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While this project technically adheres to this policy:

> Everything on Kickstarter must be a project. A project has a clear goal, like making an album, a book, or a work of art. A project will eventually be completed, and something will be produced by it.

IMO, it veers far too close to this policy:

> Kickstarter does not allow charity, cause, or "fund my life" projects.

Of course, there is plenty of good to be found in causes like this, but in this case I fear that Mackenzie (and kids like her) will learn the wrong lesson.

I mean, she is essentially asking for a hand-out to pay for summer camp. And probably a new laptop (based on the "where's the money going?" section). I don't exactly see that as "proving her brothers wrong," and it kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Look at it like this: if the Kickstarter campaign gets attention in the media, Mackenzie and her mom (or Susan and her daughter, depending on how you want to look at it) have successfully brought positive attention to the case of videogames and computer programming for girls. Something in me, perhaps a naive, optimistic part, tells me that's a good thing. Regardless of whatever their motives for doing this are.
Argh, Jesus, I'm sick of people misrepresenting this tweet!

She's not saying that black people can't make racist statements and that they get a completely free pass when it comes to being racists. She's not. Stop saying that she is.

She's defining racism with a particularly sociological bent. She's saying that racism is an act by an oppressor towards the oppressed. When an oppressed person insults an oppressor they are operating within a power structure that has them at a disadvantage.

When she says "black people can't be racist towards white people" she is saying "the oppressed cannot, themselves, oppress their oppressors". That's why they're called "the oppressed".

Regardless of what you or I may say about her character, dragging this tweet out as evidence of her hypocrisy smacks of willful ignorance.
Interstate effect is meaningless if technology cannot support the transfer of goods across the necessary distances. In the 1900s, this technology was mostly physical, related to the transport and storage of goods.

Today, technology across all sectors has improved to the point where you can now order heirloom todays and get same day delivery (in some markets). When these SCOTUS cases were decided, that same process would have taken months.
Oh, thank the gods. I clicked to comment, thinking I was about to be a right cynical git, and well, turns out, I'm not alone!!!!

Nice scam though. $7k already. I have to respect that, grudgingly.
No, an Ad Hominem is an argument against the man (well, person), as its name says. It's any argument that tries to invalidate an argument by attacking the person who said it. In fact, insults are not necessarily Ad Hominem fallacies, and the accusations don't have to be baseless to be fallacies.
I encountered the same. After struggling with the security questions I set new ones. Then, when enabled two-step auth, they tell you you'll never need the security questions again. drat
http://imgur.com/7JmtRco

Courtesy of /g/
that's not fair. So if someone is firing a gun at you, you can't fire back with a gun?
She bullied those men, costing one of them their job. How else do you respond except by bullying her?
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This seems highly surprising in a neighborhood that hosts - a few blocks away - the Folsom Street Fair and the even raunchier Up Your Alley. Can we have a link?
Here's my source about tu quoque being a kind of ad hominem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Ad hominem does not require the accusations to be baseless; it's usually more effective if they aren't. It's true that she appears to have character flaws and is apparently hypocritical. I personally don't respond well to blatant hypocrisy either. However, the fallacy is to connect the hypocrisy to the question of whether or not the guys were being sexist and whether her outburst was appropriate. That question can be answered on its own. I'm not standing up for what she did here, but it's more like, if I did the same thing as her but wasn't a hypocrite, would that be okay? I hope not.
holy shit, common sense
I don't buy it at all.

The text was clearly written by the mother, a self described entrepreneur.

I find it very hard to believe that this woman:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/susanawilson

Didn't come up with this as a scheme to make money, or that she couldn't afford to send her daughter to an $800 camp.

It smacks of a stunt to grab money. Anyone with any familiarity with kickstarter knows damn well that it's a lottery where some projects get vastly overfunded. What better way to make that happen than to make an emotional appeal to get people to give their money away. This is begging plain and simple.
brokenness

Seriously, why even bother posting? Your view and your original question is totally worthless as it turns out you're an OS-bigot. We work in a world of logic peppered by pockets of irrational fan-boys. Is it fear of the unknown that drives you to such extreme statements?

You would do much better if you just reviled them all equally as I do. Windows is shit. Macs are shit. Linux is shit. All programming languages are shit. Though I profess a special hatred for javaschipt. That's built its own little corner of hell. Computers are items of vast wasted potential covered in liberal amounts of poorly implemented shit.

And the best we can do for the next 50 years is mine it and clear it gradually away as we uncover the occasional nugget of gold in festering piles of, well, you know what.
I was honestly surprised by those decisions. This feels like the sort of risk-averse, old-fashioned line that I'd expect an Intel or IBM to take. Someone said something in public and it was controversial; fire everyone involved on all sides!
(Replying here from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5420421 as comment limit reached)

As the limit's been reached, and I'm not sure of the etiquette on hacker news for longer comments, I'll finish up my end of the discussion here.

I think this is a classic internet situation where everybody's in the wrong, especially the two companies. To sum up my position:

-The developers arguably shouldn't have made the jokes. I don't know if they were actually sexist jokes as (full disclosure) I'm not entirely trusting of everything Adria says, but as other people have mentioned, it was a professional event so they should have been conducting themselves professionally.

-PlayHaven shouldn't have fired the developer. They could perhaps have publicly followed through with some disciplinary action, and issued a statement and apology essentially saying that they didn't support his actions, and it might have ended there.

-SendGrid should have again followed through with disciplinary action in a similar manner. I think that prolonged exposure to Adria would have been harmful to their business, but that's a matter for them to consider and decide on.

In the end though, I think Adria's done the most harm. There were channels available for dealing with sexist comments at the conference, and according to her own blog she used them. It should have ended there, but she unfortunately escalated which started the avalanche after the first firing.

breath

Anyway, I think that's my position summed up really. I would continue this further, but unfortunately I have no more contact info for you than username. As an aside however, I noticed you're a researcher in AI - something I'd like to get into at some point. How did you get into that particular area of research, and what would you say are the main prerequisites to doing research in that area? I'm currently doing a BSc in CS, and I have some space for focus next year, but I'm still a little unsure where to focus at the moment, and what I should be reading and doing at the side.

Thanks for a nice civilised discussion! Have a good day!
That brings about something interesting. While I completely believe that what SendGrid did was justified, what if it had occurred as a result of some other, more nuanced statement than the accusation in question?

For example, I believe that the second amendment allows Americans ownership of AR-15s, which some people refer to as 'assault rifles'. This is a hot button issue right now, and there are reasonable arguments on both sides of the debate. If I posted something that somehow offended approximately half of our customers (assuming approximately half of the people fall on either side of the debate) would that be terminable? Where is the threshold? If I post it from a company Twitter feed?

What is the right recourse if I said something that isn't particularly offensive to my employer, but harvests bad will from potential or current customers? Is "Developer Evangelist" a 'star-like' job position where I lose my right to privacy as a result of it?

Note, all these questions are hypothetical, but I'm curious as to exactly what degree of nonsense a company might be expected to put up with.
The volatility will only increase with the introduction of professional speculators.

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This conversation took place between the two guys. Why the hell does she have the right to be offended on a conversation he overheard? And further, what gives her the right to take pictures of people without telling them anything. You can't even argue the public place rule, because the the guys would be able to talk about whatever they want. If she really was offended, and not in it for personal gain, pseudo-women's rights, and just plain selfishness then she would just go to the conference organizers and told them about the incident. But she decides to be a huge hypocrite, post his picture on Twitter and get attention to herself. She succeeded, but it never turned out the way that she thought it would be. I am pro women's rights, but this isn't an argument of sexism, this is a hypocritical narcissistic feminazi who wants the center of attention. The guy who got fired didn't deserve it, while she really did. She doesn't deserve the attention she is getting.
You weren't coming to HN to find real discourse were you? :)
This is just the non-https version of this HN posting, currently 4th on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419071
I wish I had a more insightful comment, but really, all I want to add is:

Good.
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I would not call using the reporters public forum that they most likely grew out of their career built because of the association with NY Times as a fair medium for candid discussion. This reporter's duty is to the editors and to the readers of the paper until this reporter is no longer employed by NY Times.

Ethics clauses are signed at date of hire for exactly reasons like this one. Companies want you to be part of their brand when you join their ranks. For positions that require a public forum, that includes off-hours as well.

NY Post will most likely be calling that reporter for a high-level visible position within the hour of the firing. So not all hope is lost, but depends on what kind of brand you want to speak for.
I'm actually shocked no one has reported it.
>Do you seriously believe the female or feminist tech community has the resources to perform DDoS?

Another example of the glaring disparities between the sexes in tech.
Dungeon's and Dragons. Who wants that for their child?

Plus this has all the gloss of pushy pushy parents.
Can you clarify what "published" means in the context of a http link? Preferably citing the appropriate section in the RFC, http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html?
Adria, if you're reading this, I'm proud of you for standing up for morality. Thank you!
Honestly, both are/were/would have been bad test cases. With Swartz you've got two issues in the same case: downloading JSTOR articles and trying to get on MIT's network despite being banned. It's easy to support the former without supporting the latter and "muddled" makes for a bad test case.

With Weev, you've also got two issues. He was not just convicted of downloading things from AT&T's network. If that was the beginning and end of it, it would have made for a good test case. Instead, he downloaded tends of thousands of pieces of personal information then bragged on IRC how he was going to sell it to scammers to damage AT&T. That's not "civil disobedience." That's malicious.

Note that this is on appeal, so the jury's verdict on the "fraud in connection with personal information" charge is to a degree locked in. On appeal, you don't get to argue: "the jury was wrong, he didn't really intend to sell the information to scammers or to use the information maliciously." The jury is empowered to decide whether they believe the defendant's story or not, and on issues of credibility it's almost impossible to overturn the jury's finding on appeal.

Thus, you're left arguing from a very weak position: yes, the guy did commit fraud in connection with personal information, but changing letters in a URL isn't "illegal access of a network" so the CFAA charge should be dropped. So at best you're hoping for a remand to re-sentence without the CFAA conviction, and the fraud charge by itself carries a maximum penalty of more than 41 months anyway.
Wildly extrapolating from current trends : (Old, out of touch, heavy handed government officials, increasing complexity of technology landscape, anonymous, bitcoin, various governments creating secret "cyber-war" units, stuxnet etc..) we're heading to a breakdown and reconfiguration of the entire power balance between the "lawyer-types" who run the government now and the hacker types who are mostly relegated to the sidelines of the society for now.
I remember seeing footage of a congressional sessions (just after SOPA was sidelined) where the phrase "let's call in the nerds" was used repeatedly. Then there's crap like this http://www.volokh.com/2013/03/13/i-dont-really-understand-wh...

This is not a sustainable power structure and it's going to change. Let's hope the transition is peaceful and gradual for everybody's sake.
My point was that the electoral process is what is meant by "will of the people." In that regard, the government IS acting in accordance with the will of people.

But you asked why we are powerless to stop things like the Aaron Swartz tragedy, PATRIOT Act, etc. My answer to that is because we've all decided to cede that power to a vote.
Sincere question -- what if he felt that it wasn't offensive enough to have crossed her threshold and continued making similar jokes? Your assertion is that he would be in the wrong, but isn't that entirely subjective on the level of offensiveness of the joke?

What if the joke were "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!" and she said that jokes about chickens made her uncomfortable. Is he obliged to stop telling dumb chicken jokes?
I didn't see that angle but if you look at it thas way, there's also Adobe that came in with some nice corporate sponsorship.
I've always thought that iOS elements looked like Playmobile gear, and clashed horribly with Ive's sleek hardware design. It will be interesting to see the changes Ive will make, and how much better they'll mesh with his hardware.
A good first step is to actively reduce the level of misogyny and other ugliness in your circles to the degree possible.

This sort of crap goes on in part because it has tacit support from "normal" folks. We rush to punishment of Adria, but we shrug and say "oh well" about the others, or the initial incident that started it all.
The fact that a security mechanism is poor shouldn't mean that it doesn't create a legally enforceable boundary. If I tape my door shut instead of buying a proper lock, that doesn't give you the right to walk in.
I didn't understand why the author used the unnecessary regex assertions, which are less clear and don't add any additional checks beyond:

article.slug.should == "testing-with-test-unit"
How are they aware of the DOM level though? Certain elements pop out, are you suggesting they just use path mapping? It would be easier to, along with the screenshot, send the DOM tree hierarchy with some coordinates no? Still kind of impressive, but true it's no Tilt.
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Had to enter my password here.
I just hope Adria can learn from it, move on, and not let that cloud hang over her life.

As far as the CEO, it's his fault, and he should have apologized to the community. He failed to properly train and prepare his "developer evangelist".

As far as the guy who got fired, I hope he will find a better company to work with.

Ok. Can we go back to discussing javascript ad infinitum?
Angelhacks events are often better-organized than most.
Stephen Fry:
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights; it's actually nothing more...it's simply a whine. 'I find that offensive,' it has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I'm offended by that,' well so fucking what?

Ricky Gervais:
Just because someone is offended doesn't mean they're right.
I participated last year on AngelHack in Silicon Valley and it was just a great experience. There were crazy and amazing ideas, and the startup energy during the whole event is just inspiring.
You might want some redundancy in case the bank accidentally destroys your safety deposit box [1] or the bank is raided and valuables are confiscated from every single deposit box [2].

[1] http://www.dbs.com.hk/en/aboutus/newsroom/2004/041005/

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362561/Bank-gangste...
No, the FAQ says: You can reset your password at My Apple ID by using your Recovery Key and one of your trusted devices.

I think they do a pretty good job of emphasizing that there are three things involved here: Recovery Key, password, any trusted device. Any two will allow you to recover the third (except if you lose your phone). Not having any two and you lose your ID forever.
Abercrombie ads and Maxim are like South Park and Github merch? There are degrees of bad taste, you know...
I've always found that self-proclaimed feminists are _always_ offended and loud about it when they are

Have you found that to be true of male feminists as well?
You're right. But it must be pretty terrifying to be caught in a flash-fire internet shitstorm like this - reputation concerns to weigh up on the one hand, and operational concerns on the other.
Oh I agree, but you might as well get them right if that's the effect you're going for.
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I am interested in knowing things like the impression you get of me, the company, the product from the application. With your insights what do you think PG and company's impressions will be of me and/or what I have built?

Would you invest in me and/or the product to succeed? Did you like the product and not me or like me and not the product?

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Best behavior at offsite events... There's nothing inherently wrong with this and perhaps hard to argue with; however, it just seems like something a cog in a wheel would say ... nothing mean spirited intended, just rubs me the wrong way. :)
"Women in tech are not asking for others to protect them, but rather that policies be made and enforced that allow them to participate like any other attendee of the con."

But that assumes women are unable to participate unless they are... well, _protected_ from ever hearing sexual jokes.

No, you may be right that most women perhaps aren't actually asking to be so protected, but some apparently are, and it is their wishes that are being heeded.
Possibly because they'll do it right and not have the amorphous mess that is Windows 8?

There's sparks of brilliance in Metro, but it's too goddamn flat. It's not obvious what parts of the UI can be clicked and manipulated.

Apple is also hailed as genius for "inventing the tablet" even though Microsoft tried to make tablets happen for a decade before the iPad. It's just an example of execution having more impact than conceptualization.
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Personally I'm more interested in WHAT they're running in these data centers. I suspect it's not wall to wall Mac Mini's. So what's Apple's back end running on?
So if the Appeals court can only decide if the law was applied correctly, does that mean it would have to go to the Supreme Court in order to determine if the law is constitutional?
> professional services such as accounting or law

You have to trade something in return for those services. Almost always that something is money.

If a lawyer represents me for nothing in return - then no trade took place, it would be a gift.
Tourists have bitcoins and are willing to trade them for pesos at a much better rate than the ATM.
Isn't Wikia also created by Jimbo Wales? He's pushing the content off of Wikipeida to his for-profit site! Collusion!
It would be nice to be able to come down unequivocally on one side of this. But it's just such a clusterfuck, it is awful for everyone involved. What a mess.
This is an interesting take on the subject: https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
She was employed by Sendgrid at that time, so since they were paying her salary, it was obvious to her that she was supported by Sendgrid.

I suspect the realisation that they were employing a time bomb as their developer evangelist caused them to rethink the value of employing her in that role.

This whole incident could have been averted if Adria had followed her own advice: rather than stir up foment on the Internet (the "thermonuclear option") she could simply have turned to the guys and said, "this is not cool."

Adria tries to explain that what was going on in her head was an unfortunate sequence of triggers: she's had a traumatic history, so it's to be expected that some things will "get her goat" and trigger her into irrational behaviour. In this case she apparently believed that telling these men that the jokes were not appreciated would have ended up with her being exposed to ridicule on the Internet.

So she took the obvious (to her) course of action which was a thermonuclear preemptive strike.
These definitions aren't scientific but politicized. They come from activists with a PhD. They just want to "prove" that capitalism is imperialist and racist.