skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that his point? Email address is a backbone of web identity simply because we don't have anything better. Maybe we should finally get around to figuring out something better?

It's a hard problem because anything real world like a identifying number is flawed for anonymity. There needs to be a unique identifier for a web entity.

It's always annoyed me that solutions like persona etc are approaching this by simply replacing email, when shouldn't they be abstracting my online identity? I hold several "personas" throughout various sites, email addresses, and applications. However, I don't want a product that simply merges them, I want a product that is more of a "meta-persona", that lets me easily track, manage, and expand them.
Speaking as someone who owned both back in 2007, the original iPhone was still a quantum leap forward from the Nokia N95.

You could bullet-point the capabilities of each device and end up with surprisingly similar lists, but the functional superiority of the iPhone was still remarkably unambiguous. It was like holding an artifact from the near future.
Why ridicule someone for making a personal choice to choose who he does business with? Adria is a part of the company's image and just like any other company they will be judged by her public actions.
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Nothing wrong with tongue-in-cheek. So long as it's something you'd be comfortable saying in front of your boss -- it's a professional conference, after all. The Code of Conduct is pretty clear.
By far the best critique of her actions---her own action.
Actually, the performance degradation to the precompiled assets is minimal - for a typical production environment it only effects your asset compiling time as the assets are served statically from your public directory.
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> Smaller cons might possibly not admit women anymore

LOL? Is he serious here? If so I have to say he is misguided about how cons weigh of priorities. No con could get sponsors while denying admittance to all females.
I Need Help
I've been an avid reader here for some time. I created an account just now so that I can hopefully remain anonymous.

I'm just going to come out and say it. I need help, very badly. I'm close to ending my life. I don't want to appear dramatic, it’s simply the truth.

It may seem strange that I'm writing this here. But after everything I've seen, I think this is the right place.

In as few words as I can manage, this is who I am. I’ll soon be 30. I started creating digital products about 3 years ago and many companies now sell them. I make a good living from this. I am healthy. In pretty much all ways on paper, I should be happy. In fact, it makes me even more depressed to know there are many people who would be happy in my shoes. Yet I can't be.

I've struggled for over 15 years with depression and anxiety. I've been prescribed pills, had therapy and yet I feel almost as bad now as I did 10 years ago. When there's a tiny problem in my work I have an anxiety attack. When I think about my life I feel hopeless and sad. I have deep self-esteem problems. Lately I've been trying to be more positive, to see things differently (because I know everything is just a point of view, especially negativity), but I can't recondition myself.

This leads me to my conclusion. All my problems are mental. They are not my circumstances. I have to recondition myself or I am going to kill myself and hurt other people as a consequence.

And to recondition myself I know I need something other than therapy, antidepressants and positive quotes. I need to hack my way through this misery.

So I'm asking anyone out there, whether you know how it feels or not is not important, for any advice you have. I promise that if it seems reasonable, I will try it.

I'm sorry to post this here. I can't help feeling it's pathetic. But I'm desperate. If this is in the wrong place, or I shouldn't have posted it here, I won't be offended if it's deleted.
Do try and see past the simple physics of the situation--it's clear that they expected any leakage in their message passing to be ignored.
As assessments of body parts the men's behavior and the Sendgrid developer evangelists's tweets are more offensive to men who are being objectified based on their dongles.

The lesser issue still exists, though, of creating a 'sexual environment' where mentions of sex may make people who believe others may wish to engage them in sexual relations may feel threatened.
I think you misread sergiotapia's comment. They were objecting to how Sendgrid was supporting the actions of Richards. The tweet seemed like a poor example.

I also don't see an issue with having non-technical attributes being part of the equation in the criteria for selecting a vendor. Price is clearly important, as can be a business' ethics; both are not technology related but can important depending on the circumstance.

Lastly Mandrill does seem like a slightly better product for the cost, but that of course might vary based on requirements.
The part where you assign a value of quality to "reddit".
Would you had visited the website, you'd known that due to its number of users and (this is important) many subreddits, assigning a value to "reddit" instead of a specific subreddit is akin to assign a value to "the internet" when in reality you meant to degrade a specific forum/website.
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Health insurance is non-negotiable and shouldn't have an employee contribution. The rest of the benefits are more negotiable. 401k becomes important in your 30s when you start realizing that you're not going to be young forever. Conference budget is a nice-to-have but conferences shouldn't come out of your vacation-- that's a fuck-you if they do.

Regarding compensation: the total package should be enough that people don't worry about money. Ever. If you're doing your job, you may not make them rich but you pay enough that people aren't worried about daily living expenses.

The issue here-- why benefits are so important-- is that VC-istan startups are in such a state where the concerns of a 45-year-old with kids are seen as freaky and unusual. There's a very large talent pool that's being overlooked.
I'm not sure how you got from the quoted portion to your conclusion. I don't need to make dick jokes to write code. I'm not lamenting the loss of base humor. I'm lamenting the guerrilla campaign against it, such as considering it okay to take photos of someone and shame them publicly without even saying a word to them as if we live in 1984. Notice I didn't type anything like "boy, I'll sure miss dick jokes," so I suspect you're either projecting or misunderstanding what I wrote.

What's next, a Web site with 'mugshots' taken by people who walk around conferences listening for inappropriate jokes? For a group of people that fears the Orwellian, some sure are applauding this action.

When did we lose, as a culture, the basic ability to open the hole that words come out of and tell someone that we're offended by them, and please stop it so I can pay attention to the talk?

Basic manners, indeed.
Well, as a co-founder, there's stuff that I'm comfortable saying to my CEO that I wouldn't be comfortable saying to a random stranger :P

But politics & religion are a touchy subject, and all things considered, the odds that someone in a crowd of 1k+ people would take a tongue in cheek joke seriously and make a big deal out of it don't feel so low.
Agreed. Feel free to get in touch if you wanna discuss further. (details in profile) I've seen this type of thing pretty much everywhere.

c) un-upgradable, there is a direct impact to business operations

I'd love to know how to measure this. Any VP of Tech/CIO would be fired if this happened.
I'm sorry if some women are totally screwing up your bro culture, but I think that's actually the point.
+1 to you for remembering the original Electronic Arts. It's been such a long long time, hasn't it?
Depends on the scheme. I was even allowed to vest mine early when I left BT and latterly Reed Elsevier - I even get to pump another 6 months into the Elsevier one. My options at 4.10 REL is currently 7.65

What you don't get is the insane tax liability on worthless shares which the USA has. In the UK you only pay tax on a gain -after subtracting your Capital Gains allowance
Ha. Good point. Mobile games. Not my thing anyway. Easy to boycott!
It's a bit dehumanizing to be forced to act like sexuality doesn't exist. This wasn't propositioning anyone, it wasn't insulting anyone, it wasn't explicit. It was a few lame jokes. I (personally) have no problem watching myself in these situations, but it always feels artificial. I'm not sure what American society is doing to women, but it leaves some of them incapable of dealing with any amount of sexuality. (Again I don't mean actually having sex, but just a lame double-entendre, delivered to a third party, without malice, makes you uncomfortable?)
my rage at the boss who fired him is only matched by my boggledness that more people are choosing to blame adria than are choosing to blame the person actually responsible.
Forget modern electronics, consider how long it would take to build a simple electric toaster from scratch:

http://www.thetoasterproject.org/
From this article:

"I saw a photo on main stage of a little girl who had been in the Young Coders workshop.
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."

Seems a tad melodramatic as a reaction to a private conversation. Seems to go with the Joan-of-Arc complex:

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313442430848487424
You mean the actions of the lead developer evangelist, a person who represents the company, on a highly public twitter account?
Indoors? Okay, yeah, that's stupid. I rescind some of my amusement.
I use OneNote already. It works beautifully because I can also add attachments and images. Think Word + Evernote.
Women in this field keep explaining how this sort of thing harms them. But when we complain we are "no one"!
Regardless of how you feel about this incident, the hate filled comments and threats Adria is receiving on her facebook are absolutely disgusting and aren't helping the cause.
"Sexism is not at issue here."

I got the impression reading Adria's blog post that she thought she was responding to sexism. Sexism is what most everyone is responding to in this event -- real or imagined.

The problem is that the way Adria responded, in part, harmed people that didn't deserve harm (and if they did deserve it, it shouldn't be up to her to mete it out -- which by taking it public she is effectively doing). She should have kept their identities anonymous unless it was necessary to do otherwise.

In a culture that strives to be politically correct (no negative connotation intended), any egalitarian issue can be wielded like a weapon. I think Adria was aware of that, and so I think she deserves a fair amount of blame for the events that followed her actions.
Maybe its my social group but something like that would even cause any of us (more women in tech) to even bat an eye.

My sense is that she herself didn't bat much of an eye until she decided that it was a problem. If you read her account, she acted in order to protect a photograph:

I saw a photo on main stage of a little girl who had been in the Young Coders workshop.

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.

The details in her account are very interesting, given the putative motivators behind her actions.

http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont...
Actually this is no longer true. Last year DefCon recently changed this policy because they kind of recognized the world has kind of changed and moved in a pretty fundamental way and maybe it wasn't the most valid thing anymore.

There's still some sorts of "it's not super cool to take pictures of specific people" vibe going on, but it's definitely no longer a "no pictures allowed" type of situation.
thanks for your links, I also found a seemingly infinite amount on tmblr http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/roy%20lichtenstein
Anyone can be harmed by anything. I'm a female and those kinda jokes do not make me uncomfortable at all, however some other non-typical random things do that i can never expect anyone to know about. i understand its my responsibility to handle my own emotions and feelings
Apparently the con agreed that it was offensive behavior, and so did the employer.
So it is now "insane" to hold a company responsible for the actions of someone who was specifically representing that company in an evangelist role at an event? I can't believe this point even passed through your head much less ended up being typed out and passed off as a logical statement, where you are actually, get this, attempting to mock someone else. wtf man...
And I just finally got my SendGrid t-shirt..
Guys!... this is obviously an early April fools Google site, mistakenly released early.
Google Notebook was filled with flaws. I used it quite a bit for a large number of subjects, but once the news came out it was getting the axe, I migrated over to another platform (there were plenty available and easily located) and that was that.

If people don't want to deal with that hassle then stay using what you have. I use Evernote right now, have it synced across multiple computers and two mobile devices. I may switch to Keep, I may not - but the whole Google Notebook being shut down isn't going to deter me from using a future Google Service.

If Google Keep ends up being a lackluster service then I should expect it to go away. Hopefully it won't, however from my experiences with Notebook, I'm extremely confident that even if it does, I won't lose any data.
I read the grandparent comment as more of a "We don't trust you, therefore we won't invest in your new service, therefore you won't get the use out of it you expect, therefore you will kill it, and the prophecy is fulfilled."

Google is doing something which I didn't think was possible, which is to teach a vast marketplace that "free" isn't real.

I've had the conversation with lots of people about how free services are unsustainable because they incur real costs, and like a ponzi scheme you run out of suckers eventually who are willing to put in new money. And yet if you're collecting new users then there is some "value" there. But like shale oil of old, if you can't convert the 'value' into cash to fund operations, its not worth anything.

Google is in a unique position to train the billions of Internet users that you want something, you pay for it, if you aren't paying for it, it goes away at any time. So when the person running the 'free' service says 'time to pay up' you don't complain, you either pay or do without.

That was an impossible conversation to have during Web 1.0, it's being forced on Web 2.0, and I expect will be the foundation of Web 3.0.
It used to be called 'being a grown-up'. Somehow being a man-child became not just acceptable, but celebrated.
"You worry they're talking about you..."

I may not be an expert on human anatomy, but I think women don't have penises? So your analogy does not apply to this situation.
Waiting on Google Discard.
I would hate to work where you work. Workplace nerf fights are pretty fun, team bonding on the cheap you could say.
A gun...over patents? I think you may be diluting the topic for some reason.
Wait, joking about a body part that women don't have isn't offensive but makes women feel unsafe?

WTF?
I agree they had that expectation. But that's the problem.

There are situations where they'd know it's not ok to make sexual jokes. They would not be making these jokes at a funeral, or at a niece's dance recital, or over dinner with their grandmothers.

Note also that they were in conversation with Adira seconds before they made the joke, so it's not entirely clear to me that they could even reasonably expect that they be ignored.
What's confusing to me is that it is unclear exactly what comments were made. Something about "forking" repositories and big dongles. It would be much easier to take a "side" if this were made clearer.... (one reason I'm not outright defending Adria here is that she is very specific in some details in her post, but when it comes to the actual jokes made she appears deliberately vague).

What's wrong with lewd comments, in ''general''? Men and women make them all the time, even in professional contexts. I had to suffer a summer working in an office with 90% female staff and some of the conversations there.. well, I learned a lot! One woman there spent a substantial amount of time lecturing me (aged 17) about how men could benefit from using feminine hygiene products to keep our junk smelling nice. And, yes, I've been in offices where I've cringed at some of the comments made by guys in the presence of girls.

The point is: in specific lewd behaviour isn't good, and perhaps these guys were crossing the line by having their jokes in such a public venue.

But the heat here is ridiculous, from both "sides". And is really rather detracting from core gender issues.

Every industry has sexism issues. I've worked in a few different jobs and seen this; and it works both ways. Some jobs are hell for women, some are hell for men. It's a broad societal issue that isn't helped by witch hunts, either against these guys or against Adria.
Because people don't respect those requests and just joke more, get hostile, mock us. It is not about personal publicity. The fallout from reporting incidents like this (or documenting them at all in public) is extreme. It isn't good for the reporter.
Just curious. Do you say that because of the behavior of the men making the comments, or because of Adria's reaction to those comments?
So it's out of the solar system - but is it in interstellar space?

Reading the Bad Astronomy blog entry got me thinking about the Oort Cloud - perhaps that is the real interstellar space (within the galactic plane) - beyond the Bow Shock and at a size of 1.5-3.0 LY with a spherical distribution, the cloud edge is closer to some of our nearest stars (notably Alpha Centauri, whose binary mass is 2 solar masses) than to the sun.

Perhaps the Oort Cloud is interestellar space - in which case, V1 hasn't gotten there yet.
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Cross-posting my held-in-moderation comment to her post here:

"I calculated my next steps." => I'm sorry but that just feels wrong.

You actively tried to harm these guys (and succeeded). I'm pretty sure they weren't "calculating" their bad jokes to hurt your feelings.

Instead of an absurdly long post you should probably just have mentioned their bad taste, apologised for getting somebody fired and tried to resolve this issue as peacefully as possible instead of blowing it up.

No, the future of programming wasn't on the line yesterday. Yes, you made yourself heard but in way that (so far) has only done harm to this community.
A tweet and a blog post that named and shamed two people, personally, in what I believe to be the biggest example of blowing something out of proportion in recent memory.

So if I get this right..

Someone says a joke that offends you, in earshot, but not to you, and you take this as your opportunity to photograph them, get them kicked out of a con, fired, pilloried in public? And then you take to your blog to defend yourself (not really) with an incessant repeating of "I'm in the right! I'm in the right!" (paraphrased)

Let me say this as clearly as I can: Anyone who would engage in the behavior described in the previous paragraph is a colossal fucking idiot of the highest caliber, who I would think very long and hard about hiring or retaining employment for any job that required any kind of public interaction.

I am having trouble mustering words for how angry this makes me. Time to get off the internet for a while.
No. It has a separate police force, but I don't think the boundaries are as strict as they are for, say, state boundaries in the US. Pretty sure a Met Police Car wouldn't stop a pursuit because it entered the city.

//edit//Although in Victorian times I believe it did inhibit attempts to capture Jack the Ripper.
Were it ok if they were instead small, wimpy guys?
They were sitting in an audience with over ten people inside of ten feet. It doesn't matter how private you want your conversation to be, in that kind of setting you will be overheard and should act accordingly.
Sorry kids, he's dead on balls accurate with his posting. I've been saying the same thing for years to startups that want to hire me. Risk/reward makes no sense for anyone but founders. The only way is if you're pretty sure they'll get acquired and you get a good bump in comp. from it. Otherwise nobody senior level should be working for any of these startups today. Go look at AngelList and see how pathetic these offers are for senior level people. Offers for the same money I made in 2000. Talent shortage my ass. More like moron that's a good developer shortage.

Feeling better everyday about bailing on the whole startup world and taking a job at a giant tech company. Way less stress, more money, time, and freedom.

Eff YC and eff the startups that are continually lowballing developer talent.
There’re many reasons to found a startup, very few to work for one.

There are good startups out there. I'm almost notorious for startup-bashing because so many of them have awful cultures, but there are decent small/new companies out there. You'll probably have to look outside of VC-istan. VC-istan seems to appeal to the Clueless (see: MacLeod hierarchy) young who will jump at the chance to work "at a startup!" without discrimination.

I know someone who's actually looking at building a startup without equity. He will hold 100% of the stock, at least at first. Variable pay will be profit-sharing. He wants this company to last 20+ years without acquisition, so instead of putting the focus on a future cash-out, he wants people to be rewarded continually for good work.
Thanks for the lesson in how to fix our oppression.
I think it does, but that's not necessarily the reason why you don't work with diverse races. If I hire five white people, that doesn't mean I'm racist. If I hire five white people in preference to five black people, that means I'm racist. The sexism angle here is similar.

I also disagreed with shaming the conference that scheduled all white male speakers, as it was very likely unintentional and indicative of nothing larger except incompetence. People look for any reason to turn something into a Big Deal.
I would hope that early adopters know the risks of early adoption.
Just say "hashtag joke" after saying something offensive. Problem solved.

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312293950058815488
Y, I've have several other friends with similar competitions at their companies, prizes handed out every few months. Fitbit isn't the only brand of fitness monitors.

Good HR departments are handing them out as part of Open Enrollment and Health programs.
So now when you google this chick you'll see she likes to start trouble and doesn't appreciate dongle humor. When you google Playhaven you'll see they fire people arbitrarily and also don't appreciate dongle humor.

And you'll see Mr. Dongle loves a good dongle joke and is entertaining to have around at a boring seminar. I think I know who comes out on top here.
If you wanted your scenario to be equivalent, you should have had the men making jokes about the size of their dicks.

If the two men at PyCon were making jokes about how virgin vaginas were the best, I don't think they would be getting the outpouring of support that they seem to be getting from the tech community.

You're very bad at crafting illuminating tales.
You are implying that any joke that is sexual is also inherently sexist.
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