skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that is a good way to deal with these situations. React immediately, in the moment, and enlist the people around you.

That turns out to be very hard to do. It's difficult to have the presence of mind. I've done it many times, but haven't always managed to react immediately, 100% of the time. I believe it takes practice. It's worth setting up a situation to role-play and actually say the words to call someone out and shut their bad behavior down, and how to support someone who's trying to do that.

The Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Project might be helpful: http://backupproject.org/faq.html
But is has everything to do with the "debate" over evolution, i.e., if evolution doesn't exist how did we get here?

It's maddening that this is even taken place, but it is. In the videos I've seen of Dawkins he's been polite, respectful, and very well spoken.
I am not talking about religion alone, that was only an example, take any other "system" to organize human behavior that doesn't directly credit the human adopter, and it's the same.

Another example is people who swear by military service as the only way to become disciplined.
Samsung as the best choice in compact digital cameras? I'm torn between thinking this is an instant loss of credibility for the site, and thinking maybe I should take a closer look at that Samsung model. But leaning just a bit toward the former. This kind of reaction from users could be an ongoing challenge for them.
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Pungle has one clear message: shop online & they'll donate to the charity you pick, at no cost to you. A fundamentally simple premise with an equally simple one page website makes this a no-brainer for holiday shoppers. (no account creation or login required) Most of the large virtual malls are covered as well as a wide range of causes. Within 3 clicks you're online shopping as you normally would and pungle takes care of the rest donating about 2-3% of your purchase to charity for using their website.
From personal experience watching my CPU usage, you're dead wrong.
Having spent far too much time dealing with Hollywood I advise you to avoid them like the plague. They will expect a great deal more from you than you will be willing or able to provide/spend.

However, do get your DMCA ducks in a row sooner rather than later so the first major copyright infringement that someone misuses your service for doesn't take you down.
Please lets not assassinate Florian Leibert character based off of the uncorroborated evidence of a single individual.

Noirin obviously has some strong opinions regarding gender and technology and I pray that these haven't had any role in this matter.

Her Geek Feminism affiliations - http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Heroes_Women_in_FOSS

Her involvement in the org.apache.women group -
http://markmail.org/message/dwdadluiapbg5qrs

A blog entry about her divorce that pretty much blames it all on her husbands health. - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cm9PvCv...
That does assume that the company's non-SQL choices don't actually save time during development.

In building a system the design of which is under constant flux, there can be a lot of time lost dealing with schema rigidity.
Well that is not entirely true Freescale builds processors for the embedded space that are based on the Power Architecture and IBM powers it's mid-size AIX boxes and blades with their version of the Power Architecture. It is only dead on the desktop and even on th desktop, there are some niche system builders producing systems and motherboards that support modern Freescale and IBM Power chips.
So, just to be clear. If you or one of your friends did this, would you think it was okay?
You're right, Mike. This wasn't sexual "assult". It was sexual battery. Let me help you parse this out:

Official Code of Georgia, Title 16:

16-6-22.1. Sexual battery.

(a) For the purposes of this Code section, the term "intimate parts" means the primary genital area, anus, groin, inner thighs, or buttocks of a male or female and the breasts of a female.

(b) A person commits the offense of sexual battery when he intentionally makes physical contact with the intimate parts of the body of another person without the consent of that person.

(c) A person convicted of the offense of sexual battery shall be punished as for a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature.

He's lucky he "fumbled". It otherwise would have been aggravated sexual battery; a felony, in Georgia.

Hope that helps.
I'm speechless; Your comment is so inflammatory that I can't comprehend how you figured it was okay to post, let alone how you didn't get downvoted into oblivion.

It's essentially a clever twist on the old argument: "She showed some skin so she had it coming"

Seriously: shame on you.
As I see it, I think you're simply adapting to change, brought on by the fact that the companies who have taken your services have provided you with different challenges on different platforms.

I think software development, to some degree, regardless of language, platform or operating system tend to have the same structure to build good code. You employ TDD, continuous integration, agile methodologies, user feedback and so on. The important thing for you is to think of how you can bring your talents and acumen to your next gig.
Here's a thought experiment. Say we define "sexual assault" as being any case where a person is touched on their skin by another person, without that other person first getting explicit permission from the "victim" person to do that. By that definition, I'd wager that 99%+ of all women alive today have been sexually assaulted -- or if they haven't already, 99% will be.

Now, in this thought experiment, let's start narrowing the requisite conditions. Say, that the area touched has to be near genitals or buttocks or breasts. Bet the percentage drops some, but still high. Let's say we widen it so it can be outside of clothing -- not necessarily on bare skin. Guess what, the percentage goes back up. Now let's specify that the touchee is not sexually attracted to the toucher. Percentage drops. Now we could narrow it further, or widen it, whatever, and we're going to end up with whatever percentage we want -- even one we want to call "high" or "prevalent" or an "epidemic", if we wanted. Let's add in some error margins and uncertainty because (1) people don't always tell the truth, and (2) people don't always remember things perfectly. Now the importance and validity of your percentage becomes, well, let's say arguable and ambiguous, at best.

Have some women been "raped" (in the clearest, most old fashioned sense of the word) -- hell yes. And that's horrible. And should not happen. But to say that a third of all women are "sexually assaulted" in their lifetimes and/or to say that that is (always and necessarily) an evil thing -- that part I'm not so sure of.

Rape? Bad.

Sexual assault? Depends on particulars of the specific case -- not what words/laws say.
Note that this is just one in a long history of convention "incidents" in the open source/geek community to the extent that there is a "Con Anti-Harassment Project" site @ http://www.cahp.girl-wonder.org/
I cannot recall ever consciously needing to decide not to commit sexual assault.
I used to do this with a friend in the days when modems tied up phone lines. You have to pass a much lower number to lame's -b option, though.
Don't just downvote me nimwit. Put your name in your profile and tell me how I'm wrong.
It's definitely something women don't always want to talk about. It would suck to tell men you didn't want to go to a conference because you were vulnerable. I went to DefCon that year with my older brother, and he didn't want me to go the next year because he felt he had to spend too much time worrying about me.

That said, I've been to lots of other technical conferences without any issues. I'm not much of a party animal, but anything else I've encountered at bars or parties has been milder and less frequent than at DefCon, and has generally seemed more awkward and less predatory.
Oh, I guess I think of every item in WorkFlowy as a list. So I should have said, "certain number of items".
In any situation it's not just about a perpetrator and a person who has been attacked, it's also about the community.

As a community, if we are aware of a danger to a member of our community then we have an obligation to work to remove that danger.

If that requires putting up a light in that dark alley, standing up for people at conferences or whatever then we have a responsibility to do so.

This whole conversation will have been for little if the next time you or I observe unacceptable behaviour we do nothing about it. It says something for the Apache community that the author felt that their were people she was able to make contact with about it. But we all need to move from the place where we are the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
Very competitive, established and growing segment. Also, kind of big. Developer tools, basically. There are are at least 5 very big companies (revenues of $10mil+) and hundreds of employees each, and like 100 small companies in this segment.

It's a very hard and competitive field.
She is not obligated to go to the police. She can, in fact, just tell the Internet what she believes happened, and tell him to go fuck himself if he has a problem with it. If she's lying, he can sue for libel.
>there's at least one daughter who hopes or fantasizes about being groped by a man someday too.

I like to fantasize about all kinds of disgusting things.

However, if a stranger came up to me in a bar, and simply presumed that I would like to have one of these disgusting things done to me, I'd be quite offended.

Fantasy is one thing, reality is another.
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Wow! I've never heard of him before! Wow.
> if someone gropes you or worse, call him or her out in front of the group

In a way that's what has happened with this blog post. And look at the response.

> There's no shame in asking other people for help

There is if someone calls you a liar or comments on your sexual behaviour as a result. It's reasons like this that people are reluctant to report incidents like this.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=...

next?
In two words: distribution and monetization. That's all that matter, period.

This is why Facebook kicked OpenSocial's fragmented and poorly implemented ass, and why the iPhone developer ecosystem is more robust than its Android counterpart.
You're misunderstanding my point.

If the USA Today reader claimed his life is better because he reads USA Today, I would judge him just as irrational.

But what usually happens is that the person reading, usually secondhand, research publications makes the changes in behavior for the sole purpose of self-improvement, and he takes credit for it: "I quit drinking heavily because I care about my life."

He doesn't credit the source of the information for his betterment. He knows he could just as easily get health news, movie listings, cooking recipes, travel trips and Soduku from any other newspaper. Should he make wise stock-picks or improve his health, USA Today would not be the first to be thanked for this, because, most certainly, he gathers news from various other sources.
AFAIK, it's not considered prejudicial to a fair trial for an (alleged) victim to name the accused before the trial begins.

After all, the name of the accused will be made public in any case if there is a trial.
Also: No tail-call optimization, lack of a separate compile-time phase / static metaprogramming, strictly class-based / single-dispatch OO, etc.
I'm American and I agree with you.

Ideally the accused, if guilty, would man up, admit wrongdoing alcohol or no, apologize, and do whatever is in his power to right his wrong, make whole, undo the damage, seek counseling, stop drinking, donate a large sum to a women's shelter, speak out against sexual assault at tech conferences, that sort of thing.

Incredibly embarrassing for him yes, but the fact that she has only so far publicly shamed him and not actually pressed charges is more than charitable on her part.

She's left the door open for him to respond in kind and for this to be resolved between the two of them. But he has to realize the generosity she's displaying here, and reciprocate ten-fold.

To me that would be evidence that someone was not only shocked by their behavior, but sincere about being shocked, and willing to make it right. I'm not one to throw stones in such cases.
Yes you're wrong.
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I checked in a simple co-occurrence frequency based implementation for this here https://github.com/tgflynn/NLP-Challenge with a short discussion on my blog: http://cogniception.com/wp/.
The typical arrangement with such law firms is that payment is deferred until your first round of financing.

Of course, to get such a deal you probably need an introduction. Catch 22!
Thanks for quoting that tptacek, but that's just a law. :P

But seriously: it's arbitrary words on paper. And just one possible jurisdiction. I guess my take is that every legal jurisdiction can have a different definition. And even assuming that jurisdiction is the pertinent one from purely a legal standpoint, it is tangential to whether, in a more substantive sense whether an "assault" occurred, or rape, or whether violence occurred, or whether anyone was actually harmed in RL -- not in theory, not in some textbook.

All I've personally heard for sure, in this case, is that one guy made some moves in a bar which were waaay too forward relative to what the woman liked. Because she did not like it, she publicly names him and accuses him of "assault". I would bet you money that if she liked what he did then she would not have did that and nobody here would be talking about it. I think this element of it is what makes it so tricky, and so controversial for some folks.
You know, absolutely none of what I've said applies in any special way to women only. We could be having a discussion about a man and some other risky situation, and every bit of it would still apply.

It's not about singling out or patronizing women.

I've put a lot of thought into my own personal safety in sketchy situations, and seeing someone say something along the lines of "protecting myself isn't my job" just rubs me the wrong way. It really has absolutely nothing to do with women and sexual assault in specific.
Didn't Linus himself mention that bitkeeper was where Git's inspiration came from? Just like UNIX, bitkeeper was proprietary but it did work out many things for Git to use.
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I played around with X10 networking (device control using the in-house power wiring as a message bus) years ago, for home automation. Fun stuff, and usable even today.

Recently, I've started working on an Arduino-driven thermostat replacement using XBees to get around the problem of running wiring in a house without any conduits (and not wanting to run plenum-rated cabling in the heating ducts). It's actually pretty simple stuff, with off-the-shelf ICs (and I'm no hardware guy) and a little programming. The biggest challenge was figuring out the existing thermostat and HVAC wiring; I knew practically nothing about this stuff previously.

Some folks have gone quite far with this kind of thing: http://diy-zoning.sourceforge.net/Advanced/faq.html

(I particularly like the idea of using R/C servos to provide rudimentary zone control.)
You still don't seem to get it. You may have calmed down but you don't sound like you think you've done anything wrong.

It sure sounds like your employer demanded that you stop embarassing them, more than anything else.

What I think you really need to learn- and this will only come from self examination, not being told by people like me-- is why what you did was wrong. You think that because your intentions were, in your perception "noble" that the ends justifies the means.

But consider this- you were attempting to profit-- yes, profit-- from someone else's work. (Profit comes in terms of attention and reputation and awareness and popularity, not just financial renumeration.) Even though you were giving him credit, you were attempting to profit from his work without his permission. That's why this is wrong.

Sure, others release their work and give blanket permission for people to profit from it. You may like that better because you get more for free from it. But that doesn't change what you tried to do to Zed.

Zed was write to admonish you, and your defensiveness is understandable. But you're not going to profit from this unless you learn the lesson this event is trying to teach you.
"The statutory copyright penalties were clearly written with commercial-type infringement in mind"

The whole "these bits are worth $X each" scenario becomes meta-absurd when you consider commercial infringement. At $60K/song, The Pirate Bay would be on the hook for more money than the Earth could produce before it was consumed by the sun.
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Without cracking my skull, the highest bandwidth data channel in is my vision. If I want to start using a display in my FOV (eyetap), is there work in synthetic languages that can communicate information more quickly than English?

I'm thinking of an analog to QR codes (matrix barcodes) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
First, I made a mistake: 1 in 6 women will be victims of sexual assault in their lifetime. [1] My apologies; despite the mistaken figure it's still a large number. This figure represents the number of women who will claim they have been a victim of sexual violence.

You are claiming that some (likely significant) portion of these claims do not meet your definition of harm or violence. I'm not looking to get into a pedantic argument here about what kind of touching counts as sexual assault, or how far an assailant needs to go before the victim is "really" hurt. All I'm suggesting you do is talk to someone you know who considers themselves a victim and try to understand why they do; I really think you might learn something new. All you've said so far is that sexual assault isn't really a big deal because you don't think it's a big deal -- something of a circular argument.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault#cite_note-1
I'd like to see somebody using the tracing-compiler technique outlined by Robert O'Callahan in an emulator for a real-life hardware system:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/11/implemen...
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Then what is the point?

Or rather... Could I make a youtube comment classifier and enter it?
I bet you very likely did, and may not be aware of it. Because all it depends on is how loosely "sexual assault" is defined. If you've ever been near a female you were attracted to, and you were horny, at least some part of your brain(s) may have thought about wanting to touch her -- especially in a sexual way or a sexual part of her body. And you may have thought, nah, you shouldn't do that, for whatever reason, at the time. You my friend had come really close to committing an act of legal sexual assault. But, you chose not to do so, at the last minute, through conscious decision.

Again, we're not talking necessarily about rape (in the old fashioned sense of the word) but about "sexual assault" which is a more recent and genericized and watered down term used in the law enforcement system, designed intentionally to include a much wider variety of acts beyond the traditional rape act.
I'm not logicalmind, but I think the single most appalling comment I've read thus far was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1876272

The "anyone involved in feminism and getting women involved in open source is a man-hating liar and is probably lying about sexual assault" tone is too misogynistic for words, cloaked in a thin veneer of "let's not rush to judgement" for plausible deniability.
Really insightful and helpful.
Thanks. I am not much of a windows person but I guess if can also use a browser with a XSLT processing instruction. Just didn't think of this when I posted. But thx for the input. Any other good client would be appreciated.
It's the jurisdiction, Mike.

(It's "criminal sexual abuse" in my jurisdiction, and in the circumstances described it's already a class 4 felony. That makes me happy.)
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that's what I thought too - she came to the court of HN opinion which maybe not the best for this particular matter but at least all should be fully transparent
As a method of obscuring the data slightly (although really it doesn't add much), I sometimes like to add "conv=swab" to the dd. But for the CPU that's being spent on the bzip2, you could do it slightly more easily with a single command on one machine:

dd bs=16M if=/dev/sda | ssh dest.host.com 'bzip2 -d >/dev/sda'

Of course, that presupposes a running sshd on dest.host.com. You could secure it from being observed (although not from being interfered with) under Linux using loopback devices:

## On the destination machine:
LOD=`losetup -f`
losetup -e aes $LOD /dev/sda
# You'll be prompted for a password for the encryption.
nc -l 31337 | bzip2 -d | dd bs=16M of=$LOD

## On the source machine:
LOD=`losetup -f`
losetup -e aes $LOD /dev/sda
# You'll be prompted for a password; use the same one.
dd bs=16M if=$LOD | bzip2 -c |nc dest.host.com 31337

Most people just use encrypted loopback devices for things like disk encryption, but losetup (like netcat) has so many other fun potential applications.

(Edited twice due to formatting sadness.)
Pro tip: know what you're talking about before conmenting? Hint: click parent, then read the whole comment I responded to.

Thank you.
You guessed it right. I was looking for inspiration when I started this thread. Thanks for the pointer.
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I'm going to have to slightly disagree. I think there is a balance, and ambition and eagerness are great assets in a start-up environment in addition to technical prowess.
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In case it's not intentional, I'd just like to point out that many of your responses in this thread come across as very "troll-like" in nature. This may be because I disagree with your content but--if it's not the impression you're intending to give--you might want to reconsider how you present your view.
Read carefully guys before downvoting and know there are always two sides of the same story. Tomorrow this can happen to you too. Ruining someone's personal and professional life forever is a very drastic thing to do and is a very hard punishment even for the worst crimes.

This is a comment from her blog post. This greatly differs from her original point that she has never talked about this before, let alone name anyone.

<quote>
Please don’t think i’m accusing you of fabricating this story but it concerns me greatly that this isn’t the first time you have blogged about being sexual assaulted and named the men involved. Why do you think it is ok for you to do this?

I don’t know who Florian Leibert is but without any proof of what happened you have essentially libeled him by making a (technically) baseless allegation of sexual assault.
The location and particulars of the story are irrelevant. If you think they are important, you are saying that it is ok to rape a woman if certain circumstances are met. Perhaps they change for each person, but by engaging in the argument, you change the statement from "Rape and sexual assault are wrong" to "rape and sexual assault are wrong in these contexts." So what context makes it ok for you to sexually assault someone?