skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick LinkedIn search turned her up.

Arkansas Tech University - 09, Judging by her skills on linked in, I would say Journalism or something in the English department.

The University is $8k-11k depending on in/out of state. So thats a top of 88k. But from her linked in profile it looks like she's in state so, worst case, we're looking at $65,000 for the 4 years. So her monthly payments at a whopping 10% apr (which is the highest I've ever seen student loans go) would be $860, had she not defaulted. But since she did shes looking at a monthly payment of $545. I don't know her details but I'm going to say that $860 would be more than she made after taxes.

So, no big name school here. No loan sharks. And a pretty reasonably priced university. And I'm sure that everyone expected her to graduate and make at least $12/hr which would allow her to split rent and still pay her loans (with some food money). Based off that I would say its pretty reasonable to say she got shafted by the economy. Finding work as a journalist after the collapse would be quite hard. But before that it seemed like a genuinely decent field. Sure, its not comp sci or petrol eng but it was a good way to go.
EU Parliament approves single charging standard for smartphones and tablets
Actually, yes we are. Since the goings-on at Github are being discussed and people are trying to decide which side is right, and when the people have decided which story is true then the shaming / applauding of Github will be spread to blogs and Twitter and Facebook and what not... this is exactly like a trial.
Talk to me. I'm 'CaptainBananaPants'
This is super screwed up enough, I think we can do without the random guesses, yeah?
It's so crippling to the point that I can't stand that some stranger's thigh is touching mine at a tech event even though I shifted in my seat to avoid it the first time. And WTF, the worst part is I managed to shake hands and talk to other/new people at the same event and those assholes were so NICE!...they just didn't do the thigh touching. I really need to get over it, whatever. And WTF is up with hacking at an event, I really need to talk to people instead. Except I have one hell of an uncontrollable bronchitis+asthma cough right now so I'm trying to take it easy.

Yup.

My old therapist before I moved to SF actually thought I was kind of nuts for staying in the tech industry because I used to tell her everything because her son wanted to go into the industry too. Maybe she has a point. And my new one most definitely knows what harassment and uncomfortable situations are, she spent a while asking me questions about my fiancé to make sure I wasn't being abused at our very first session. (And no, no truly crippling problems other than not so hyperactive ADHD, so sorry.)
That seems like a knee-jerk reaction. We don't know what has really happened, and we've only heard one side of the story. It seems like these days people are just looking for something to be upset about.
Is porn fest an illegal stuff? Of course there is property damage for which they are responsible, but other than that? I lived a long time in Prague, and there are porn fests once every few days in every block and nobody seems to worry.
Aviation has taken the attitude of every plane crash being a major disaster. Hence crashes per mile may be low, but we have enough disasters and near misses to keep attention focused on continuous improvement.

There is no technology that I am aware of which comes with risk of disaster, and does not suffer a major disaster at least once every generation or two.
This gives me the opportunity to say that I thought this guy sounded like a tool during his talk at Startup School.
Yeah this section really damaged her credibility for me. She says the guys were "gawking", so they were not saying anything inappropriate, just "staring openly and stupidly". I can picture a professional business environment where gawking would be inappropriate, but I have a hard time picturing that environment with women hula hooping to music. Plus is gawking a crime? Yes, those random employees were being unprofessional, but worth writing about in an email to Tech Crunch?
The company just seems to have immature leadership.
To be clear: I may be in the minority

I'm a young male. Maybe too young to matter, but I do not, and I can't stress enough, I literally give no merit to the gender of my coworkers.

I was I raised to treat everybody equal. In my family as well as in general society today, women are MORE highly educated on average than men. And that's a great thing!

Men can act weird toward women at times, and men will never understand what that feels like. But I AM a man. Trust me when I say that women will never understand what it feels like when a man talks to a man in the absence of women.

I know people can be dicks, they can be terrible, and that's across both genders, but there IS a 'straight man to straight man' dynamic that women will always be protected from that isn't terribly pleasant.

TL;DR: The old boys club isn't fun for all boys, it's still only fun for the ones on top and that doesn't represent most of us.
I don't think this was an instance of institutionalized sexism. Rather, the founder's wife seems like an unbalanced individual, and nobody effectively set any boundaries. The other founders and HR seemed unaware or unable to set the situation to right.

As for her romantically inclined co-worker -- I don't see how his behavior qualifies as sexist or hostile. Merely a bit clueless, but isn't it to be expected that employees of a tech company will be somewhat socially awkward?

EDIT: As multiple commenters have noted, ripping out someone's code commits because they rejected your romantic advances is unacceptable and unprofessional. The ripper-outer should be roasted by the project manager if there's no technical justification. Since the two employees no longer get along, one or both should be re-assigned to different projects if possible. And the offender should be disciplined (up to and including dismissal from the company) if he makes life difficult for her in the future. But his actions reflect on him, not Github as a whole. The article includes no information about whether any of his actions were reported to his supervisor or anyone else, and no information about Github's response to the incident. Without those crucial details, I think it's premature to point a finger at Github.

As for the hula hoop incident -- if the girls doing the hooping and the guys doing the watching were okay with it, and everybody kept their clothes on, that seems pretty innocent to me.
Why not add the Stanford Javascript Crypto Library to this, to address the concern mentioned by jabgrabdthrow?

https://github.com/bitwiseshiftleft/sjcl

I'm not saying that's going to plug all holes but maybe it can be one piece.
This should be the top comment.

As long as sexism persists in the tech industry, it's going to drive women out and keep others away.
Depends on what the aim is. There are some considerations here:

1. People tend to view going for the lawyers as going for the 'big guns,' and can be reluctant to do so.

2. Companies can become less cooperative very quickly once it's a matter being decided by lawyers and/or in a court.

3. She may not have consulted a lawyer because she doesn't think that anything which transpired qualifies as 'illegal,' rather than unprofessional, rude, mean, etc.

From the story presented to us, it sounds like she wants to leverage bad PR to get Github's HR / board to hold the people she views as having wronged her accountable.
I'm not sure how much better you can do with a webapp. Either you trust them to encrypt your messages on the server or you trust them to send you JavaScript that does the encryption in the browser. Either way you need to trust the app provider. SSL should ensure it is not MITMed before it gets to their server.
So? It doesn't prevent people from ignoring those rules, and there's no fire inspector going through all rooms to check if there's no code violation. Again, the prevention here is impossible. Fining people that did it after the fact - easily, but that's not the problem here. If having "max occupancy set" were a problem, AirBnB would just said on the site "no more than 3 people and no wild sex parties" and problem solved, right?
If the situation with the one founder who is injecting outside people into power is resolved, I would say everyone in the company wins (assuming the picture painted in the article is accurate).
the dude going back and deleting her code after the rejection seems pretty hostile to me.
> Now I do believe that if society made it acceptable to just outright ask, with no hard feelings either way "hey, want to go out?" that everything would be better.

This, exactly this. The problem is that the asker has to be able to take no as an answer, and deal with it. Which means not asking multiple times in rapid succession, or even asking often. And everyone involved (including friends) needs to make sure they don't shame the people involved in the exchange.

A lot of gendered problems enter this equation (at least for heterosexuals, I'm sure many other complicated societal problems (some of them related) exist for homosexuals). For example a problem for men is they have a lot of pressure to not be wrong and hence only ask women out when it's a sure, or very likely, thing. For example a problem for women is rape (i.e. rape culture, slut shaming, etc.), so they tend to hang out with their friends for protection, which makes it hard for (generally female) people to have (or talk about) a relationship without a lot of people knowing about it (you know, to back up that they aren't a slut, in case they get raped (I realize people here are pretty liberal, and that sounds horrid, but it's why some women often stick together and 'gossip')). Oh, by the way, one of those things is not like the other, one is a massive societal problem, one is merely a societal pressure, but both, among many others, need to be dealt with.
Fuck hacker news. I only come here to be mad at people.
There's socially awkward and there's openly hitting on a co-worker who is known to date another co-worker. And then not exiting as quickly as humanly possible. That's beyond "a little awkward". Saying this as a guy who is somewhat socially awkward.
>The toasters fly from the top-right to the bottom left, and we could choose to animate this by changing the value of z-index or of a newer function called translate().

How would animating the z-index cause the sprite to move from the top right to the bottom left? Z-index controls what draws in front of what, not spatial position.
Good point.

What probably needed to happen was whoever was in charge of that project should have recognized these two employees now didn't get along, and reassigned one or both of them away from the project.
Is there any legitimate reason for the pilot to disable the transponder? It seems like they should make it more difficult than just throwing a breaker in the cockpit.
Cool project, this combined with a database where you told it what ingredients you had available and it told you all the drink recipes that are you can possibly make would be killer for learning new drinks at home. Furthermore, also suggesting ingredients you should add to your bar next to maximize the number of new recipes available to you would be amazing. Add the ability to keep track of what you tried and your ability to add star ratings per drink would be an amazing product. I can think of few better ways to explore the world of cocktails and keep track of what you really enjoy in a drink.
And Dave Chapelle walked out of a $50 million contract because something normal (a couple of white guys laughing at a funny skit) rubbed him the wrong way. Sometimes a seemingly normal occurrence can pierce through one's facade of denial so sharply that the toxicity of the environment becomes inescapably apparent. And then what are you supposed to do? Pretend like nothing matters? Hello existential crisis.
The Frog, Or the World of Madness is Round, and Essay for All Humanity: Preface
The coworker who thought she was an opportunity, and the failure to discipline that coworker, definitely is sexism.
This is just really really messy and could have all could have been handled differently.

Also, not so much sexism here as drama, a lot of which, it seemed, Ms Horvath herself participated in :\
Zsh completion for Google Cloud SDK
I totally agree about multiple angled monitors being more comfortable and practical than a single large display, but there is value to a high DPI display even if you increase your scaling. Everything is clearer. (Well, text and anything that includes high-res images, anyway.) That makes it more comfortable to real/look at, even at the same or slightly smaller size.
What fires have to do with it? The OP didn't complain about fire. It complained about his guests inviting other people, having wild sex party and trashing the apartment. Tell me that never happened in hotels.

You make it sound like OP was running a crime syndicate there. He just let people stay in his place for a couple of nights. People do it all the time. I did it many times for my friends and was the beneficiary of the same many times. One time he trusted wrong people's recommendation and it didn't work out. It could as well happen to anybody - you could trust your best friend's friend and let him stay at your place and he could invite his pals and turn the place upside down. Nothing to do with fire codes.
Hackers, in my experience, have more shared experience in being naive enough socially to allow themselves to be baited into making statements which are later used against them, than in actually saying things (or even associating with others who would say things) which are intentionally malicious.

We all understand fixing someone's computer and then being blamed for any problems it has from then on; or for making a software estimate and being held to it as a requirement. In short, hackers are used to being scapegoats, so the first conclusion we jump to when one of us is accused of something is that they're being scapegoated too.

This can look like "victim-blaming", but it's really more-than-anything a yearning for people to keep their standards of evidence high, and to avoid jumping to conclusions. Counterarguments and counterfactuals ("what else could have happened") aren't presented as "this is obviously what happened instead", but just to decrease confidence that the evidence presented thusfar is strong enough to prove anything much. If evidence A fits alleged narrative X, but also random equally-likely stories Y or Z, then X is no longer implied directly by A.
yeah it doesn't sound sexist much, but still batshit crazy. regardless of who's telling the truth at thing point (i doubt github will go with an explanation over this..)

hypothesis: i think shes using the fact that shes a woman to push for what she wants (as in "sexist issues, sensationalistic, lets put that in there"). she's likely to either have little/no proof or be lying - whichever, when you can't prove stuff, you tend to do exactly what shes doing (or, if you're sane, you just shut up)
I didn't know that TechCrunch was strictly involved with reporting crime.

(Btw, TechCrunch asked.)
Jesus, get a grip. Stop embarrassing yourself.
I have no evidence that she is lying, but people having definitely lied about much bigger things than this.
This is one of the things about AirBnB that bothers me. They know it's not legal for him to rent it because of NYC's Illegal Hotels Act. I can't shake the persistent feeling that they know their business model relies on people breaking the law and they just don't care. That bugs me.
What is doing the typesetting? I do not recognize:

Producer: Qt 4.8.4 (C) 2011 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies)

Why didn't you use pandoc+latex:

$ pandoc -s -S -o gitprint.pdf FILE.md
Watching your co-workers as they hula-hoop in the office doesn't sound terribly sexist or out of the ordinary [1]. Hula hooping in the office is offbeat enough that you'd expect people to stop and look And it's certainly not the some kind of 'last straw' sexist incident.

Obviously, what happened is that Horvath was already upset from the weirdness that had transpired thus far - and based on the article, it does sound pretty weird.

Because of this she read a lot of 'meaning' into the hula-hooping that just wasn't there. It's hard to see how this situation could be a last straw otherwise.

[1] i.e. "hula hooping in the office" is out of the ordinary ... watching something out of the ordinary is normal
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Absolutely agree.

Until you spoke
And showed me understanding is a dream
"I hate these people staring
Make them go away from me"

The Cure "How Beautiful You Are"
Guy also probably deserved a good reprimand. Messing with code because of personal issues is a great way to tank your reputability as a developer.
Well, you're right, that too. Though I'm not sure what this tax is for - i.e. what exactly is it except "these people do not live here, so they aren't our voters, so fleecing them a bit won't hurt"?
Thanks for contributing yet another well-reasoned, impartial analysis of modern society to Hacker news.
Uhm, it was female on female. Is male on male intimidation, sexism? Because men are the primary victims of violence, and their sex being highly relevant to that, is that sexist? I don't think you would say that in this case it is.

Not to say there can't be girl/women on girl/women sexism.
That's a very good one, and We already have brain "implants"that can be upgraded, they are called "laptops" or "tablets", the difference is they are no directly linked to the brain. I wonder if the intermediate state will be to have a kind of "Bluetooth" implant that can communicate with those portable devices before the devices becomes more synthetic/organic and can be seamlessly integrated in the human body.
Completely agree, for the proportion of the population that doesn't take loans ever this certainly seems to make some sense.

I'm just saying that, imo, for the vast majority of Americans the ability to get a loan is more important then she implies. Not to mention the fact that Phone-Carriers/Recruitment-Agencies/Utilities-Vendors check credit scores as well.

It's effectively coming to terms with the fact that you won't be getting a new car/home for 7 years unless you can afford to buy it with liquid assets... So, unless your income is so great that you can save up for a car/house on TOP of affording rent + food/clothes/etc + student loans, you won't be getting one until your credit recovers.

You last paragraph is basically my point, limiting oneself is _not_ popular these days, that's exactly why most American's would regret this decision because eventually they would find themselves limited. Perhaps they should be.

I feel like I should state down here that:

a.) I hope I never have to borrow money in my life, but I probably will. I don't think it's the "right" way to live or anything.

b.) I think this does make some sense for certain people.

c.)I don't think bad credit ruins your life, but I do think it has a bigger impact than was implied.
Some googling suggests that this is fraud, and that the courts will recognize what you're doing and refuse to discharge such credit card debt.

E.g.: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/will-bankruptcy-rid-c...
Well, actually that is a pretty positive way to look at it. Good point.
In this case a SSL certificate which is certified by 'GoDaddy.com, Inc.'. Not too trustworthy if you ask me.
'Hollywood' isn't a single entity. Someone would need to:

- Set this monthly fee

- Work out a way to share the fee among content creators, and get that agreed by those content creators

- Get the data required to support the fee-sharing agreement (e.g. movie plays)

- Protect the revenues through, e.g. legal action against those who use the service without paying, and providing a payment mechanism for everyone else

Think about it from the point of view of an individual content creator. If I were to create the best movie ever, and wanted to maximise my revenue from the money/sweat/risk I put in to get this far, what kind of revenue sharing model would need to exist, in order to persuade me to make the movie available on a service like the one you describe?
Holy shit, this is awesome. Lots of papers. LOTS.
Even local papers. And the resolution is good!
I like what you're doing, anything to improve typography on the web makes the whole experience better no matter what the design.

Is there any way I can use JavaScript to pick swatches or set options like the type panel in illustrator?
A good thumb rule to apply to verify whether something is about sexism is to think whether things would have played out differently if the sex of the victim was different. Do you still think in this case the alleged sexism is imaginary ? Hard to say but I'd lean towards thinking that is Julie was a guy the problem with the founder's wife wouldn't get this bad - so, IMHO, yes, this is about sexism.
Two women [...] were hula hooping to some music. [...] What I did have a problem with is the line of men sitting on one bench facing the hoopers and gawking at them. It looked like something out of a strip club. When I brought this up to male coworkers, they didn’t see a problem with it.

I don't see a problem with it. One does not "hula hoop" in a place of work if one does not want to be looked at.
> Not to say there can't be girl on girl [sic] sexism.

True, but since the "girls" under discussion are both in fact women, that would be sexism by definition.
I think that would just get out of hand. Also, HN being all human comments is actually rather refreshing, compared to the rest of the Internet.
its super hostile. i would hope there are logs for this - but i wouldn't be surprised if there were none.

as said higher it seems highly possible that she has no proof of anything - which means, if she's actually honest, she can't do much (except contacting a bunch of news sites and trying to make a big story out of it)

imagine this "i did all this work but someone deleted it! worked 2 weeks on it!" while in fact you were eating donuts ;-)

the problem is proof, when you have these allegations. if she has proof, then, she should sue them.
Why are you making excuses for these people? What purpose does it serve?

I'm especially shocked to see you trivialise the actions of the jilted engineer. Reverting someone else's work without explanation is a blatantly hostile and disrespectful act that should be treated seriously in isolation, and is made more serious still in the context of the inappropriate sexual stuff.
Personally I find too much vertical screen size to be taxing. This actually surprised me at first. I was using 2x24" for some time, and bemoaned the shift from 16x10 to 16x9, since I found the vertical size extremely useful for common tasks like reading documents. I briefly upgrading to three 30" (U3014), but found they were just too tall. To be comfortable I had to have them far enough away that they weren't particularly comfortable even at 1.25x scaling, so I was essentially wasting the extra space. I "downgraded" to 3x27" (BenQ BL2710 - fantastic monitor) and love them. The horizontal real estate is great, since I can angle the side monitors to still be relatively close, and can keep the primary workspace on the main screen. I certainly wouldn't be against 4k for added clarity/sharpness, but I can't see preferring a single 4k display, of any size or quality, to three 27".
I'd rather just have a "zero fuckwits rule" in hiring. It sounds like Github breached that rule, leading to this problem. You could possibly avoid all sexual harassment by having only men in the workplace, but if they were still fuckwits and assholes, you'd have other employment problems.