skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't give a shit about people being offended. If the only thing happening is someone being "offended" then there's no harm, no foul. Go along with your day.

Now, in cases where people are being harmed, then I care. This is such a case.
What really happened at PyCon 2013
>Slow down, everyone.

Unfortunately, those who most need to heed this advice are the least likely to do so.
That's cool, you're entitled to your opinion. But you writing that adds nothing to the conversation.

I think the fact that the vast majority of women are not comfortable going to tech conferences and working at many tech companies is actually a big deal, and the rare cases where someone actually DOES something in response to it is actually a pretty landmark event that deserves significant attention.

If you feel differently, at least try to articulate why.
I vaguely remember some apps using the MAC address of the WiFi interface as an identifier. Has this been banned yet?
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https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=3212013a
Thanks for catching that. It's hard to reason about these things because tu quoque is already false. I mean, if you assume false is true, then you can prove anything. I guess it depends on whether there's an if or an if-and-only-if relationship between being a hypocrite (H) and there not being sexism (S):

(H -> !S) -> (!H -> S) // false (this is what you mean)

(H <-> !S) -> (!H -> S) // true

But besides being wrong, I guess I was also hinting at something else, which is that if you accept this one fallacy (tu quoque), you are probably implicitly accepting this other fallacy (I think it might have a different name than affirming the consequent, but they're related). That wasn't clear with my use of the phrase "subtle implication" and I didn't realize this either.
Neither men nor women have a monopoly on anatomically-related jokes (of either gender). Not in the same way that it's unacceptable for a white person to use the 'n' word.

I'm not even commenting on whether either gender _should_ have such a monopoly (they shouldn't in my view). But just in actual fact it is not so in our society today.
This is a really great summary and it is too bad that so much great knowledge sharing is going unnoticed because of the lure of controversy. Solid explanation.
"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."

Another redditor I'm afraid. Who ever said that fighting for men's rights comes at the expense of women's (or anyone else's)?

I also find it quite offensive for you to put scare quotes around men's rights like that. If you're genuinely committed to equality you'd do well to read up on the human rights issues which you, as a man, are much more likely to face than the female collegues you mentioned earlier. Men in the MRM (white or otherwise) aren't despondant due to disappearing privilege, they're dispondant due to an assumption of privilege (much of which never really existed) and a willful ignorence of ongoing oppression on the part of society around them. Ignorence even from other men who proclaim their support for social justice.

The identification of gender as an equivalent of class is horribly flawed and a hopelessly blunt tool for examining an infinitely nuanced and a very two sided issue.
Isn't it the Netherlands the most frequent user of subpoenas for electronic information.

Also, your assertion that you have more privacy than Americans is almost as ridiculous as Americans saying they have more freedom than the Chinese. We're all oppressed in slightly different ways.
I think unwanted sexualization is a recurring theme in feminism and in Adria's perception this was an instance of that.

Most people wouldn't and hence it's reserved for more radical feminists, but it's definitely done under the banner of feminism and thus I'd consider it part of it.
I think this is good advice but I have to nitpick one thing: as a former music director for a popular indie rock station, I have to disagree that listening to new music all day is "The coolest full-time job in the world."

Joking aside, we adhere to his/pg's do more work principle almost to a fault. I constantly try to make it such that my customers have to do as little as possible to get our products to work for them and so far that has proven valuable.
that Google is now officially a hardware company, after Google self-driving car, Google Glasses, and the coming-soon Google Toilet (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrontojPWEE)
The misplaced right-paren is in this line:

rnd_extract_data(key + r, sizeof(key - r), RND_EXTRACT_ANY);
Also it's good to see the community filling in gaps that exist in the development process. I got introduced to ember_tools[1] just yesterday and it looks like a great way to provide Rails-style generators for Ember projects.

[1]: https://github.com/rpflorence/ember-tools
In the context of a professional environment with fairly constant misogyny, I think it does constitute abuse. She's just trying to attend a conference and she's forced to stop focusing on the tech, stop focusing on doing her job, and instead focus on the people behind her and whether she's safe in the space.

The hypervigilance that pervasive sexism in the tech community demands from women is extremely harmful. It makes these spaces very unpleasant for most women. And so all women are excluded except the handful with very thick skin who think these things are "no big deal".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Constitutional_Conventi...
"...we will not comment on all the factors that contributed to our parting ways"

That's what I was referring to. There's so many things that could have been done differently on all sides, but I can't help but wonder the real reason the employee was terminated so quickly. With as much as this has escalated, I think a lot of people are owed at least that.
Well, let's start with the fact that it wasn't his Twitter message.

SendGrid is probably home free on firing Adria Richards, because she did something objectionable-- harassed someone and cost him his job. PlayHaven, on the other hand, doesn't have a defensible cause for firing him. This would be even more true if he hadn't admitted to the comment as Mr Hank. Then he'd have been fired on her hearsay.
The difference between south park's jokes and the dongle jokes is that south park is generally funny.

The amazing thing about this situation is that if the guy's jokes were funnier, they'd probably have gone over better. You could spin it as he was fired because his dick jokes weren't funny enough.
Well, good enough for me. Even though the interest point is about the reasons of passing on, not just knowing they exist.
Oops, so they are! So yeah, at-will all the way then.
Yeah, it was against the code of conduct. And they were members of a large audience. Not sure how either of those facts make it a big deal. PyCon's response was appropriate.
From her mother's LinkedIn:

"A graduate of Georgetown University, I'm completing my final year of Harvard Business School's 3-year ExecEd OPM Program. I'm honored to have been named to FORTUNE's List of Top Ten Most Powerful Female Entrepreneurs (2009) and I'm particularly proud to be part of Ernst & Young's prestigious Winning Women Program.

Specialties
Entrepreneur in Residence, Georgetown University
Ernst & Young Winning Women
Fortune's Most Powerful Women, 2009
Maryland's Top 100 MBEs, 2008
Forbes Business Competition Finalist, 2008
2008 Debt Buyer of the Year Finalist
Top 25 Woman Owned Companies, 2008
Featured in Inc. Magazine, June 2008
Top 50 Collection Professional, 2007
WBE Certified Minority Woman-Owned Business
Partner for SmartGirlsRock.com scholarship program
Stevie Awards Finalist: Most Innovative Company & Use of Technology, 2007"

Yeah... this family really, really doesn't need a Kickstarter campaign to send their kid to a camp. I am absolutely appalled if they take the $10,000+ that they make from this, instead of using it for something like helping disadvantaged kids attend the same camp.

This woman knew exactly what she was doing when she set up this campaign. She pulled all of the right strings.
>I have never seen a successful (rich) founder posting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dhouston
Which is why you sell it through established anonymous channels to well-known and well-reputed middlemen.
Wow..fire your employee for being a victim of sexual bullying... just great!
exact same story with a https link is already up at the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419071
I'm not a fan of security questions as they're easily discoverable and known to other sites that ask the same question. So I just enter random nonsense words and save a screenshot in a secure store.
New site for online creepy dating messages & stories
> Why do you find this more friendly than Google Authenticator? Just because it pushes rather than requiring the user to open an app?

Exactly. I have so many things in Google Authenticator that I have to scroll. The timer is also annoying -- sometimes you have to wait for a few seconds for the codes to refresh so you have enough time to type in the code.

> Can you still manually get a code, in case you lack network (& don't want to break out the backup code)?

No, but for Apple you don't need to do this because you only need the code if you're accessing their website so you have to have internet access. I don't think I ever use the Google Authenticator without internet access.

> What if you're actually logging in with the iDevice, does it just automatically allow it without asking?

No idea.
Twitter account donglefork follows adriarichards case up to the minute
>Second because hundreds and hundreds of men here and elsewhere seem quite happy to align themselves with an overtly sexist, violently threatening campaign against an individual whose views they disagree with.

Erm, I don't know that I see that. I presume you mean the anonymous-handle twitter/facebook vitriol? Yeah, that's just what internet forum kids do. Every time a trainwreck happens. And disagreeing with Adria doesn't automatically place one in the same camp as them, or "align" one with them.

I, for one, think Adria absolutely deserved to be fired. I think I'm qualified to say that, because logic. I think we are all qualified to judge that one. I also think that the death/rape/violence threats she received were utterly reprehensible. One can be in both camps.
Making movies is very profitable.

I love how you just throw that out blithely as if it were a well-established fact. In fact, the odds of a given film turning a profit are about 1 in 30. For a detailed examination of the economics of the film industry, I recommend the book Open Wide. For a brief introduction, try this: http://www.baselineintel.com/research-wrap?detail/C8/what_ar... and other articles on this site.

Now, part of this is skewed by the fact that many films are just bad. Not so bad they're good, so bad they're bad - incomprehensible dialog, blurry photography, murky lighting. Let's dismiss 2/3 of films as bad - that's excessive, but let's be harsh. So about 1/10 of the remaining films can make money. Half of those lack commercial elements, they're competent but terribly dull and hard to sell. Of the 5 films you have left that are competently made and have potential commercial appeal, one will sell. There's a <1% chance it will be a hit; more likely it will eventually recoup its costs via foreign sales (as a sweetener in a package) or from rental income via Netflix or the like. That takes about 5 years.

That's indie films. Big studio films tend to lose money more often than not as well. I am on first name terms with one billionaire who writes a single check to pay for all the costs of a big famous film you probably saw 4 or 5 times a year (I would prefer not to mention names). 4/5 of those films lose money despite stars, critical acclaim, excellent technical elements, and a great story. Eventually, most of them will break even - that's why you cast stars, you can extrapolate sales with reasonable accuracy once you know the opening data. But the financial destiny of most films is to offset tax liability for the small number of films that do make bank.

I own a financial interest in a number of the films I've worked on. I keep the documentation mainly for souvenir value, but I have zero expectation of ever seeing a penny from them. I find it amusing but also frustrating when you roll in here and tell me how profitable it is.
> Why are so many really so angry? I promise it has nothing to do with this woman.

One guy (while looking at the presentation), turned his head to his buddy, and said - look at the size of that dongle, would you fork it?

Do you know what that is? It's Funny (and crude). And if you don't find it to be so, that's just too bad. You're not owed anything. You (nor anyone else) have been violated.

We are simply getting fed up that there are people so PC, so fragile, so venomous, so victimhood seeking, that they would attempt to drop a bomb on us over nothing.

> And guess what, her sentiment about racism, whether I agree with it or not, is shared by many scholars of American race relations who are decidedly more informed on the subject.

Redefining established words to fit your narrative (as someone said on here) is a crime against understanding and is not acceptable.
There is something very wrong, if you can't search a corpus of 200 documents of roughly 512kb size each with solr in milliseconds. Especially on something as simple as a simple field/facet search for node role match. 2-3s per search sounds like something else is the bottleneck rather than solr.
Other than the paint mixing area, how is that any better than something like SketchBook Pro? I can't even tell which controls will bring up submenus or secondary controls.
Feminists are people who believe men and women should be treated equally. Nothing more, nothing less. Classifying fanatics as "feminists" and acting like all feminists acts that way is ... well... pretty damn stupid.
Apple can really do no wrong. It's impossible to think of any proposal Apple could have which would not receive this response, unless it was inoculating orphans with polio or something.
While you do have a point, the hyperbole isn't helpful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_Lounge
Ember has been undoubted advantage for our startup. Its at the core of our client code, there were glitches in learning and rework with Router V2 API but that is still ok in exchange of what we got. So far, we love that we chose EmberJS and we are getting better at using it. But we wish the community grows and people find it easier to adapt.
I do have to disagree a bit with Orin there. Poking at an integer on a querystring and discovering that you can freely change it and get other people's results shouldn't be a crime, misdemeanor, felony, or otherwise. It's so easy that one can literally perform this "hack" by accidentally failing to copy and paste the last character of a URL somebody sent to you. If we're going to make that a felony every computer owner might as well just give up and report to the nearest prison forthwith, because you're all but doomed to commit crimes in the course of normal usage.

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.

I agree with the rest of his analysis, but a sufficiently large quantitative change can become a qualitative change just by sheer size.
One thing that I think would help would be to make it simpler. It would be nice if you only needed a lawyer for really really complicated cases, and the rest of the time you could trust common sense. Seems like the legislative process could be simpler too. Maybe if it was easier to get up to speed, we could reduce the need for career politicians, making lobbyists work a little harder to gain influence. This is obviously not easy.

I don't think you can erase the influence of money; if nothing else, there is a baseline of people who will simply ignore the law.
> she's forced to stop focusing on the tech, stop focusing on doing her job, and instead focus on the people behind her

Assuming that this was true - she was so overwhelmed by jokes about a dongle that she could not concentrate on the conference - she could have easily turned around and told them that the conversation made her uncomfortable. She did not have to, and should not have, publicly shamed them for a private joke.

> whether she's safe in the space

Where does this come from? It was a joke about a dongle. Anatomy. Even if it was sexual, which is questionable, she was not threatened. They never threatened her. They never gave her lewd looks. They were never a threat to her or other people at the conference.
>Of the 19 final declarations of incompatibility that had been issued by UK courts under the HRA by August 2011, only a single one hasn't yet been remedied (being the absolute ban on prisoner voting).

You're right, my mistake. I was not aware that the Terrorism Act 2000 had been found not in accordance with the law. In my defense, it did take them 10 years to decide so. The last time I had studied the issue in-depth was before Gillan and Quinton v United Kingdom.

So that's +1 for the UK; the courts have at least stood up to suspicion-less stop-and-searches. Of course, that's only a very small part of the problem.
"Now I wish that the same thing done here to javascript, were also done to html, CSS, the dom, etc."

I agree 100%. If only we could see similar progress in the speed of DOM updates/manipulation life would be great. The fact is that most webapp performance issues aren't JS dependent, the bottleneck is the DOM.
At any point before the firing, she had the power to put a halt to a lot of this. She could have gone on Twitter and her blog and posted, "I'm so sorry this has happened. The person in question has apologized. I would like to request that Play Haven rehire him, and institute a policy to avoid incidents like this in the future."

Everything so far has been about punishment/vindictiveness. Nobody is interested in trying to address the problem, move forward, and make the world a better place. I don't see how the outcome could have been worse. Everyone handled this badly except PyCon itself, yet PyCon is who will be remembered as the problem.
Since SendGrid won't stand behind their employees who make a stand, I'm no longer interested in doing business with them.

With what I read of the letter (I didn't read it all the way through) I agree with it.
You can think of it however you like, but this has pushy soccer mom written all over it.

Think about it. A woman named as one of FORTUNE's top ten most powerful female entrepreneurs needs to fundraise to send her kid to camp? Really? Give me a break. There are millions of children living and dying in poverty but hey, this upper-class white girl needs a new laptop and maybe a pony, so let's all empty our wallets. I feel sick.
Right, I was confused why he thought I would be offended by that when my point was that the joke was a non-issue. That sketch is fantastic and isn't new to me. What I find so silly about this whole thing - which is exactly what the skit helps imply - is that you can hardly even say the word dongle without laughing; you don't even need to know what it really is to see the low-hanging humor in it (no pun intended). It's just one of those words. She'd have an entire magazine spread if she went to some of the gaming-related events I've been to.

We were all in 5th grade once, I think a conference for adults can handle that same behavior.
That's a tempting argument, but I agree with pukka_my. Sexual jokes or innuendo make some people, especially women, uncomfortable. Among friends, in private, you might know that everyone present is fine with that kind of banter. In a public place, you can't know that. So giving yourself permission to make such cracks anyway is at best insensitive and, if repeated, betrays an attitude that says "because I'm a man and you're a woman, I don't have to care how you feel about this". That's sexist.
Maybe yes maybe no, but either way that's not a good solution.

iOS 6 - use vendor identifier
iOS 5 - create an ID via CFUUIDCreate() and save it
iOS 4 - can be safely excluded from support
They canceled my free student organization plan on me when they changed owners :(
Thanks for the link tip! I'm rather new here unfortunately, so I don't quite know how everything works unfortunately...

I think this whole debarcle should be noted down in a book entitled "how not to do things". Everything, from the developers conduct, to Adria's reaction, to the internet's counter-reaction to the companies reactions just multiplied the problems further. Essentially the lesson I'm taking away from this is that it's incredibly necessary to think twice or three times before doing anything - especially in this internet connected age.

Anyway - I'm still interested in how you got into AI, but I'll drop you an email to ask to keep the post thread down. I completely understand - it's probably trivial to find out who I am from my HN profile - but it's still better than it being explicit.

Thanks!
So you mean that the strength measurement is send from the client to the server alongside with the hash+salted password? Password are hashed+salted on the client side right? They're not transmitting password "in the clear" to hash+salt them on the server side? (even on SSL I'd be worried about passwords travelling between client/Apple-severs seen the number of hacks trying to exploit SSL/TLS recently)
What was the harm, exactly? She overheard a stupid joke far less crude than one might hear on any television show during prime time. It was no worse than the one she posted on her own Twitter.
Doesn't pg count as a successful (rich) founder? He might not be a billionaire, but he ain't poor. I think he's involved in some kind of business that invests in start ups.
Bitcoin Gets Laundering Rule
First, because it demonstrates the extent to which a company can be brought to its knees by a group of hostile people organized online

I agree. This is frightening. Any concept of a DDOS being a "digital sit-in" are dumb. PlayHaven may also have been trying to avoid the mob, too.

Second because hundreds and hundreds of men here and elsewhere seem quite happy to align themselves with an overtly sexist, violently threatening campaign against an individual whose views they disagree with.

What do you mean by "align themselves"? Those are extremely vague words.

Do you mean "approve of"? Or do you mean "takes the same side as"?

Anyone who approves of the DDOS is a moron. Anyone who approves of death threats is a sociopath. The people who issued threats should be subject to criminal prosecution.

However, people can find themselves legitimately on the same side of an issue as a bunch of assholes. No one should be forced out of a position by the fact that disgusting people also have that opinion.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy