skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laws can be changed. Just words on paper. We could have all such laws changed throughout the country by the end of the month -- at the latest -- if we collectively wanted to. (Obvious adjustment in time window for whatever arbitrary rules/laws/processes are in place that would slow this down further, etc., etc.)
or just be confident instead of using a mask as a crutch.
I pulled the equations from Parameter estimation in hindmarsh-rose neurons (Steur, 2006), equation 4.1.

The Hindmarsh-Rose, Hodgkin–Huxley, and other mathematical models are phenomenological models. They are meant to reproduce the observable characteristics, like the peak potential, bursting behaviour, refractory period, things like that. They can reproduce the traces of biological neurons with good accuracy (like the link in the GP), and the papers describing the model mention ion channels and whatnot, but they're very abstract. They're not made to reproduce the biology.
There are still people that do it, so far as I understand, but it is a dedicated bunch and takes enough time that it's not something that will easily be in the hands of people that don't have intimate knowledge of the systems.
> If a sexual assault occurred she should go to the police about it and press charges. Not start an internet witch hunt.

This is true, but ...

There's a real benefit to knowing that this kind of thing happens, and how often it happens.

As guys, we're just not exposed to this as often.

For example, my wife used to regularly get heckled in our old neighbourhood. It never happened when she was with me. She just mentioned it one day, and it blew my mind. I was like "heckled, wtf, people still do that?"

Another example: at one job in the 'burbs, it was about a 10 min walk to the coffee shop. I was walking about 20 m behind two women for about 5 min. One of them was very attractive. I admit that I discreetly checked her out and then let my eyes wander around the rest of the scene, so I wouldn't be a creep.

Here's the interesting part: every single guy in an oncoming car turned his head to look at her. They didn't heckle her, but the head-turn was extremely obvious.

So, I'm not saying that guys shouldn't look at women, but it offers an interesting change of perspective.

What does it feel like when every single guy you see turns his head to check you out? You might say "flattering", but now imagine the relentlessness of it. Mind-blowing.
I'm confused by your first sentence; it isn't a higher standard to not assault others. Or do you mean that because techies are so .. something that they in particular should eliminate every possibility of someone being assaulted around them?
This article/post is not about what was or wasn't a crime during the war (this or any other) - nor was it about politics and how you or I feel about the way things are running within the government.

Perhaps you should realize the pain this "non-issue" causes people on a day to day basis. I hope your mom, sister or wife - perhaps your daughter or your best female friend - NEVER have to deal with such a situation - sadly this is not the case and at least one of those mentioned will experience it to some degree. Let's see how you feel about it then.

Anyhow that is all I have to say about this - I won't feed the troll anymore.
Ugh, stores never have any products worth buying.

I just read the reviews on Amazon. If anything, they are often too negative.
One implication of this statement is that some people hold back from committing sexual assault in large part due to societal pressure. Perhaps true, but not much of an excuse on a moral level.
The male in question appears to have deleted or renamed his Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/floleibert

(At the time of the incident, he worked for Twitter. Wonder if he still does?)

Edit: Ignore this - seems to have switched to https://twitter.com/flo at some point.
"I think what you did was classless. I think you should try again, but with class"

If I said that to you, would you be insulted? I said nothing about your character, and if anything, he was being encouraging.

And then, you're pissed at Zed calling them hippies, after telling him "good fucking riddance" and displaying exactly the behavior that he defines as being a hippie ("all about the love, except when you're not" - conveniently defined in the same sentence)?

It would be one thing if the class thing was actually an insult, or if Zed hadn't made his wishes clear in the license.

So, seriously, what is so insulting about the whole 'class' line?
AFAIK, {{Scala actors and akka only work on hotSpot (there may be other language features tied to hotspot)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2987408/actors-in-scala-n...

There's only 1 guy working on it but he's been going at it furiously

http://lamp.epfl.ch/~magarcia/ScalaCompilerCornerReloaded/

(do they feel itchy about using the LAMP subdomain?

I think it has been decided that the JVM will always be the LCDenominator VM (e.g. implmentations on other VM's pretend type erasure is happening, for compatibility with JVM implementation)

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I feel the opposite way. A year or so ago, I went with my Mom to Fry's to buy a big TV. I looked around and told her what to get. She ignored me and listened to the salesperson. Now she has a no-name TV that cost more than the Samsung we were going to get. It irritates me to this day.
Let's say the exact same thing happened as described in the story, except that the woman was sexually attracted to the man in question -- it would not be described as assault, just a man being aggressive and the woman liking it and being glad he did.

I can't believe this comment is getting upvoted - by this logic, a random guy who comes up and punches me in the fact shouldn't be convicted of a crime because I let random guys in our dojo try to punch me during Aikido class(and some of them succeed when I screw up my blocking/avoidance technique).

BTW, the legal definition of assault doesn't require direct violence, merely the threat of violence: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/assault
Actually his Twitter profile is at http://twitter.com/flo
I should have made more clear I think we're generally in agreement as well. My point was the respond to the implication that sexual assault is just a fact of life for women: it doesn't have to be. It's something we can change, and in that sense it's the job of all of us to make sure it doesn't happen to other members of our community.

In all seriousness, thanks for your articulate and reasoned comment.
A good point you make with such comment is that getting him fired from his job and the possibility of completely screwing his life in check with what he actually did do?
Without a successor it's not great. The devil you know...
I also think it's weird that they like Breville rather than Zojirushi. Maybe a UK thing?
I'm sorry but this just pisses me off. I hate to be reductionist but this amounts to "don't blame the victim, but really she should have been more careful."

He called her over to ask her a question, kissed her, she protested, and so he groped her. What the fuck should she have done differently?
If what happened, happened, it's non-ideal. Was it a horrible thing? Not so sure. Should it be a crime? Not so sure. Look I think I should never have to encounter someone who's rude to me, or launches into some long story about their life just because I bumped into them in the hallway one time -- but should that be a crime? Probably not. Sexuality and romance and human relationships are very very messy and irrational and play by a different set of rules than a lot of our "civilized" thought processes and paradigms follow. Should every woman who goes to a bar expect to be groped? Of course not. Should every woman probably expect that it could happen, and may happen eventually? Of course. Will they survive afterward? They should. Unless they traumatize easily, of course. Some people have weaker personalities than others, and no two people are alike exactly.

And I can guarantee that for every father who worries about how his daughter might one day be groped by a man, that there's at least one daughter who hopes or fantasizes about being groped by a man someday too. (Of course, probably by a man she is attracted to or perceives of him as an Alpha, etc.) Sex. It's messy stuff.
Your comment reminded me of how a lot of sales training / pick-up artist gaming revolves around neuro-linguistic programming.

Mirroring & matching, imitating the body language, tone, speed, diction of those you interact with, is an important facet of NLP and subsequently the art of persuasion - and as an aside, having preset rules to follow makes one feel as though they are playing a 'role' and acting, thereby increasing confidence as well.
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Yes, I did an internship for the BBP last year. This is not based in any way on their work.

That code has problems simulating multiple neurons for some reason (possibly thread safety in GSL?). But, it can simulate one neuron at 20x realtime, with dumping traces to disk. If I were to disable dumping traces, it'd be primarily limited by GSL's differential equation solver.

(Sorry, too tired to respond to the second half of your comment)
Just spotted and was about to mention that. Must've changed at some point as there were old links around. Thanks Elliott.
This is a sensitive subject, and quite possibly she has been the victim of a crime, however it is impossible to ignore that a further sin in many ways as bad as the original has been committed, and that is to deny fair trial to a man, which is very much what has been done by accusation of sexual assault in such a public manner (just check some of the results for a Twitter search on @flo right now).

I can only hope she is beyond all doubt the situation as described could not have been perceived any differently, particularly after using language such as "told him I wasn’t interested (I may have been less eloquent, but I don’t think I was less clear".

It's also sickening to see how many people have sided with the accuser in the weblog's comments and elsewhere (especially on Twitter), given nothing more than a name and an accusation.

Not cool (either way).
Diameter not radius.

So 4-5 miles diameter = 2-2.5 miles radius.
I see you're trying to break the tenets of science. Would you like to:
1. Learn why argument from authority is a fallacy?
2. See a list of 800 peer reviewed papers supporting skeptics?
3. Meet like-(non)-minded members who use stone age reasoning?
This post could only exist on HN. The particular point it's making is almost beside the point for me personally; for me, it's so amazing because anywhere else on the internet that I've been, Legion would get completely blown up for being a sexist racist capitalist communist anarchist fascist pigdog force.

So, yay for HN, and yay for not being reddit.

And, also, I agree with it.
Reading through the comments here, they for the most part strike me as coldly analytical. Knowing our "breed", though, I think mostly everyone is also upset about the situation, genuinely sorry that it happened and interested in ensuring it does not in the future.

It may not seem that way but I feel confident in saying that it is.

Hell, even my "emotional" post is not. Perception is a funny thing.
Let's assume, for the purpose of argument, that you've correctly identified this list of factors that may have contributed to this event. How does that make it any less big of a deal?
It's your job to avoid being assaulted in a dark alley, when a woman (or any person) at an industry conference feels that it's her or his job to protect themselves from assault around the delegates, that's a big problem.
Understandable, and this behaviour needs to be fixed. Then again, the duties, behaviours, and effectiveness of police forces remains a topic for another thread!
Please see my response to shaddi.

Where you're making a mistake is taking my comments and applying them to her specific sequence of events. If you read what I wrote, you'll note that I was not doing this. I was responding to the comment towards the end of her blog post, which she recycled into her tweet.
> If there was no violence

"Violence is...compelling action against one's will on pain of being hurt." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence)

"I tried to push him off, and told him I wasn’t interested ... He responded by jamming his hand into my underwear and fumbling." (from the article)

To me that sounds like "against one's will" and ergo an act of violence.
The Dirty Jobs for Everyone aspect seems really fun.
I wonder how brain-computer interfaces and neuroprosthetics might change this in the upcoming years.

Seaquest was right!
I'm sure there are similar effects behind the armour of business suits.
No one said it was any excuse. I'm worried that people will get the wrong answers when they ask the wrong questions. My point wasn't about social pressure but mental exertion: consciously examining one's own thoughts in real-time. Definitely the only thing that keeps people back from sexual assault is consciously deciding not to.
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If you had a guy friend who, say, had his ass grabbed by a really big biker guy in a bar who put his hand inside your guy friend's jockey shorts, and he went home and wrote a public blog about it, whining, and described it as "assault", would you still think less of him as a person?

Or in that case would you actually admit it was assault and your guy friend had every right to feel intimidated?
How much differentiation/segmentation can there be with something like electric kettles?
You may be 100% correct, it's just that it hadn't become real for me. I am in my late 30's and have father-friends in various industries. When I went to school there were a couple of female students in the class here or there. We treated them no different than any other students. There were plenty of embarrassing sexual advances by students, but nothing along the lines of sexual assault. Men and women of the tech community were the smart students.

I've talked to many father-friends who have sons and daughters who go to various high schools and colleges. I've heard stories of sexual assaults and very unfortunate situations. But I could always justify them to myself as inferior disciplines and sad situations.

It's not like I thought this never happened in tech. Just the combination of highly skilled, top company, person in tech and the response of a general community that I highly respect give me pause.

In general, I think I am older than the HN crowd, so I am fine with thinking a bit different.
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You're right. If there exists such a problem that women have to be vigilant in protecting themselves at industry conferences, that is indeed a big problem.

Her post said, "It’s not the first time something like this has happened to me, at all. It’s not the first time it’s happened to me at a tech conference."

Clearly, for women, tech conferences are far too closely resembling the dark alleys that I'm being metaphorically shot in, and that deserves some serious attention by those putting on the conferences.

If the conferences are that bad where this is becoming a pattern, then it is also important that participants pay sufficient care to their personal safety, while also doing everything possible to bring the issue to light. And bringing the issue to light is something she is doing with this blog post, for certain.
Again, nothing against you specifically. Consider it a generic 'you' and that absurdist reduction is absurd. But unfortunately, it's what a lot of people actually seem to believe, even if they don't state it in so many words.
Ask HN: Has anyone hacked their homes?
So has anyone around here hacked their homes? I'm talking about any sort of thing like controlling all lights, air conditioners and other devices wirelessly from a central console ? Or just setting up your own custom anti-theft system.
Any hacks would be awesome to hear about.
This line of reasoning is typically used to let people off the hook for sexual assault. I get what you're saying--- you're making a practical argument, here, that people have to protect themselves.

She didn't do anything extraordinary, though. A crowded bar is hardly an "unsafe place," for crying out loud. And I would ask you what you, specifically, think she should have done differently, but who are any of us to judge in the first place? Going to a bar with some friends for some beers is eminently normal.

I am not accusing you, personally, of justifying sexual assault. But people can and do presume that a woman who is assaulted was in some way foolish or asking for it. And they make legal decisions on this basis.

As I said, I get that you're making a narrower point that speaks to reality over principle. But it is spectacularly unhelpful and in extremely poor taste to counsel a victim of sexual assault that she is responsible for her own safety and, by implication, she needs to be or should have been more careful. Why do people feel like it's OK to lecture women in this way?

Finally, I must point out that your experience of living in unsafe places is a very, very small subset of a woman's experience living in places that might otherwise appear "safe." For all practical purposes, men don't have to worry about being sexually assaulted. This is a case in point: she was at a bar, among numerous fellow professionals, many of whom she considered trustworthy.
Only if the intended recipient of your document is an HDMI port. HDMI ports don't care about what you give them as long as it fits and transmits the correct data. Humans are somewhat more subjective and have emotional responses to things, and it's in your interset to influence those responses to work in your favor.
On the other hand, people may quit alcohol consumption based on brief news accounts about the results of scientific research at Harvard Medical School. Such people have little more first hand evidence for modifying their behavior than a person acting out of spiritual devotion.

When the effect of one person reading USA Today is identical to the effect of another person's reading of The Feast:90, then there is no difference from a pragmatic point of view...even though we are inclined to judge one logical and the other dogmatic.
Unix is old clunky and hard to configure. I could go far into details, I could even write a book on the subject and I have been using it since the early 90's because there is no alternative with traction.
so I guess Edison would prefer the Slap Chop over the LHC. superb.
I think the challenge implies that the only data you can use is the provided dataset. Otherwise it's just make no sense - if you pull the similarity data from other place - then where's the challenge?
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> I've never heard of any problems at the most party-ish hacker event I've been to, SuperHappyDevHouse. I don't know if it's the culture, the frowning on drunkenness, the mixture of people it attracts, the physical layouts, or what.

We purposely encourage the culture at SuperHappyDevHouse that frowns on drunkenness.

Additionally, we have put a lot of effort into making SHDH an event that is welcoming to everyone, including women.

I try to greet everyone who comes to SHDH for two reasons: So that newcomers know they are welcome and so that everyone knows (at some level) that they will be held accountable for their behavior.
Then perhaps they should avoid trying to play the hardware market instead of lawyering up to reinforce their bandaids.
But if he had gotten into a car, and accidentally driven into a pedestrian, he would be called a drunk driver and he would face punishment for his actions.

What I'm saying is, there are limits to "losing control".
I wonder why you think she has a choice?
My tinfoil hat theory:
The passion of a vocal minority is not a reflection of the hacker collective, but rather the reflection of an impressively-run facebook-sponsored astroturfing campaign.

Comments like
"I have lost my faith in the Diaspora core team";
"so still useless";
"still think the diaspora-design is an non-starter";
"Isn't this project pretty much dead already"
and many, many more like them...

These type of comments just seem off in some kind of way; like they are trying too hard to push something; like I'm watching a news headline attempting to create a scare where there is none.

I read such comments and think "Meh, the internet was born unsecured yet I do sensitive transactions now." <sarcasm on> Thanks to all the astroturf, I couldn't dig through the noise to find similar reactions expressed in earlier HN posts.<sarcasm off> Maybe Diaspora needs it's own Rally to Restore Sanity to counter the March to Keep Fear Alive.

Message to Diaspora:
Whether you incited a genuine vocal minority or are getting astroturfed, don't be fooled. Most are rooting for you so... keep coding. I'll call bs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bs_game) for you.
The devil we know has managed to take a company so successful that people considered it a threat to the entire industry and bring it to the brink of irrelevance, kept alive only by a nearly automatic revenue stream from entrenched 20-year-old software. An honor-roll high school student stepping in for Ballmer would probably be met with guarded optimism.
Hmm, Twitter is really big in using Scala.

The important message is this: "focus on the process to build a great company and great products... They didn’t become successful because they built these systems. They built these systems because they became successful."

The next unproven startup that uses NoSQL solution is just wasting their time. I know this because that happened to one of my previous workplaces (we use HBase).
I guess not a higher official standard (nobody is supposed to commit sexual assaults anywhere), but it'd be nice if our events were safe/etc. even if bars on average aren't. I'm sort of objecting to a view that, as long as tech-conference afterparties are no worse than a typical bar, then there's no problem.
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I would add; patriotism is not simply a willingness to go to war, but a willingness to risk one's self for others.
This has happened to me, though it was not a fun experience. A very attractive acquaintance of mine came up to me (it was at her and her boyfriends house), and started grabbing my junk, and i was already backed up against the wall. At nearly the same time her boyfriend got in my face, while she was holding my crotch through my jeans, and started hollering at me that he was going to beat my ass.

Long story short, it was a twisted joke and I was NOT amused. I was 18 or so, and they were 20 or 21.
I came to the conversation late, and so while I was reading here about people not knowing what the site is about, the first thing I noticed on your site was "We do rave gear. We do it well." I definitely got what your site was about right away (sorry I'm not a raver!)
> I'd like them to concentrate on tech stuff more and this stuff less.

I would suspect Noirin feels the same way.
PS - I forgot to say that it looks extremely interesting from what I've read so far.
Don't go over. It's not a good idea for a woman to go alone with a drunk guy. I thought that was common knowledge - am I wrong?

EDIT: if you disagree, please comment instead of downvoting. (If you think my comment harms the discussion, you can downvote of course.)
It's really simple my friend. Imagine this happens to your daughter/wife/girlfriend/mom. Then come back here and help us rationalize whether or not it was an assault.
What inane metric will alma mater (UIUC) choose to game now that the granddaddy of all stupid rankings is dead?