted in favour _against_ this feature.

Personally, I would love it. It would make my life easier to have a full IDE within a browser. However, I would never be comfortable with the security tradeoff and would never enable it.
Mr. Lacker being a double Putnam Fellow is part of the reason I chose to team up to build Parse with him. Also he shares my love for burritos.

We're hiring: https://parse.com/jobs
Users on HN often did not simply fall in line behind the stereotypical camps that feed on this kind of issue, and I don't see that same capability for actual thought anywhere on Twitter.

Our definition of "often did not" seems different. And the majority of the response that I saw seemed pretty knee-jerk. (Disclaimer, I actively tried to take a balanced look at the issue, and immediately got downvoted into oblivion for it. But over time people seem to be calming down.)
Wow, your project looks amazing. My evenings plans just got cancelled.
Bitcoin is now  $72
V0.4  OrganicJS, a micro-framework for reusable JS+HTML+SVG components
Oh... and I cannot recommend this resource highly enough.

As RSpec documentation goes this set of slides open in a window will help you tremendously:

http://kerryb.github.com/iprug-rspec-presentation/#1

It uses simple example and hits all the major points well.
Jony Ive: Flat Design in iOS 7 Amid Greater Hardware-Software Design Collab
As I understand it, he was not censoring, but was concerned that the news was not real. Perhaps he could have posted a bit sooner to that effect but in the end it came out quite quickly.
Do you think a code of contact like that is only required in professional settings? I would imagine Star Trek conventions probably have codes of conduct that read pretty similar, if you remove the explicit references to professional conduct in particular. Same with a classical music convention, or something. They probably don't explicitly say you must act in a professional manner, but I would imagine the other requirements would match pretty well.
Maybe that's just semantics with my choice of words. To clarify, I disagree with anyone that says they were entirely in the right to be making whatever jokes they made during that time and place, and I believe the gal was right to be offended and to bring it up with the pycon staff (but that doesn't apply to how she did it and her subsequent activity).

That said, I don't understand how this snowballed into people getting fired from their jobs. What they did was wrong, but things really got blown out of proportion, and we the internet haven't been helping. The story should have ended with the stern talking to by the pycon staff.
You could open source it anyway, though, or parts of it. NewsBlur does this: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

One could run their own NewsBlur, but Samuel has stated it requires a lot of resources to pull RSS feeds, and so in practice it's much easier to pay them $2/month. (This may not apply if you plan on having business customers who are paying orders of magnitude more than that.) But it alleviates any fear that the service users depend on may disappear; in the worst case, run it yourself.
Interesting project. However, I wonder if the developer has considered accessibility for blind users. Both Android and iOS have built-in accessibility, but whenever an application takes text rendering into its own hands, accessibility for that text becomes the responsibility of the application. I don't know what actual performance requirements led to the development of Bypass, but to me, the extra work required to regain accessibility would probably not be worth the performance boost in this case.
I <3 Test::Unit
Yes, the only way that intentionally purchasing renewable energy matters is once it goes over the amount that would be renewable anyways.

Like if NC is already 10% renewable and 90% coal, the energy company can sell 10% of it as renewable-only without changing a single thing. It just means the average consumer goes from 10% renewable to 0% renewable.
I have been building an arbing program for bitcoin over the last couple of weeks, you need about $3000 US for liquidity and size (and not to get eaten up by fixed fees etc) over exchanges. So far I've made 2.5K NZD. (42BTC)

This is over and above the monstrous returns in BTC over the last month!
Cyprus is not America and it definitely is not like Silicon Valley. The use of credit cards is a uniquely American phenomenom; European businesses and especially Eastern European businesses prefer debit cards--to the extent they even accept cards at all.

Moreover, a few hundred dollars is a very, very big number in Cyprus (and indeed, most of the world), and was definitely beyond the reach of almost all of the small businesses--let alone consumers--even before the recession. There simply isn't any financial justification for wasting a few hundred dollars on equipment you'll only use once or twice a year--if that.

Bitcoin--and most digital payment services--simply aren't relevant to Cyprus' economy and will not be the vehicles that get it out of the recession.
I usually won't flip all the way through a deck, just because it's often a waste of time without the talk that goes with it... but man, this looks like great information!
I'm not really sure what you are arguing here. 2nd wave feminism has problems for sure, but they also got a lot right and and 2nd wavers have helped shaped the state of society today. Heck, some prominent woman suffarage folks in the late 1800s/early 1900s were eugenics advocates (which is super messed up), but that doesn't negate the positive things woman's suffrage accomplished.

If you want to talk about the specific things you think that 3rd wavers are getting wrong about 2nd wave feminism, you'll have to be more specific because bigotry isn't limited to radfems who subscribe to 2nd waver philosophy.
someone needs to hire this kid!
The new redesigned GetAppsDone is live
Fair enough - I'm talking tosh in this instance. Apologies.
You seem to have a super inconsistent burden of proof.

-Poster above who says hacker news posters are typically sexist. No problem whatsoever, no burden of proof needed.
-Person responds and says they disagree that this represents HN posts. You respond and demand that they produce quantifiable proof.
-You then go on to assert that hacker news posters are like this, based on 0 quantifiable evidence, but just your hunch.

How do you make a point like that and not realize how unfair/unrealistic you're being?
>I am dreading the technical debt I have in test-unit, and meanwhile the (Rails) world is moving on to Minitest

Minitest and Test::Unit are part of the same package since 1.9, with Test::Unit implemented as a simple compatibility layer on top of Minitest:

http://www.rubyinside.com/a-minitestspec-tutorial-elegant-sp...

The Minitest assertions are quite similar to the old Test::Unit assertions, a large number are identical:

http://rubydoc.info/stdlib/minitest/1.9.3/MiniTest/Assertion...
How does releasing an iOS version of Google Now benefit Google?

Edit: Don't downvote me, I really want to know. It seems to me that Apple is Google's main competitor in the smartphone business. Why would Google give Google Now away to Apple, when it's currently something that give Android an edge over iOS?
Totally not readable on a mobile. Left sidebar uses nearly the full screen even if you zoom in.
Markets aren't good at finding prices for pseudo-"assets" that have no value. A bitcoin price of $0 is a valid market equilibrium, and a stable one.

Your argument is a rationale for a commodity currency. Markets are good at finding prices for high-volume competitive commodities such as wheat [0]. No one will ever turn down a wheat dollar: you can eat it.

[0] http://www.google.com/finance?q=WEAT.
You do realize that if you're using Ruby 1.9+ you're actually using Minitest, right? It's just a backwards compatible API. Don't confuse people with all the talk about Test::Unit.

Minitest::Spec is just an RSpec-like DSL built on top of Minitest, which is the successor to Test::Unit.
> As far as I can tell, posting jokes like that to
> twitter and hearing jokes like that at a conference
> are entirely comparable in every way. They're exactly
> the same thing - both are jokes of a sexual/race based
> background.

You don't think that context matters at all when it comes to a joke?

Do you just speak the exact same way everywhere, whether you're talking to clients, joking with your friends during an alcohol-fueled gaming session, in a locker room, or to your parents?

Or do you maybe think that some subjects are appropriate for some situations but not others?

Personally, I say a lot of extremely off-color things to my (male and female) friends that I wouldn't dream of saying to strangers. Even if I had some evidence that stranger had made an off-color joke at some point in their lives.
Mr. Lacker for President!!
Because Schmidts words end up looking prophetic if they don't approve it.
This was the comment I wanted to write.
Just going to get on the hater train here. (not any poster in particular but Mongo in general).
The day Postgres releases an upgrade, I expect, and get 100% functionality. So the fact that this is "Just Released" is FAR from an excuse, in fact it shows EXACTLY why you shouldn't use Mongo.
Also a 100GB DB, with 300 connections and several MB per second.. Seriously. WTF is wrong with you people? Multiply by 10, and you can still do that on 1 machine.
I approve of this link, just for the Amon Amarth reference!

That said, I'm somewhat excited about this, but also discouraged by the lack of commonality between major browsers in this regard. Now Firefox has asm.js, Chrome has NaCl, and Microsoft has ??? and Opera has ???. Uugghh...

Still, anything that stands to make the web experience faster and more useful is a good thing, I guess..
> What do I do? Do I call him out by name? Right now it's been a week and I'm still working out the best course of action.

Seems like a lot of energy spent on a flippant remark. Those aren't restricted to men saying them about wives/women, either. I don't want to get into some kind of /r/mensrights foolishness here, but have you sat at a coffeeshop and listened to the kinds of remarks women make about their husbands/men generally? It's all over pop culture, go Netflix an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond if you don't believe me.

What do you do? Cross him off your people-I-want-to-mentor-me list and move on with your life.

> The blatant sexism is mostly gone, but the undertones remain. And that makes it harder than ever to gauge what the "right" reaction is as a woman when one of these events happens around you.

If I'm reading this right, you're saying the dongle joke was an undertone of sexism? That doesn't make sense to me. Anatomy != sexism. Unprofessionalism, yes; sexism, no.
The bitcoin currency has a hard limit of 21 million units ever being produced.

Right now, a bitcoin is worth ~73$. At the current market rate, the entire possible bitcoin market is worth $1.533bn. On the other hand, Cyprus GDP is $24 billion. So... you see where things start to fall apart...
Oh, so it was them! Hong Kong was trying to pass a draconian copyright law which meant that satire of existing copyrighted works became illegal, as well as giving the option for the government to pursue offenders on behalf of copyright holders - effectively meaning the government can pursue citizens producing political satirical works.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/196747/hong-kong-artists-cry-fo...
one step further:

describe Article do
describe '#slug' do
before do
subject.title = "Testing with Test::Unit"
end

its(:slug) { should_not match(/[^\w-]/) }
its(:slug) { should_not match(/[A-Z]/) }
it 'replaces spaces with hyphens'
end
end
And guns. You're leaving out guns.

Of course, since it's just regular ole folks doing things, sometimes mistakes happen. What, are you complaining? Do you hate the police/military/people who keep us safe? Socialist!
Looks cool, but the introduction video pop-up does not work in IE 10 for me.
The V8 team not responding to generators/yield feature request
I don't recall arguing that there are no OSS contributions, so I took the liberty of ignoring your comment.
I'm not saying you are wrong. Just pointing out that sometimes looking after yourself first then helping your mates is more important (for example, if you and your buddy were both hurt, looking to see if you can easily control your bleeding so then you can focus 100% on your mate is better than going to your mate and then put both at risk as the blood loss starts to be a problem).

Of course, since the only battlefield I have been was a paintball one, I do understand and respect your experience and advice.
She apologized on HN two days ago.
>"And can't Richards' supporters launch a DDoS as well?"

The sentiment around places where "DDOSers" might hang out is pretty heavily against her. Remember, a programmer got fired for a harmless joke, at a programming conference, thanks to an over-zealous "evangelist".

This whole situation is ludicrous.
It's worth noting that LLJS itself came from a few smart guys from the Mozilla Research team. I work for Mozilla but as a web developer and I'm just doing the port.

The asm.js branch is highly unusable as is, but it should be somewhat stable tomorrow!
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
I never said he would, and I doubt he would people aren't that stupid. But I didn't bring it up
I looked into it. Problem is transaction cost. Currently, the deposit and cash-out fee's plus the trading fee's of various BTC exchanges just do not justify the arbitrage profits.

I hope someone could create a BTC ETF that allows people to trade BTC to USD on the conventional market.
Mr. Lacker being a double Putnam fellow is part of the reason I moved 3,619 miles to join Parse. Also his beard is dapper.
Accessibility is maintained, Bypass doesn't do any of the text rendering, it simply figures out the styles and text and then passes that on to the text containers on each platform.
> I think the list could go on. These are all outside-of-market solutions to the content industry's competition problem.

In a way they are, but so are the laws against theft, fraud, embezzlement, tortious interference with a contract, you name it. You can argue about what the scope of the "right" here should be, and that is a separate argument, but once a right is established, people should have the protection of the government, within reason, in securing that right.

You probably don't oppose the fact that we don't leave protection of more traditional property rights to "market solutions." That would of course be ridiculous because you can't have markets without property rights.
10 Hacks To Attract Anything Or Anyone: What I Learned At SXSW
Predicting March Madness
Going full SSL might be a bit too extreme in most cases; best bet would be secure the ones that matter.
Actual numbers from the Groups link at the bottom:

So I discovered from Alan today - asm.js was everything I hoped it would
be.

One of the more intensive examples in OpenSCAD
(https://raw.github.com/openscad/openscad/master/examples/example006.scad)
gave me these metrics:

Native: 402 seconds,
asm.js version: 605 seconds,
asm.js version in Chrome: 3724 seconds

And the exciting part? Backwards compatibility even with IE6, forwards compatibility with optimizations that haven't been invented yet – and no 80s era blob+VM architecture in sight. All without inventing any half baked new language, file format, virtual machines or whatever else, and building on a language spec that's already an ISO standard. Eat your heart out Native Client!
Completely agreed with the fact that sex jokes, jokes about forking or dongles aren't inherently sexist. In fact, without knowing exactly what those developers were saying, from the surface it didn't seem sexist at all, just a tad bit crude. Being a man who's very much upset about the amount of sexism I see in my industry, this is an instance of calling out the wrong thing. I'm also a fan of crude humor as long as it's not sexist, homophobic or racist, which in my opinion, these comments were not.

I think the reaction online to her twitter posting from our community online is also disgusting and a representation of the gross sexism existing in our industry, however. I definitely agree that the vitriol is definitely unwarranted, far more than her anger over the developer's comments were unwarranted.
Actually, I agree that killing someone is not the same thing as asking someone to leave, I was just alluding to "freedom of speech" and the constitution.

If we're at your house, sure, of course morally I'd have to leave if you ask me to. But this isn't your house anymore when there is an entire group involved, as anyone that has ever thrown a party can confirm. Group morality is (sometimes unfortunately) the average of what the group believes it to be.

I think it's clear what this group thinks about who's wrong and who's right.

Anyways, thanks for the detailed reply :)

P.S. Yes, I do believe that morality can be made absolute and quantifiable - you have different characteristics (types of behavior) and different levels of agreement with them (say, from 0 for "YOU'RE GONNA BURN IN HELL", through 5 for "I don't care", to 10 for "I do this all the time!").
How Cantrip Games over 10x'd their Kickstarter campaign goals
Never said they were lying. I am saying its a purely PR number that doesn't accurately depict the amount of energy that is used for them thrive as much as they have.
Mr. Lacker being a double Putnam Fellow (along with various other intellectual accolades on the team) is a big part of why I love working at Parse. Also, he's really good at raising one eyebrow.
ASM.js is easily the hack of the year. Every hacker should walk around with a smile on their face today.
@ericabiz: couple of comments.

First, it was a wise move not to react at your 'hoped for' mentor's remark about his wife.

I will address this to everyone, and not just you: it's not your place to "openly react" to another person's comments about their familial relationships (spousal, parent/child, significant other), unless you are related or are a very close and personal friend over decades.

Family and intimate relationship dynamics are very complex, and frankly no one else's business. Even if it seems one is being invited to "react" through comments made by someone in the relationship, you're not (see exception for relation or very close and personal friend).

Second, sexism can be bad in tech. But it is NOTHING like it is in other business sectors. Sales. Medicine. High finance. Agriculture. Construction. Trades. Had the wisecrack occurred in one of those sectors, I doubt even an eyebrow would have been raised.
I would agree if we were talking about a SOAP protocol that could be restful or something. But RSS doesn't bother me at all. You can just pass it through a converter to suit your fancy, and the bloat for an average use case of 10 results can't be that much. It's a minor miracle anybody decided to publish their sites through RSS so I'm happy they used the format that was hot at the time and got adoption.
Ask HN: What tools do you use for HTTP/Rest API documentation?
I have been us Sphinx[1] along with sphinxcontrib-httpdomain[2], and the results seem "ok", but I find the reStructuredText syntax to be awkward and cumbersome. I would vastly prefer something markdown based.

I have considered Groc[3], because I think the Stripe[4] api docs are awesome and it seems like literate style api documentation could be a big win for maintainability as well as readability, but was wondering if there are better known alternatives.

What tools do you use for maintaining api docs?

[1]: https://stripe.com/docs/api
[2]: http://pythonhosted.org/sphinxcontrib-httpdomain/
[3]: https://github.com/nevir/groc
[4]: https://stripe.com/docs/api
As a person of diversity (read: black woman) I like the nod towards transparency. Adding a scoreboard, however may not change the systemic problem underlying this issue. I've worked hard so my resume speaks louder than my hair texture. Though I admit when I walk into a swanky dotcom office my eye does a quick sweep to see if I've just raised the diversity by 50% by walking in the door.
Wrong. The joke was not sexist in any way - to call it so is a deliberate misrepresentation of the situation.
Dude, it's vi and Emacs, not VI and emacs.
Note that this is the 2nd most starred request, and there is absolutely nothing (not even an acknowledgement) in response from the team.

I wonder, whats the problem? Are generators really that hard to implement in V8? I doubt it - there is a native module for node implementing the functionality.

Its true that the spec isn't finalized yet - but it can't really be finalized with just one experimental implementation currently available.
Downloading copies of "Gears of War" is not "innovation", and the laws against copying aren't any more "special" than the laws against fraud or embezzlement or any of the other ways of violating peoples' property rights that aren't in the Bible. Our whole system of existence depends fundamentally on people being able to depend on the government to protect their rights. This is true even when technology renders makes it easy to violate those rights.
I got the impression that he was talking in generalities.
It's a really terrible database. No one should be using it for that.

There are two things it's good at: 1) indexing arbitrary json and 2) searching for geo points offline.