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I think the basic problem here that you are a documented fraud. You claimed to be some kind of Joan of Arc "minus the visions." Honestly, it seems to be it is more like "plus greater delusions of grandeur." You seem to have jumped on this as a way to drive your popularity; you were just too short sighted to see the backlash, I suppose. Perhaps, you enjoy some of the backlash because it may allow you to pivot toward some other activist role. I just don't think you are, in any way, authentic about this incident or other incidents. My problem is there is a clear pattern and smugness about the way you project yourself. I don't think you speak for all women and I don't think women want you to speak for them. You would take any criticism as simple victim blaming and that is unfortunate because it can be difficult, rhetorically, to argue against. However, I think many people can see through this veneer. As well, it could be innocent but your blog URL is yet another a signal to me; I don't think you intend well for any of this. You are looking for any issue for which you can champion yourself as some sort of Betty Friedan; unfortunately, you are no Betty Friedan, Sandra Day O'Connor or any other great female leader.

Others are focusing on whether or not you can take a joke or if you should have discussed it with the people you publicly shamed instead. We know you weren't really offended, that wasn't the point. This was a prop for you. This is unfair to women that face will discrimination, prejudice, and so on that we should all denounce. This is just opportunism potentially gone awry.

I could applaud you for actually coming to HN and making a statement but what you wrote is just smug and serving.
That was needlessly hostile, IMO.
We thought it would be funny :) But unfortunately some people don't get the joke so we might change it going forward. Glad you like it :)
So there is a special thing called "renewable energy" which travels over the same grid as ordinary energy. It can be substituted for ordinary energy (but not vice-versa) and commands a premium price over ordinary energy.

This site looks pretty authoritative: http://www.nrel.gov/learning/re_basics.html

Hydroelectric power is considered "renewable" for what seem like good reasons. Yet, if I lived next door to Hoover Dam I would not expect to be charged extra for the privilege of consuming its locally-grown renewability. In fact, I would expect to pay less because there would be less transport loss to offset.

I'm trying to figure out to what extent this amounts to Apple writing a check to someone to bless their electricity, much like the selling of indulgences.
IIRC they also support voice and video chat, but I have yet to use that part of the product.
> If it didn't start because of her gender, it most certainly became about her gender.

So what you are saying is that the insults did not start because of her gender, but the type of insults used are.

Peoples vocabulary when it comes to insults are limited. The average west person's vocabulary when it comes to insults are built on sexism, racism, agism, religious hatred, and homophobia. If we go east, nationality also pops in. If we go middle east, religious hatred starts to take a more prominent form. This is quite a large social problem, and is no where close limited to the technical crowd. People on hacker news a people too, and they are thus limited in their insult vocabulary like everyone else.

Thankfully, people who use such insults are commonly down voted and/or removed. That's the community, dealing with bad behavior with the tools given to us.

Last, I thought I would go and check and do some searches for feminist in those threads. The three largest thread are 5419071, 5415256 and 5410515. Neither one has a single comment calling Adria a feminist. Not a single one. Maybe you should go and re-read them instead of throwing down false statements?
"they never evolved to possess the same enzyme"

... what? Asians are the same species as every other race. The idea that Asians somehow did not evolve this particular thing has nothing to do with the genetic change over time that causes speciation/evolution. I think you grossly misunderstand evolution and that your remarks are ignorant (and I think many people would claim racist).
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Their TOS does not claim ownership over user-supplied content; see section 2, "All materials displayed or performed on the Site[...](other than Content posted by Subscriber (“Subscriber Content”)) are the property of 9GAG, Inc[...]" and section 3, "Subscriber shall own all Subscriber Content that Subscriber contributes to the Site[...]".

The letter does claim that you are using their content, but the use of which infringes on their trademark and copyright. Your use of the user-submitted content would not infringe on their copyright: users were never asked to assign copyright to 9GAG, and in most cases, would not be able to as they were not the original copyright holders to begin with.

If there was a fundamental copyright problem (i.e., the entire basis of your app is copyright infringement due to an ownership claim on all the user-supplied content) and they wanted to shut your app down, they could've just issued a run-of-the-mill DMCA takedown notice to Google. That they didn't seems, to me, that they are fine with your app as long as you remove the infringing elements.

If you were interested in keeping Nine around without fear of 9GAG taking additional action, I'd ask them what content, exactly, infringes on their copyright and have them enumerate what you need to remove. It may be something relatively straightforward, like certain assets or logos that you may be using in your app.
Don't read too seriously into that, as most users of 4chan are loathe to use reddit (and strongly consider reddit to do the same thing that 9gag does).
5% in one day is quite a drop.
Far be from me to defend Adria Richards but "freedom of speech" means something different than what you think. The government cannot infringe on your right to express your opinion, etc. Also, the violent insinuation as no place on HN or anywhere.
Basically only tool selection menu was added (and some context menu removed ;). IMHO to use it out of the box it's quite easy, just maybe there is lack of documentation. As main drawbacks I could note missing documentation and not so easy configurable .. However at the moment it fits my needs.
> Eben Upton, one of the creators of the Raspberry Pi,
> shared with us the brilliant insight that many young
> people used to have to “choose not to program” when
> they turned their computers on, in order to play games

What a quote. I remember this. My family had an Amstrad CPC 464, and when you booted it up, this is what it said:

Amstrad 128k Microcomputer (v3)

© 1985 Amstrad Computer Electronics plc
and Locomotive Software Ltd.

BASIC 1.1

Ready

The very next thing that appeared was the text cursor, the assumption being that you would now begin to type code. You could choose not to program by putting a game cassette in the drive, holding Shift+Enter, and pressing play. But by default, you were programming.

I love that the Pi attempts to revive this for today's kids. At the moment I think the closest they come to anything resembling code is if they use Firefox or Chrome and accidentally stumble into the developer tools.
Even though you might not live in the US, I think you should change the name and visuals to avoid any possible shitstorm in your way.
If there is really a market for you, maybe you should disassociate now from 9GAG and create your own product and serve users with your own concept. Find a way to deliver relevant content to your users, and maybe in 2 years you'll be bigger than 9GAG :)
Real estate is probably covered by another set of laws, as real estate has carefully tracked values, for property taxes.
The Internet of Things creates joy and happiness
I find that the first option mixed with an extreme amount of self deprecation is like taking a riding crop to the part of my brain that works really well. Unlike the rest which is a procrastitative mess.
Mail Chimp had a transactional email service http://mandrill.com/

They offer free blocks of messages if you're a Mail Chimp customer.
Borrowing is a such a weak word for stamping their obnoxious logo on unoriginal pics. Its somewhat saddening to me how popular they have become due to their sleaze. (Seriously: Why create anything new when you can rise to popularity on the works of others?)
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That's always seemed an odd quirk of the restaurant industry to me. Server to refer to a person sounds stilted to my ear; a server is a computer to me, but a waiter or a waitress is a person.

So a sincere question: Why would someone be offended to be described as a waitress?
> I'm honestly surprised that anyone is attacking Sendgrid, defending Ms Richards, attacking PyCon or defending Playhaven in this incident.

Indeed. SendGrid did not have many options there. Playhaven, on the other side, could have dealt with the situation in a graceful and humane manner (absolutely nothing would have been lost if they just temporarily suspended the guy), but chose not to.
What on earth is Apple doing here. The steps I went through so far:

1) I had to switch my password to something more "secure". That means adding a capital letter and a number. I am sick and tired of companies forcing me to use non-memorable passwords that have less entropy than if I had come up with something memorable, personal and long by myself.

2) "You must wait 3 days to enable two-step verification.
This waiting period helps ensure that no one other than the owner of this Apple ID can set up two-step verification. A notification email will be sent to all addresses we have on file. Thank you for your patience."

Regardless of the reasoning for having this in place, all it does is make for a more difficult user experience. Currently when I signed into my Apple ID today, Apple didn't have this process in place and assumed that it was me signing in. So by asking me to change my password when I want to enable this feature it should probably be assumed that I am the account holder. If I was in fact an attacker, changing the password on my account, what if I was on holiday for a week? What if that email hit my spam folder? What if I just didn't notice the email because I am one of the many millions of people who fight inbox zero daily?

EDIT: Furthermore, this has now broken my iMessage and Facetime, with Apple not sending a new activation to my device so I can use these services.
That you are still engaged given everything else you do, thanks for being "that guy".
Maybe because they like the app more than they fear identity theft.
> They fired an employee without due process. Apparently a knee-jerk reaction rather than considered disciplinary process.

How do you know? Are you at SendGrid? Did you speak to Adria? Have you talked with the founders, CEO, legal counsel?

Colorado, like California, is an employment-at-will state and has been since 1987. The employer may terminate an employee for a million reasons under the sun. IANAL but I think most other people who have been in the working world more than a few years understand what that means.

In a way, I was incorrect... they did do a few things to deserve such backlash. They lacked tact in their initial posts about firing Ms. Richards. They should've led with the "Difficult Situation" post. If you read the post, which they finally churned out a few hours after declaring her employment terminated, you can see that it wasn't terribly rash. They certainly thought it out. Would you have held onto an employee you couldn't trust?

As for their technical abilities, I'm not able to judge that - so you may be correct about such competencies. However, "due process" isn't necessarily for firing an employee in Colorado, and besides, we don't know what went on as this developed and how the company actually went about terminating Ms. Richards' employment. We may find that out soon.
Your password must have already met their new "security requirements", mine did not.
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> Some other commenters suggest Ms Richards can sue

That will completely total what's left of her reputation and the re-employment perspectives. She appears to be a "people's person" thriving on social interaction, but nobody likes litigious persons.
Allowing people to delete their comments when there are replies is annoying since it removes the context.

I think instead of deleting the post it should just remove the username and make upvotes/downvotes not impact the poster's karma. Or maybe just make the post sink to the bottom of the page and not allow voting on it.
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I think they only do adiabatic quantum computing, which is not what most of the people mean when speaking about quantum computing (it does not involve entanglement, only quantum annealing).
Edit: Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_annealing
You did work together, or more accurately, you did all the work for them. You took the risk of making an app that users like, 9gag saw that the risky work had been done (and that people would use it) and now knows that they don't need you any more.

That said, I am impressed by a person who can get thousands of people to install his/her app. Now that you know how to get people, you can traverse the trademark line more safely in the future.
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Forks are male?
I'm curious as to why most technical issues on HN involving the law come down to silly black or white viewpoints? I thought this audience would be sophisticated enough to know that this type of thing isn't a binary either/or issue.

Are you purposefully ignoring the fact that the law relies on context to determine if you are acting in good faith or not? Or is everyone who reduces this issue to an either/or position doing so purposefully just because they hate the fact that there is nuance to the law which is much more subtle than the science most of us are schooled in?
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"No one has the right to spend their life without being offended." - Philip Pullman
Why would you take your business elsewhere and take on an inconvenience to your company for something unrelated to how your product operates?
Somewhat ironically, you've now threadbombed this story with discussions of that ridiculous 1% by mentioning it :)

I know that probably wasn't your intention, but please let's not turn this story into one of those interminable threads about gender relations, there are enough of those elsewhere.
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> Thirty years ago these people would have had no options other than to be passive consumers of software other people made

Really? Thirty years ago many of the most popular home computers booted directly into a BASIC interpreter.

Programming hasn't become more or less accessible with the web. You just write JavaScript instead of BASIC nowadays.
Apple has done some things that infuriate me -- for example, I still haven't upgraded to iOS 6 due to the whole Maps thing. However, I think I speak for even the most jaded Apple users when I say that I trust Jony Ive's design sense implicitly.

Apple has been known to get a lot of things wrong, sometimes really important things, but never anything along these lines. I expect to be blown away.
Looks awesome. I can totally use it!
Why All Startups Eventually Try to Degrade Progress
...once again winning the competition for worst state ever.
Thank you! Yes, it does. The way this currently works is that you can add people as members to your page, from the settings pane. What's your use case for a locally hosted version?
I see what you're saying. I'm not entirely sure I agree, especially since they waited for a while to come out with commentary about it. Additionally, although she said that they support her, that may have never been true. But I see what you're saying and that's legitimate.
Then what are the requirements that make this necessary? Given security in layers tends to be the ideal, surely the dependence on generating at boot time could be considered part of the bug?
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TestFlight gets your UUID by having you enroll your device in their MDM system. Support for this will likely never go away.
"The attacks began in the early afternoon on Thursday. At the same time, BBC staff were alerted to a phishing email that had been sent to some BBC email accounts. It is not yet clear if the two are related.

The email contained a link that if clicked on could expose password details."

So, social engineering is still alive and well.
YDNR (you did not read :P) I say he put a license and this implies he claimed copyright.
Thank you! It's basically jQueryUI + lots of thinking about what different user actions should mean. I hadn't seen paperi.st, but the basic effect isn't hard: just create a new auto-focused input where the user clicks.
> Most people in the media (news readers and so forth) have a "morals clause" in their contract because they publicly represent the company. This situation is much the same.

Indeed, community manager (call that evangelist if you want to) is a weird job. You're supposed to be social, natural - to be as you would be in private life. In cases like these, you're even supposed to use your own identity to support the brand : you are someone real, that get in touch with real people in the most friendly fashion.

But you can't be yourself too much. That's a problem here, since you don't have any other "real" identity. You have to be the brand and as such, everything you do and say is backed up by the brand.

Adria used her own personal twitter account to make her statement, that sounds legitimate. But developer has been fired because she had the weight of sendgrid brand.

That's something very pervert in the community manager / evangelist job : you sell your social self (something I guess politicians know well).

On a side note, I'm quite surprised this can happen in the US, which places free speech as the one and most important right. Not when related to business.
Making sexual jokes in mixed company consisting of your friends is not necessarily offensive -- that's up to the friends, and your may know them well enough to know they won't be offended. But in public, I think it's different."
There's nothing offensive about sex. But most apologists are hypocrites and liars and have hidden motives.

Secular humanists and people who are interested in human rights are offended by public and rude displays of religion, such as the Hijab which is worn by Muslims. Most Muslims will tell you publically that they were it for fashion, and all these other excuses. Talk to them in private, like the natural anthropologist that I am, and they will tell you that being covered up is a symbol of modesty and, among other things, that Western woman who don't cover themselves up are evil.

The public rhetoric versus the private agenda are always two different things for the Conservative and his radical feminist counterpart.

"To his credit, the guy was remorseful once confronted."
It is a pathetic society if a person has to be "remorseful" for telling a joke. Comedians and jokesters were one of the groups that suffered under Nazi Germany (don't Godwin-bash me).

There should be no tolerance for intolerance.
Makes sense to me (native English speaker), albeit in a non-Euclidian kind of way.

Apparently in Spanish and a few other languages they are too, though this seems to be a minority.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fork#Translations
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> Maybe this brands me an asshole, but if I'm doing something that I find to be not offensive, and somebody complains that it is offensive to them, I don't honestly know that I would stop doing it.

I imagine you're capable of understanding why they might find it offensive and acting accordingly depending on the context, which is the real issue. Whether YOU find it offensive is just beside the point, as it's a given that a person doesn't stand around saying or doing things that they find offensive. Whether you're capable of evaluating the other person's point of view is the key. (I bet you probably are)

If you can see why they'd find it offensive and continue doing it, you're pretty much by definition being an asshole. That's not a moral judgment, I think it's just descriptive...
There was originally only one shirt that was not identified as male or female. One of your fellow commenters asked if there was a female version of the shirt available, hence the inclusion of a shirt with that description. The "men's" shirt is a standard American Apparel cut. The "women's" shirt was described as such by teespring and seems to have been designed for a smaller framed human. Women should feel free to order the "men's" shirt and vice versa.
If it consistently grows by 100% a month and a 2-day average oscillates within 5-10%, it sounds like a great way to store value. Even recent full-scale fork incident didn't drop the price more than 30% for a couple of hours and then the price fully recovered in two days.
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I didn't want to come off as snarky, but I agree with the sentiment. It disgusts be that they're associated with YC.
I welcome good criticism of Bitcoin, but that one seemed like a poorly written article.

His main arguments were that "nobody buys anything except drugs with Bitcoin". Well that's just completely false.

And the second was that Bitcoin is used mainly for speculation. Could be true, but I don't think that will always be true. Probably just an early life "feature" of a currency made from scratch. When it's so "little" of it (value wise), it's easy to increase its value hundreds of percentages overnight, just like when we saw Android grow 900% in a year back in 2010 I think. But then it levels off, when the rule of numbers goes into effect. I'm pretty sure that's what will happen to Bitcoin, too.

When a country creates a new currency, the speculation might not be that high because all of the sudden that currency is worth a lot, backed by all the assets of that country. So it starts off at a pretty high value level. Bitcoin couldn't have afforded to do that, unless there were some billionaires putting all their money into Bitcoin from day one.
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I am constantly surprised at the bipolar nature of HN. It ranges from intelligent and considered posts about technology to unpleasant playground posts relating to politics and especially to sexual politics.

I am usually able to sigh, roll my eye and close the browser tab but your comment 'deserved to be forked' demanded a response.

Your post wasn't intelligent, wasn't constructive and offended me.
One use of UDID is verifying in-app purchase receipts. It's demonstrated in the sample code associated with Apple's article titled "In-App Purchase Receipt Validation on iOS".

See: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/StoreK...
For those who want to see more, this is build using PGF/TIKZ, a library with one of the most extensive and awesomely looking documentations around:

http://mirror.jmu.edu/pub/CTAN/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic...
Ah, two great points: 1) the difficulty / contradictions in community manager / evangelist jobs, and 2) free speech in the US.

I am not sure where you are from - France, judging by the hour, grammar, punctuation? - but after living outside the US and having the luxury of observing my home country from the outside, I have found that free speech is not treated with as much value as we seem to claim. Some would say that free speech in the US is very much threatened nowadays.
Andrew Mason asked quite a few questions on HN as well (before Groupon got big), afaik.
Awesome metaphor! At my company we are going after all three, and I can see how narrowing down our focus with laser like precision (on deer of course) could really help define our priorities.
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