skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, Ross's tutorial is brilliant. Unfortunately it stops right before deployment. For a new developer, or someone who is tech savvy, but not a programmer - deployment can be a maze. I installed Mezzanine on a VPS, something I'm sure is fairly common - so the localhost wasn't available - so that complicated things a bit. Got mod_wsgi working with apache, but not with Mezzanine. Anyway, not to turn this into a support query or anything - but I think deployment is tricky. Ross ended up shooting over some code snippets and I was very grateful for them, but would love to see deployment covered in the same way he did the other parts of the tutorial if there are any takers.
"To my knowledge, nobody is putting forth the worldview that men are being terrorized by women destroying lives."

I got the opposite impression from the OP. To me, this post practically screamed men's rights. It's dripping with hyperbole (probably the worst of which occurs in the fifth paragraph - "now men will be looking over their shoulder every time a woman is present in the workplace or a conference because hey, she might do what Adria did"), peppered with ad hominem (calling her cowardly, etc...), and makes sexism the focus of the discussion. I read her blog post. Her problem seemed to be that the dongle guys were behaving inappropriately, not being sexist.
that doesn't really make any difference, she still took the pictures and publicly shamed them and even now after everything leaves the photo up.
The outcome I'd want to see is for both companies and Adria Richards to apologize.

I would want him to be offered his job back (but I hope he gets better offers and I wouldn't be shocked if he hasn't already. I would certainly call him up for an interview).

If public humiliation is the new modus operandi, then it seems it is a double edged sword. I think her reputation is forever tarnished.

Maybe she had good intentions (but the more I look at the situation, and her penis reference later, less likely it seems) but her execution and decision making cost a father of 3 kids to lose his job, and his face is all over Twitter.

She was a no-name before this. I had never heard of her. Have you? Now she at the top of everyone's lips. She does talking engagements and advocacy. Well you connect the dots yourself.
Fair use still doesn't matter in the case of the DMCA. DigitalRev can ignore the takedown notice because they believe that it is fair use, but they then open themselves to liability because they lose their safe harbor protections (or their ISP does. It's not clear to me that a publication has safe harbor over their own articles in the first place, since presumably they are posting their articles with full knowledge that they are posting them...aka the articles aren't user generated content).

GoPro could then sue DigitalRev and/or Softlayer, who could then use fair use as a defense, but it would proceed as in any copyright infringement suit.

This makes sense, since fair use is (mostly) an affirmative defense and has to be decided by a judge. On the other hand, the DMCA procedure gives much more power to the complaining party as they can use takedown requests to silence speech with little to no worry about the enforcement of perjury clauses as long as they can claim they didn't "knowingly materially misrepresent" their claim.

Edit: and to actually get to will_brown's point: it would therefore technically not be improper to serve a takedown notice on something that would be covered by fair use, as technically fair use is infringement (otherwise you wouldn't need a "fair use" of it).

However, the poster could then file a counternotice and get it restored in "not less than 10, nor more than 14, business days". If the complaining party then filed suit (against the poster, not the hoster), they would have to demonstrate infringement and the poster would have to demonstrate fair use (or the judge could throw it out if it was obvious).

It's that 10-14 days of silencing, even if the claimant never plans to file suit, that's the second biggest problem with the take down system (after the complete lack of penalties for that kind of misuse).
I'm sorry, but there is a 0% chance that an employee will be paid $1 billion. An employee is just a hired hand and has zero control and zero information about how money is being distributed. Once that kind of money is on the table, there would certainly be some way for people controlling the company to change that outcome, so an employee will never see that kind of money. And it will be done. Just business. Nothing personal.
So I imagine that most people when they shatter the glass on their phone its because of compression of the glass. I found this http://abrisatechnologies.com/docs/AT%20Specialty%20Glass%20... that says gorilla glass has a compressive strength of 800 MPa, and this http://www.roditi.com/SingleCrystal/Sapphire/Properties.html says that sapphire has a compressive strength of 2.0 GPa.

Additionally the flexural strength of sapphire appears to be ~20x higher then any of the "bending strengths" listed in that pdf
Not sure how's that in US, but posting someone's picture publicly is in many European countries illegal.
Oh yeah? Well they have a black woman on the team, so they can't be sexist or racist! /s
I don't know how much I agree with this - at the seed stage, in many cases, the ONLY thing you're betting on is the team. Ie, that they have a coherent idea is a good thing, but you're really betting on them figuring something out. Of course, there's seed (like YC thinks of it) and seed (literally, the first $20k).
>It doesn't have anything to do with financial security. Look, if your man is spending three months worth of salary on a piece of shiny rock, he is exercising poor financial judgment and that is a signal against future financial security.

You may be interested in signalling theory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory
"This product is very, very effective, and I recommend it." was the claim you made. "Have not had the opportunity to do so with this company." End of discussion.

I don't doubt that the people behind the product are sharp, but its very very poor form to recommend a product with a claim to product effectiveness without having used it first. And to be clear, I wouldn't have an objection if all you said was that you recommend the product because you were impressed with the people. This not only makes me question your integrity on this claim, it will cast doubt on other recommendations you make in the future.
Well, this is "Hacker News" and not "Groklaw". There needs to be some recourse to the public accusation. If I was him, I would have just "noped" my way out of it.

Nope, I never said it.

Nope, she misheard me.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Fuck you, pay me.
> just be superficial and PC in public

This sounds like a frightening world. Eh, freedom in America has had a good run.
> Hacker News and everyone here who mention GoPro going to get DMCA notices too for using their trademarks under fair-use?

No, clearly not. They were incredibly incompetent in both the writing of the takedown and their attempt at a public PR response. However, it's pretty clear they're not on a mission to police the usage of their name, someone too 'smart' for his/her own good probably just thought of a misguided idea to try to tackle grey market resellers.

This company is supposedly rolling in dough, with a stake from FoxConn and talk of an upcoming IPO. Why don't they have (or use if they do have) proper legal and PR resources?

So where else is it amateur hour at this company? Is someone competent doing their accounting, or is their comptroller also their head of social media or something?
Ex-astronaut Warns of Nightmare Scenario if Russian Asteroid Had Hit NYC
As I read the post (haven't dug into the v4 book itself yet), this covers only revisions, not new features (such as TurboLinks)?

As others have said, thank you so much for this resource. Everyone who can afford it who finds it useful should purchase it (I bought v3.0 on Kindle, and v3.2 in hard copy)
Sorry, I wasn't being clear. My point is that the problem lies somewhere with this weird superstition around women, especially in technology fields. I believe that this weird superstition is perpetuated by sexist ideals or understandings. And I believe that it has nothing to do with you or other women that happen to see it in action like you described, but with the people on the other side. So I guess my point is that shouldn't be your responsibility to make others feel comfortable around you simply because you are a woman. That doesn't logically follow. Similar to how other minorities shouldn't need to make jokes that defame their race or sex in order to fit in with non-minorities.

That aside, this

> I wouldn't have to make politically incorrect jokes and references to make myself fit in if there wasn't a fear of offending me and losing their job put there by other women who call foul at the slightest indecency....

is an irrelevant conclusion to take from this event. You don't have to speak for your entire sex by being politically incorrect just to show you're not "one of those" women or that women aren't all the same. To everyone whose mind isn't stuck in the 30s, that should be pretty obvious.

Also, your argument seems to imply that she should have taken the same action you would've taken, but that is kind of unrelated. She did whatever she felt was right to do at the time because of other concerns. Using phrases like "freak out and make a scene" portray her as this basketcase who has no control over herself, but that isn't exactly what happened. What you would do and what she did are unrelated, because you are two different people with different values. Yet, I'm sure people would love to leverage your argument against hers because you are both women. That just stinks of sexism.
You would think GoPro would see this coming. If I were CEO of the review company, I would demand that the article be reinstated and hope to God that GoPro sued me so I could get some extra cash and teach them a lesson. What on Earth were they thinking? Hire a lawyer for God's sake.
Given the popularity of "perp walks", this doesn't even hold true for actual crimes anymore, let alone this case.
Using Video to Tell Your Product's Story
Are you a native English speaker? Because I can't figure out how you are reading these things into what I say. I can try a couple different languages if you'd like.

I don't want him to do anything in particular.

I did not say that.

I said that it is MY MORAL JUDGMENT that spending money on this particular endeavor is a waste and that it could find better use elsewhere.

I also said that it is MY MORAL JUDGMENT that the uber-rich have a social responsibility to not do crap like this.

In another reply I mentioned the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as what I think is a perfect role model.

Beyond that, you are making it all up. I am not here to force anyone to do anything. If the guy wants to make a huge bonfire with a hundred million dollars he is free to indulge. I'll even volunteer to light it. And, yes, I'll still be of the opinion that it would be morally wrong.

You know then engines he is recovering? Here they are, being test fired on January of THIS YEAR. Yeah. Crazy. We still have at least one we can fire! Probably more!

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/f1_test.html

This is what I think is going on: Rich guy competition. James Cameron did the Titanic. Bezos wants to play and get something from the bottom of the ocean and here we are probably spending hundreds of millions of dollars lifting twisted and rotted junk up to the surface. All that while a mere two months ago NASA was test firing the real thing. You should be laughing your ass off at this one.
Come to think of it, Twisted also makes me uncomfortable. Quick, call Jesse Noller and security and escort Glyph out of the building.
Ah, I hope they realize what a liability they have on their hands. For example, imagine if a developer ACCIDENTALLY looked at her while walking by.

Can you say sexual harassment lawsuit?

LOL. This woman is bad news.
Please feel free to cite studies with better methodologies! I merely cited what I found on a cursory search. I entirely agree that the methodology of the studies is limiting, however at the moment, the only evidence I've discovered points towards the position you made the following assertion about:

> We all know that you can't provide any evidence to back this up. What is your agenda? Why do you think we are stupid?

The assertion you made is that there was no evidence to support pencilcode's assertion that gender diverse teams perform better. I believe this assertion is false, the top results of a cursory search that I made out of curiosity provided evidence which supported pencilcode's position.

However, I of course agree that two papers is hardly conclusive, so feel free to cite more studies if you want to start wading into the pool of evidence available to us on this topic.
>"Overall, an estimated 91% of the victims of rape and sexual assault were female." //

It may not change the ratio but of course one must remember that is "victims of rape and sexual assaults that were reported and recorded as such".

The study linked, (text version http://bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/SOO.TXT) says only a third of the rapes reported to them were reported to police and in my cursory glance I couldn't see how many of those reported led to a conviction and how many led to a dismissal of charges, etc..

However I did notice this:

"In 1994 victims reported about 1 rape/sexual assault
victimization of a female victim for every 270 females in the
general population; for males, the rate was substantially lower,
with about 1 rape/sexual assault of a male victim for every
5,000 male residents age 12 or older."

It's often joked on certain forums, eg reddit, that men who're incarcerated are likely to suffer rape (I'd guess women do too but the jokes are always concerning men it seems). I wonder how true that is and how well these figures reflect those crimes.
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no one is arguing about that, it seems to be more the culture of publicly shaming people for things that are well below the level of what should be.
stfu fagget yu don't even know what your talking about, go shit up another internet
So, uhm, you want freedom of speech to apply to private-private relationships? How would that work?!
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This was a private conversation between two friends, none of whom referenced her or even knew she was listening.

Are you sure? How do you know?

If my reading of her article is correct, and she was telling the truth, then she did not think so. That does not mean that she was correct. And with a he said, she said situation there is no chance of sorting things out. But your unsupported assertion of fact is not necessarily true.

Her article is at http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont... if you want to read it to decide for yourself whether I am reading correctly.

Here is the scenario that I read from her description. She's sitting one in front. 3 guys are behind and (if she is turned) to her right. Guy #1 who is behind is talking about a presentation, she turns and agrees with him, and during their discussion he talks about forking a repository.

Guy #2 is to #1's left (on the right from her view), and begins making sexual jokes about forking with #3 riffing off of that. Then shortly after they riff off of a comment from the speaker and joke, "You can thank me" then start talking about big dongles.

Therefore their sexual jokes were based off of their overhearing HER conversation, and so they had every expectation that SHE would hear THEM in turn. Furthermore I get the impression that even though she was not looking at them, she believed that they were implicitly ADDRESSING HER. (I am not saying that this belief is correct, merely that this is my impression of the situation as she remembered and described it.)

If so, then in no way that she would have believed that this was a private conversation. Nor is it tenable that they were accidentally overheard by her. Nor is it a surprise that she took it personally.

Of course we all adjust memories of things that happened to be clearer cut than they were. There was a lot going on. I was not there - she may have misunderstood the interaction. But what she described is both a plausible scenario, and one in which her upset makes quite a bit of sense to me. And one which runs absolutely counter to the narrative that this was simply a private conversation that she accidentally overheard and overreacted to.
I'd love early access

github: mzupan
The strike price on options is usually really low relative to fund raising valuations. It's not vastly different than an equity grant, at least in the cases where it matters (ie: good ones). I think everyone would prefer to just give actual equity, but the tax implications are pretty terrible for the recipient.
The recent launch of the Hero 3 was pretty terrible. The CEO had to issue a public apology. [1] Plenty of problems that made the cameras unusable.

They are now basically an amateur camera that has been well marketed unfortunately.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/gopro/posts/271125813016872
I do not feel safe when the modern idea of civil rights is blatantly accusing people of wrongdoing and playing the victim. Being a woman does not mean your entire focus should be on how much of a woman you are. This isn't all you are and this isn't all we see. Professionalism is not turning around, smirking, taking a snapshot, then tweeting it right in front of them to 30,000 people. Professionalism is not ranting about it on a blog, accusing them of sexism, and acting as if you're the hero.

Professionalism is not responding to a Microsoft architect on twitter and accusing him of racism and white supremacy because he used the word 'lynching' metaphorically to describe the mob mentality of her supporters, and then quoting him and linking to a blog post about how straight white males are the "lowest difficulty setting that is".

She doesn't come across as a feminist or a technology evangelist. What she does come across to me as is something you'll find ironic. She comes across as sexist.
They all do. So once again dealing with any company proves we live in multi-colorred world; not only black/white, yes/no, good/bad.

Sony is such a huge conglomerate, you have different types of managers with different morals doing what they feel is right to do.

As of GoPro, they are currently in very strong position. My Orlando Florida BestBuy bud told me they sell five of those per day, comparing to one camcorder/camera a day of all other brands. You could imagine with such a strong position on the market, you have room to act as a FDA, like Jobs would say.
I'm sorry, it's not clear to me. I do not think that there's something inherently sexist in sexual innuendo, or that it somehow isn't OK when among adults (and even if there's kids, they likely won't understand it - that's the beauty of innuendo).
this wasn't a sexist joke, if it was I wouldn't be saying nobody was harmed
I didn't claim that money and independence are mutually exclusive (though I can see how that may have been interpreted). Instead, I made 2 assumptions.

1. Startups don't have as much money as a large corporation.

2. You, as an engineer, have more autonomy at a startup than a large corporation.

The reason I would choose to work at a startup over a corporation is because I value my autonomy, even if it means making less money than I would if I took a job at a large company. When I am a 45 year old father, my priorities will probably change. There's nothing wrong with that.

The question at hand is, should startups try to compete with large corporations on benefit packages? Benefits are important to feeling welcome and appreciated at work. At no point have I claimed otherwise.

My sole claim has been that if I had to make a tradeoff between certain benefits (that don't necessarily impact me as a young recent college graduate) and increased autonomy, I will pick autonomy. This is why startups optimize for recruiting younger developers. If a young developer thinks an idea is cool and believes in it, she will work her ass off. A 45 year old father, on the other hand, has other priorities. To reiterate, there is nothing wrong with that! But if a startup cannot afford to support such an experienced programmer (startups can't offer competitive salary, job safety, 401k, etc), it's better for the 45yo father to consider that before hand, rather than get burned later.

If the startup had offered him the same benefits and salary as the large company, he may have accepted the startup's offer. The startup could then go out of business in 2 months, and he'd be screwed. A young college graduate would have far more flexibility to bounce back and find another job, simply because the younger developer has fewer responsibilities.

A startup should offer as many benefits as it can. But the reality is that most startups simply cannot provide the same benefits as a large company, and I think that's ok. It's really not as evil as the author makes it seem because startups are targeting a different demographic than him.

If a startup's lack of benefits aren't acceptable to you, then you probably also shouldn't be taking the many other risks involved with doing a startup.
The problem there is it's an additional $27 on the manufacturing BOM cost (or possibly $54 for an iPhone with front and back glass). By the time all the markups on the way to the retail store get applied to that you'd be looking at more like ~$90 extra, or $180 for both sides on an iPhone.

(Markup estimate based on BOM cost and Retail pricing here: http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/pages/iPhone5-Carries-... )
Their risk might be the same now, but it's not the same as when the founder started.
> But it's one that's never exposed to the actual user.

Why not expose it to the user? Because then they'll want to change it? Are you talking about browser fingerprinting?

We already expose this on the user/email level, where users can link and log in with as many email addresses as they like, under one account (identifier).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204046
This is a weird comparison, but they should adopt the same release policies as Drupal. Security releases are done separate from maintenance releases, even if they are released at the same time.

That allows you to provide the security releases as a separate patch file so you can apply individually. You can skip maintenance releases that cause problems but still keep things secure.
> I'm also not exchanging soup recipes, beauty tips, or nutrition experiences, because they're not appropriate either.

"Oh, man, you gotta try that new Mexican restaurant down the block, it's delicious."

"Let me tell you about this new anti-herpes product, it might help you."

...

I can totally imagine such statements being spoken amongst friends (not on stage, though), and nobody getting fired.
Hardness only determines how difficult something is to scratch. Resistance to cracking is much more complex. For example, I could easily smash a diamond with a steel hammer. But I could also use that diamond to slowly grind the hammer to dust.
I've read a lot of your writing and agree with some of it.

Bootstrapping is attractive, but it's very hard to do. Also, as misguided as employee equity grants might be, it has become the standard for compensation in SV; that a company doesn't offer some token ownership definitely will make it harder to hire.

I think it really boils down to, if you want to take part in "VC-istan" as a founder/employee, move to SF, if not, go somewhere else, because it's just too hard to hire/hold down an office/live in SF on bootstrapping.
FALSE. A sexist joke is a joke that tries to find humor in the degradation of one of the genders.

Why do you assume sexism consists in degradation of _women_?
That, itself, is sexist, as most feminists are. Sexist and hypocritical.