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> jokes that make me feel threatened

I really don't see how hearing two guys in a crowd of 800+ people talk about big dongles would make one feel threatened enough for a comment like, "Have you ever heard that thing, men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them?" She feared for her life over tasteless toilet humor in a crowded conference? Bullshit. Her Victorian sensibilities were offended over a crass joke. And now she's engaging in histrionics after the fact to justify her response.

Frankly, I'm really sick and tired of the pervasive image in America that all men are rapists and child molesters. You talk to a woman on an elevator, or you accidentally make eye contact with a child that isn't yours for a brief second, and everyone assumes you're a sexual predator because penis. Sure, I'll accept that men are more likely to be. But we're talking about 0.000011% of women versus 0.000018% of men here.

> Hank got way more than he deserved (as did Adria) over it

That we can both agree on. If anyone needs to be shamed here, it's these companies that we allow to put expediency over human lives. It's not okay to fire a father of three because someone managed to generate five minutes of buzz about them on Twitter. As consumers, this is partly our responsibility. And I for one will recommend strongly against ever using SendGrid to anyone who asks. It's too bad Hank didn't name his employer as well.

> Unfortunately there are not many people who will feel for Adria

Still, the complete and utter lack of empathy, along with playing the race card (way out of context I might add), is clearly doing her no good here. If I read her comments, I wouldn't hire her either.

And again, this is where it's good to separate your real name from your online identity. No, we shouldn't have to, but when employers behave like this, it's just proper diligence. We don't know Hank's real name here; his current employer may not even know about this incident. If Adria had done the same, maybe she'd be employed now too.
> And, "if I had kids, I wouldn't tell jokes"? Seriously?

This. Young netizens need to learn the meaning of "proportionate response". There were two adequate courses of action given the offence:

- Confront the guys, and shame them face to face for their behavior.

- If the goal was to change such misogynistic behavior of men at that kind of events (which is a reasonable and even courageous thing to do), the proper action should have been to describe the incident withholding the identities of the guys, precisely to not get them in such trouble. “Love the sinner, hate the sin”, as they say.

Doing the later would have achieved the desired goal while avoiding the whole nightmare to all involved. But linking their names to the notice of wrong behavior was an irresponsible thing to do; in particular, performing such public shaming on the internet, which never forgets and where things can go viral and turn against the one doing the shaming, as it happened.

Edit: Not to mention the disproportionate reaction of the employer, and of everyone that started bombing a company over this. Seriously guys, what's wrong with people when they're online?
It looks like it uses a single Wikipedia dump from over a year ago. Would be cool if it supported deltas somehow, so the network doesn't split when a new dump is used.
Is private the right word? I don't think they were trying to share their conversation with the rest of the room, but they also didn't go very far in trying to keep it from the rest of the room.

In a legal sense, private more or less goes out the window when you share something with a third party, a court would be unlikely to step in and protect the privacy of a conversation held in a shared space.

The internet conversation certainly doesn't have to use the legal definition, but "private" does sort of invoke the idea that the communication is intentionally being held close, and if you are talking in a room with other people, you aren't working very hard at that.
There's this concept of Dane Geld, popularly known also as "not negotiating with terrorists". If you show that you're willing to bow down to a random DDoS attack and fire someone as ransom, it only validates this method of action against you.
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From my personal experience, you don’t get interviewed for or by a specific group for "ordinary" Google positions. As I understand things from the outside (perhaps a Googler can confirm?) a candidate goes through the interview process & if they make it through then they go into an internal pool of potential candidates who are then allocated where they’re most needed. I interviewed for an SRE position, so I could have ended up attached to a whole range of Google projects.

I would imagine the intention is to prevent teams picking people who are "just like them" (or any of the other ways in which project groups can go a bit pathological inside a large company). By carving out the interview process as it’s own separate thing in this way you can prevent individual parts of the company going off the rails.
I guess one could argue this isn't Mass" surveillance since it was targeting specific nations. I don't agree, just that words can be twisted in hindsight to alter meaning.
This video explains it pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_wd9Qf0IE
What modesty!
I've not been a huge fan of Go (more of a Rust person). However, seeing these authors, I'm now itching to get my hands on a copy of this book and give Go another shot.

I wish I didn't have to wait until the summer for it!

Edit: Also, I realize it's unfair to compare Rust to Go, since they really fill two different PL niches. I actually think there is plenty of room for both languages. By my statement above, I just meant that I'm more drawn to Rust's functionally-influenced approach than Go's modern take on the imperative paradigm.
'naughty' said it best in this thread:

These questions quite unambiguously pointed at YC never giving their application proper attention. Perhaps they skimmed it, but even then they should've picked up that the product was for non-developers. So to people who spent days writing the application and planning their life around the interview it would look like a half-ass effort on the YC part. It's only natural that they are pissed about the whole experience. One can hardly blame them.

An interview always has two sides, and my take-away from this is that YC looked, frankly, unqualified to hold the interview.
Never before in my life have I seen such a mangled and incomprehensible title.
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Ah, thanks for the clarification. Still, the article made it sound like the public firing was a direct response to the DDoS blackmail (corporate expediency) rather than about her actions. Of course, it is possible that it's like you said, and was in the works already.
WiredTiger shows a lot of potential, but it would be irresponsible to make such a radically different engine the default for everyone, even for new databases, without giving it some time to mature.
> “Have you ever heard that thing, men are afraid that women will laugh at them and women are afraid that men will kill them?”

Men are afraid that a woman will change/ruin their whole lives with just their words.

Well, at least that is how "Hank" feels now.
But still no join! Come on. ArangoDB has those and the development has way less money than MongoDB.
So everyone's spying on everyone. Wonder if these guys could all get a wiki up and running, would save so much trouble.
The problem for a Midevalist is that location is an accidental property...transposing their locations does not make one the other and vice versa. Location as the basis for haecceity is numerical individuation of the sort Scotus rejects.
Hacker culture: "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution"[1] and "In the Beginning was the Command Line"[2]

Startup culture: http://www.wired.com/2014/04/no-exit/

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer...

[2]: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
That, and her own childhood. We tend to relativize bad things in terms of what we've experienced ourselves. If I had seen my father beat the teeth out of my mothers mouth with a hammer I'm not so sure I'd be up in arms about somebody losing their job...
Sometimes I can't believe what I am reading here on hacker news.
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The proof of concept for space travel was NASA, the ESA, the CSA, RKA, etc. plus all science fiction plus space camps plus parabolic microgravity flights plus preselling seats.

In their case there are many rapid app builders so it isn't crazy talk to enter that market. What is crazy talk is they haven't entered the market but are forming up on the beachhead (waiting for what?) and (critically) applying for YC before they have tested the market.
Then take a look at Freenet. :P
Involuntary sexualization is sexist though.

What if the picture on screen was a woman saying 'I want to be judged on my merits not my gender' and the guys were saying 'Nice tits' out loud and laughing? Would that be sexism?

I'd unequivocally say yes and, while inarguably less offensive, the dongle joke was still similarly sexist.
Unless I'm reading the table wrong, US is still at 7.6 deaths per billion km, while Denmark is at 3.4. That's more than a 1:2 ratio. I'd certainly say that's safer (even if the difference is smaller than GP indicates).
Of course it's possible for women to feel this way. It's possible for men to feel this way as well. That doesn't make it reasonable, or something an emotionally mature person would feel and act upon.
If your mental/emotional state is at odds with the reality of your circumstances, therapy is in order, not scolding the hapless bystanders you blame for your delusions.
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For the most party it is rebranding. This stuff has been going on for years in various industries. There's nothing wrong with rebranding and it's great of it gets more industries involved. You could say that when statistical research is combined with programming then it is data science, or when the results of research are fed back into operational systems then it is data science, but there are examples of all of these things from before people started saying data science.
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So there is this internet hate machine and it's terrible. The cyber bullying crimes (ok, that's probably free speech in the US) and insults are way off, totally disproportionate.

But the way she acted, taking a photo and publicly tweeting it? That's an attack, I'm not judging, maybe it was right to take direct action. I'm just saying if you escalate things you got to be ready for the retaliation. Especially if you are not in a position of power. And let's be honest, against culture, against public opinion and the internet hate machine, most of us lose.
My stepdad works in the offshore oil industry and hasn't been working much due to the low demand. I may suggest he work in a different industry.
A person who will cheat on their spouse will cheat you in business.
If you need JOIN in document db, you are doing it wrong.
"But I can totally see how she could have been driven to do it, and I can even see how she would feel now — after all she's gone through — that she should not have to apologise for it."

You can understand, yes, but that hatred-- and allow me to say that again-- hatred is not something that we can excuse on the basis of race alone. Adria really hates Hank; hated him so much that when she called down the twitter brigades, she happily tweeted something along the lines of "I feel like Joan Of Arc."

Hank found a new job because, fundamentally, he was innocent. Because he did not intend for anyone to get hurt, and did not join in the bandwagon that later attacked Adria. He even apologized to Adria, who still blames him for everything and showed absolutely no remorse.

Some believe that systems of oppression don't exist and pin everything on the individual, e.g., racists. And then there are people who believe those systems are all that exist and that any action undertaken by a member of that system is the fault of the system, e.g. other kinds of racists.

Regardless of where you stand on the spectrum, there are certain actions that are inexcusable.

The intent and desire to destroy an innocent's life is one of them.
> degree et al.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that you're not only insane, but also carry an incredible amount of self-confidence to not even once consider that you might be AND to not even try and query points brought up, but to try and straight-up denounce them with sarcasm and though-terminating cliches.

You might have a degree, but for some reason you seem to think learning is over for you. If i were american i'd say i pray, but instead i'll just say i hope that at some point someone teaches you how to ask questions and open your mind to the possibility that you do not know everything there is to know.
I would like to take a glance. Does any one know where is the Table of Content? Thanks.
The article is not about cheating. It's about how marriages get started.
why you should never use your real name with your online identity in any way

I believe exactly the opposite. People say horrible things hiding behind anonymity. Those of us who freely identify ourselves actually attempt (albeit sometimes feebly) to talk to others as if we were in person. If we just treated each other on-line like we did in person, most of this shit would never happen.

- Proud self-identified member of Hacker News for 8 years. (see profile)

EDIT 1: I love engaging others on-line when I know who they are (the way HN was for a long time) much more than anonymous strangers. I would be phony if I felt this way and remained anonymous

EDIT 2: Why would anyone want to work for someone who would fire them for gossip, on-line or otherwise? Firing is almost always an extreme overreaction and a clear demonstration of one's inability to run their business. Fuck 'em. Find another job with someone a little more righteous. (FWIW, things I say in person in the workplace are probably much more offensive to those who don't get it than anything I'd ever say on-line.)
but if her background applies then surely so does his, did he struggle in his upbringing? is there anything in his early life that made him into the person he is today? sure there are but we dont get that side because the sympathy that the writer is trying to evoke is with one side. If they made both sides appear human then they cant have an evil doer and a clear cut good guy.

And i agree our past shapes us, shaped both people in this debate, but we only hear her side because that is who the writer wants you to sympathise with. Hank is just a namelss white male with no life before this incident.
The usual response to danger is flee or fight. She didn't flee. She didn't confront them. She shamed them publicly instead (which made it considerably more likely that they would take revenge physically instead). What is more likely, that she did this because she felt threatened, or because she felt like she could use her status to get back at the system?

Not to mention the part where she herself tweets dick jokes.
> "Not too bad, he's a white male. I'm a black Jewish female."

This makes her racist and sexist at the same time.
Your argument reminds me a bit of Thomas Szasz's book, The Myth of Mental Illness, which you might be interested in (if you haven't already read it). I don't 100% agree with his overall thesis, and I think your stance may actually be a bit more nuanced than his, but it's an interesting read.
Related: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tw...

Also related: http://www.torontosun.com/2015/03/03/phaneuf-lupul-hire-law-...

Basically, someone tweeted a joke about one well-known NHL player banging the wife of his team mate. It appeared on the Twitter ticker on the bottom of a TSN broadcast, whose filters didn't catch it. Of course, someone else took a pic of it, posted it online and from there, even more people saw it. Now both the NHL players are suing TSN AND they want to go after the original tweeter. Who definitely had no clue his/her tweet would end up on national TV.

In both cases, a media outlet shared the original tweet to their massive audiences. Where these tweets would have faded into obscurity, instead they were exposed to the sensibilities of a much larger audience.
Rubbish. If someone feels some way about something I say when I never intended any harm to them by it then its entirely their problem.
Her comparison with the schoolyard bully is moot, because there presumably would have been intent towards her in that case.
Should be "Anonymous" Login.
> As a white male I was implicitly guilty, but wasn't sure how to stop being so.

Is this a joke?
How is this supposed to work? Does this create a temporary FB profile, and you can then log in via FB's OAuth?
I tend to think of this in terms of high context and low context. In that framework, you are identifying high context conversations as preferable. Given that the vast majority of human socialization has been high context (Between people who know much about each other), I don't think this is surprising. It satisfies our instincts and benefits from our habits.

I don't explicitly talk about it above, but part of what I am getting at there is that you can't force a high context situation; it either exists, or it does not.

Maybe the solution is simply to facilitate small groups that discuss things, I don't know. I think I would be disappointed if that is the case, because it would make it more difficult for me to access a wide range of viewpoints. The seemingly overly serious moderation here can probably be described as an attempt at getting people to acknowledge a little bit of extra shared context.
I get sooooo cross when I read anything that Key says.

"If I wholesale blatantly flout the law as Prime Minister I'm never going to survive anyway."

That's such a twisted (and effective, it seems) way of convincing people that he hasn't been involved in any wrong-doing.

Let us not forget his statement on the GCSB bill that allowed sweeping powers for the spy agency (under his control) [1].

"All they can do is protect you, so it's against malware or a virus. ... On your computer at home you almost certainly have Norton Antivirus...that is exactly what that is, at a much higher level."

Slippery doesn't even begin to describe the character of John Key.

[1] http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/campbelllive/john-key-defends... (from 8:00 in the video)
Bad writing, sure. But the fact that you're comparing the ingenuity of a computer to that of a 12 year old is a sign of profound progress being made in AI.
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The "Silicon Valley" TV show :P
My reading of it was that the YC interviewer was so lost that they didn't know what question to ask. Of course, you're right, they could have corrected them and taken the opportunity to clarify further, but the question itself betrays a lack of any idea of what they should be asking. If I were Creo, I would also be (rightly) frustrated.
The C Programming Language had a tremendous influence on me. Everything I've written has been with the hope that I might capture part of its magic.

That said, maybe The Little Go Book (http://openmymind.net/The-Little-Go-Book/) can tide you over until summer.
> If the goal was to change such misogynistic behavior of men

Making a sexual innuendo about dicks or whatever isn't misogyny. Please, tell me how talking about dicks is an exhibit of contempt for women. The "joke" doesn't even have to do with women.
Similar table for x86 instructions:

https://gmplib.org/~tege/x86-timing.pdf
I can't even imagine what it's like to have been at PyCon as a black Jewish woman

Okay, being a female involved in what seems to be a male-dominated event might be a bit uncomfortable but how does being a black jewish relate?

More precisely what does being Jewish have to do with anything?!
You're right that I can never directly relate to being a female. All I can do is think about things logically.

If she truly had this kind of response to an innocuous joke, I think that says more about her own insecurities than about the behavior of Hank. Feeling danger in response to a bad joke in a crowded room is not a reasonable response to have. It's grossly over-proportionate.

How far should we go to cater toward the irrationalities of others?
If your customer just wants a blog, why not use wordpress?
> But we are oblivious to it, we can't even imagine how it feels.

Open AND closed spaces should be forbidden due to agora- and claustrophobia. The problem is with surrounding, not the sufferers, right?
except that only works if everyone plays by the same rules. they dont so it doesnt apply.

If you get into an argument with someone, they can read through your history to determine eho you are, where you work, what your family life is like etc and then use this against you regardless of whether what you did was wrong or not. So whilst I agree in principle in reality it is unworkable.
The Congress, including the Senate, absolutely does vote on the laws that set the parameters with which the military's acquisition process (among other military policies and processes) must conform.
This is very interesting, but I don't want to be the first to migrate a production 2.x DB to 3.0. Can someone else do this and write an article on how hard it was and if it actually ended up working? :)
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This is very helpful to me because I can use skype for learning german. I have also tried some lessons by skype with a native speaker from http://preply.com/en/german-by-skype and it was also worth trying.
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This issue has been discussed on HN previously and even commented on by YC. It left me with the impression there is no problem with age any greater than you would find in general in society.
> I do think she needs to behave like an adult and realize that she has a responsibility in what happened.

Presumably you mean the tweet, not her childhood abuse, just for people who might misinterpret the somewhat ambiguous reference.
If Hank had been making overtly racist comments in earshot of other people is it your opinion that those would be private things the other attendees should have ignored? Of course not. If someone a row in front of you can hear the joke while the speaker is on stage then what you are saying is public, not private, so it definitely falls under the code of conduct. The content of what's being said is irrelevant, be it a joke about big dongles or a racist remark.
This looks great to me, if it works as I imagine it does: use Facebook to authenticate myself to services, but don't give them any information about me - just an anonymous token.

I want to be able to use the convenience of Facebook login, but usually I don't because I'm worried about how much data the app I'm authenticating with has access to.
> ... the dongle joke was still similarly sexist.

How so? As I understand it the joke wasn't directed at the picture on the screen or anybody in particular.
You can't on the one hand argue that offending people in a public environment is wrong by yourself making a very public complaint to the whole world...