skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just among YC companies from one public list I saw, I'd consider highly meaningful:
Errplane, Microryza, Watsi, Eligible, Plivo, Matterport, PlanGrid, PerVices, Parse, Meteor, Comprehend, DrChrono, Mailgun, Pebble, Upverter, AeroFS, Stripe, Mixpanel, Octopart, ...

(Personal bias: healthcare, developer tools, hard tech -- other people probably have different preferences)

Tesla or SpaceX or Cryptography Research or Flylogic might top these, but any would be better than Wells Fargo, IMO.
Adria is an idiot because of this. She's also an anti-white racist, and often says things that are blatantly sexist about men, which is hilarious because she's constantly going on about racism and sexism as if she's the last line of defence in a world of intolerance.

I've lost what little respect I had for this woman. She should be boycotted from participating in events like this in the future, as far as I'm concerned.
I don't want to take sides here, but I do take issue with the claim that the "forking" thing was fabricated, or was irrelevant, because the intent of the person who spoke it was not sexist or even meant as a joke. The fact is, the way language is interpreted by the listener is far more important than how it was meant by the speaker. And it should be pretty obvious that the phrase "I want to fork his repo" could be easily construed as being a crude sex joke.
That's not the author's point. He was giving a definition relevant to the situation. Pycon happened in the US, so if there are complaints about freedom of speech at the event, the complainer is no doubt talking about freedom of speech laws in the US.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean you get say whatever you want whenever you want without any repercussions.
Yeah, I was just kind of curious to hear what other premium users were experiencing. I assume anyone who goes premium has a need like mine. Oh well. Lesson learned: Don't talk smack about a Y Combinator company on Y Combinator. The proprietors have a magical downvote button.
In the comment you are replying to, I linked to an announcement that describes how to make this sort of widget.
Are you seriously suggesting the code of conduct applies to PRIVATE conversations between TWO people who obviously know each other? It is not like they meant to offend somebody. I am assuming they weren't talking loudly but rather meant to converse between each other. How I talk to my buddy is no ones fucking business.

How about you tell your friend of of those an American, a Russian and a German walk into a bar jokes, someone overhears it, snaps a picture and announces to his twitter following what a xenophobic asshole you are?
I think it's worth noting that Alex's name badge was clearly displayed and he was prominently framed in the photo. I believe the image and caption published by Ms. Richards implies his involvement. Possibly others in the photo as well.
Engineers/designers are not as good at negotiating than people in sales/biz-dev.
BS. I'm getting sick and tired of people not taking responsibility for their actions.

Now I do agree with you somewhat. I doubt she saw this "joke" as an opportunity to screw someone over (at least I hope so. If she did, then all bets are off); but that doesn't excuse her wrong. Her actions caused this guy to be fired. She needs to own it. Apoligize, Offer amends and move on.
You are not wrong.

That was the point of the preface (on being transparent)--to make it clear that I, too, fail and trend toward auto-acceptance of charges of sexism (or other discrimination) based on the assumption that if someone is actually offended, there must be something to it and it would be best to be mindful of one's actions (including my own).

I don't intend to foster a double standard, and I don't often experience women being sexist (except when they, too, objectify other men or women in homologous fashion as that for which men are derided).

However, this particular case struck me as having too many exigent circumstances (many of which are recounted by Adria in her blog post) that provide very strong evidence that this was the wrong fight, and the consequences of her actions are both regrettable and deplorable.
Here's my blame attribution

10% - The guys. Yea, a bit moronic to make a private adult joke that can be heard by others in a professional setting. But even in a real job setting, they'd just get a reprimand from HR and that'll straighten most of them out.

40% - Adria. It's getting evident that she went out of the way to take offense and sees herself as Joan of Arc (superiority complex?). She tries to make herself the center of the story. Extra credits for implying in her twitter feed that every criticism she's getting is from trolls.

50% - The company which fired the guy. Are you kidding me? Unless there's a backstory or a history of such behavior from the guy, it's awfully cruel to rob a guy of his livelihood without weighing all the facts. Yea, do an internal reprimand.. but FIRING?! Crazy people heading the company.

0% - PyCon organizers.
0% - Adria's employers.
Sounds like a looming PR disaster because of a serious error in dealing with a perceived inappropriate comment (even if we discount eavsdropping on a private conversation being considered bad manners).

Sendgrid should be sending people who have enough skill and experience to know how to represent their company and what they stand for. This includes basic manners and enough insight to remember that all their actions are a direct official reflection of the company ethos.

Right now, their reputation just took a serious hit in my books because they feel best represented and aligned with someone who does not get basic courtesy (don't listen to other peoples private conversations) and think it's cool to damage someone's career and have them fired because of what they say in private by making highly public criticisms and maximising their distribution (i.e. twitter).

It did cause me to have a quick check over my mail scanning logs for a number of my clients and Sendgrid do seem to be a source of lots of complaints from my customers for spam. This whole thing pretty much cements my intention to just block their traffic in future without asking too many questions instead of suggesting customers use the opt-out links. It will cut down my own work and based on this incident I think I'll be doing my customers a favor.
I understood that was what the gel in question did, contained the bleeding to prevent bleeding out before medical aid could be given. But, that it was not preventing the bleed from continuing internally.

As you may guess I have basically no medical training so I may well have misunderstood.
Please clarify if it is in fact the policy of the company you work at that employees should be "worrying about their job" based on the contents of their Twitter accounts.

If so, please let me know so I can ensure that I never work with you.
There's been a few people suggesting that, if you are bitten by a bug, you fix it and submit a pull request. That's a good idea. I did exactly this to a regression introduced in 3.2.9, complete with a unit test and a pull request against 3-2-stable and one against master. It took two months to get anyone to look at it, and while one of the two pull requests has a thumbs-up, it's still not been merged. Admittedly, this isn't a security issue as far as I can see, but still.
The plural of anecdote is not data.

The facts are that Evernote has in excess of 30M users, with lots of paying users and growing rapidly. There is no evidence that this mythical complexity is affecting adoption.

And I don't see how Google Drive and Evernote are competition. Very different use cases.
> google doesn't aim at tens of thousands, it aims at millions.

I think that is a bit simplistic in terms of why they shut Reader down. Reader was in conflict with their G+ strategy, distracting millions of highly influential people out of G+ and into a cannibalising product and technology (RSS) with no clear G+ integration path. Google wants those people using G+. Even if only 10% of them convert to G+ thats better than 100% of them using Reader and living outside the G+ bubble. I suspect Reader was in the awkward situation of being too small for Google to devote a major product / engineering effort to migrate it's features into the G+ world but too big for them ignore and just leave running as a side project.
Personal vendetta or not. A person that reacts to a private conversation (inappropriate or not) by posting hearsay about two co-workers to 1000s of followers the way she did is NOT a person I would want to work with, even less hire. She has at the very least shown very bad judgement and should not be commended nor rewarded for it.
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> What's professional is defined by the context.

What's professional is just meaningless uptightery. What actually matters is getting shit done, and treating others well.
Why didn't she just stand up and say something in a loud and authoritative voice? Wouldn't that have lent at least as much credence to her words as her tweet did without the permanent public embarrassment?

To put it bluntly, Social media is a complicated echo chamber fomenting sentiment into an explosion of mob mentality. Using it for this sort of point reflects negatively on the perpetrator, but also the victim. The public embarrassment of a loud plea for discretion would've sufficed.

This is just my opinion as a Monday morning quarterback, and while I don't think Dick jokes are appropriate at PyCon, I also don't think the reaction was appropriate.

This was not an eye for an eye.

The part where she makes a Phallic joke the next day via Twitter really set me off and it's probably the main reason I'm writing this reply.
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I'm based in the UK, but work with American clients, my rate is £45 / hour, which is currently about $68 / hour.

To give some perspective, I do Rails, PHP, JavaScript, and front end, and I've got around 6 years experience.
Accusations? There's nothing to be taken on faith in the post. All facts are backed up by proof. There's nothing to "trust". Just stuff to agree/disagree with.
People used to conduct themselves with at least a bit of decorum and that affected 'free speech' very little.

Manners, common sense and general pleasantness seem to have been completely forgotton.
> I don't think anyone takes issue with talking to the PyCon organizers and even having them removed from the conference.

They were not removed from the conference.
"However, I must emphatically and proudly express that I do not support the negation and devaluing of women's (as well as ethnic, [other] cultural, LGBT, etc.) rights by way of reactionary countering with a "men's rights" movement."

Then you don't support equality. Men have the same amount of gender equality issues (maybe even more) than women in Western countries.

"From a historical perspective alone"

History has no relevance to the fact tha men today have about the same mount of gender equality issues. In addition, just because the majority of rulers and people in power were men, that doesn't mean the majority of men were in power. In fact, rulers, politicians and CEOs constitute less than 0.1% of the population. You cannot prove anything about the average man by talking about an extremely tiny minority. Meanwhile in history men have been forced to fight bloody wars, work to death in horrible conditions etc.

"More abstractly, a "men's rights" movement would, I think, offer very little gain to humanity as a whole"

It would gain a huge amount of well-being. Such a movement is required so politicians will also try to fix gender equality issues that men face.

List here: http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/uwekw/facts_and_...
Warning regarding the comments here: r/MensRights has recently taken an interest in HN regarding this case. A recent HN thread on this same topic is linked on the homepage[1], and there's been discussion of HN in particular here[2].

There's an agenda being pushed. Furthermore, the above PasteBin alleges the forking innuendo was pure fabrication in an attempt to paint Adria as a liar; the full story right from the source is found here[3].

The narrative being pushed is the same old feminism-has-gone-too-far crap where we live in a world in which men are terrorized by women who have the power to destroy lives with the snap of their fingers. Recognize this angle, ponder its absurdity, then form your own opinion.

Some other links to r/MensRights posts, in which Adria is called a "stupid twitter bitch" and a "terrorist" (yes, actually): [4] [5]

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1aofm4/programme...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1algtc/woman_at_...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681

[4] http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1ao6mu/reaction_...

[5] http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1aonpl/thoughts_...
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Does HN have a 'Flag Death Threat' tickbox?

It would be appropriate to submit the poster's contact information to the San Francisco police, and perhaps the FBI.

In the meantime, please flag the parent's post into oblivion. To do so, click 'reply' to the parent's post. Above the text entry field is a link that says 'flag'.
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If it were private, it wouldn't have happened with people nearby to hear it and the photo wouldn't have depicted dozens of people surrounding.
What's private about a conversation taking place in a busy ballroom at a convention, within full earshot of (probably) dozens of people?
Treating others well is typically thought of as a component of professionalism. How you "get shit done" is another component of it.
Or do what you love despite the financial consequences.

Some people will happily choose to wait tables in order to do what they love. Ain't freedom grand?

Fortunately it's a choice most of us get to make. If you're good at something, but hate doing it, you can still do it for the money. If you suck at something, and love doing it, you can do it anyway and suffer financially (and perhaps get better at it and then make money). It's a question of priorities.
These are not "another job" candidates. These are A grade candidates who are not desparate enough to take any lame offer they get (unlike recent grads with little experience).

When someone in the valley says "there is a shortage of talent", what they really mean is... there is a shortage of "talent willing to work for a pathetic salary".
Are you sure about that? For example, http://tap.usf.edu/what-is-tap/state-policies/ (I went to USF not FSU, but both are Florida schools) says:

> No USF employee may receive any money in exchange for requiring a textbook. However, if the professor is the author, royalty payments may be received.

It references and quotes Florida Statutes 1004.085. "An employee may receive: ... Royalties or other compensation from sales of textbooks that include the instructor’s own writing or work."

Just in case you don't think FSU or USF are reputable, I found http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1985/10/4/sandel-donates-b... from Harvard, back in 1985:

> Harvard has no policy on whether professors can profit on the sale of texts to students in their classes. The University leaves that decision to the individual instructor, according to faculty officials.

or more recently (Harvard, 2008) http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/3/4/professors-find-d... :

> Since N. Gregory Mankiw returned to Harvard to teach the College’s introductory economics class, 2,278 students have filled his weekly lectures, many picking up the former Bush advisor’s best-selling textbook, “Principle of Economics” along the way. ... So, what has professor of economics Mankiw done with those profits? ... “I don’t talk about personal finances,” Mankiw said, adding that he has never considered giving the proceeds to charity.

Given that Florida law doesn't prohibit collecting royalties and that a Florida school and a Massachusetts school both allow collecting royalties from assigning one's own text books for class, I think the burden of proof is on you to show that "most reputable universities don't let you do that."

(In any case, I went to university about 20 years ago, and the laws and rules were different than. But it doesn't look like it's changed all that much.)
This wasn't the workplace first of all. This was a conversation (albeit a dumb one) between two friends. Last time I checked, I didn't need to worry about everyone's delicate sensibilities when I was speaking with my buddies. Also, she wasn't harmed, the way you are using that word takes away all meaning it has. She was offended. That's it.

I would understand if they were saying a sexist joke or saying a joke that perpetuated some stereotype but all they were doing was saying a stupid joke about dongles and forking. How could that offend anyone that wasn't looking to be offended?
Fefe is by no means "most Europeans", though he is quite well known as a ("political nerd") blogger in Germany. His comment on the matter, however, is less that of pointing and laughing and more that of worry, especially considering that there were some mild(er/ish) issues along similar lines in the wake of the 29C3.

As a quick and dirty(!) translation of this blog post: http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=afb76b8d

"The 'sexual harassment'-story at US computer conferences is escalating further. This has poisened the climate to a degree where I fear the sentiment towards women is shifting from 'great, we need more [of them]' towards 'risk, risk, stay away, better not to say anything'. Smaller cons might possibly not admit women anymore [in the future], just to avoid being subject to such risks. This is all very unfortunate [or: distressing/regrettable]. (Thanks, Michael)"

Everything in square brackets '[' & ']' serves as clarification.
I never claimed the award was for autocratic leaders exclusively, but if an autocratic leader had a chance of winning "Peace Prize" it was probably this award alone.
Right. So my proposal is to offer more equity. Yours is a higher salary. I think we're mostly in agreement.

My view is that a startup is inherently risky and unstable. I think it makes more sense for everyone to share fully in that (risk and reward), than for some employees to simply collect a paycheck. But that's how some talented people work, so I suppose you have to be flexible.
Rich money managers are not good angel investors. Slow to act, risk averse, no value add.

London has plenty of rich people, but they're usually old money heirs, or Russians/Middle-Easterners/etc. who didn't make money from tech, or people who work in the City. Not people who got rich by being employee 1-500 at Google, Yahoo, eBay, etc.
Ha like I will ever enter into dependence on another Google app.
"fairly freaky population of misogynists on reddit"

Wrong.

"Don't be fooled. The Men's Rights subreddit is just thinly veiled misogyny, often with some white supremacy thrown in the mix."

Wrong.
Who cares?

Also, what sort of moron fires an employee because a photo of him is on the Internet?
> Skewering someone in public on the Internet like that is immature and irresponsible. There are a million better ways she could have dealt with this.

I'm pretty sure relating and disclosing a situation that happened in a public place fully to the best of her ability shouldn't be something we call irresponsible. In fact, women who do otherwise are often asked to disclose in exactly the manner she did.

No matter how a woman chooses to address something like this, there's always someone who wants to talk about how she should have addressed it differently.
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I think your underestimate the strength of the YC network. I've worked at a YC startup before as an early employee (early enough to go to some events). I'm fairly sure if a YC founder's startup failed, the founders would get snapped up by another YC startup.
I totally agree. It was a private conversation, a maybe gross but not offending remark, it should have been treated as such. Most women I know here (Italy), if offended -- very ulikely -- would have risen to the occasion and destroyed the guy with a casual joke. :)
What's the abuse? She described what happened right next to her.
"Fork his repo" is a reference to git. There is nothing sexual about it.

Here's a repo for my hackerspace's website. At the top right of the page is the word "fork".

https://github.com/heatsynclabs/new-hsl

It's worth pointing out that Adria isn't a developer, and might not have realized that this wasn't a sex joke, he was talking about flattering somebody by forking their git repo.
Well Tory boroughs sold off a lot of the social housing stock and in at least one case where caught trying to use it to gerrymander - there are senior torys hiding out in countries with now extradition to the UK to this day.

Ironically one of the recipients of this council housing sell off in Westminster I worked with was a very left wing lesbian - She had great fun at election times with the Tory election canvassers.
Not only is your argument cogent, Adria's reaction was overtly hypocritical because she made the very same kind of joke a week ago:

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425

Because she apparently approves of this type of humor between friends, and she has in fact demonstrated it herself in public, I'm actually really confused about where she's coming from and having trouble relating to her motives for doing this.
I call BS. Sure, you could spin it that way. You could also spin it the other way: a startup that doesn't offer benefits doesn't care about making their employees' lives easier, and thus not offering benefits is a negative signal to potential employees.
In her blog post, Adria writes:

"I realized I had to do something or she would never have the chance to learn and love programming because the ass clowns behind me would make it impossible for her to do so."

Hey, that's a strong claim.

This sounds like an anger management problem to me.

She writes that she's been on the road for ages. Sounds like she's exhausted, and needs a break. I used to react over-the-top to stuff like this, and used to work with others who did. I think the more politically aware you are, and the more your ideals and goals are at odds with how much of society is, the more effort you need to put into being able to deal with the inevitably strong feelings that come your way daily, unless you choose to just avoid being around stuff that triggers you, assuming that's even possible.
"But yeah, aside from a few outlying examples,"

It's nost just a few outlying examples.

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/uwekw/facts_and_...