skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure about other EU countries, but mine grants a small amount of free lawyer hours to every resident. Those free lawyers are not AAA-grade for sure, but they take care of the formalities. Some people (low income, unions etc) are eligible for more hours and/or better free lawyers.

So in case of a simple case, it might end up being free.
I'm glad people are still experimenting with the browser, but – especially considering the history of Opera itself – I'm not especially interested in a browser that's not open source.
That looks good to me.

What I'm wondering if that it only means that people have better motor control or coordination, or that it can also help people be good at math, for example, or at least help them if they decide to learn math?
But there are laws against unlawful termination. What his company did could be considered unlawful termination.
Yeah but then you could claim asking "why you wouldn't use a banana instead" is a useful conversation catalyst.

Clearly eclipse has nothing to do with their technology or product - it just showed ignorance. He even said prior to the remark, it was a application builder for people who don't code - yet they persisted.

YC do admit they make mistakes, and I think this is one of them. It was a terrible interview on both sides.
I will do it at home. Currently behind a corporate firewall.
I really have trouble with this story. Nearly every aspect was overblown. However maybe I'm a curmudgeon but I don't have a social media profile for the very reason I don't want my business out there. I don't want to be Internet famous or even real life famous. Secondly how were they able to find someones Twitter profile without knowing her name? Search for #donglejokesarebadmmkay ? None of this makes much sense to me.
The firings on both sides are crazy to me. I don't know that I have even heard anyone in my company even talk about Twitter much less check up on some scuttlebutt about a conference. It's the makings of reality tv drama. Asinine.
Not a single test?
Actually I think the question about Eclipse was an opportunity being handed to them on a plate - rather than reacting defensively they should have explained the downsides of existing development tools and why their approach is so much better.

My reading of it was that the HN interviewer was trying to give them opportunities to explain themselves whereas the answers were defensive and impatient.
No, she doesn't look empathetic, but, considering the broader context, how much empathy can you reasonably expect?

He lost his job and got a new one "right away" (according to the article). She also lost her job, was bombarded with all kinds of threats (death, rape, etc.), had to go into hiding and still doesn't have a new job (at least as of her interview for the piece).

I'm sure she could improve her image if she were better at faking some empathy, but I understand why she wouldn't feel much.
"Both were at fault" is such a cop out. Hank did nothing wrong. According to his account in this article, he laughed at the phrase "large dongle" and said "I would fork that guy's repo" about a male presenter. If those are sins then hell is going to be a very crowded place.

There were a lot of things he could have said that would have been offensive, aggressive and sexist. But he didn't say any of those things. He made two very benign jokes. If that constitutes brogramming and is alienating to women, then there isn't anything to be done about it. There's nothing inherently wrong with having a juvenile sense of humor and giggling with your friends about funny words. He shouldn't have been made to apologize in the first place.

What's wrong is taking someone's picture and posting it along with vague details about an overheard conversation. I don't think that any of us would like that to be socially acceptable behavior. I don't care if two guys make stupid jokes, but I would be upset if people thought it was ok to take anything I said out of context and post it online along with my picture. Apportioning fault equally between those two behaviors isn't helping.
I wonder why they chose to write their own packet analyzer while so much work has been put into Wireshark's one. Why not use existing software?
I can buy that the joke was just inappropriate, and no doubt that she massively overreacted.

However, she was the one who ended up with the death threats. It's hard to reassure women that they're safe at tech events if the result of them making a social faux-pas are threats to their safety.

Have any white men on this site ever been on the receiving end of a campaign of intimidation and fear? I sure haven't. We then complain that women have an irrational fear of violence and intimidation? Sounds like a lack of empathy on our part.
An adventure with a memory leak in Node
You wouldn't ask if you lived in China. Though bittorrent traffic may need to be disguised.

Decentralising the internet is generally a great idea.
Ah. Good explanation.

So that's why my ex didn't remember things. I read about it, but I could never quite put my finger on what the dissociation stuff was.
Whether they should? I don't know. Maybe. Sexism in tech is a weird and hard problem, and if regulating private conversations helps solving it, then I'm cautiously willing to give it a try.

Whether they do? Yes. From the CoC[1]:

> Be careful in the words that you choose. Remember that sexist, racist, and other exclusionary jokes can be offensive to those around you. Excessive swearing and offensive jokes are not appropriate for PyCon.

> If a participant engages in behavior that violates this code of conduct, the conference organizers may take any action they deem appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the conference with no refund.

Presumably everyone was there under their own free will, so if they agreed to the CoC and then failed to respect it, well, that's not good.

[1] https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/
A new app named “Waltr” can help you download any video to your iPhone
It might be lousy in the US but the limited amount of free legal care in the UK for non-criminal justice is very very good.

There are continuing restrictions on the availability of that legal aid though.
> Jaw bone fossil discovered in Ethiopia is oldest known human lineage remains

Trilobite fossils are older human lineage remains, or at least plenty of species we know led to mammals, if trilobites didn't descend to us.

The article specifies "... that belong to the genus Homo, the lineage that ultimately led to modern humans," which is probably what the headline meant.
Fiji has had a series of military coups in recent times. Of course NZ (and others) monitor them.
What is threatening about that joke?
So basically they rebuilt Wireshark? I don't understand why they didn't make it write pcaps and use existing software to analyze it. Perhaps they could even contribute to Wireshark's analyzing capabilities of Microsoft protocols.
There are two options: A) Live B) Die

Choose your poison, however, living long enough to fight for a chance to change, defeat or restructure that poison, in whatever form it comes, is what I choose. Choice B) does not give you that option unless it's your understanding that:

C) There is another option

D) Choice A) will someday positively impact the reanimation of those who've selected Choice B).

Choose wisely.
But it's completely redundant because they had already talked about XCode.

Perhaps the interviewer noticed that they missed the point and tried again.
I also have children, and I'm not sure how it's relevant.

Of course you SHOULD be able to tell someone you're offended without the risk of backlash, but it's always a risk. Clearly Adria decided to handle that risk in a different way than you or I would have.
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Apple Exploring iPhone Waterproofing Methods
The K&D?
"The brogrammer/franerdity approach does alienate women, which is why it should as much as possible be suppressed"

No, fuck that. Fuck suppressing people. Who are you to say what should and should not be suppressed? What is wrong with innuendos, one of the oldest if not the oldest kind of joke about one of the most fundamental aspects of humanity? Someone is offended by a joke (and with that I mean any joke)? They should gtfo, seriously, hacker culture is not a no-fun zone. No need to suppress innocuous jokes to accomodate for femnazi princesses, prude people and generally the easily offended. There are plenty of women who fit into this culture and have no problem with being easy-going because they know that this behaviour has nothing to do with discrimination or low opinion of women, it's simply nerdy silliness.
> Remind me when someone was last killed at a tech conference like she says? Very rarely, if ever.

I don't know of any killings, but there have been a number of (high profile) sexual assaults at tech conferences - see http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents

My friends say it's a regular (and sometimes terrifying) occurrence at some conferences. And I believe them.
Now Corporate Drones Are Spying on Cell Phones
I don't think it is so much a question about why. More that is pretty cool idea.
> as a black Jewish woman

Feeling out of place as a black woman I can understand, but how does her religion segregate her from the rest of the audience? Is this difference visible from outside?
The idea is to showcase how a large dataset is pretty good at being shared without having central servers. Here using bittorrent.

mafintosh showed how wikipedia could be shared without a central server(s), and instead rely on a network of peers.

subtack did something similar, peermaps, which is a showcase on how you can share geo data over bittorrent. Imagine a google maps without a google servers. https://github.com/substack/peermaps

Of course there's many unsolved questions, like "how do you update?", "how do you manage the data?", etc. But the examples are pretty solid.
Is this like Popcorn Time for Wikipedia?

I think Bittorrent is also working on a similar project for the whole web, called Maelstrom:

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2014/12/10/project-maelstrom-the-...
Wireshark is brilliant and my favourite tool for my day to day work (Networking Support), but both Network Monitor and Message Analyzer are different takes on the same problem.

Both Microsoft offerings can read not just cap/pcap files but ETL that could include stack tracing, so you might be able to follow a package through the computer's networking stack.

Also Message Analyzer has more advanced parsers and shows the information in a different way than Wireshark. I guess that's one of the reasons why I can happily load a 3GB cap file in Wireshark, but I would avoid doing that in Message Analyzer :)
First time I have read anything about haecceity. The first thing that pops into my head regarding the two iron spheres is that they must differ in their position in the universe, so they differ in something other than their haecceity. If there is no way for two identical real objects to occupy the same space then maybe this concept never applies to real objects...?
Improve end of life care and the way people die.

Start making it acceptable for people to talk about death - how they'd like to die; what they want to happen to their organs or body after their death; what kind of funeral they want.

It's really important to let your family know how you feel about being hooked up to machines or how you'd feel about living with dementia or similar.
For those of you who are not familiar with "The C Programming Language" (also written by Kernighan), see: http://www.amazon.com/C-Programming-Language-2nd/dp/01311036...
Tom Ridge Can Find Terrorists Anywhere
This is how it usually goes with my wife:

Wife: (looking at me suspiciously)

Me: "Are you confused?"

Wife: (nods yes)

Me: "Do you know who I am?"

Wife: (shakes head no)

Me: "I am your husband"

Wife: (looks at me, wide-eyed, more suspicious)

Me: "Do you have a headache?"

Wife: "Yes..."

Me: "It's going to be okay. This happens when you get bad headaches. I can give you some medicine. Once your headache gets better you will remember everything"

At that point she will usually trust me and the situation becomes much more manageable. In her case, she suffered abuse as a child, and her absentee incidents are always associated with bad migraines. Once we break the migraine, she improves quickly.
Is college worth the cost? (Thiel/ 2012)
In US to get rid of an employee, you have 2 choices: fire or lay off.

You can fire an employee for his performances or for a fault, and he's not entitled to any compensation.

You can lay off an employee whenever you want, but you usually have to give him a severance package and maybe other benefits.

The difference between US and Europe is that a layoff is easy in US, while in Europe you need a good reason (for example the company is losing money) and you have accountability in the way to pick who has to go. Also the severance package is bigger, and there is a several month notice to give.

Back to US, a fired employee can sue if if believe the firing was not appropriate. In this case, I don't know if Hank or Adria were actually fired or laid off. In the former they could have sued, in the latter there's nothing they could have done.
Random thought... I wonder if the emergency stop systems being implemented in today's cars would help with situations like this. I'm not sure it could stop someone this reckless (100+MPH) but certainly it could have slowed the car before impact.
That's exactly it. We find it so hard to understand how that joke is threatening. It's almost impossible to imagine. It just sounds like a dumb joke.

But look at how Adria describes her feelings in the article:

“Have you ever had an altercation at school and you could feel the hairs rise up on your back?” she asked me.

“You felt fear?” I asked.

“Danger,” she said. “Clearly my body was telling me, ‘You are unsafe.’”

I believe she actually felt like this. And that it is possible for women to feel this way at a conference heavily dominated by men. But we are oblivious to it, we can't even imagine how it feels.
Author here. If anyone is interested I presented this at jsconf.eu last year as part of a BitTorrent talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTCsSwCpGP8 (slides: http://mafintosh.github.io/slides/jsconf-2014/jsconf-eu-2014...)
"Thisness"? It looks like "theseness" to me. :/

On a more serious note, the property that makes it so that one sphere is itself but is not the other is generally conceived of counterfactually. If I were to enter that universe and stand on one of the spheres, I would immediately suffocate. But, the sphere playing host to my corpse would be easily distinguishable from the other sphere. Similarly, it's easy to imagine scratching the surface of one of the spheres -- it seems unlikely, in that hypothetical world, that a symmetrical scratch would simultaneously develop on the opposed sphere.

Assuming the spheres are in a conventional three-dimensional space, and that they are not perfectly uniform but contain irregularities at the atomic level, then they will necessarily be distinguishable from each other. All that's necessary is to look at their orientation to each other. Every atom in one sphere will correspond to an identical atom in the other sphere. But if they are "identical" in an absolute, 3-dimensional coordinates sense, then the atom on "sphere 1" (without loss of generality ;) ) that's closest to sphere 2 will correspond to the atom on sphere 2 that is farthest from sphere 1, which is an asymmetry. If they're mirrored, such that the closest atom on sphere 1 to sphere 2 corresponds to the closest atom to sphere 1 on sphere 2, then they are distinguishable from each other by reference to the euclidean arrangement of corresponding sets of atoms. (To say this another way, you'd have to rotate one of them to get it to be identical in terms of euclidean positioning -- or if they're really mirrored, it might be impossible to rotate one such that it matched the other in terms of euclidean positioning, which is a major difference.)

If this hypothetical universe actually contained nothing but two perfectly uniform iron spheres, we could say a couple of things:

1. Sure, there's no real method of distinguishing one sphere from the other sphere. But,

2. This universe does not obey the same physical laws as our universe, so there's no real reason to expect it to have the same haecceic properties.

3. Furthermore, there are no lessons to be drawn from the two-iron-spheres universe that can be sensibly applied to the universe we live in.
> “I distance myself from female developers a little bit now,” he replied. “I’m not as friendly. There’s humour, but it’s very mundane. You just don’t know. I can’t afford another Donglegate.”

I'm guessing he's not the only one. If she wanted to make tech more welcoming for women, it looks like her plan backfired.
Terrifying. Glib Twitter scolds are the brownshirts of our era.
She asked his employer to take down his hacker news post? Did she think they would have his account's password?
> I don't agree with Adria's public tweet, and Hank got way more than he deserved (as did Adria) over it. 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.

She used her status and influence in an irresponsible way, and she consistently avoids any responsibility into what happens, while blaming her victim for what happened to her. I don't see the empathy here. I can understand why she would end up like that, and she sounds like she has a lot of issues to work with. But she comes out as an extremely unpleasant person.

> From that article it sounds like she came out of this worse than Hank, who got another job almost immediately. And you have to wonder — did Hank get another job so fast because our field is dominated by men, and they are likely to feel for him and have the same initial reactions as we do when reading this article? Unfortunately there are not many people who will feel for Adria. I'm sure she knows it.

I feel for her. She shouldn't have been put through this crap when she was a kid, and she deserved none of the abuse, death threats, etc, that got poured on her. At the same time, I do think she needs to behave like an adult and realize that she has a responsibility in what happened.
That's really a good news. "The C Programming Language" is one of my favourite book. This should the next one!
In my opinion, her upbringing and life have everything to do with this. If it were not for how she was brought up and how she was treated during her life, she may or may not have done what she did. The only reason is not to try to engineer some sympathy, but there are other possible reasons as well.

If her backstory was a backstory full of mental illness, would you respond differently to what had happened?

Now, I'm not trying to say that racism or stereotypes are good, because they aren't. However, people's past are what shape people and can help others understand people's viewpoints.

Even because of her backstory, however, I find that pretty much everybody (except the reporter, who didn't participate too much) overreacted. In general, though, I find that many of Adria's thought processes were flawed, but that's not relevant to this reply (at least, I don't think so).
This article is the worst kind of inflammatory journalism. I would never attempt to deny that there is a systemic patriarchy in place, or that white privilege exists, but tying every perceived injustice in the world to these braoder issues undermines the real issues that affect millions of people on a daily basis. As has been pointed out here by many other commentors, the behaviour of Hank and his friend was clearly outside conference guidelines and their being reprimanded for it is absolutely correct. Attempting to tie that to some sense of white (no race element to this story at all), male enitlement is absurd and frankly does a disservice to both the civil rights and feminist movements. When humour is made at the expense of a person in a position of relative weakness it is wrong. When she overheard someone else's (admittedly unfunny but by no means directly offensive to any race/gender/sexual orientation)joke and took offense then that was her personal reaction. Making her displeasure known to conference organisers was absolutely within her remit but turning herself into some sort of 'crusader' for a vague idea of 'rights and justice' in a public forum is problematic for me. Your article has done exactly that, by 'casually' mentioning the use of smart phones in the Ferguson case you are obviously attempting to equate what was, let's be honest, a minor case of a clash of senses of humour to the killing of a young man by the police. That is despicable. You then go on to mention the race of Lindsey Stone, despite the fact that it has no relevance to the case which she became known for. This sort of linking of every case of offensive public behaviour with what are real, and long running, issues of race and gender equality serve only to perpetuate a mentality of 'us and them' and undermine real cases of racism and sexism that still occur around the world on a regular basis.
Thank you.

It might at that. My writing style on this was quite a but different than my typical comment, though -- discussion of a topic is different than telling a story.

My therapist has hinted that writing down things about my past would be beneficial, and has been trying to get me to do it for a while. I'd started this as to illustrate the unsupervised play in my childhood as a nostalgic positive, but realized there were a whole lot of other things, not so positive, that had happened too. Between the bullying in school and boy scouts and the sexual assault in the boy scouts, it's been hard to think back and remember what my childhood was like before that. Sure I remember some of the good times, but a lot of the things in the post above I haven't thought about in decades - and thought didn't remember until I began writing and it all spilled out.
Thanks Dave for the link. I just pre-ordered the book :-)