skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you misunderstood my comment. From my understanding of the law, which is limited I might add, this company has every right to fire her if she no longer fulfills her job requirements to the company's standards. She was at this conference representing her company. She is expected by her company to act with a certain level of professionalism. The public humiliation I spoke of took place during a time in which she was on the clock so to speak. This is where she went wrong. She represented her company in a very negative way by humiliating these men, quite tactlessly, in public. In this sense she was being quite hypocritical. She was acting just as unprofessional if not worse than the men making the jokes. I do believe that this is proper justification for firing an employee (as was observed when the man who made the joke was fired by his company.) The public humiliation I spoke of was not legal justification for her termination. It was the fact that she represented her company in an unprofessional manner that led to her being fired.

If she would have been mature and confronted these men, as grown ups should, this all could have been avoided. The only reason I say she was the aggressor is the simple fact that these men didn't even know they were offending her. They were in the wrong, most definitely, but that does not make it right for her to act unprofessionally as well.

As far as I can tell, this company's choice was legal and in their best interest.
Wow... How did HN become a den of self-righteous, humorless self-flagellation. Someone tried to do something funny after all the overheated rhetoric of the past of couple of days along with introducing a clever bit of entrepreneurship in the process. Whether you'd buy the shirt or not (I won't) at least try to appreciate the initiative and cheekiness.
* asm.js is not a standard and was only announced 2 weeks ago. Hardly a fair comparison.

* ES6 features? All disabled on FF19.

* OPUS codec? Who uses that? Which codecs to support is not part of any standard. Browsers are free to support what they want. But at the same time, not being able to play the most common audio and video formats seems like a far bigger issue.

* What's "proper fullscreen mode?"
I started with PHP and ran with it for several years. It was my entry language for web development. Currently I'm using Ruby almost exclusively. Each has their strengths, but after spending a lot of time in Ruby, it's difficult to enjoy writing code in PHP. Ruby was deigned with developer happiness in mind, after all.

For me, the most interesting thing about programming are language agnostic principles and design. Learning the fundamentals will translate to any language.
They're asking ruqqq to stop infringing on their trademark and copyright, not necessarily stop development.

The trademark issue is likely resolvable by removing the "9GAG for Android" tagline and any other implied or expressed official connection to 9GAG that might appear in the app, website, or other marketing materials.

What they're referring to with regards to the copyright violation is a little more complex: are they referring to the user-supplied content? Did ruqqq use 9GAG creative in the app? Something else? If it's anything other than the user-supplied content, which 9GAG doesn't have a copyright on anyway, that should be relatively straightforward to resolve, as well.

But GP is referring to ruqqq's implied offer to make Nine the official 9GAG app (at least in some capacity), not that ruqqq actually is, at this moment, in charge.
Specific skills don't matter much, and you'll never be able to cover more than a tiny fraction of them anyway.

What really makes a difference is basic problem solving and logical reasoning. For just about any specific task google will give you some code samples, but if you can't form a consistent mental model of what the computer will do with that code, you won't be able to use it effectively.

Regular expressions are just an implementation detail.
Author here. It's so nice to see the conversation get back to all the good things that go on at PyCon.
Gmail's spam filter definitely seems to be erring on the aggressive side nowadays. I honestly can't remember when any real spam last reached my inbox. On the other hand, I did find many other false positives while going through the spam folder, mainly from newsletters and social notifications I really have subscribed to.

I guess the least we can do is help Google tune their filters and periodically mark all false positives as "not spam".
I understand, I'm saying that this article suggests that there may be languages which enable us to solve entirely different problems.

Maybe the comparison of a classical computer vs. a quantum computer is more apt. There are many problems which they can both do, but for some a quantum computer is infinitely more efficient. For some linguistic problems, a certain language may be much more efficient.
What is a "bank run" then?
I find they're easier to kill than rabbits. I've never hunted elephants. b^)
Nah. You crossed a line. You leveraged their brand to build your app's user base and then you essentially say "Let's make a deal." And act appalled when they have a bad taste in their mouth? That's a dick move.

Like the letter said if you're truly just worried for your users redirect them to 9gag's app, but the problem is that's not your real concern apparently.
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Some of us are still shellshocked after receiving numerous death threats and having our inboxes spammed with pictures of dismembered infants. Maybe waiting one fucking hot minute would be in order?
Strange. I was sending a regular wire transfer from Europe to Russia at the commission of ~1%.
Because in kernel mode it's impossible to make (and subsequently gloss over) simple mistakes? This hasn't been my experience.
Typing isn't nearly as important as it may at first seem - how much code do you really type? Sometimes I might produce 10 lines of code in a day, all the effort going into knowing exactly what those 10 lines should be. Even the worst typist can beat 0.05wpm.
You have to be joking. You're linking to an article about a guy who installs secret compartments in vehicles for narcotics traffickers. Even after he finds a floor stuffed with $800,000 in cash, he continues to help them, repairing the compartment in one car and agreeing to install a compartment in another.

What is so hard to understand about the concept that something may or may not be a crime depending on context? Standing in front of a door? Not illegal in general. Standing in front of a door to keep police from being able to chase a bank robber? That's aiding and abetting and is and should be illegal.
E.g. the "people" app on WP8 is quite a mess. It's not at all clear how to get around in it.

I just looked at the People app. I don't find anything confusing in it at all. Virtually everything in there is tapable. I didn't see a single thing in there that I thought someone would be confused about (at least with respect to the UI -- it's a bit confusing as to what content gets streamed in, but that has nothing to do with Metro).
Just in case anyone is curious, the error was having `sizeof(key - r)` instead of `sizeof(key) - r`

Rookie mistake!
Hi rmrfrmrf. I went through your recent comments. By and large, they're highly inflammatory. Ease off on the vitriol and your life might get a bit easier.

To be precise, these are the comments that I find inflammatory:

> Because anti-woman and anti-black hate groups are trying to game HN with mass account creation and upvote spam.

> SendGrid would have come out stronger from weathering the storm as a defender and promoter of women in tech. Instead, they're giving in to terrorism. Anyone feeling a sense of relief out of this situation is out of their mind.

> I hope she sues the shit out of them and gets enough money to spend the rest of her life advocating for women in tech without fear of retaliation.

> No, this situation is the worst thing for women in tech. I can't begin to imagine the waves of misogyny that're about to run rampant through the tech community knowing that any woman who speaks out will be fired.

> Please take your special snowflakery elsewhere.

> No. (without explanation)

> In other words, it's OK if men do it, but not if a woman does it. (which was a complete non sequitur)

> I can't even begin to explain how fallacious this argument is. (without explanation, and it wasn't fallacious)

> Is it really that hard to act like a professional adult while you're at work? The simplest solution is to simply stop telling penis jokes at work.

> Still unfunny and tasteless. Imagine that.

> Really? All it says to me is that people in the tech field are so against a woman standing up for herself that they're actually willing to bring down the company she works for. It's disgusting.

> (cont.) Will you also feel schadenfreude when they hack her bank account?

> I bet he won't make the same mistake again. Perhaps we're all so used to going through the 6 month HR-slap-on-the-wrist process that we have lost touch of what it actually takes to change a person's behavior. (supporting mr-hank getting fired)

> Thank you -- all of these hate-laden comments are making me lose my mind.

> Since when is Twitter the same thing as a professional conference? Why are the majority of the commenters on HN completely missing the point?

> She @-replied pycon staff. Compare that to the HN and Reddit communities out for Adria's head.

> "We're not choosing your company because we believe in the right for men to tell dick jokes."

> (cont.) I'd quickly e-mail back: "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."

> Thank you, Adria, for fighting the good fight. I hope that the voices of support for you drown out the rampant hate that you're receiving. Seems like HN turns into a complete shithole the second a woman "has the nerve to choose to be offended" or whatever bullshit these misogynist assholes peddle.

> (cont.) The benefit that I always see from situations like this is that it empowers the women who, in the past, have been too nervous to call people out on their shit. Just know that you're doing amazing work and are paving the way to creating an environment of gender equality.
I was sort of using it in the "As best I can tell, all these people are dudes", sense. Like, Finbarr is a dude. If there's a girl involved, maybe that's less terrible.

And yes, I realize how ridiculous that is, but that's just kinda how these things work.
What is this the 70's? Of course we need protection.

Ok, would this comment be appropriate in the workplace? Vote up/down.
"The entire industry is based on risk."

The entire industry is based on a business model which only a monkey could fuck up, yet the industry manages to fuck it up (as Taleb writes).

You do realize that all these risk computation are totally bogus and led to big trouble in 2008 right?

And that there's no risk because when the shit hit the fan bankster simply go say they're too big too fail and get bailed out.

And at that point they're effectively on life support and, still as Taleb is saying it, they should shut the fuck up.

Don't talk about risk when the only risk is being bailed out by public money once you, of course, miscomputed the risk.

Wanna talk about all the banks in the eurozone that needed a bail out in the recent years since Greece defaulted because they didn't correctly analyze the Greece state default risk?

Hint: it's far from over and far more fucked up than most people think and more banks will be bailed out again with public money (starting with Cyprus right now).

Yet in 1999 economists did warn about precisely that: about the euro that would lead to both Spain and Greece doing state default. Who listened?

Where in the financial world did anyone listen to that and take that risk into account? Nowhere.

Nobody.

Because public money is always here to bail out.

So please stop telling us there's risk. It's all a freakin' broken model and the entire financial system ain't there to provide liquidity anymore: it's become something out of control trying to shift as much money around as possible in order to generate as much "rake" as possible.

And if these monkeys didn't even correctly manage the risk on something as essential as state debt, when having all the information available to correctly compute such a risk (including warning from economists that defaults would be coming), what makes you think they'd be able to compute the risk on more complicated products, like CDS and all the crazy stuff that this industry simply makes up in order to take a bigger rake on all the money shifted around?

It's a bunch of quants who've lost it: they're out of touch with the real world and can't understand something as basic as the inevitability of a state defaulting when facing the facts.

And you're trying to tell us that they know what taking risk is?

Risk is entrepreneurs putting their personal belongings on the line. Not a bunch of sick gamblers using broken models to try to generate more and more money with the public money that is keeping their employers alive.

"The black swan" is a pretty good book. Of course it's not "nice" towards people like you. Sadly he was right and predicted correctly what would happen, contrarily to all the supposedly "risk takers" you seem to be so fond of because they'd be taking such amazing risks.
Not great. About the same...
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This seems like a disproportionate response to what is, at worst, an inappropriate joke tshirt.
9Gag quite often is virtually stealing images from all over the world. But technically they have an upper hand. I think you should just create your own project similar to theirs and direct your users to it, changing the name and complying with their request.
I didn't even know "money shot" has a porn meaning until reading this article. I thought it's something to do with dice games or marksmanship or something. You learn something new every day.

As for the matter of the loss, I think the article is spot on. I personally would be horrified if I learned that somebody who made a silly joke I didn't like lost his/her job when if I just handled it a bit differently everything could be fine and nobody would be hurt. Now two people are out of jobs and amount of misery and bad feelings in the tech world is clearly increasing. And that's in open source where the thing that brings people together supposed to be helping each other and making the world better together. Everybody lost here, big time.
Did you see how Balanced does its HTTP docs?

https://github.com/balanced/balanced-docs
asm.js: Big Web App? Compile it!
>This is especially problematic in the Web 2.0 / Freemium world where too many company build their business models around trying to build massive scale of free customers and then convert a small share to low monthly payments. I guess it has worked for some companies? (Basecamp? Who else?)

Dropbox? Skype? I feel like there's a lot of freemium companies that make it.

I like this message though. Good advice for not just startups.
Its not a price anyone has to pay, its a choice made. Plenty of companies have been around a while and choose not to support old stuff - cutting or keeping the ties is part of the design.
I'm just getting tired of it... I want to learn things when I come here, and I want to watch great conversations unfold, sometimes even participate in them, but these meme-cycles... the whole "x will get google reader'd!" thing, the fork my dongle thing, the chart.js 'scandal', all of these just senseless, tiring mass bursts of outrage that pop up everywhere are getting in the way of my goal of learning and conversing, and I'm just getting tired of it...

That's my opinion, at least.
Measuring time of computation is counting the number of primitive operations. I'd say a language is a collection of capabilities that play nicely. Given one language, we can create a second that is also RE by taking each instruction in the first and adding a nop, or calculate ack(10,10) and throws it away, or whatever. Any algorithm that the second language computes with at least one step runs in fewer primitive steps in the first language by design.

Beyond a theoretical consideration, in practice there is much more than preference providing the difference between languages. If they were the same, you shouldn't have any trouble implementing combinators in brainfuck.
Because a woman got fired because she got a guy fired for making a completely innocent joke and then a bunch of guys all started harassing that woman on the internet to the point where I had to kinda feel bad for her even though she was entirely in the wrong and I was glad she got fired.

So a bunch of guys then making fun of the whole thing with a shirt seems mean-spirited. Like, your gender won (well, common sense won, but) let it go.
You obviously have anger issues. You should see a psychologist.
and the dude acknowledged what he said was inappropriate, i just think the company may have been quick to fire, imho. if this was big corporation, they would have a session with HR for sensitivity training and put the dude on probationary terms and then everyone would go out for happy hour.
Yeah, point taken. Not every company hires recruiters, let alone good ones.
More of a rocket ship than a roller coaster.

I call a top at 120 and back down to 20, all within the next few months. My sell order is at 112.
> Since they're in BC, they can ship to Alberta too!

Is that right? How does that work?
So anyone who scrapes facebook and gathers a bunch of email addresses and brags on IRC about how they could sell them to scammers is now liable for a federal felony?
Yeah, I get that, and I don't think it was actually mean spirited, just feels that way.
if more and more people/businesses start accepting bitcoin as payment due to the rise in value, it might get propped up due to the general usage (as opposed to speculation, whcih is what is propping up its value right now).

The future is unknown!
It's way cheaper to ship something to a neighbouring province than to the US.
Hi, I designed the shirt. I didn't intend for this to come off as mean spirited. There have been overreactions on both sides of this whole mess.

We made this shirt because we believe that it's okay to laugh at potty humor and support women in tech at the same time.

Also I do want to make it clear that we are not affiliated with Girls Who Code, we just support their cause.
fun tidbit -- it's actually a YC alum S12 -- I can't stand what they do, but I suppose it's probably on track to make decent money
Surely, surely, there should be a bigger difference between innocence and guilt than a disclaimer "Now, you boys don't go using this for anything illegal now, you hear?".

Even specific illegal use does a bad job as a metric, considering how arbitrary and unjust many laws considering technology are. What are you going to use a high-density disk for, if not storing downloaded media? Why would ordinary people want CD-Rs, if not for copyright infringement?

If the tool is provided in the conspiratorial sense--"You're having trouble with that bank vault, try this drill!"--I would probably agree with you. But something like this feels very different somehow.
> However, scripting that to do it many thousands of times and then collecting the information that results is a qualitative change of behavior

How is this different than using Facebook's graph URI endpoints ---- excepting the fact that Facebook publishes the schema?

What if Facebook had some URIs that were not covered in the schema? Are you then liable for a federal felony if you access them? Or are they liable for failing to protect personal information by not keeping it behind an encryption interface?
If only it was possible to short sell BC...
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Would south migrations work with these field types?
> You really have to wake up, guys. Wake Up. It's not you, who are spending your lives looking over your shoulders. It really isn't. So. Whilst I do not agree it was the best of actions, I wholly defend the right of anyone to take it. And will therefore stand by them if they do.

I just want to highlight that you're supporting an exaggerated public shaming for people who were just exchanging words in a semi-private conversation. Not even particularly offensive words at that. Words that are and were clearly misconstrued.

And you defend this behaviour because many women suffer sexual abuse? Tell me, should preachers be forbidden from speaking in public because some people were caned by priests as children too? Should visible minorities be cautious around everyone because some people have been mugged by black men?

Joking around is immature, particularly sexist and racist humour, but it's not irresponsible. Suggesting that public witch-hunts are the way to solve these problems is just plain irresponsible.
please let me know if there is any feedback to this site, because i have yet to find out whether the web app represents itself on the idea.

look at the following explanation on why I created this.
my comment here: http://forrst.com/posts/Credibility_cc-FO9
my post here: http://tmblr.co/ZmxrYtgcYnfL
>but normals have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Normals? Really? Yeesh.

Anyways "normals" care no more about how facebook works or what it does than they do about how Intel's chips work, Ford's engines, or NASA's Mars rover. How it works simply doesn't matter. There's no rabbit hole.
Pfft that is nothing. There is enough market depth that selling $400k of BTC would barely make the market dip from $72 to $68 (which was the market rate twelve hours ago)... http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD_depth.html

Edit: oh, you mean for him it would be bad if the market fell.
>>>> it might look as if they're not being tough on sexism, which the industry is heavily focusing on right now.

Which translates as "we have a political campaign, sorry, little guy, you have to go under the bus, because it is politically expedient to us, you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs, you know?". Sounds pretty despicable to me. Then again, no reason to expect them to be an island of virtue in the world, they are no worse and no better than many others.
You got me thinking - completely off topic. I think you mean eyesore. Eye soar is probably what happens if something is big and good.
> asm.js output will be somewhat larger due to the strict type system.

That's the part I was wondering about.

I'm hoping that we'll see rust compile to asm.js! ISTM that there's some similarity between web worker "transferable object" semantics and rust unique pointer semantics. If ES "binary data" objects end up being "transferable objects", maybe rust unique pointers can map onto transferable objects in rust tasks that are compiled to asm.js and run as web workers.
I'd say you should keep the app up and change some of the names. You did them a huge favor by creating an app and they give you some contrived robotic response? Fuck them. They thrive on stolen content anyhow, it's not like they have much of a leg to stand on.
Nein gag.

These apps actually are annoying. The name should indicate they're not official. All of these apps harvest some user data and (whether deserved or not) I trust it to the name brand more than a random developer.

Anyhow it seems like they had a reasonable exchange. I loved how after the threatening legal letter the co-founder's email has a link to his funny collection!

Edit: but I do appreciate the developer filling a need that wasn't met. I think I probably have this app installed actually. Anyhow, it's never fun to sift through multiple, similar looking apps.
Ask HN: What comes to your mind when you see the name "Talentrue"?
Do you like it? Does it sound trustwworthy? What can you expect from a service called Talentrue ?

Thanks a lot for the feedback!
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