skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This is a different perspective, much of which I completely agree with. Enhancing the recognition and appreciation of [non-colossal-assholish-douchbaggy] masculinity ought to be accepted and supported."

Different from what? And I could equally argue that we need to enhance the recognition and appreciation of [non-collossal-assholish-douchebaggy] femininity, Adria Richards being a case in point.

"Seriously tackling and solving the sexual and physical assault that is endemic to the US prison system? Absolutely check+. The US prison system is systemically atrocious and I find it sickening. I find it more sickening that people can know about it and even entertain the notion that it is 'part of the punishment process'. That is disgusting."

Agreed, just look above. If one even cites statistics showing that -gasp- men get raped too people look at you funny and ask when you're going to go back to talking about women.

"Male denigration in terms of family law and the ways in which men are the victims of sexism as it relates to parenting is also unacceptable."

Glad to hear it.

"It was the point of advocating a reactionary movement that appears to define itself as the negation of (and, in places, the victim of) feminism that I cannot support in any way. Hope that clarifies a bit better."

The term "MRA" means someone who advocates in favour of men's rights. If you care about men being raped in prison then I've got news for you: You're an MRA. That's where the implied association and definition ends. You're also, I assume, a political activist. The nazis were political activists too, but noone says that because of your political activism you "appear to define yourself as a nazi." Many MRAs are anti-feminist, many aren't. It would appear that you're one of the "aren't."

The term "Feminism" is much less well defined. It might shock you to learn that many feminists have come out against the issues you mentioned being addressed and have even argued that they don't exist. I'm glad to hear you don't think this way and think that men's issues and anti-male sexism are no more acceptable than anti-female sexism but many feminists disagree and they appear to define the movement just as much as you appear to define it.

I'm not an anti-feminist, the word means too many things for me to say I stand firmly against it, but there's at least as many feminists that are worthy of criticism as there are MRAs.
She was playing it in the hallway, at the conference, by the washrooms, posting about it on her public Facebook page, and tagging it #PyCon.

Nobody dragged Adria anywhere and forced her to listen to the penis jokes. She just overheard them behind her. The chances of me overhearing that group of people on my way to the bathroom are comparable to the chances of me overhearing the penis jokes. It might be even more likely that I'd overhear the Cards Against Humanity game.

Although her hypocrisy has no bearing on the sexism question, it doesn't stop it from being hypocrisy. Granted, her name probably doesn't need any more smearing, but boy did she keep asking for it - ass clowns? Really?
MacAddress or vendor identifier.
You could also generate random... but it's a good idea to keychain it under its own namespace.
Vendor identifier is user-resettable. Storing UUIDs fails on reinstalls. MAC is persistent, as are other tricks like keychain storage
Who on earth has a social expectation of privacy when they are talking in a room full of people with whom they are in very close proximity.
I think this is the only way? http://jasongarber.com/blog/2012/05/18/connecting-to-hipchat...
This is sort-of how the distribution industry works right now, and I agree that over the long term technology should allow us to exploit long-tail effects to do more with less, just as technology has made the movie production process much more affordable and accessible. The problem at present is that between a fall in (some) costs and the disruption of existing and long-established distribution networks (accompanied by an apparent fall in revenue), finding the investment capital is ironically tougher than ever.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/18/film-school-roger-...

and http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1803469?uid=3739560... are very much worth a read to understand why the film industry views piracy with such trepidation.
Yeah, the mom is the founder of a company about crowdfunding for female entrepreneurs. And she was one of Fortune's "Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs." Why does she need help buying her daughter a laptop?

Sorry to be so cynical, but this looks super sketchy.
Any time you argue that everyone is crazy except for you, one of two things is possible:

1 - you are in the wrong and have some biases that led you there.
2 - everyone is crazy except for you

Usually it is 1)
Because it was written by and for nerds.
And please get rid of that ridiculous blue! Anyone using Messages, Mail and Contacts on iPhone has this eye soar sticking right in front. How in the world can someone pick such a strange color and then add that stranger blue bar(I know its automatic) at top.

I would be happy to see flat design, but in increments only. And maybe it is time for Apple to leave "best for beginners" ideology and care a bit about advanced users. Give us a little freedom, let me change my default apps, let Siri do more things and small things like that.
My only addition would be that things like what Weev's state of mind was when he did these things are matters of fact that will be assumed true on appeal. So in addition to "he didn't actually access the servers" you also can't argue "he didn't really intend to do this or that."
Novopay debacle solved by restarting computer [satirical]
ejabberd and pidgen?
How The Internet Is Erasing The Religious Right’s Political Power
Ask HN: What were the online resources you used for patent searching?
When you were bootstrapping, what were the online resources you used for patent searching?

I've found these:

http://ep.espacenet.com/?locale=EN_ep

http://patft.uspto.gov/

https://www.google.com/?tabm=pts&hl=en

http://www.patentarcade.com/p/patents.html

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

http://www.patexia.com/ip-research

Any ways of tackling this different from these?:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4899582_patent-game-idea.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_10054413_game-patented.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_5798493_patent-ideas-new-game-inventions.html

I'm going to my local patent office to file a provisional patent for the first time. Before I talk to a lawyer I'm going to use as much resources online and come prepared.

Do you have any tips?
If someone speaks up to tell another human being that what they are saying is offending them, they're going out of the comfort zone of a shared public space to express their opinion. It's not an easy thing to do, and it should carry some weight. If this guy continues telling sexually offensive jokes after being asked not to, it doesn't make him a misogynist, in the same way that continuing to tell uncomfortable chicken jokes in the presence of the chicken-adverse doesn't make him anti-poultry. It just makes him an _asshole_. Public spaces are about trying to find a common ground among a diverse group of people, and it's the reason we as strangers usually just fidget and talk about the weather to one another.

I see this case as two people and two companies who acted like children and both lost their jobs and look bad in the community, respectively. Some unfunny man made a joke to his co-worker because he thought it might have eased the social tension that comes from traveling, lodging, and attending a conference with another person over so many hours. An overzealous woman took offense to an overhead comment and saw it more constructive to bring attention to the public conversation that happens on twitter rather than the public conversation happening in that room because it was a more comfortable way to make sense of how she felt.

We're humans and we naturally want to surround ourselves with people who think, act, joke, argue with, and support other people like we do. It's pretty easy to never have to deal with groups we don't agree with on the internet. It's the reason swarms of misogynists got together on the internet to hate Adria and say she represented all the other women that they hate, and to call her awful names and issue a DDOS attack against her parent company.

Both of these companies looked past the human error in all of this, and enforced their zero-tolerance policies, and just fired both of them. This whole thing is a big deal because the other people we align ourselves with and allow to represent us (be it as employees, or pythonistas, or dirtbag misogynists) are making it really hard to connect on personal levels, and really easy to generalize and dehumanize issues into meaningless black or white distinctions.
There is also the well-known phenomenon of numbers being juggled to make the movie look like it came out a loss to screw people who are only paid out of profits.
For desktop users I think every iTunes upgrade includes a mandatory TOS allegiance vow.
Let's also not forget her job position -- she lives and breathes Twitter. 1000s of followers. To claim ignorance on her part about the outcome is a little disingenuous.

Now the ultimate outcome is that she also got fired, here is where she miscalculated her risk. She didn't immediately react, she pondered her actions and weighed her risk according to her blog. I think she saw a golden opportunity and took, but got too greedy. Ultimately it was a classic sociopath move.

> 2) that he was about to be fired anyway.

That is why I want to hear more from PlayHeaven. Here is my question, why the heck send a shitty employee to PyCon. Usually top developers get to go, to learn and bring back new technology. If he was out of the door why spend money him. So I discard 2) and just assume 1) until further information (if any) comes out.
Not only is she an entrepreneur, but was supposedly one of Fortune's "Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs." I'm guessing Kickstarter is definitely superfluous here, and it's a PR stunt. Pretty sad to see when I initially got really excited.
Yes he is. But he is the owner of this board.
You forgot StartupRow! 6 startups on Friday (we were one of them) plus another 6 on Saturday. Got to make some great contacts as a result.
If I'm understanding things correctly, the JS produced is a subset of ES3. The use of typed arrays simply give supporting platforms an additional speed boost.

According to Brendan Eich: "all of JS (ES3) is 'universally supported' [by asmjs]"
The fear of arbitrary public shaming over the equivalent of a misheard comment and failed joke.
Oh dear God. People are fired summarily in this manner over a joke two buddies/strangers were sharing.

If the trend continues males shall start whispering when a female comes near at a conference and maybe just ignore them or move to another place, because you never know what shall be perceived as against.

I guess the the ones who are at real risk here are the two genders. Another blow to widen the gap.

"I will be at pycon 2014, I will joke and socialize with everyone but I will also be mindful of my audience, accidental or otherwise." - [1]

Just because of one irresponsible and casual remark by a female marketer killing livelihoods of two male engineers.

What I find specially chilling and mean is - "she smiled while she snapped the pic and sealed my fate."[1]

And people being convicted without a trial is fine for Internet and troll but two companies firing away like "you are no longer welcome at this bar because you shouted at another guy outside our bar". So, taking sides and standing for someone needs just one thing - just being born in the same gender? That's it?

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681]
I don't know if i'm missing something, but I've seen very little introspection in the responses to the situation. The guy who was called out's apology notwithstanding, out seems like there's just been a mass venting of anti-feminist attitudes all around.
I don't think it has a lot to do with the gender, to be honest, but with the person.

And yeah, Adria is what I consider a bad person. Could be male, female, whatever. So, you don't have to apologize either.
If someone pirates a game, has the publisher been harmed? No, they've just missed out on what might have been a sale.

I can't pay the mortgage with stats from the Pirate Bay. 10,000 people viewing my film for free is satisfying on an artistic level, but 1000 people paying a $ for the privilege is what actually puts food on the table. I don't want to get into a long argument and Rayiner is making these points excellently, but I'd like to point out that profit and loss are not abstractions that happen only to already-rich people in Beverly Hills who will have to be content with only one Ferrari this year.
Burn in hell adria apologist.
Exactly. This woman was named by FORTUNE as one of the ten most powerful female entrepreneurs. There are literally billions of children who desperately need money for food, medical treatment and education, but this woman needs $10,000 for her daughter to buy a laptop?
We've been teaching a web development course to a remote team, and I found this really useful! Since we're not native English speakers, I've made English subtitles for the first video, and put them on GitHub, in case anyone else finds this useful: https://github.com/deborasetton/subtitles

I'm hoping to translate it to Portuguese, but would gladly accept pull requests for other languages too!

Also, the other videos are on my to-do list, of course.
Setup and teardown are in the Rails testing guide.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#setup-and-teardow...
English is not a romance language. It acquired quite a lot of French words and a few grammar patterns after an unfortunate event in 1066 but remains a distinctly Germanic-family language.

Most of the French grammar bits have been discarded in quotidian speech long ago; how often do you hear the subjunctive voice used in English?

English is distinct from other Germanic languages, though, in the same way. Most European languages of any stripe are gender-heavy while English mostly applies grammatical gender mostly only to vehicles and individual sexually dimorphic animals.
nicely done! very helpful intro.
I fail to see how she was "abused" at Pycon.
John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented
His malicious intent was to damage ATT's reputation, not to cause harm to individuals via their email addresses.

That was discussed, and then not done.

Damaging ATT's reputation via demonstrating how insecure and careless they are, while malicious, is not criminal.
My feedburner is now showing 0 subscribers. what happened?
Is feedburner turned off ? I lost all my blog subscribers.
I just assumed kernel code would have at least someone else looking over it before it's merged in.
Remote - a simple, regex-based, node reverse proxy
>Money in the bank is not your money anymore...Sure, this time it was not the banks itself but rather the government that did this, but they could only do this because banks and government has stopped seeing money in the bank as belonging to the person who put it there.

See, this is your part about cognitive dissonance. Except, there isn't any cognitive dissonance if governments are just as likely to take grain from farmers as they are to take money from bank accounts. There's no contradiction there.

>They would have never gone to a farmer and taken 10% of their grain. They would have never gone and taken physical property in peoples home. That would had been an complete impossibility.

And this is the part where we start talking about probability, because he's wrong.

>We're talking about grain, not land. The specifics of the example are particularly relevant.

They're actually not. We're talking about virtual property vs. physical property, not grain vs. cash.

It is my position that the lack of physical presence of property does not result in the greater likelihood that the property will be seized, save in instances where the physical property is impossible to seize for some reason. That's all. Governments are supposed to exist to protect the property of their citizenry. Unfortunately, many don't hold that up.
It's all blown out of proportion. Though, I, personally, would be a bit offended by an "I would fork that repo" comment -- because intentions aside, it reminds me of things that have been said to and about me, and you can't say it without making certain connotations. This woman has been getting rape and death threats as well.

It was stupid, inconsiderate, and unprofessional to post a picture, and the guy doesn't deserve to be fired, but that doesn't justify the backlash.

Despite a few sympathies I have with Richards, I do think she deserves to lose her job for her poor judgement. I hope that in the future she continues her work towards getting more women and WoC into tech, but in a more tactful way.
I remember many people, especially Scott Aaronson, questioned D-Wave back when I was in school. Has anything changed recently regarding the community's opinion?
It also spoofed the user-agent of an iPad.

Still, it made a request to a webserver, and the webserver gave up the data. That's not the requester's fault.
>Mmm. Nothing gets the Men's Rights fanatics frothing like the suggestion that they aren't the most oppressed people of all time (OF. ALL. TIME.).

Speaking as a "Men's Right Fanatic" I don't give a hoot about the oppression olympics. I rarely ever see MRAs make this claim. On the other hand I see feminists making it all the time. Not all feminists, just the ones who thing that fighting sexism is about scoring points for their gender.
Women in our industry are forced to listen to constant jokes that range from the one she heard to far worse. This little joke would probably not be a problem if if were isolated. But because they happen all the time, from all directions, each little joke has the potential to be a harmful barb.

And the fact that she posted a joke to her Twitter doesn't change anything. There is massive pressure on women to be sexist too, to prove to men that they're cool and can be trusted, and to fit in. Women (also have to find ways to normalize sexist behavior so they don't go crazy. The fact that a women capitulates to this pressure on one day doesn't make her fair game for any and all sexist abuses on another.
If I understand things correctly, what changes is that only a subpoena is all that is required after 18 months, where before that a search warrant is needed. But there have been some efforts to change this:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/finally-feds-say-...

Of course, if your files are encrypted, they probably won't be able to access them regardless.
I mean, she tweeted that she was specifically supported by Sendmail in this circumstance.
> just like you can only be racist if you're white (https://twitter.com/adriarichards/statuses/6039856858)

I see people post this a lot without understanding the point of what she's saying. Adria subscribes to the belief that "racism = prejudice + power", which is basically to say that, yes, black people can be hateful towards white people and yes, racial discrimination does occur within the black community, but RACISM is the result of systematic oppression over hundreds of years.

The reason this distinction is made is because black people discriminating against white people is a response to the racism that they face every day, which is very different from white people thinking that blacks are inherently inferior and should have their rights stripped from them.

Please, educate yourselves on what Adria's saying. I know it all seems so foreign, but beyond the fog, there is a very real and very true message that should be heard and studied.
I hope you are referring to the men and not Ms. Richards. Because her "little mistake" resulted in the firing of a decent human being with a wife and 3 kids.
Dismissing Microsoft's metro design by calling Windows 8 is a typical example of a straw man that you get to see here on HN. Flat design as it is done in the Metro UI on Windows 8 is gorgeous particularly on touch based machines. The fact that there also exists an older UI is because of the legacy that Microsoft has to support It's the price you have to pay for being in business for 30 years. I clearly see the need to go to non-metro UI diminishing as new updates and apps come along. Command line UI lingered on for a while after windows 3.1 came and the legacy UI will probably have the same lifeline.
> However, scripting that to do it many thousands of times and then collecting the information that results is a qualitative change of behavior. That's not proving a point, or being a responsible security researcher, that's something else.

What if you did it by hand? Where's the line between what's ok and what's not?
The reading comprehension on these new accounts is phenomenal.
His last submission was nearly 3 year old.
His comments and submissions were mostly about his product.
His post history has shown that he's substantially cut down his activities on HN.
This case shows a negative correlation between success and activities on HN.
The guy who got fired with the 3 kids was the only one harmed in this entire debacle.
are you seriously arguing that if you mention your place of employment on your personal website or blog, they then have the right to police everything you post there?!
I'm glad to hear that your experience of 3rd wave feminism has been one that includes discussions of men's rights. Mine has been one which identifies any discussion of men's rights as "derailing" and "reactionary." So long as feminists (3rd wave or other wise) exclude discussions of men's rights from their group then there will always be a need for the MRM.
There's a feminist belief that all forms of "pornography" are inherently discriminatory toward women with pornography being a very broad concept--basically any form of sexuality not associated with love. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Steinem#Pornography

Any crude comment relating to sexuality would fall into this category. I am not attempting to justify the response here, just explaining the rationale.
This is the exact question that I was prepared to ask; eager to hear a response.
Her Joan of Arc screed was in her initial blog post - there was no vitriol until then. Chicken and egg.
> I'm honestly surprised that anyone is [...] defending Ms Richards

Even though I think she messed up in a big way, that there wasn't sexism, that she is a hypocrite, and that she really kept asking for it, much of the aggressive abuse directed at Adria Richards since the initial event has been totally out of control, and would count as criminal hate in some countries.

For starters, look at the comments on her Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/adriarichards
For one thing Spamassassin is quite hopeless compared to Gmail's filter (and yes I have compared). But more to the point I would absolutely equate web with server-side hosted app. For example, if you want to implement decent search it's probably going to be Lucene-based. So if you are just talking thin-client presentation layer, the app isn't really native in any case - the acid test for a non-web app is whether it works without an internet connection. (Other major differences would be ubiquity and maintenance.)