skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She didn't redefine them. As someone[0] linked upthread (which you should have seen if you're down here) racism has a sociological definition as well as a colloquial definition. A dictionary does not define words; it records their common usage. It is, by its very nature, out of date.

Regarding your example of white people in areas with a higher black population, it doesn't quite work out. Almost any other environment, you have the advantage being white. A black person doesn't have the same luxury. They can't scoot away and suddenly go back to being privileged.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5420178
Unnecessary satire. Gasoline on the ridiculous bonfire, if you ask me.
Did she go find random attendees and drag them over to her game and force them to hear her read out her cards?

No?

Oh, I guess it isn't the same thing at all then.
That's a slippery slope fallacy, and no, it's not dangerously close to that. If you make a certain kind of joke, I would have a very hard time believing you were offended by that same kind of joke when those two events happened within hours of each others.

As far as I've seen, people's atitudes towards crude jokes do not change in the space of a few hours. Maybe they might change that quickly if something significant were to happen in that space of time, but I doubt it in this case.
Hey - Garret from HipChat here. That support info is not correct, and I'll investigate. All you need to do is go to the billing admin area and select the option to cancel your paid subscription. The message there will tell you that you have 5 users and that it's OK to cancel.
Maybe - However in rebuttal I point you to the HN discussion about the pycon harassment policy, wherein some seemingly uncontroversial policy brought out a lot of surprisingly harsh and angry statements.

Clicky: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4888116
The advisory says that reading from /dev/random is fine, but reading from /dev/urandom is affected. Shouldn't cryptographic applications be using /dev/random to begin with? I was under the impression that /dev/urandom is only for when low-quality randomness is acceptable.
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That's irrelevant. Here's the concluding mark from the quote:

> but the fact that someone who's "on their side" is concerned that their feet will be held to this fire is evidence that there is a lack of empathy from all sides of the debate, and that's a bad thing.

He didn't say it was the same. He was commenting on his feelings and his perception of the social atmosphere.
Maybe they decided to only fire the person who made the joke?
It would hardly seem fair to fire the other guy if all he did was listen
three problems off the bat:
1. you have only 10 backlinks from different root domains.
2. one of them is bacnetwiki.com (yours). This can signal a backlink pyramid.
3. your server is dropping requests when pinging from holland. Something is definitely wrong here
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> [B]ecause there's the subtle implication that if she weren't a hypocrite then the sexism claim would be valid.

Waaaait a second... isn't that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent?
I've paid for hipchat in the past for managing teams in multiple timezones across the globe. Flowdock's ability to set tags and easily search conversations is great when you need to find that one temporary server password mentioned by a previous ops shift makes it much more useful in this case. Flowdock take note re: pricing.
Well, there's tons of commentary on the issue, and I think you are getting down-voted (I didn't DV you, FWIW), because you could've read or searched through them to figure out whether the other guy was fired.

The answers are: if you had seen the photo in question, you'd see that the two engineers are actually wearing PlayHaven T-Shirts, which strongly implies that if one of them works for PlayHaven, then the other does too (which was corroborated in another thread).

The other person wasn't fired because he was the recipient of the joke, rather than the producer.
Mucking up the language is a crime against understanding.

Redefining established words is not acceptable.

Anyway, this discussion is a red herring.

Adria just wants an excuse to be racist, and you're defending her.
Some people use different definitions of those words; and under those definitions, it is not true that anyone can be racist. When they talk about racism or sexism, they are talking about their manifestation in society, which is not an action one individual can take.

In this context, saying that something/someone is sexist or racist says nothing about intention, only the effect of the behavior or social structure. Further, if a behavior does not align with an existing power imbalance in society, it would not be considered x-ism; a black woman who discriminates against white men is not expressing and reinforcing an existing type of oppression, so that behavior would not be considered racist or sexist. (Remember, it's not about intentions, and it doesn't mean that the behavior is ok.)

If you think this sounds weird, please do still try to take some time to understand why this terminology arose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism#Sociological
I can see how my comment could be interpreted as hinting that Microsoft invented flat UI design, yet it wasn't the point I was trying to make as it is most likely untrue :)

What I was going for here is that even though they didn't CREATE the movement of flat UI design, they most certainly helped its most recent resurgence in the "collective mind" by placing it back on the map with their Metro interface (which I think is actually pretty sweet yet still bears the marks of the older OS UI designs of the XP/Vista/7 era).

And I somehow feel that there's a difference in treatment between Microsoft and Apple (case in point is Microsoft brilliant technology for on-the-fly translations in video conferences which blew my mind). Just to be clear about my intentions with this here comment, I dislike Windows as an OS, switched to Linux about 10 years ago and I am currently and happily running OS X, this is not fanboy-ism.
Mentioned this to my 80 year old grandmother, who has a PhD in Aerospace, said the inability to work problems out by talking was a common stereotype for women.
I think I might agree to some extent. I don't understand what section about "evangelists should be attractive" or whatever is referring to; presumably another incident? I get that it is sarcastic, but I don't understand the motivation behind that sarcasm.
If mirrors reverse left and right, why don't they  reverse up and down?
adria seems to suffer from deep-seated us-centricity; witness her insistence that "lynching" was a racially-loaded term applied to black people.
Just a heads up: Your website looks strange on Chromium "24.0.1312.56 Built on Ubuntu 12.10, running on LinuxMint 14"

http://i.imgur.com/zXmcCwC.png
Wow! I am speechless. I was so willing let her get away with the way overblown Internet meltdown, but this proves without any doubt that Adria has a pattern of such public misbehavior. Hope all her potential future employers read this one link, if nothing else.

What a vindictive sociopath!
Or perhaps... in fact...in the end... we all won?!

The situation resolved itself in a way that demonstrated that the community is tolerant of political correctness slip ups, and intolerant of those that blow them up out of proportion. But please, y'all... don't take it as a license to make puerile jokes. A little bit of extra sensitivity may be appropriate for a while.
Exactly. If I've learned anything from my time using templating libraries, it's that logic-less is the answer!
In that case is not deceptive. They are selling the culture, and you know. But if you wish them to sell (or focus) in something else, despite the fact they are selling the culture (in your words), is not their fault!

Deception is say something and do otherwise...

BTW, I don't think Apple is deceptive. Google? Yeah, but Apple is very upfront: They sell things at high-value, you get into the culture, things are they way -probably the better, if you agree-, their focus is design. Is not cristal clear that now?
That's a valid concern in general, but I don't think it applies here for the following reasons:

First, being part of a minority group and claiming offense gives you a lot of power to inflict damage on others. You are leveraging both, the legal system and very strong social stigmas. There is a reason why you are granted this power, but with power comes responsibility. If I walk on a sidewalk and bump into someone, I say I'm sorry and we go about our business. If I'm driving a 18-wheel truck and bump into someone, it's an entirely different story. We don't have a magic gauge to measure your emotional state, so we have to take your word for it. I think scrutinizing your past to ensure that what you say is at least consistent with what you do is a reasonable measure to prevent people from abusing the aforesaid power.

Second, if something wasn't offensive to you yesterday, but suddenly is today - even if I'm most sincerely trying to avoid offending you, how do I keep up with the "list of things that offend you" du jour? Do you have a protocol in mind?
Mr. Kerr is a standup guy. Not everyone agreed with his measured defense of prosecutorial conduct in Aaron Swartz's case (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5053754) but he has always been firm in opposing the misuse of the CFAA on principled and constitutional grounds. That he's defending someone that even the Reddit crowd despised (for personal reasons) is a confirmation of Kerr's respect for principles.
I imagine this would be a great way to make logos for your startup.
A bitcoin can't be eaten, why is it worth $70?

Maybe... BECAUSE it can't be eaten and has "no (economic) use". Think about it.

You save your excess production for future consumption (your retirement and/or your offspring) -- in apples and burritos?
It's not reasonable to assume negative outcomes for people you publicly display as "ass-hat" sexists to 9000+ of their peers?
/dev/urandom is supposed to provide cryptographic quality randomness. /dev/random does provide "better" randomness, in a sense, but may be blocking - it is typically used for the generation of long-term cryptographic keys (like GPG keys).
I was wondering the same thing. Anyone know?
> Furthermore, I would like to point out that facebook only knows as much about you as you tell it.

Important distinction - it knows as much about you as you and your network tell it.
I work on the IE team at Microsoft, and I really don't think this is an exploit. If you can control the script for the click event, then you already have control of the page and can do worse (think: cross-site scripting). In this case, if you browse to my site and I'm a bad guy and want to send you to evil.com, I'd just craft a page that makes you think the whole page is honorable, rather than hope you click on a link. In other words, anyone who can hack the click event already owns you.

I'm very happy to reassess if you have an example where you do not control the content of the page, but somehow still control the content of the click. That would be really serious and worth fixing.

-John Jansen
Principal Test Lead
Internet Explorer
I think SendGrid should hire mr-hank to square up the Karma on this situation.
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/subr_cprng....

Fix a security issue: when we are reseeding a PRNG seeded early in boot
before we had ever had any entropy, if something else has consumed the
entropy that triggered the immediate reseed, we can reseed with as little
as sizeof(int) bytes of entropy.
I JUST pushed this change moments ago hoping nobody would notice. I reloaded apache before I compiled assets. Thanks, though!
Why are 'spam and search' difficult-to-impossible in a native app?

For that matter, why are you equating 'the web' and 'server-side'? The standads IMAP protocol stores messages server-side while also enabling effecient server-side search. The standard managesieve protocol implements support for managing server-side filters from remote clients. Tools such as SpamAssassin perform intelligent per-user filtering server-side.

At that point, the only real differences between webmail and native clients are:

- UX

- Native clients use standardized protocols by default.
>given that they discussed the termination in the public (disclosing an opinion that he is guilty)

The actual wording is: "The result of this investigation led to the unfortunate outcome of having to let this employee go." It's not explicitly stated what (if anything) they determined he did; just that the end result was firing him.
I enjoyed the Thanks To section:

Thor Lancelot Simon for causing, finding and fixing the bug
i did too, i thought it was playful, but it was a pretty bad app performance wise on a 4 or 4s which was mind boggling.
The smaller exchanges lag behind due to a combination of low volume/liquidity and non-negligible transfer fees that prevent arbitration.
Yes they were both engineers at Playhaven. The other person was not fired. It would make little sense to fire someone for being told a joke.
They appear to be based in Colorado.
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Well, yes and no. If you're the kind of person who sometimes, in some contexts makes lewd jokes and is not offended by them, then simply being in another context when hearing them shouldn't offend you. It might make you cringe at the incongruence but it won't offend.

Furthermore, you wouldn't then see yourself as a "hero" for publicly shaming the people who made said lewd joke. Simply turning around and telling them that what they're doing isn't appropriate.

Also, it's not like those two developers were using a microphone or loudspeaker or some such device, they were just chatting away behind her and talking to each other. Sometimes we forget that people may overhear us when we talk to each other in a public setting. In that context is inappropriate speech(not sexist, not outright wrong, just inappropriate for that context) grounds for public shaming and firing when you simply could've forgotten(or not thought about) being overheard?

I just think that she went overboard with the reaction and even seeing herself as heroic for doing something like that. The fact that she makes jokes like that in a different context simply shows that it couldn't have been that offensive to her(maybe just cringe-worthy) to warrant such a reaction.
Protip? One of the posts was mine. Actually, might have been two because of a messed up registration attempt. I don't know what's a sock-puppet account, but I was going for the angelhack tickets.
maybe we should define volatility...
Yes, because the contexts are wildly different, and so are the genders of the jokers. In terms of power relations, this is exactly the same as how people of colour can use the N-word and white people can't.
The x buttons that are nearly impossible to activate, that you actually have to hit twice perfectly to do what you want, the ones that break their own UI guidelines of how big something should be so that people can use it? I feel your pain.
I don't know if this code would qualify as "heavily vetted." Thor Lancelot Simon wrote it himself and imported it himself into the tree for NetBSD v6 and onwards. Probably hasn't seen that many eyes for review.
> Didn't a lot of folks just get burned by wildly changing router APIs?

"To keep things in perspective, we froze the Ember 1.0 API a mere month ago, when we released the first 1.0 RC. Before that, we were focused on iterating the API based on feedback we received from our early adopters. We believe that our willingness to change the API allowed us to build a better product than our competitors that locked in their first attempts."

> Let them actually finish the damn thing first, then let's talk about "getting started" with it

If you'd actually read the linked post you'd see that the framework recently became effectively finished from an API standpoint. Most of the work post-RC is going to be bug fixes and documentation.
Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
I read Amanda's piece and until raganwald's it was indeed the best piece I had read so far.

Amanda however vilifies Aria because she considers her too easily offended and finds her feminist agenda obnoxious.

I don't, because I believe she has the right to be a slightly obnoxious feminist and we should be defending her right to be that, even when we don't personally agree with it.

Raganwald expresses my more deep-seated feelings on the topic much more powerfully in this well crafted piece of satire.
This is brilliant. "Nothing happens when you're offended."
I hadn't been following this case, but this was interesting.

Why has the federal government turned into such a bully? This feels like a threat to all honest citizens.
Okay, fair enough - so instead of Article URLs, I started typing names:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paulgraham
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RHashem
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RayinerHashem

To see if I could get any personal information like email addresses, profile information, etc... What if instead of usernames, they were simply integers - I.E. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=000001, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=000002, etc...

Was that unauthorized? How about illegal?

Seriously - I think Weev is a complete Troll, and he was totally hacking AT&T - but I don't think his actions came anywhere close to criminal. I"m really happy to hear he has competent representation.
(I didn't ask you the original question) I was referring back to the original situation, a guy at a conference representing his employer and signifying that by wearing their brand. By 'you' I meant the generic 'you', really.
Perhaps a better wording would be: why do you consider leg shaking to be exclusively the realm of Engineers?
I feel like that metaphor is kind of broken. One could argue that anarchy isn't the answer to a poorly run government because the benefits of governamental regulation and control outweigh those of anarchy (a position I disagree with, but that's just my opinion). What kind of benefits do central banks provide?
What Now?
Rosa Parks. Mahatma Gandhi. Aaron Swartz.
It's great to see the Ember.js team focusing on these things as the framework approaches a 1.0 release. I've built a few apps on top of Ember over the past few months and that initial learning curve was what lead me to almost abandon it.
The only time that ought to make a difference in a modern properly-implemented CSPRNG is right after system startup when very little unpredictability has made it into the pool.

Consequently, system boot scripts are just about the worst possible place to generate new keys if they didn't already exist.
If your purpose is to attract users rather than advance the web, sure.

But they _claim_ that the purpose of these demos is to advance the web.

That's not to mention that claims like "only works in Chrome" when in fact it works elsewhere happen to be lies. I guess no one worries about that sort of thing nowadays...
Yeah, but he tried to use it as an example of something that could lead someone to shame him. But... it didn't happen. I don't know many people who would shame someone for assuming an unknown programmer is a man. It sucks, because it does kind of exclude women, but the default gender in our lexicon is aliased to "male." It was pretty tough for me to stop using it and start using "they" instead. It wasn't as tough for me to stop saying dick jokes in public.

And I'd like someone to link me to where these two guys, who are still anonymous by the way, are being "lambasted around the world." Because there's only one person being lambasted, and I'll give you one guess who it is.

I don't think me disproving their example, which is essential to their point, is irrelevant. I think it's very relevant.
Well, searching in Chef isn't like querying a DB, it's a full search against Apache Solr, a nice wrapper for the Lucene search engine and is capable of various powerful searches.
Being offended by crude jokes(or finding crude jokes "wrong") is feminism? How so?
> Whatever she says on her own personal twitter feed is wholly unrelated to what happens at a professional event.

And why doesn't that logic hold for the two people who were joking amongst themselves? The parallel is : just as her twitter feed is public, and other people can "hear" her speak, these guys were making private jokes at a public event, and that is none of her business.
He doesn't. The energy at the NC datacenter is a combination of solar, fuel cells driven by biogas†, and grid power offset with purchased clean energy credits‡.

␄

† This doesn't mean that the methane molecules entering the fuel cell came from the biogas facility. The biogas gets pumped into the natural gas system, and gas comes out at the Apple spigot, but no one tags and sorts the methane molecules in between. That would be silly.

‡ Which means they pay a premium to cause renewable energy to be produced. If tagging molecules was silly in the gas section, there isn't even a physical thing you could tag on the grid. The electrons only move back and forth a few inches in the wires, and joules aren't “real”. A lot of the joules going into that grid are cheap coal, a tiny bit of them are the more expensive renewables. Apple is paying to put enough renewables in to cover their use.
Ingress is all fun and games until someone gets hurt by police.
> I'm connected and happily chatting, but then my Wifi blips and I'm disconnected. There's no chat log, so I don't know what I missed. And on crappy connections, this can happen pretty frequently.

So a bouncer + web interface, huh? I'd better get to work..
Making innuendo about forking or dongles isn't sexism because they aren't belittling any specific gender. A man could be offended by that innuendo as much as a woman. If he had said, "women only exist to get forked by big dongles," that would be sexism because he would be belittling women. Don't confuse sexual for sexism.

Making innuendo jokes to a friend is not sexual harassment either. If he had said, "hey want to see my big dongle?" to the girl, that would be harassment because he would be making unwanted sexual comments towards her.

However, he just made a joke to a friend in private, and she overheard. I'm allowed to say anything I want to my friend, even if it may be inappropriate for the setting. She was free to think of him as a jerk, or even tweet "there's a jerk behind me." (Although I don't think there's anything wrong with making an innuendo joke to a buddy, but clearly she does.) Unfortunately, publicly shaming the guy for a private comment not meant for her was totally uncalled for and puts her on the wrong side of this mess.
The end of Reader: what does it say about Google?
Remember that liquor licenses are controlled by the ABC, which is a statewide bureaucracy based out of Sacramento. Sometimes the enforcement policies of the SF authorities and the ABC diverge.

If the ABC wants to punish you, they send their own undercover agents into your bar until they see something they can write a citation for. In the case of DNA's license suspension a few years back they found some allegedly-too-raunchy patron behavior at a gay event. So it's probably not accurate to say that the ABC was punishing them for doing gay events, but they may use those events as opportunities for selective enforcement. The SFPD probably wouldn't risk the local firestorm by doing that. The ABC doesn't have to care.

This isn't relavent to the issue at hand because we're not talking about {California, ABC, Liquor License} this is {San Francisco, SFPD, Entertainment Permit}. Different set of people, different priorities.