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[Adria hatred] does nothing but burn bridges, and undermines the original problem (the dev being fired) in the first place. If the community instead rallied around the dev & asked him to get reinstated, rather than attacked Adria, it would have ended differently.

It's a sad commentary on how corporations work that most of us, viscerally, knew this to be impossible. Reversing a termination-- even an unjust one-- doesn't happen. Executives can't actually admit to a mistake like that. Backtrack on a wrong decision? What are you, some kind of communist? If you're the type who actually admits that you're wrong (which, ya know, happens to all of us) you don't get to be an executive.

The best we can hope for is that the guy gets a decent severance and that someone hires him at a "Dongle Guy Premium".
Intentionality has nothing to do with it? The problem is if we played your game everything we do or say could be sexist. You could argue the act of programming is some sort "performance" of male dominion over women or some such sociological jibber jabber. If you combine that with the well known law that there's always someone in the world that think just about any crazy thing could name, you're always in danger of offending someone.

I stopped in a local donut shop a couple weeks ago and there was a patron with his child that was horribly offended that the shop had a TV in the store and it was turned on (to some benign news channel) without even the volume on. I could tell it was one of those crazy people that don't even want their children to even know TV exists, he kept going on and on about "I can't believe they would have a TV." Long story short, the fact that you're alive will offend someone.

In this case, I don't believe Adria was offended. She is inauthentic to me.
Um... I think you commented on the wrong thread. This one's ACTUALLY about PyCon

Amanda's thread is here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419071
Are you talking about BTC-E? Because I noticed that as well, until someone pointed out that they're in Russia and it's nearly impossible to move USD out of there, making arbitrage just a nice idea that can't really happen.
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I was drinking with an Asian co-worker at work today and something somewhat relevant came up. A 3rd coworker asked my Asian coworker "Are you ok? Your face is red and puffy". And then he stated that Asians (saying all Asians is probably a generalization, but for this example let's assume it is true) lack an enzyme to process alcohol and that Asians are essentially allergic to alcohol. Under this definition, would it be racist to say that all other races except for Asians are inferior at processing alcohol? Even if the following is true: alcohol was less prevalent in Asian cultures and that is probably why they never evolved to possess the same enzyme, which was stated by the other coworker.
> The complete result of 3D art is the rendering, not the model.

Well, yeah, but who was talking about 3D art?

What you are saying is exactly what annoys me about most existing sites where people share and/or present their 3D models: They are all primarily used by 3D artists. Even GrabCAD which is supposedly "from engineers for engineers" is full of 3D art which is more or less useless for any purpose other than visualization (I think this is because the internet is the natural place for the rendered picture to be used, while the natural place for the solid model might be a workshop or an FEM simulation software).

Don't forget that besides visualization, solid models are also used in fabrication, simulation, mechanical prototyping, etc! I for one welcome that somebody tries to offer a platform not geared towards 3D visualization but just models.
Nonsense. She wrote in all caps that a class of people "CANNOT" be racist in all caps like a loony bird. She wasn't making some deep intellectual point. Come on. It was stupidity. It's not the same as a layperson describing gravity in terms of some basic understanding of Newtonian physics and a physicist describing it in terms of general relativity. It was just dumb.
EETimes used to do an annual salary survey of various types of embedded/EE/system engineers, but I can't find a recent one. It's behind a paywall perhaps.
Without overgeneralizing too much, Europe does not have the same culture of political correctness as the US does. If someone makes a joke people get offended less quickly. In this case people would just think of the jokers as immature and move on.

The only exception I can think of is concerning the holocaust.

EDIT: Anyway, I can recommend anyone to live in another culture for some time in their life. First you will feel alienated or even offended by many of the things you hear and see. However if you look deep enough (and many people don't) you will understand that neither your culture nor theirs is right.
It's entirely dependent on context and who's doing the delivery. If someone makes an unwanted comment towards you, gay or straight, you can laugh it off and make a joke back that it isn't going to happen. If they continue even after you've made it clear you aren't receptive, that's harassment. And finally, if there's a systematic coverup of the unwanted advance that would be sexism.

Trying to accuse two guys of making an inappropriate joke of sexism is serious embellishment. She was merely trying to get hits on Twitter because sexism witch hunts are en vogue and it backfired. Witch hunts do nothing to cure the world of witches.
I agree, Amanda Blum's blogpost is great.

Adria did a disservice to other women in IT. Also the whole "Joan of Arc" thing and "I'm fighting for the future of female developers" stuff were hilarious. I don't get how this benefits anybody. How can "I'd fork that guy's repo" be sexist? In which context? "I'd fork that guy/girl" can be, in a way (if you're Adria perhaps), termed sexist/misogynic/misoandric (yeah, lol) but IRL... Only "evangelists", PR and lawyers would do such a thing.

I'd said to my GF (yeah, she's a dev too) that I wanna fork her multiple times and I didn't get one slap or my face plastered over the internet... Behaving like a total enabler she laughed and ... She should have reported me, I'd let her know when she wakes up. Or better yet, post my pic on #sexist or something, because that's what sane people do.

Now being serious. Using offensive jokes is not appropriate. Using offensive jokes in my crowd is kind of expected. Using them outside my crowd. Big no no. I don't deem sex jokes fall in inappropriate. Sexist/racist/N-ist jokes however do. If someone got offended, I'll apologise. Promptly. Like a SANE PERSON. I don't plaster his/her face over the public 'net.

All this was a cold and calculated move that backfired (this time). It has surely done more harm than good. If any good at all. The state in the industry is now much better than it was 10-15 years ago and we should continue driving that forward. Only trust, cooperation and the direct approach in conflicts, not us-versus-them mentality, will drive that change.
Don't even get me started on the Android "back button". I am still regularly baffled by its behaviour. Especially when combined with the "app within an app" you get when one app launches into another. Except not really.

Android Police has a great writeup on Android design weirdness with a section titled 'The Back Button - Let's Just Rename It "Shuffle" '

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/02/04/stock-android-isnt-p...
Are we forgetting the BTC crash of 2011? I think it was around the $2 mark in November, 2011 (down from a previous high of like $35).
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But how can you know what someone will find to be a trigger? Someone can find almost anything offensive for some reason, or have it remind them of a bad experience. If they were being particularly graphic, of course, that would be inappropriate, but even if this was a wiggley-eyebrows wink wink nudge nudge sexual innuendo, it still seems pretty harmless (other than going against PyCon's rules which is bad). I could get offended, as a vegetarian, by someone saying they're so hungry they could eat a horse - or if I were anorexic, maybe that would be a trigger?

The alternative seems to be that we all become humourless drones, just in case any of our humour offends someone. Maybe I'm biased though, as a Brit: if we didn't have sexual innuendo, we couldn't get up in the morning (wink wink nudge nudge). It's as essential as our morning breakfast tea.
> Only as anyone mining the web for esoteric code will attest, anything written in standard C since probably the mid 80s and using only the ANSI C standard library can still be fed to a compiler today and produce perfectly functioning code, taking advantage of every advancement in compiler technology in the 30 years that have followed.

Have you ever actually tried this? It doesn't work.
Stop propagating the tired meme of 'using x gave us an advantage over other startups". When there is no way to quantify your claims.
Have to agree with you. I have a fairly messed up background for this, and prejudice based on race is racism. Any other name for it is just foolishness.
Ahh! Yes, sorry, I middle clicked & both were .wordpress.com domains. Thanks!

Moving to -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419071
Exactly. This is the problem.

Android exasperates the problem by occasionally having interactive elements which look exactly identical to non-interactive elements. In "Settings>About>Phone Identity" I see 6 cells in a table. None of them look interactive. I would be 83% correct. One of them is. What is its behaviour? Tap to find out! Tapping "Phone name" results in a dialog with keyboard entry.

Also, in some menus the cells have a switch on the right side. Tapping the switch of course toggles it. But for some of them, tapping the cell that contains the switch will toggle the switch and for others, there's an entirely other context hidden behind that cell! Tapping the cell brings you to another screen, instead of toggling the switch. How are these discoverable? This is insane.
This is, by far, one of the bests posts I've seen about the Adria situation, because it isn't entirely biased to one side.
Amanda (the post author) notes that "[nobody] won," which is the signifying action as to why this is so important. Adria was threatened and hated upon over an overreaction. While she definitely didn't do the right thing initially, the best move would have been to mitigate damage, both from Play Haven & SendGrid. If both companies had apologized, they would both be better off for it, and it wouldn't have resulted in any DDoSing or threats.
I'm disappointed at all of the reactions attacking Adria, because they're the exact thing she was trying to prevent in the first place (sexism, hatred), because it wasn't constructive. It does nothing but burn bridges, and undermines the original problem (the dev being fired) in the first place. If the community instead rallied around the dev & asked him to get reinstated, rather than attacked Adria, it would have ended differently.
I don't have a robots.txt, so -for this url alone- I'm expecting a 404. What I've read in the google documents is that when a request to get the robots.txt returns a 404, it will consider it as OK to crawl.
"My goal is to raise $829 to cover the cost of RPG Camp. But my Mom just told me about the Veronica Mars campaign so now I'm secretly hoping to raise more. My Mom said I can put any extra toward a laptop. I asked her if I raised even more than that, would she let me spend another week away at RPG camp. She said if I raised the money, she'd send me to RPG Camp all summer (which would be amazing because my friends at home are great but they're not really gamers like me so it'll awesome to hang out with hardcore gamers like me that are my age)."

Secretly hoping to raise more? COME ON, PEOPLE. THIS IS AN OUTRIGHT SCAM.
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Why didn't she just say it like that? She did! What do you think "racism is a position of the oppressor who has the power" meant?

No one said that racism is exclusive to any race. Of course not. That'd be stupid. But it also seems deliberately bull-headed of you to say that "racism" is clearly defined when there are entire academic fields devoted to sussing out what it is. Whole journals. Lotsa books. So, no, let's proceed as though "racism" is not well-defined.

There is a difference between racism and prejudice. When someone says "Mexicans are lazy" they are exhibiting both. When a white person is surprised that a Mexican would work so hard - that's racism. When a Mexican woman bleaches her hair and wears light-colored contacts - that's another form of racism, called "internalizing the oppressor". If you've never heard of that, yet the definition of racism encompasses it, then maybe the definition of racism isn't so clear cut?

When a woman thinks other women should stay home and raise children - that's sexism, of course it it is. Just like if the woman said that the man shouldn't stay home to raise his kids because that's her job. Yes, that's sexism. Of course it is. It's sexism because she's applying the logic of the oppressor, the traditional male.

So, really, I'm not sure where you're coming from here. Have you ever read anything about racism? Ever had long talks with people who hold opposing viewpoints on race? When you say "use another word" -- which word would that be besides the one we already have whose definition you don't know?
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Maybe I didn't make my point clearly enough. I never meant to suggest that there's anything inherently sexist about the existence of such a thing as "guy culture" (or at least, that's an entirely separate issue). My point was very close to what you've said here, in fact: when guys see that they're part of a mixed group, they tend to be courteous and opt for more inclusive topics.

So (and here's the step where I evidently lost you before) what does it mean when guys at tech conferences routinely make dick jokes in public? The clear implication is that they feel like they're in a "guy space" where they don't need to stick to more inclusive topics. And that message gets heard loud and clear by everyone around them: men feel a little more comfortable making "guy jokes" themselves, and women feel a little more like outsiders.

[I was tempted to build a whole analogy based on the question, "Sure, and don't you think your sports-fan friend would feel uncomfortably out of place at PAX?" But while that makes the point, it falls short of the mark, because sports fans haven't been systematically discriminated against by gamers for most of known history.]
The first priority of an institution (any institution) is to preserve the institution.
I've participated in many hackathons, AngelHack has been one of the better ones, that said don't be surprised if there is disorganization and confusion. They have been getting better and providing better food.

Primary reason to attend, working with sponsors. In the past AngleHack has been good at bringing good sponsors/api vendors so its a good opportunity to engage with SAAS, PAAS and APIs.

Its about hacking in a short period of time, so overall a fun environment. Also a good opportunity to connect with others, but don't expect to build a team for your idea, bring a team with developers if you expect to get something done.

Too early to say about their just launched accelerator.

(Their "Upvote us..." is lame, and not in the spirit of quality comments)
+1 for this comment. 2-3s per search is TERRIBLE performance, and disgusting given the document count / index size.
From the comments: "This can give a second life to the JS backend of PyPy."

That would be incredible. Any PyPy devs care to comment on this possibility? :3
Sketchfab has an amazing 3D viewer technology but I think you completely miss the point on what this technology is useful for. 3D content on the web won't be generated through manual uploads by designers. It will be (and already is) generated on servers from user inputs into customization tools and/or from large amounts of data. For example, I have a website where users can create custom 3D topographical models on the fly and I would love to offer them a slick viewer like Sketchfab's instead of my own attempts at WebGL. But I am not going to upload the models to Sketchfab's server and blow through your ridiculously low storage limit. For $15 a month I could store a total of ~70 models. Considering that every user interaction generates a new model on the fly, that wouldn't even get me through one session by one user! Even more so because I can have a not quite as polished but free 3D viewer that is fully customizable and hackable from other places, take for example Sculpteo's: http://www.sculpteo.com/en/developer/webapi/embed/viewer/
> It's not the same as a layperson describing gravity in terms of some basic understanding of Newtonian physics and a physicist describing it in terms of general relativity. It was just dumb.

You're mixing up what I said: a sociologist describing a social phenomenon is analogous to a physicist describing a physical phenomenon.

In the tweet, Adria colloquially used the word "racism" in a way that's different from colloquial usage (she used the sociologist's definition and not the Dictionary.com definition), but that doesn't make her stupid or a "loony bird."

Do a couple tweets, screwups, or overreactions deserve this kind of outrage?
This is one of those really cool use cases we (Zapier) couldn't have predicted. In fact, given the final behavior of Sacha's setup I still have a hard time reversing out the Zaps he used to make it! One of my favorite thing is seeing the new unique use cases folks come up with.
Is this a troll? I don't know your history, but I've heard that you have one, so... If this is a troll, someone let me know, please. Otherwise...

>It's designed in a way that makes it very difficult for women to fit in, in any stable and reliable way. Additionally

You can't just make a statement, not provide evidence, and then say "additionally...". You haven't proven your first point.

What sexist assumptions is white-collar Work [sic] culture based on?

And how is it designed such that it is difficult for women to fit in?

>the reason there are fewer women in technology than the more defective culture of banking, is that technology's appeal is to risk-seekers and idealists

This is such a ridiculous claim I don't even know where to begin. First off, I can tell you've never been anywhere near a trading floor, or a commercial bank for that matter. The entire industry is based on risk. What do you think trading is? The calculated harnessing of risk. You make bets. That is all. Pure risk. FAR more risky than technology. And further the proportion of people who are taking risks in finance is MUCH higher than the proportion who are taking risks in technology. There's only one founder per company in tech; there are 100 traders for every founder in a bank.

>To the extent that technology has problems, most of that comes from tech executives who swoop in to take advantage of idealistic (and socially awkward) tech people, then encourage an imbalanced and nasty culture.

Take advantage HOW?

And HOW does that create the problems we're currently seeing in tech?

I don't like the way you speak in platitudes. Completely devoid of content. I don't know who you are, I know you have a reputation, though, and I am ready to weather a storm in the name of truth.
Your landing page doesn't compel me at all to provide my email address & sign up for an account. The blurb of text is great and all but a few pictures or even a short video clip would go a long way.
Your site may be banned since it is not in the index, I would file a reconsideration request http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
This might be technically true. So, then, if you're fired over hearsay, your next step is to mandate that the firing employer cooperate fully in your suit (defamation, tortious interference) against the originator of the hearsay. If not, then there will be a termination suit. If they don't want to cooperate in your suit against the libelous person, or be sued, then they pony up a settlement.

Termination suits often come down to image, especially of the employer's conduct. An employer that's cooperative and fair usually wins. An employer that seems dodgy (by, for example, firing someone on hearsay and not cooperating with proceedings against the person who supplied the information) is at risk, and looks bad even if victorious.

This is a very gray area of law, at least in practice. There are few termination cases that are clearly black or white. That's why severance packages and those hideous PIPs exist.
I guess, he is talking about discourse (discuss.emberjs.com) and not about the "discussion" on the OP.
I often get stung when I 'reply' and add people to a message that originally had attachments. (OS X) It strips the attachment out of courtesy, which I usually catch before I send the email.
Physical vs. virtual goods.

In fact, Apple specifically doesn't let you sell physical goods with IAP.

As for virtual goods that aren't tied to your app (referring to olivercameron's sibling comment), I don't think that's so clear cut.
Are you a sexual service? Maybe you should consider posting on backpage.. "Book Online in Secs" sounds like "Book Online in Sex"...
I really want to try this now. Also, I don't think your results were that bad, especially if the referees are more targeted and provide higher value than normal users.
The problem is that "suicide" has been getting expanded to the point where it it means any harm, not actual destruction.
I'm just going to say it. If you're going to compare these two things, you're crazy. Some assumption that is partly an accident of language, partly an accident of imagining others to be similar to your self without any other information, and the recognition of statistics, could in, any way, be shame worthy is just nuts.
Definitely makes sense! I'll start looking into this.
Ask HN: Suggestions for summer Startup Accelerator Programs?
5 of my friends and I are working on a project and we think that being a part of a startup accelerator program this summer would be really cool. Any suggestions for programs we should apply to? We're all freshmen in college studying CS.
I think the difficulty of implementing GC would be the lack of access to stack primitives, something that would be impossible to provide in a way that was backward compatible.

By that I mean the ability to inspect the stack and determine the values present there and determine whether or not they point to 'heap' allocated memory.
Let me know if there are some parts of my write-up that aren't clear. And thanks for putting together such a great service!

By the way, speaking of incentives Zapier's own referral program is very well done. It's quite fun trying to earn all the extra tasks, and I'm almost there!
Some USC scientists recently analyzed the performance of a D-wave system and found that "quantum annealing is indeed being performed by D-Wave One": http://www.pppl.gov/events/adiabatic-quantum-computing-d-wav...

So their computer does behave quantum mechanically. But I can't find any evidence that they have shown entanglement, which is necessary to realize the full promise of quantum computing, see e.g. http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954#comment-40364
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4342045 is a great example of doing this with D3.js
Thanks! I don't know if the referees are more targeted, but now that I think of it the referrers are certainly a high-quality segment.

For example, one Sidebar subscriber ended up referring 8 new people! So it can be a good way to identify your biggest fans.
A lot of people use it as intended, but most of us use a minimal variant to communicate ideas on a whiteboard or email. It also usually sticks to class and maybe interaction diagrams.

Flow charts and swimlanes are much more common.
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