skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is always a huge mistake to assume people mean the literal meaning of words they use. Im not even sure people using such words in a sort of banter (Im sure I could have chosen a better word there...) environment even think of them as words, more like they are sounds, like a contemporary growl or bearing of teeth replacement.

I mean, when someone says "fuck you", should I take them up on the offer?
I'm saying it's more of a realistic threat to women than it is to men. And because of data (http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assau...), when it's a women, the likelyhood that the person hearing the threat has been raped is pretty high.
You seem to be making a lot of assertions of fact without anything to back it up. I would say that is disingenuous.
... or

return foo || null;

if you're into that sort of thing
I can almost hear the battle cry: extremism in the defense of ones work is no vice! Good read :)
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I don't think that many bosses think like that.

What if the company is not that profitable, can you still stay competitive? Are you willing to risk the future of the company?
edit: disclaimer: tad off-topic since the OP specified "We don't care or want to add any features to this app." which was exactly what I just did. :)

> If you run an event with hundreds or thousands of attendees you don't want them all emailing or SMSing photos to you.

A dedicated email address for the event, using twilio for sms/mms[0], watching/following a #hashtag thru something like hootsuite will work and is already used. It also does not require the users do download any Apps at all.

*Though, my previous comment was not intended to criticize or compare you to other services, beyond the scope of reaffirming what apple has already told you, you're application is too simple in terms of being light on features.

As a matter of fact, I am also reaffirming that there is potential to the idea. It's likely the simple fact that we just have a different definition of what would be considered simple.

From my perspective an application like this has two different sets of users, both of whose needs should be met. The business customer and the app user, what you explained is truly simple for the business customer but the success of those users depends on the usage/adoption by the app users. If you're saying that the needs of the later group should/can be avoided or overlooked then we are truly coming from different places. :)

Also in regards with:
> Or if you run a travel agency and want to provide a way for people to share photos after their group vacation your suggestion won't work there either.

In my previous comment I mentioned that you could allow the app users to sort, tag and share photos(point 4 under the second list), if a tag/category was shared by the user the challenge for the travel agency would be solved. If I were to implement this I would:

-> first make the travel agency share the folder/link-folder with the people in the tour

->-> If the user shared a 'link' under this folder it would

->->-> the pics/links get shared with other users of the folder and the tour operator

->->->-> As an added feature the app user could select their terms for sharing ex. share with operator only etc.
Serious question: Why aren't equity positions posted too?

To me, that's part of the trade-off that the startup founder / leaderships takes (for good or ill), and seeing salary in the absence of actual equity positions is only half the picture.

Hopefully they all know each other's equity positions internally and just chose not to share publicly... otherwise it would seem like a betrayal of the open culture if the actual ownership structure of the company wasn't openly known and discussed.
Bullshit. They are not equally hostile to everyone.
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The entire OP is anecdote.

I'm a gamer. I'm in a guild. We have female members. We all, regardless of gender, have at some point been the target of idiots trying to bully. While it is impossible to deny the existence of the cesspit, I take umbrage at it being perceived as the majority of we gamers. It is a problem, yes. But please don't lump me and my entire guild into the same bucket.
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I think the majority of the trash talking happens with anonymously matched competitions where voice chat is enabled.
http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/sexual-assau...

> About 3% of American men — or 1 in 33 — have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their lifetime.1

> In 2003, 1 in every ten rape victims were male.2
The double "e" sound. SeatGeek, when said quickly, can sound like SeeGee. I've had plenty of conversations where I talk about SeatGeek for the first time and I have to repeat the name.
Won't simply always using HTTPS protect you from this?
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You could argue that Youtube's experiment didnt actually stop anonymity.
The damage that a single peer causes is roughly that they themselves are less likely to purchase the movie. There is an aggravate effect of having such a large swarm enable additional people to enter this group, but the contribution of any individual to this is small. In contrast, the initial uploader is what enabled the entire thing in the first place.
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Monsanto makes two types of GM crop products.

The first, Bt crops, have the gene for a Cry protein from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis inserted so that they are toxic to the larvae of lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). The Cry protein works by aggregating into crystals in the lepidopteran larval digestive tract which then pierce the lining of the midgut, killing the larva. It doesn't affect any other animals, including us, because the crystallisation requires strong alkalinity and the presence of certain bacteria that are unique to the lepidopteran larval midgut. Bacillus thuringiensis is also widely used in organic certified agriculture. So no, this isn't poison.

The second are glyphosate resistant plants. These have a bacterial form of the ESPS gene inserted that doesn't get inhibited by glyphosate. We ingest many different forms of the ESPS gene every day - it's in basically every organism - and it's harmless. Glyphosate is one of the most harmless pesticides ever invented, which is precisely why resistance is desirable. Using glyphosate means we don't have to use the much more harmful pesticides we used to use. So no, this isn't poison.

In summary: no, it's not poison.
With array functions, the needle is first. With string functions, the haystack is first.

https://gist.github.com/salathe/1672543
So let's say that is true. It obviously doesn't matter to the woman who hears it. So how do we fix it?
This is so much fun to read. I've written/contributed to a few OS's, and it's so awesome to re-experience the joy of doing this for the first time again.

You know you're hooked once you start thinking "I wonder if she accepts pull requests" ;)
Where is the data that shows how many people who have been raped after playing a video game.
expectations of wealth, car, muscles .etc

You state these things like they are trivial. What do you have to put up with as a woman?
Joel, Thanks for starting this conversation. Your list of story types is close to the mark, but I think anyone who wants press needs to go a lot deeper.

I was a journalist for 10 years. Different kinds of reporters want different things, but they all have one thing in common. They hate being instrumentalized by press-hungry companies, and they do not exist to publicize startups. They exist to inform and entertain their readers. If you try to use them, they will ignore you. You need to figure out how you can help them report better, not just on your company, but on tech in general.

Basically, journalists want scoops and fresh points of view. If they can't surprise their readers with what they write, then they shouldn't be writing at all. Think about the stories you like: they all caught you a little off guard, either by the facts they contained or the quality of their analysis.

You need to reflect on where you fit into the supply chain of information. The next time something makes you say "Really?" or "Holy sh*t!", your next thought should be: Has this been reported yet, and if not, which journalist would want to write this story? Then you should email them.

That's how news should work. It should be something that makes people talk. Frankly, partnerships, metrics and product updates make for boring journalism that leaves readers dissatisfied, but strokes the egos of the companies involved.

You know what makes for exciting news? Finding a homeless dude and teaching him how to code. I don't know if Patrick McConlogue wanted exposure when he did that, but he got it, and if that was deliberate, the man is a genius. Everyone on HN has the capacity to make news like this. Forget about the latest app for an app that you're making, and do something big-hearted and cool. The press will eat it up.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/york-city-programmer-homele...
You make it sound like it's a fault of "reddit", whoever that is, but really it's a fault of your own. That is, you (and many others) took an entertainment website too seriously.
How does a merchant go by accepting Bitcoins? Is the price conversion based on the last trade? Average of the day/week/month? Are the Bitcoins going to be converted to $ right way or at certain intervals?

Given the high volatility of bitcoins, there is no way to predict if a transaction will net profit or loss. How do they account for this?
Guidelines indeed. For reference, here is an example of a double negative from the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales:

Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas [0] (Nowhere so busy a man as he there none)

[0] http://www.bartleby.com/40/0102.html line 321
Shhh ... don't bring up the real world on HN. :)
Thanks for your input. I see the viral point if there is an auto wall post, but if user has to approve wall post, unless there is an incentive (like in game app when user tweet or FB post, they would get golds or coins for the game), I do not see why users would post in their wall unless they are truly a fan to the app/site/marketplace.

I am asking this question as I am trying to decide if I should implement FB connect to the marketplace startup that I am working on. If I do it, it would be for

sign up / registration

login

wall post when user post a listing

wall post when user buy a listing

the only thing that I find it a value is the wall post, but then if user does not authorize it, then it's useless nonetheless (unless I give incentive to post).
Male rape is highly stigmatized, my uncle was raped and never reported it. Reported != Actual.
As mentioned at http://core.telegram.org/contestfaq if more tools to interact with the traffic are needed for the contestants to crack Telegram, they will be provided in the next contest right after 1 March, 2014. The current contest has an important practical task of deciphering traffic that is being intercepted in real time. This is the basic concern of regular users like myself (me and lots of other people in Russia had to stop using WhatsApp because of easily decipherable intercepted traffic). If Telegram proves to be robust in this respect, more tools to manipulate traffic and wider contests with similar prizes are to follow. Like all startups, this contest by Telegram starts from solving a basic but most important problem, then gradually gets more complicated in functionality and scope.

Telegram will always be interested in creating incentives for the crypto-community to check its security and provide feedback. So if you are waiting for tools to try, e.g., a MITM on Telegram and get your $200К, please stay tuned. It's @telegram on Twitter.
Uh, no one is? The article is very clear about who the problem is.
Are you saying this anecdotally or do you have data to back this up?
I lol'd at "Steam of Consciousness"
>They have more knowledge but certainly not more control.

Knowledge is power, as they say.

Industry wide wage negotiation is basically a collective action problem; publicizing your wages lowers the barriers/cost for negotiating for higher wages. Most people are, by definition, paid less than their marginal value and thus have some leeway for a raise to begin with.

Besides, it works for CEOs: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2013/10/21/131021ta_...
Submit a more complex application with features you can disable server side after review. While Apple doesn't approve of easter eggs they can't see during review, I've never heard of them noticing (let alone complaining about) features disabled after review.

You should also carefully consider why you don't support email and MMS. You should allow your customers to to say "Text Pictures to 12345 or email them to company@trovebox.com"

Downloading an app is unlikely to be easier than using the native sharing features for most users, so keep that in mind if you really care about simplicity and ease of use.
Though I think that's why this is a good solution: it still provides the company with wage control while creating transparency for the employees.
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Fair enough, I just assumed people would accept the premise that women get more harassment online than men without me having to cite a study. It seems pretty obvious to me.
I consider an unmet desire to be a problem.
"Mens with guns" isn't an analogy, it's literally what happens if you don't play by what a small majority says are the rules.

It's what happens if you smoke weed and it what happened if you were gay until very few years ago. It's what happens if you're really annoying on Twitter in the UK.

But the golden irony is that you follow up with an analogy about the greatness of coercive government. Leaking boat? Cooperation? Sounds great, clearly that's why we need to throw Aaron Swartz in jail for 35 years.

I'm not convinced that no government is the right size, but the current scope of government across the western world has an immense moral authority problem. We may well be on a leaking boat, but it seems clear to me that the life raft isn't going to save us.
I disagree they don't have more control. If the salaries are out in the open, then pay disparages would need to get addressed. Those who are severely underpaid would look for another job, so the company would need to give them a raise and fix the situation. I've known plenty of very good employees who were severely underpaid simply because they didn't know any better.
The government has no business circumventing minimum wage laws.
I don't mean anything but these salaries are pretty weak. Honestly, they are sort of really weak for this kind of company it seems to me. Hardly gives the impression of high paid software developers, particularly in the Bay Area, wow. I dunno.
Apparently "finn" isn't an acceptable username as "Username must be between 4 and 11 characters." - or is that part of the joke? It'll never work? I'm never sure with these doge things...
You're slightly wrong on the app side of things and the keys.

There are in fact two 'secret' keys. One is a fixed SHA256 hash used for their weird request generation and one is the fixed AES-128 key for encrypting snaps. The two have nothing to do with each other besides both being named secret.

Also it was not ctrl+f for secret as much as it is looking at the call sites for calls down into crypto libraries, from there it is simple back tracing to see where the keys came from. Debug symbols are nice but it works just as well if they strip debug symbols and obfuscate.
At least 2x, possibly 3x, possibly more.

You don't have to justify it, I understand all the bullet points. I'm just corroborating the parent's statement that willful ignorance of someone else's wages can be a useful coping mechanism. Because no matter how many justifications there are, it still stung.
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@ultimate - (embarrassed face) thanks for pointing that one out :(
Excellent work, and much more sane than your other way of visualizing python graphs in the browser. Great to see your stuff on Hacker News!

BTW, this is John from B&&C.
Why should it be a red flag?

Statistically speaking, you're more likely to make more money by getting a bigger salary now instead of a big payday that may never happen. Statistically, very very few companies will be large enough for employees to cash out.
As someone who uses Buffer (free version) on a regular basis, I have to say that I'm fairly amused that it appears as though none of the commenters here have actually read much, if anything, about Buffer. They have quite a lot of information about corporate culture that would have answered some of the questions and concerns posted here. Further, they're a distributed workforce (which I don't think anyone picked up on -- this explains emails vs. face to face conversations).

Some extra reading for you folks:

http://bufferapp.com/about/#our-philosophy (scroll down to the 9 Buffer Values)

http://www.slideshare.net/joelg2/buffer-culture-01-16707113
Timing. Perhaps a malicious microcode could introduce key-dependent delays into AES encryption/decryption? That's a pretty long shot, though; given my understanding of modern CPUs it's unlikely to be possible.
"Conditions" is the word.
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When I first saw the headline, I thought the article would be about throwing Dalvik away and going with AOT compilation (as in the new ART). I've heard a lot of people complain that Android is more laggy/less smooth than iOS, and I always suspected Dalvik is a big part of that.
Context and delivery is everything.
If 100 kids played for 2 hours in one day you could say they have a combined 8 days of play time in a single day.
Why would you use salary to determine if someone is a big spender or not? Look at their car / home and see if it's worth the risk.
What's deliberately misleading? Why are you blaming the courts for fathers not seeking custody?
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> Show me an angry man who spews hatred towards someone he perceives as different or a threat to him,

I'm sorry, but this describes you.

And your screed is nothing but unadulterated hate speech.

How is this shit even allowed on this site?
That's a great point, and I completely agree that reported stats are not equal to the actual stats. I would still say that there are more women raped in America than men.
I know, this seems like an anti-recruiting blog post. Working at Buffer not only means you have to be a part of a hippy groupthink ideology that you have to share your salaries with the whole world (this is not a government institution) and it will be posted on a popular website in your field, you will also earn much less than expected.
Most tech companies do this nowadays. They have all raised the bar because of the well-publicized workplace benefits of the Googles and Facebooks.
Private salaries are a benefit for those who know how to take advantage of them and push the boundary on their pay. They are a disadvantage to those who don't or don't want to. So it really depends on which type you are. Buffer will likely attract those who don't like to play this game, and just want fair pay for good work. It could even have the effect of attracting people who truly like and want to be at the company.

Neither approach (public or private salaries) is perfect.
You're suggesting a different product and a different market at the same time.

I think your comment demonstrates that most programmers are always going to go for the most awesome laptop and will make the necessary sacrifices. To me, the natural target market for this is probably FSF & EFF members; those that are concerned enough about their privacy that they will accept a laptop that does less, isn't as shiny, etc.
I would say that there are more women reporting rape in America than men asserting anything other than that is your opinion.
> Male rape is highly stigmatized

Incidentally, this (even assuming reliable victimization stats that weren't distorted by it) is one of the reasons why I wouldn't assume that the threat was necessarily less serious issued against a male based simply on victimization stats indicating that women were more likely to be victimized.
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You can try this or that tactic, and you can say "If they googled your salary, don't work for them", but best I can tell there's no angle where this is better for the prospective job seeker. The seeker can always elect to divulge his previous compensation if he likes; in this situation that option is removed. He now has fewer options, fewer plays.
What did you dislike about it, or think needs to be criticized? We won't judge you because you're a man - this is the internet! It's a meritocracy, and your critical opinions will stand or fall on their own value alone.
This is awesome. Congrats to the SeatGeek team.
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Compare what $158K is in terms of adjustment in other cities. It is not very much money for a skilled worker.
That statistic is complete bunk.

http://falserapesociety.blogspot.com/2011/02/one-in-four-lie...
Writing this as a now ex-employee, I'm sure that our IP will live on. We had some really neat stuff in the pipeline, and I look forwards to seeing it hit the big time in the next few years. Whether Calxeda proper will be acquired or whether the IP will be sold piecemeal only time will tell. Personally I'm not convinced that the company in it's "entirety" will be bough out. At this point it's the IP not the assets or people that's valuable.

I also totally agree with your assessment that we had a cool idea too early. That was in fact what Barry said at today's closing down meeting. ARM in the datacenter will happen, but that we didn't have a 64 bit chip really limited our hardware offerings to say the least.
Thanks for posting this. Forgive me for not looking over your code before asking: how does Om compare with Pedestal? Am I correct in thinking there is a lot of architecture overlap, with Pedestal's application state map occupying a similar role to React's virtual DOM, and mutation through message tuples in channels?

Both frameworks seem to offer similar advantages: decoupled model and view, UI state playback (VCR style) and instrumentation. How significantly do these frameworks differ? Or are we seeing different paths towards a convergence around a new set of model/view practices?
Would you suggest a 13" MBA + external monitor then?

Also, I'm pretty sure CAD, Solidworks and Matlab is all we run there.
My mom grew up in a farm in the middle of nowhere with nothing, in a heavily oppressed country, now she's a top tier executive at a bank. I don't think the touchy feely bullshit most women have to deal with and blog about holds a candle to what my Mom has been through, so I'm not sure your equation works.

Thanks for the non-response.
Lets think about it for a second though, if gaming is male dominated and incredibly hostile and full of harassment wouldn't the victim of the harassment be predominately male?
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It's not an argument, it's a fact.

http://betweenletters.quora.com/More-Men-Are-Raped-In-the-US...
I really admire this person, the way she can handle the situation as a smart intelligent experienced person, the best of luck to her and her friends and family - their love and friendsheip is what matters really, nothing else.
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