skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now, If you really want to make it big create you need to create an app that only takes 9 seconds of video and is only for product demos. /sarcasm
You don’t need a job to do what you love
Sry for abusing ycombinator, won't happen again.
You have kind of a funny idea of censorship. Kickstarter can't stop the book from being made, and authors are certainly not owed assistance by Kickstarter or anyone else to get their work published. It's actually never been easier to get books published and there's certainly no actual censorship happening here. The only role Kickstarter plays is aggregating funds. The author is not limited from pursuing that goal through other means.
I'm pretty sure the OP was being sarcastic.
I definitely agree with you on potentially bringing a bigger pack. I just got back from about a year in Asia and 46L was more than enough... until I went trekking in Nepal. Then I had to get creative with lashing a daypack to the back of my bag to get extra space.
The court has only rejected or modified a handful of requests out of tens of thousands. Something is clearly wrong.
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Dear fellow HN dwellers,

If you read the writings of the Guide's author and do not recognize that it is misogynistic and advocating sexual assault, you have a problem. That problem is that you are mistaking sexual assault for "taking the first step."

You do not need to resort to pulling out your dick and forcibly placing the woman's hand on it in order to "make a move." There's literally hundreds of other things that aren't sexual assault that you could do before resorting to that.

If you believe that's a reasonable "move" to make, then you not only have no imagination, but your judgment of what's acceptable behavior is way, way off. It doesn't matter if this is a woman who you're behind closed doors with for the first time, that's not a normal, acceptable "move". That kind of thing is for people already in an established, ongoing relationship with a solid foundation of consent.

Without that consent, it is assault.

I strongly urge all of you who "do not see the problem" with the author's writings to do more research into exactly what consent is, and what women (as a whole, obviously it varies from individual to individual) see as acceptable, expected behavior.

If women are loudly saying "This is assault.", you need to take them at their word, because it is their judgment, it is their consent that matters. Not yours.

Sincerely,

A married, 34 year old HNer who is ashamed of this community right now.

EDIT:

I thought this was obvious but I have already read all the comments in this thread and all the "context" the excusers are providing. If you think pointing me to that again is refuting my points, then you didn't understand what I wrote.
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As a former couchsurfing host, i implore you, couchsurfing is great, but do couchsurfing because you want to meet new people and have cultural interactions. Do NOT use couchsurfing just to save money - that might be a nice side effect, but that shouldn't be your primary goal.

The worst guests are the guest who treat it as a free hotel and/or are so cheap that they aren't willing to go out for a pint of beer with their host or do anything that requires a few dollars. And if you are working working while travelling, then that is a sign you both less willing to interact with your hosts and that you can easily afford a hotel.
According to the author, that was taken from a section on what to do once already in a private setting:

"The thing that the commenters on social media are leaving out is that the advice was taken from a section in the guide offering advice on what to do AFTER a man has met a cute girl, gotten her phone number, gone on dates, spent time getting to know her, and now are alone behind closed doors fooling around."

Out of context, yes, that's awfully rude. But, given the predicating situation, it is not nearly as much so.
You mean animated PNGs?

http://www.sublimetext.com/~jps/animated_gifs_the_hard_way.h...
I just wanted to thank you Alex. About 8 months ago I started freelancing full time (after doing it part time off and on) and traveling. I moved to FL, TX, AR and some places in between. I have a 1-way flight to Europe in 4 days and don't know when I'll be back or what exactly I'll be doing there. These actions are very much inspired by this blog post and your "Traveling, Writing and Programming" post. Thanks!

http://old.alexmaccaw.com//posts/traveling_writing_programmi...
"""How did this captain know—from 50 feet away—what the father couldn’t recognize from just 10? Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television.
(...)
Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event."""

I think there should be a law against showing kicking&screaming drowning people in movies. I'm not a fan of censorship otherwise, but here we have a clear case where movies occasionally lead to lost lives.
...therefore, conferences are essentially broken.

A system that rewards incomplete publishing and lack of details is essentially useless for science. Isn't science about sharing efforts instead of providing headaches?

I'm very frustrated at the current state: scientist pay both to publish and access. The publish-or-perish mechanic puts researchers in a very unfair position against the big players.

Why are researchers not publishing in open access?
Absolutely loved it! We crossed from Argentina at La Quiaca/Villazon, then to Tupiza, a jeep tour for a few days finishing at Uyuni, on to Sucre, took Spanish classes there for a week (which was incredibly inexpensive and helped a ton!), then La Paz, Lake Titicaca (Copacabana + Isla del Sol). Would love to get back there to explore more!
> until now Kickstarter has been neutral on legal content

No it hasn't. They've had clear policies about certain types of content. They even say in this blog that if they'd seen the Reddit material when the KickStarter had been created they would not have allowed it.
Agreed. The more dangerous precedent is that they are willing to cave to a vocal group who may or may not be right. Without defending the material, because I frankly can't, I am troubled to see Kickstarter imposing its own value judgements on projects, and even worse than that, now subject themselves to the value judgements of whichever populace can prove to be the most vocal.
I think "rapey" would be more appropriate here if that escalated to holding her down, forcing her clothes off and violating her. Instead, a lot of women enjoy that kind of interaction when you're already fooling around(which is what section of the guide its from) - and if they don't, they can quite easily refuse such an advance in a number of ways.
Is there proof that the guide was promoting sexual assault?
"it is their judgment, it is their consent that matters. Not yours."

Amen brother.
I'm so glad this is the top comment.

I've read almost all of the author's comments on reddit and he writes like a man who respects women deeply but also understands that a lot of men do not understand how to talk to and deal with women.

I understand that 'seduction' is a band brand, one which people react negatively to when the see it, but by looking at the material you will probably find that it isn't offensive at all.

The quotes are taken out of context and are not a good sample of the material. The truth is, most women are so bored at a bar and in life with the guys they meet, they are probably bigger beneficiaries of the material than the guys who read it.
Or all pages in PDF: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7166...
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/7166...
Does anyone else want to see a closer look of the battery getting swapped out? I don't think it was necessary to see a dude filling up his car with gas.
Quotes about intimate behaviour taken out of context will always seem rapey. Sure, doing this to someone you never met before is creepy at least. Picking a girl you spent a lot of time with and putting her on your lap when she's already shown she's comfortable with physical contact is rapey how?

The expression there is escalation. And the author is as clear as he can be that if she says no at any point, you back off.
Do you honestly not see any advantage of having people with a range of life experiences on a court? Especially on a court that is primarily tasked with making secret rulings to spy on [mostly] non-white people.
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Don't bother including the context of that, it would ruin the 'rapey' narrative.
I think people are aiming to create the original geocities experience too: Examples:

http://poeks.neocities.org/

http://skry.neocities.org/

http://jeremy.neocities.org/
There are also exceptions for things like beach access.

PS: The law is all about edge cases if you don't know the specifics you really have no idea what's legal most of the time.
Kickstarter is a private company that can decide what they want to have on their site for whatever reason they want. They have to answer to their customers. If you disagree, don't use Kickstarter.

But the idea that they have to comply with "freedom of speech" or be consistent or anything else doesn't make sense to me. Every store curates it's inventory with whatever rules they deem appropriate. Kickstarter never claimed that any possible piece of content was ok.
Most of the negative arguments against seduction have a few root causes. Seduction science is very disturbing.

First, it disturbs women because it's perceived as a shift in the roles and their power over the other.

Second, it disturbs men, at least some of them, because when read it from the armchair, looks just ridiculous.

Third, expert players ("PUA"s) are very often troubled people, who become expert because they have a great need for validation. Their writings can be perfectly valid and effective, but surrounded by tons of self-validation, so they cause aversion to the person rather than the content.

There is a mix of #2 and #3 in the reaction to your comment.

The problem is that the things written look rape when put out of context.
Abstractly, they are all forms of physical assertion. Nobody, except fools and rapists, would do them where inappropriate.

Putting the girl's hand in one's k is something that is effective in a very specific context.
Putting a a girl on one's lap is something that, again, is effective in a very specific context.

Both of them are not* done unless one expects a consenting reaction.

The key difference between physical assertiveness and rape is that the first is done with expected consensus, the second with expected dissent (so that force is involved).

The armchair critics are mixing the two, just because they don't have idea of how those things work in real life.

Regarding the general idea of seduction, that's a separate subject, and it's actually complex and multi layered.

Summarizing, seduction is at his essence psychological hacking. Asserting that it's bad the exact analogue of a non-engineer saying that hacking is bad.

To conclude, the guy writing the book is clearly psychologically troubled, and there are way better books than his.
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I wonder how the payment will work? Do you still have to get out of your car and swipe your card? It'd be cool if your car was linked to some online account that you could manage, so the whole thing can be done without stepping outside.
Agreed... I don't really understand why it moves opposite of gold either. Does that mean that bitcoin is considered a high risk asset instead of a safety asset?
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That doesn't really sound rapey to me, but I can see how people see things like don't ask for permission and be dominant and force her as rapey. Really though, it is the difference between going for the kiss and stopping when she turns her head (rebuff your advances) and asking "may I kiss you". Any good salesman (and that is what you are doing in a club, selling yourself) knows that one of them gives a much better result, but neither is rape (kissing her even when she says no would likely be assult, but not rape as no genitalia is involved).
There are lots of competitors to kickstarter, such as http://www.indiegogo.com/. Hell, the idea of a kickstarter isn't exactly difficult to replicate: we've seen many, many sites (App.Net and Soylent among them) 'roll their own'.
How does that work? Don't you need the original salt to verify the hash?
Oh yes. I'm sure everyone would agree history has been so much easier on men than on women. The world isn't black and white.
There are many words I'd use to describe an auto-shop. Clean is not among them.
Using encryption? That means the US spooks have you on file
You don't have to disrespect women to understand that they largely want the guy to make the first move. I don't get what all the hate here is about.
For those who want to see what this book would have looked like, it's a collection and expansion of the author's posts on /r/seduction: http://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/11piau/above_the_...
The immediate use for some might be setting up a tutorial to teach Lua in the browser[1]. However I wonder how these guys were doing it[2].

[1]: http://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/repl.html
[2]: http://repl.it/
If batteries are that easy to remove, how long does it take someone to steal a battery in a parking lot?
> You do not need to resort to pulling out your dick and forcibly placing the woman's hand on it in order to "make a move."

That quote was never given as 'taking the first step'. It was given as "how to begin when you're finally alone in the bedroom with mutual consent for sex". That is obvious even after only reading the one part of his 'guide' that includes this quote.
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You haven't read the material, you took a quote out of context. You don't know what you are talking about.

Congrats on being married and 34????
It's a good job the "pulling out your dick and forcibly placing the woman's hand on it" advice comes in the section of things you do after you're hundreds of moves down the line and you're alone in an intimate setting with a girl, after a number of dates then.

The counter-article writer doesn't make clear that he's picked quotes from all over the guide, they aren't all "the first thing you should do" quotes
Heh. So enslaving sentient organisms for the purposes of entertainment (cockroach robot app) is classed as a "creative work", while teaching teenagers how to pick up women results in outcry?

And no I'm not suggesting some equivalence between women and cockroaches, I'm objecting to their frivolous dismissal of the project on the grounds of it not being a "creative work".
This book will sell more copies now that it's been banned by Kickstarter.

I'm curious how the funding was going before this, I can't imagine it was getting much traction.

I quantify this as a paranoid over reaction by Kickstarter, if the post wasn't breaking any of their terms of service.
You're absolutely right. It was within Kickstarter's rights to defund the work, or to disallow the project, or to impose whatever burdens their whimsy could think up. Nor are they the government, from which the first amendment is intended to protect us.

The author, meanwhile, is of course free to publish the book in whatever other means he chooses.

That doesn't make it any more right in my book, and sets up a dangerous precedent that Kickstarter will now subject themselves to the whims of whichever populist group can be the most vocal.
I doubt that anyone in a normal situation would consider that to have anything to do with rape.
Maybe I'm a horrible person, but I don't think taking someone's hand and placing it on your dick is such a horrible, disgusting thing to do when you're in a situation like the one described in that post.

Keep in mind that in the original post it only happens after dating, kissing, fondling and fingering without protest. At that point, if you describe the next step between two consenting adults out of context it's going to sound "rapey".
SO is sort of like Wikipedia in that they're tremendously useful sites that are widely misunderstood. So many of the complaints about them seem to be based on misunderstanding their purpose. People see SO for the first time and jump to the conclusion that SO is sort of like Reddit, and that Wikipedia is someplace where anybody can write anything about anything. When the moderation works against them, they blame "asshole mods" instead of their own ignorance of the purpose of the sites themselves.

(not that there aren't asshole mods, but that's beside the point)

Anyway, hooray for SO (and hooray for Wikipedia), pretty much the rest of the web is composed of anything-goes sites and I love that they actively try to craft a particular experience.
I hate incomplete docs the most. Most OSS developers would agree that if you're adding a feature to a repository, then you should also be adding a test. There should also be an expectation that you should be adding docs, too.
You do realize that you're saying exactly the same thing about consent that the book is, right?

The misquoted parts is from the chapter about when you're already in a relationship, and ready to get physical.
Well there was that recent program that was posted about here where the basic income worked splendidly in a an African village.

>specially in cultures where there is a social stigma attached to joblessness and living off benefits

That's part of the point of a basic income as opposed to other means tested programs, there is no social stigma attached because everyone gets the basic income.

> prevents side-effects like detachment from the job market, petty crimes, mental illnesses and addictions.

How does low wage menial labor prevent mental illness or addictions. Sure people who are mentally ill or are addicted to hard drugs are are less likely to hold jobs, but the causality is in the opposite direction.

>do you prefer an unemployed who's got cash for booze and nothing to do, or would you prefer him to be at work like all his peers and family?

I'd prefer people do meaningful work that benefits the economy, instead of useless menial labor. Gas station attendants are almost completely nonexistent in other states, so clearly they aren't needed or wanted by the market.

Here's a proposal that should mesh with that ideology. Enact regulation that says that grass must be cut by hand with scissors. Watch companies spring up overnight to employ tens of thousands of low wage laborers.

Economists on all sides from Milton Friedman to Keynesians, to die hard socialists support some kind of basic income over our current welfare system. These are people who are diametrically opposed on almost every other issue yet they agree on this.
> You do not need to resort to pulling out your dick and forcibly placing the woman's hand on it in order to "make a move." There's literally hundreds of other things that aren't sexual assault that you could do before resorting to that.

Is it sexual assault if I do that to my girlfriend of 5 years?

In many contexts it would be sexual assault, but in many it wouldn't be. I think you're just assuming it's sexual assault because you don't like the idea of a book that teaches people how to "pick up women"

FYI, the context behind that sentence is:

> offering advice on what to do AFTER a man has met a cute girl, gotten her phone number, gone on dates, spent time getting to know her, and now are alone behind closed doors fooling around
I saw the author used wikitravel a lot - I used to also.

But now, wikivoyage is probably the preferred route. They've been adopted by Wikimedia after some drama with the company that owns wikitravel. wikitravel is now covered with ads and most of the editors abandoned ship for wikivoyage.

It's a great resource though! I have never owned a travel guide.
This isn't a legal issue. You can write all you want promoting rape culture. Kickstarter, as a private company, is well within their rights and Terms of Service to pull your project if they find it in bad taste. And they should most definitely be commended for deciding that rape-culture-promotion is inappropriate.
Try to rescue from afar first - throw a life ring, or anything they can grab on to.

If you must do an in person rescue, always approach from the back. If you come from the front, they'll use you as a "ladder" and climb on you, making it impossible for you to swim.
That's pretty cool! And smartly done!
I have no idea what the purpose of this article is.

Exhibit A is the Supreme Court. Many of the judges who were appointed by Republican presidents have turned out to be rather liberal.

Look no further than Justice Robert's (appointed by Bush in 2005) ruling on the individual mandate when he sided with the other Liberal judges in upholding its constitutionality.
Look at this one HN ignoring the documented context for the remarks.

Sexual acts, taken out of the context of mutually-interested intercourse, do very much resemble assault. It's a funny sort of fact of life.

Put even more coarsely, to quote probably one or more very confused offspring having happened upon unlocked doors "Why are mommy and daddy wrestling?"
Thank you for more eloquently describing my feelings about this thread than I could have.

A fellow married HNer in his 30s.
You are missing the point. Words are the backbone of any deliverable content. You said it yourself, in your own words: "...people would rather READ the Economist in color than b & w...," which I agree with.

And you can sell plenty with just words. I'm not harking on design. I think design is just important as anything else is. What I am saying is that words are like vital to life itself. Just like air, water, and food is.
Because there's very little point in doing so since bcrypt will automatically generate one for you.

A use case for manually injecting the salt is when your KDF result isn't stored in Modular Crypt Format, and thus you can't just pass it to `password_verify`.

In that case, you get your stored cost and salt, explicitly inject them into `password_hash` and use a constant-time string comparison (which I'm not sure PHP provides, so there's a potential security hole here) instead of `password_verify`.
Based on that headline and the number of startup redesigns that show up on HN, I was expecting a redesign mockup of PayPal - not an actual product. Took me a minute to realize what I was looking at. But great job!
Wow! they jumped to the top reading list.
When companies reject racist manuals, they're not taking the position that non-whites are "inferior and in need of protection". They're simply making the ethical choice, to the dismay of the people who enjoy racist sorts of things.

Same goes for the misogynist manuals they're now taking the ethical stance against.

So much for your ad hominem. I'd give Kickstarter kudos, except ethics are what people are supposed to have.
To me (and based on everything I read/searched/saw/experiences in the "community"), The Game is not really about "you're gonna have sex with plenty women", it's more about "you have to be a better person and then, you may happen to have sex with plenty of women".

It's about self-improvement: it's about "go out, socialize and meet people", it's about "have an activity that you enjoy and that drives", it's about "know yourself and know what you want",... Sure, sex is there (Because we're adults and if some of us like the married life, other crave for the carnal pleasure of one-night-stands) but it's mostly "don't shoot yourself in a foot by asking her if she still thinks about her ex". It was never about forcing oneself on women, it was about "fun for you and the persons you want to interact with".

That said, even I would punch anyone who'd follow the "advices" from this "book".