skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was completely in her right to turn around and tell the guys to shut up or bring it to the attention of the organisers. However, I don't think that was her intention at all. Her intention was to gain more mileage out of this. She took an issue about a couple of guys being immature and made it a sexism issue.

Based on her previous tweets (the now famous penis joke that she made, a picture playing cards against humanity), I find it difficult to believe she was offended by a dongle joke. I think she saw an opportunity to use this to further her online cred and that's what she did. Her blog post is the less about the incident (and indeed less about tackling sexism) and more about herself (i find the part about the girl in the picture particularly PR-ish). It was a typical PR move that got blown out of proportion.

This in no way justifies what followed on twitter, which was definitely sexist and misogynistic and very unfortunate. IMO this has pretty much pushed back much of the progress made on tackling the real sexism issues in our industry. Seeing a fellow developer get fired over something so benign (at least for most men, it would seem benign) leads to mistrust and political correctness in dealing with women in the workplace (which sucks!).
> The point is whether it could reasonably be considered offensive by a reasonable person.

See, you didn't say that the first time. You said "the way listener interpreted the language was far more important". No caveats, no stipulations. Simply adding the word "reasonable" changes nearly everything about what you said. Doesn't make it more right, just makes it less wrong ;)

> And yes, I'd have to say that saying "I want to fork his repo", followed up by "large dongle" phallus jokes, is a reasonable candidate to be considered offensive by someone.

By someone, not by most reasonable people at a pycon conference. Even so, I'm sure a single reasonable person (which Adria has NOT shown herself to be, btw) might get offended by that. So I'll ask. So what? Is personal offense now the benchmark by which we judge what one can and cannot say?
"Common sense" is not much more than a myth now that (many, including those of the majority of the posters here) societies are not homogenous and not filled with people all subscribing to a very narrow view of what is right and wrong. I believe "common sense" is, in this context, a way of stating a belief without feeling that any evidence is required. A bit like religion.

There was a thread around here somewhere in which the correct, acceptable behaviour of a society (real, not an imaginary example, unless I radically misread it) involved boys becoming men by giving oral sex (and swallowing) to older men. A neighbouring society decided anal sex was the way to go. This is simply "common sense" in those societies. Everyone agrees.

We live in societies where one person's "common sense" is another person's completely unacceptable behaviour.

"Who would you rather see in court first mass murderer or a thief?"

Will you be petitioning the courts to refuse to try thieves unless everyone accused of murder has been tried already? That would essentially legalise theft.
Non-mobile link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060648805/
At the very least, by looking at raw numbers, usage probably was pretty low. But the people that used it, used it a lot. I think that they just wanted to get rid of a project that they couldn't maintain anymore and sorely misjudged how vocal the users of it would be.
No, I like hearing which Google products used to be good but suck now. If no one "whined" about it, how would you know which ones to avoid? Very odd complaint.
Except apparently which blogs you're reading. But I guess they get that and more from Chrome now.
You know, I know it's 2013 and all, and things like this shouldn't amaze me, but the fact that you can get data from Australia to Brazil in _minutes_ is still kind of astounding to me.
Critical notification should be sent to me and not pulled by me.
Nice addition would be to have an addon to newrelic that would basically poll services/API like sendgrid and allow you to setup notifications for failure or degradation.
You are free to say anything, and the people who run the conference are free to ask you to leave.
This is the kind of thing that by the time I need to make another diagram I will have forgotten about it. Hopefully I'll never need to, but if I do I'm bookmarking this in hopes I'll remember.

It's not complicated, no fancy UI or flashy landing page. Nice web app.
"Thats all there is to it."

An unbending, absolute rigid belief? Sounds like a religous style "broken brain".
Here's a very informative blog post by Doug Grismore that talks more about this if you are interested: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/03/amazon-s3-performance-tip...
The article is about the runtime difference. In this case, the "run" is using gcc's compiled in both languages (via gcc and g++) to build the Linux kernel. Both gcc's show about the same runtime performance when executing this task.

I can see how this is a little confusing but it shouldn't be that hard. And yet there have been hours of comments on this story that miss this point.
UK Moving Toward Three-Person IVF
Ask HN: What chrome/Firefox extensions/devtools do you use for web development?
Holy ... Chills everywhere in my body. Truly inspiring story!
Thank you for sharing it.
I'm not a fan of UML, but some of my coworkers are. Seems like a great tool for sharing UML quickly, without everyone having to get Visio.

Feature request: sequence diagrams. They love those things.
Did a survey once on the balls thing. We concluded that 100% of women don't ever scratch their balls
WRONG on both counts. Firefox OS only allows apps to run under its javascript VM engine. Under no way shape or form can you compare the performance of a native app to those running under a javascript VM.

Since Firefox OS limits you to running HTML5 apps, the best you can do is create a new skin for Mozilla's browser. The same limitation that iOS imposes on its users.
I'm writing a test
Working it.
Is there a good source for your first definition? I've never come across this distinction so directly before, and the line between the two is still a little blurry. I hate to get all [citation needed] on you, but it just seems to me that the 'institutionalized system' is nothing more than the vast repetition of many 'arbitrary actions'. Is there a simple textbook example contrasting the two?
Gawd I love coffeine
Off With Their Heads: The PyCon Incident and Our Society
Trying out Amazon Relational Database Service
SG customer as well. What's all the negativity towards them? Is there something I should know about them? I wasn't aware of any incidents.
"harassing photography or recording"
I've always just mispronounced it mentally: se-par-ate.

"par" is pronounced as in golf and emphasized.

Now that I'm typing this, it sounds a little crazy, but it's always worked for me.
Washington Post’s Outlook section avoids these words and phrases
I wanted to comment on a argument that is common in many of the comments. Equality doesn't necessarily mean treating people the same. This is because the same policy or action can have different impact on different groups. For example, without maternity leave, women would have to choose between career and having children, whereas while paternity leave is great, most men could have children and keep their career without it. Arguments made should take this into account.
Yet another reason why no one should be using PHP
Yeah, most of the time, I find that when I hit a 'hard' problem, I can shelve it and sleep or go away, and probably 95% of the time I have a decent (sometimes good!) solution soon (the next day or two). Perspective, more brain work, whatever - not sure what happens. The all-nighters are certainly less frequent for me - the recent stints in Jan/Feb were the first time in probably more than 4 years, if memory serves correctly.
While I can't test the demo as I don't have an iOS or Android device around I don't think this is anything special. It's been done already, see for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brassmonke...
It baffles me that everyone is so focused on Evernote when the connection is so obvious (probably deceptively so)
I use it sometimes when I want to think of my options. I use it way less than my teachers told me I would but it still has its uses.
How is putting it behind Cloudflare going to help now that the (alleged) DDoSers have the IP address of the actual server?
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All I saw is a loading screen. First webpage in forever that's successfully crashed Firefox for me though, so that's impressive I guess.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5410515
Yup - I think from a technical aspect we could totally have a user purchase before creating an account / signing in, however this limits us when it comes to dealing with fraud as well as brings up problems with the escrow system.

Since all payments enter escrow, without an account, the buyer can't release the payment to the seller.
I'll just start following them on Twitter then. I've recently started working somewhere new where we use SendGrid, and this is the first outage I've been aware of.
Even my rather trivial undergraduate UML project required very advanced options, and the only software that fully satisfied my needs was astah professional. I struggled a lot with browser-based UML tools, always to come across a feature I needed but wasn't supported. It was very frustrating, because I had to restart work on several platform, until I gave up and started using astah.

For this reason, I personally avoid web-based UML tools ever since. But, there might be reasonable use cases for them.
Does Instapaper still refuse to stitch articles? I remember that being a dealbreaker the 18th time I went to check if that was really how a piece ended :)
Diagrams are stored in database.
Did not get about "lost diagrams"? Why should they be lost?
Generally agree there still are places for polishing. The idea was to create app that can just do it's job , to see if UML is still used at all (as stblack also asked) and then polish it according to the feedaback.

Thanks.
how does one send outage notices if the mail is down?
Troll. I should have ignored you long ago. Go away.
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since google is behind dart.. i wont use it... ill stick to v8. This is just as google GO, which to me seems that GO is being left behind
The elephant in the room is this: ebay is all but impossible to use for big ticket items. I tried to sell a camera (>$1000) and after two months of agony and several failed auctions, I pulled out of ebay and immediately sold it on craigslist.

Why? Fraud. The first time, I didn't set the option to only sell to established users. I got bids from people with minutes-old accounts that I knew were fraudsters waiting for the end of the auction. Sure enough, they tried to pull a scam and I contacted ebay. After weeks they ended up locking that account. I relisted and the same buyer bid, even though I really cranked up the safety controls that an ebay customer support rep told me to use. The winning bidder? Account created 5 minutes before. I called ebay, said the email I got from the winner was a carbon copy of the first, fraudulent bidder's email.... it still took weeks while I waited for the auction to be voided. The total time I lost was well over a month.

On Craigslist, I definitely got a bunch of scammers, but they had no power over me. I just ignored their emails and waited for someone serious, which didn't take but a few days and we finished the deal at a local bank. We were both happy with the transaction.

I will NEVER use ebay to sell again.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170765 and also "why you should be excited" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5181149
Is this a good idea, legally? At first glance I'd say no, but a quick Google leads me to believe breaking captchas is just fine [1]. Could one be prosecuted under CFAA for this kind of thing? Maybe the weev case is throwing my mind for a loop, but it's hard to believe this is 100% legitimate.

[1]: http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v24/24HarvJLTech233...
There's not much negativity toward them just a bit of criticism on how they're handling this outage.
As I mentioned in another comment of mine on that thread - they should have reached out to customers and let them know there's an outage (especially if this is an outage that is > 10 minutes).

P.S: I still think Sendgrid are awesome and fortunately they'll listen to what we have to say and next outage will be handled differently.
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I am not sure what do you mean?
Your idea is against eBay's Link Policy[1] and eBay actively remove listings (and in some cases limit users ability to sell on eBay) as their Policy states if you link to non-eBay sites where other items are offered for sale.

Likewise, adding a phrase which may even suggest purchasing for less on another marketplace will probably lead to them editing or removing the listing from eBay as well.

If you are going to do that idea then, do it as a marketing campaign, not on eBay listings.

[1] http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-links.html
I'm sad to see that HN is being used as a platform for this sort of demagogy, and sad that stories about this tawdry little tale are indiscriminately voted up above other stories which are far more interesting.

DDOS of a mailing service that lots of websites rely on because a completely unrelated company decided to fire someone is not an occasion for lol and schadenfreude as some posters here would have it. As a method of justice it has more in common with a lynch mob than a court of law - this isn't going to get the guy's job back, and it certainly isn't going to teach anyone a lesson, apart from that the internet is fickle, and monumentally stupid. But I very much doubt the people behind this attack are interested in justice or truly care about the man who lost his job, they're just doing it for the lolz and are punishing the internet at large over a silly little dispute at a tech conference.

Congratulations to the mob, I guess; it has shown its power, if not any sense of discrimination or proportionality.
"While I agree that the result in this case was extreme, it seems that the article does point out the distinction, which is whether the person behind the tech is directly aware that it will be used for <bad thing>."

Then anyone who implements a cryptosystem is in legal peril. There is no question that cryptosystems are used by criminals to commit crimes. So far, cryptographers have been able to sleep at night knowing that their work is also used to protect people from criminals and other dangers.
I do it. I think it sort of gives me a sense of comfort. But it seems to run in the family - on my father's side. My dad shakes his leg. As do my brother and yours truly. My paternal grandfather is a leg-shaking champion. I can't say for sure, as he is dead, but I'm pretty sure my paternal grandfather's father would out-leg-shake us all combined.

And then, on my mother's side, nobody I can think of does it. My mother hates leg-shaking. I try to be decent about it when she's in the room. Fortunately, my wife - who doesn't approve of legshaking, and seldom shakes a leg - doesn't really give me grief about it. Guess she's written me off as a leg-shaker, and accepted it as one of "those" things.
No, TiP BoF is not recorded since is after hours
You have got the scale in reverse. From the article :

"The score is essentially runs/second: the number of times you can run the benchmark in one second. For all scores, bigger is better"

So, no, dart2js is actually slower than hand written javascript code, which is in turn slower than dart code running on the dart VM.

EDIT : I got it all wrong, sorry, didn't see the far end of the graph.
The perfect Almost-Static-Site Setup
Strangely it is not dead. Do not know how widely it is used. From other hand what are other good standardized options to share/document software structure and behavior?
Of course it does. Be discreet and don't draw attention to yourself in doing so - it's not really something you want to do when you've got the floor - but if you're not comfortable, you're less focused.
I wrote both posts in hurry yesterday, now that I read your points (I read whole threads of your posts) I generally agree with you, I think that maybe elaborating my points would be a bit tedious. I also think "rape paranoia" was too harsh a world, as you made me realize, I'm almost 6.4 feet tall, I generally do not know what is to be harassed..

So saying basically about it. Yes I agree with you, women have much more to lose in the situation you described, I do think your initial example was poor, and having good gay friends who suffer because of that made me reply with anger.

Sorry for that.
Ask HN: Anyone have any ideas or can help?
Hello all! Thanks for taking the time to read my post! I've been a long time lurker! I'm currently in an odd situation and you guys seem to be the smartest and most creative people I know so I figured you might have some advice or be able to help.

I have been looking for a job in the IT field but lack of degree and certain skills has become a set back. I have cystic fibrosis and my care has become such a focus of my life that it tends to limit job options in a sense.I did not finish my college degree which can limit things sometimes in my job hunt as well. My disease doesn't give me a massive amount of time left in life but if the inevitable were to happen I would loved to have fulfilled a dream of working at start-up. The reason why I am reaching out to you guys is to see if anyone had any ideas or knew of any companies who would take me on. Yeah I'm probably not the guy who's gonna whip up some life shattering algorithm or build the next Facebook but I love to learn and would work my butt off with anything. Hell I'll even answer phones at your start-up all day!

As far as my tech background; I'm proficient with Linux/Unix systems and the command line. I've got a penchant for vim. I've dabbled in some Python and C in the past and I'm currently learning Objective-C and the whole iOS/Mac development ecosystem(which has been a blast!)

Thanks again and sorry if I wasted anyone's time! Have a great day!

ps- I'm based in the Philadelphia region.
Okay so before I even got to the actual experiment I was impressed that the music on the page only plays while you are currently viewing the page, so if you are on another tab the music stops! I want to know how to just do that!
Twitter Easter Egg : LOLCATZ
all thnx to adria and her cyber bullying
The LoseThos Operating System is Now "TempleOS"
What do you mean by "to warm up an IP"?
If you look at the right end of the graph, you'll find that dart2js score is bigger than v8's
This was a Heroku win for us. I just visited their add-ons page, identified a comparable provider, and restored mail in our application with the following:

heroku addons:add mailgun:basic
heroku addons:docs mailgun:basic
vim config/initializers/mail.rb
git add config/initializers/mail.rb
git commit -m "Switching to back-up mail provider."
git push heroku master

Since the account creation is all automatic and billing is all through Heroku, I never even had to visit Mailgun's website.
That link doesn't work. You still have to click the "LOLCATZ" button at the bottom of the page.
Misconceptions about evolution
"at most (not all) things ST beautifully follows the "don't make me think" principle: eg. arbitrary multiple cursors (no other IDE or editor besides Notedpad++ has them yet, no matter how many users requested this for JetBrain IDEs for example"

What do you mean by "arbitrary multiple cursors"? Do you mean the thing that all Scintilla-using applications (which Notepad++ happen to be one of) have?
Eventually every software evolves to include email natively.
I couldn't agree with you more on the subject of what happened with PyCon. I don't think it should be mixed with what is happening now.

On the flip side, I'm happy that this story has been up-voted and that it attracted some attention because I was able to know that Sendgrid is down (never received any mail notification and I don't follow them on Twitter).
> did something you don't agree with

Let's get one thing straight right now, this isn't just "behavior I don't agree with", I think this kind of crap should be a criminal matter with prison time and/or huge compensatory fines involved.

Barring that, if there is any justice in the world whatsoever, Adria will lose her job as well.

Think about it. Some jackass caused someone to lose their job for no good reason.

That's a blow that would put many of us in a very bad place.

>All the while people seem to think that the problem here is "women are sensitive and don't like dick jokes, we better watch what we say," instead of asking, "how do we fix this?"

I've seen very little of the first sentiment and a great deal of "this person overreacted". Yes, by women too. I don't think the average conventiongoer now needs to watch their back to see if any women are around before making a joke in good faith.

How we fix this? How can any person know in advance if something they're talking about is going to offend some random who might take huge and extraordinary steps to ruin your life?

I'd argue we fix this by making an example of anyone who misuses their power like this. Maybe then the people who like to call a mob to pitchforks will think twice if their target is really deserving of mob justice based on the context of a possibly insensitive fucking joke.
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Have an offsite cloud server with a mail daemon that's ready to send a few thousand messages to customers when your main server is down.
How do you handle SPF/DKIM and domain keys records?
Do you send out a lot of emails? Have you had a mailgun account ready?
I find that even for topics related to money the top hits on Google are all completely useless spam. I was looking for information about companies selling software components and just found a bunch of "sellyourappnow.com" offering Fruit Ninja clones for a few hundred bucks.

For whatever reason businesses that love their margins more than their customers find it's much more convenient to astroturf services like Yelp than to actually provide something worth buying.

And services like Yelp always seem to find that it's more lucrative to extort money from businesses in exchange for reorganizing their ratings.

I'd love to have a way for regular people to recommend things that was invulnerable to astroturfing but I have no idea what it would look like.
> As far as discoverability goes, I think it's hard to beat Emacs, once you figure out what's going on.

This contradiction perfectly explains everything that's wrong with Emacs.
google is also behind v8.
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Pure Chrome dev tools and Firefox/Firebug. Maybe it's a case of not realizing I need something because I don't know about it yet, but they seem to work fine for me.
They could just use bigger Dongles to connect their servers to the internet.
Really? All it says to me is that people in the tech field are so against a woman standing up for herself that they're actually willing to bring down the company she works for. It's disgusting.

Will you also feel schadenfreude when they hack her bank account?
I did the same thing. Followed them on twitter just to be aware of the outage status without having to go look for it.
It does mention that someone signed an affidavit then recanted it and claimed intimidation, but not where the second one comes from.
We just launched our alpha (and are sending out invites to people who sign up). We want to validate our value proposition so any feedback/suggestion is very much appreciated!
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