skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Simply get an Android phone".. In your reply replace Gmail with Exchange and Android phone with Outlook and we would bring out the pitchforks decrying vendor lock-in. Exchange works fine for my work email, IMAP works fine for my Yahoo account and somehow it is the client's fault it doesn't "support Gmail properly". Of course, this data is equally meaningless as yours as the sample size is 1.
why would you expect it to be pure js?
"At-will employment doesn't provide a blanket exemption from wrongful termination suits"

Well, yeah. Stipulations include forcing someone to do anything illegal, firing someone because they're involved in union activity, or terminating someone based on discrimination. Please CITE a source or a case that concludes you can't fire someone for getting involved in the aforementioned mess in the link above whether he is guilty or not guilty. Thank you.
"assaulted"

uh....not sure i can say much more without the PC crowd hammering me to death. While none of us were there -- which is a big caveat -- from the description I read I'd hesitate to call what happened "assault". I'm picturing the assault on the Normandy defenses in 1944, in it's best usage. Or someone walking up to you and slamming a baseball bat into your face. Ouch. That's assault. But being kissed or having someone come on to you in a sexual/romantic manner -- even if you did not want it or reciprocate -- I think really stretches and abuses the language.

Here's one mental tool to help tease out the important distinction involved. 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. It's pretty well known that a lot of woman like men to come on strong to them and be dominant -- of course the catch is they like this if they were attracted to them in the first place, but if they weren't, then it can have the opposite effect. Well, even if there were German soldiers stationed along the beaches of Normandy in 1944 who "kinda wanted" for the Allies to invade, it would regardless still be a military assault when they did.

Now add alcohol drinking, a bar, late night, partying, lots of rowdy behavior, touching, intentional flirting, geeks with poor social skills and body language cue reading, etc. and things become even more, shall we say, less clear cut.
>If he said "oh shit... yeah, I screwed up", I'd reconsider[...]

Really? I think that doesn't cut it here. "yeah, I screwed up" is an appropriate response when you show up hungover for an important presentation,not when you try and force yourself on someone.
this is a good time given the boost that QE2 has given the stock market.
Back on the first hand, how frustrating would it be to have the Kinect changing slides for you every time you gesture at the screen?

In general, though, yes, I think there is a lot of room for improvement in the technology that supports presenters (but that's still no reason not to practice and get comfortable with the tech you have)
It's not that hard if you are a larger company. My company just had a medical device that connects to the 30 pin approved by the FDA/Apple. The difficulty is less Apple and more the intrinsic challenges of hardware. Once you get into atoms bugs get harder to fix, costly to iterate on etc. It's really impressive that the wakemate guys have gotten so far with so few resources.
Ah, my apologies! With the new parsing, your comment makes perfect sense.
FWIW, Proposition 19 was a proposition in California. This woman was from Minnesota.
Consider selling to Internet Brands (http://www.internetbrands.com/). They look for sites with healthy organic traffic and the possibility to improve monetization. So those 500K visitors per month should come from a healthy list of keywords indexed in the major search engines and a high page rank.

Does the $5K per month come from ads, affiliate links, product sales, subscriptions? Most likely it's just AdSense, so they'd love that, since they can swap those out for direct sell ads that can be sold across multiple sites they own for a yield 20x as much as you could get from AdSense.

Is the content 100% unique? Who wrote it, and how fast is new content being added to the site? Do you have a staff of writers who are writing quality content? Or is the content user-generated? They'll want to know how much it will cost to keep the site going long term.

Typically a site this size, assuming the traffic is healthy and targeted and the revenue looks like it will keep coming in should go for 12-36x monthly earnings. By Internet Brands standards, 1000 articles is not that much, the traffic is decent, but the revenue is on the low side. Compare that to a site they own like Steve's Digicams, which has 20,000 high quality camera reviews spanning 12 years, a PR4, and revenue in the mid six figures (probably low six figures when they bought it), and for which they likely paid $1 million.
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

--Nikola Tesla
She, and a lot of commenters, are talking as if Florian Leibert thought this was a good idea, or that this behavior is OK, or something. It looks like he had a few too many and lost control. "Thousands and thousands of years of civilization and education" (as emmanuel lécharny put it in the comments on that page) just don't come into it. If he'd gotten into a car and accidentally driven off a cliff, no one would call him suicidal. I don't think he has a "double standard", and I don't think he was planning to "get patted on the back for it", as L. claimed.
> Hell, if "it was everyone else's job to prevent being sexually assaulted" and her friends "managed to do this job on several occasions" (parapharasing here)

You misunderstood.

Her point was it wasn't her job to avoid being assaulted, it was the job of the males present not to be assaulting her.
Defensiveness, denial, etc

Are you reading the same site? What I see is lots of perfectly reasonable people saying "it's really horrible that this sort of thing happens, and we've got the pitchforks and torches ready, but we're not going to put a noose around this guy's neck based on a blog post alone".
Square connects through the audio jack. Maybe part of the reason they decided to do that was to avoid the approval process? Probably more of a "get on as many devices as possible" situation though.
While you're at it, you might want to consider having the ReeVoo logo on the bottom left link to ReeVoo.com.
I have a few women in my life that were sexually assaulted at various ages ranging from grabbing of their asses to stuff I just can not write; and it saddens me that so many people in this thread are shocked that it is such a common occurrence. Statistics have shown that a woman is assaulted every 2 to 3 minutes in the US alone, and that 1 in 3 women will be assaulted in their lifetime. This is not an uncommon thing, and it happens whether it's in some dark alley or at a tech conference.

Just as a woman needs to be vigilant of what is going around her, us men (or other women) need to be vigilant of threats to other women around them when in bars or conferences or wherever.

If this allegation is true, I hope that the perpetrator is charged and his life altered so he can't do something like this again or worse.
I also tend to take it on face value, because my experience is that women are treated extremely poorly at these events, particularly if they're even a little bit attractive.

Large numbers of men, many of whom have social issues, widely available alcohol, and small numbers of women... it's a recipe for something really terrible.
That goes without saying, of course.

But if the veracity of the accusation holds up, the perpetrator fully deserves what is coming to him.

"No" does not mean "yes, please continue".
It happens for me on the intel drivers.
PPC or leadership? Hmmm, what about beefing up your knitting skills? This is a tough question to answer without some background info, otherwise PPC and leadership seem a bit random (like knitting.)

One thing is for sure though. I wouldn't hire someone to do knitting for me until I have more sales than I could handle from doing all the knitting myself. Perhaps there is a lesson could apply here?
On what filesystem?

Certainly not the default HFS+, which is is case-insensitive but case-preserving.
TLDR:

1. The discoverer pitches the claim directly to the media.

2. The discoverer says that a powerful establishment is trying to suppress his or her work.

3. The scientific effect involved is always at the very limit of detection.

4. Evidence for a discovery is anecdotal.

5. The discoverer says a belief is credible because it has endured for centuries.

6. The discoverer has worked in isolation.

7. The discoverer must propose new laws of nature to explain an observation.
It sounds like it happened a public pub where many of the conference goers were congregating (planned or not).
Also not a layer, but I've heard discussions of California employment law from people who are, and the impression I've got is that the law can go a whole lot further than whistle-blowers. Essentially, you can let someone go for no reason at all, but they can still sue for discrimination, breach of contract, etc.

(Disclaimer: Again, not a lawyer — that's just my layman's understanding of what I've heard and you should probably not cite this comment in court.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbH-U2b_EsQ
Can you cite a case that found the opposite?
My original post contained the words you quoted. As I scrolled down the page I realized that the posts were less offensive and edited my post. Yet, at this point in time, a number of the top upvoted comments are quite defensive and in denial.
Yeah, I get that you specifically aren't trying to say it's her fault.

It's just that overwhelmingly, when harassment occurs to women, the conversation turns to 'What could she have done differently to make it not happen to her?' and NOT 'What can we do to make it so men don't harass?'

If it didn't happen to so many women, so often, then maybe the conversation could go that way.

But as you say, let's analyze the pattern. What if the pattern is "Go to tech conferences and socialize in a normal and acceptable manner with other people who share my interests"?

What are you going to tell her? Don't go to tech conferences? Don't network with other people in your industry at a bar? Don't talk to a man while drunk? While sober but he is drunk? Don't talk to a man at all? Don't walk down the street at night in a skirt. Don't walk down the street at night at all. Don't leave your house.
thanks for clarifying. "PPC" still means "PowerPC" to me, too...
Everyone has a friend of a friend who was falsely accused of sexual assault.

Everyone has actual real friends who are women who've been victims of actual real sexual assault. Usually at least 10% of them. (That'll be 10% who've actually dared speak up about it, and another, probably larger percentage who don't, because they've seen what's happened to their friends who've spoken up. "What, no witnesses? How do we know you're telling the truth? Oh, you were drinking that night, were you? I guess you must have been leading him on...")

Let's get nerdy about this, shall we? It's classic outlier bias, like people who're afraid of the risks of flying, and prefer to drive everywhere.

In the time it takes you to read the article about the Duke lacrosse case, another woman will have been sexually assaulted. (One every two minutes in the USA. 1 in 6 women, 1 in 33 men.) But the Duke case is the one you'll remember, because it's far rarer than real sexual assault.

Maybe she's making it up, and the guy really is innocent. I wouldn't bet on it, though.
Tone, putting words in someone else's mouth and conflating a very specific action with doing anything at all.
Obama coming to India in search of US jobs.
I did mean ghc, though I just assume everyone assumes you mean ghc unless you specify otherwise. GHC seems to be the standard.
> it might be time to re-evaluate the pattern of behavior that led up to the unfortunate event.

Standard cost-benefit analysis: how does the number/severity of ruined days compare to the number/awesomeness of fun days (presuming that without that "pattern of behavior" all days would be "meh")? Maybe the rational choice really is to try to change the world...
My argument isn't that this Ruby version is so compelling it deserves to exist. I think restricting creativity "because I made it" is a stupid reason. Maybe others would have (are?) making useful "X The Hard Way" books stop because of this. I don't see what the benefit of him restricting it is.
If I were his boss, I should have never seen his name in public, or her name in public, at this stage of matters, before the legal system has dealt with it -- assuming it does at all. It's simply nobody else's business -- or very few, anyway -- as to what exactly did or did not happen that night. Her post should never have been made publicly at this point, or, if it did, should not have explicitly named a guy. A guy who could, very possibly, be totally innocent. None of us know for sure what happened. And even if what was claimed to happen did happen, it's not at all clear to me that it was some horrible thing that deserves somebody being jailed or being punished for the rest of their life for. Sexuality and hormones are messy animalistic things -- add alcohol and it gets more messy. There's even a school of thought that could argue: no harm, no foul.
I didn't think about this until your comment but I've had this happen to me (a man) by females at parties. The thought of publicly shaming the girl for what she did never occurred to me; a double standard I'm happy to live with.
The 'pattern' is that she is a woman. Stuff like this happens to women all the time, regardless of their behavior.

Its not the behavior of the women that is at fault, it is the man's.
It's pretty laughable that all of the "at-will" proponents are getting downvoted. Here's a quote from actual lawyers on this matter:

"If the accused is an employee at-will, his or her employer is free to terminate him or her for no reason or even a bad reason, so long as it is not a reason prohibited by law. Discharging an employee based on an accusation of sexual harassment is not unlawful, even if the accusation is not correct."

http://www.fklaborlaw.com/faqs/Sexual-harassment-accused-rig...
This IS nice. I tried it and does come up with good suggestions. A tool which think does a little better on the semantics side is http://nameboy.com. Their problem is that names proposed are often not available (despite) their status at nameboy.com. Your tool seems to avoid that problem somehow. The way you figured out to get your availability info in parallel and with DNS checks first seems very elegant.

I know this market well. if you want more ideas and suggestions for better name generation logic and dictionaries, give me a shout (rastaquere AATT gmail DOTT com). maybe we can work on something together.
And, like a few other comments, authored by an account registered specifically to jump into this fight.
Time will tell, but it seems fairly likely to be true. Posting this account publicly like she did could make her liable for slander even in the US. We will see if Florian Leibert decides to take the matter up in court.

[Edit: actually, I think the correct term may be libel not slander]
Would I be upset? Nope.

Guys and girls are, in general, different. Guys' misunderstanding of this simple fact leads to events like the one described in the article.

And if the male blogger had then written a similar blog about being sexually assaulted at a party, naming the female who grabbed him?

This I would take just as seriously. Why should people that blog about their lives and their interactions with other people omit being pseudo-raped? Because it's a "wild accusation"? Well, fuck that.
I don't believe that anyone is beyond salvation providing that he is willing to confront his sins and avoid repeating them. If I thought an employee was likely to sexually assault someone else, I'd cut him loose immediately; but if he was as shocked by his behaviour as any reasonable person would be, then I wouldn't necessarily think he was any more likely to reoffend than anyone else.

But I come from Canada -- a country which eschews the death penalty and even gives parole to multiple murderers on occasion. We're more forgiving than Americans.
Could you cite some specific examples of replies that appall you, and perhaps give a short explanation of what you take issue with? That would help make this discussion more concrete, and hopefully more productive.
If I had a guy friend who, say, had his ass grabbed by a woman at a bar, and he went home and wrote a public blog about it, whining, and described it as "assault" I'd think less of him as a person. Puh-lease. I'd think, "Grow up. Get some perspective. You'll live. Somehow, you'll live."
(According to her) he put his hand INSIDE her underwear. AFTER she said she wasn't interested. If it had only been the unwanted kiss, and she said no, don't touch me, and he said, oh I'm sorry, and left it at that, then yes...it was probably just a drunken misunderstanding.

Shoving your hand INSIDE another person's (of any gender) underpants after being expressly told that said person was not interested in you sexually is absolutely sexual assault.
Devil's advocate:

What would you tell a man who walks home at night alone through a shady neighbourhood and got mugged with any frequency (to the point he expects he will be mugged again walking home through the same neighbourhood)?

Of course the muggers are 100% responsible for their actions. The man wasn't 'asking to get mugged', and has the right to walk down through that neighbourhood and expect a level of safety. But still, the appropriate suggestion is to recommend a safer behaviour.

Applying the analogy to a woman's sexual assault scenario, you would have to look at the various pieces, and how they translate to our model. Was she dressing or behaving promiscuously? Is she going out and partying late at night? Yes, it is her right to dress and behave how she likes, and she should be able to do so safely, but this isn't the world we live in. These actions are the equivalent of walking through the unsafe neighbourhood alone at night in our above model.

The goal for society shouldn't be to regulate the woman's behaviour until she avoids all potential dangers. No, it should be to regulate the behaviour of the assaulter - by holding him accountable, and punishing him as necessary. Still, until society changes, it would be prudent for the women to make safer decisions.

This is no way is meant to apply directly to the OP's situation. The man made a move - aggressively - she refused, and he assaulted her. I don't know how her behaviour could have changed this. (Allegedly. No need for any Internet justice here.)This is just meant to portray a counter-example. Responses like 'she was asking to be raped/assaulted' are unacceptable IMH. A woman could be walking down the street naked, and if she were raped it would be 100% the rapists fault. Sure it might not be wise for the woman, but the rapist must be held accountable.
hmm that is a very interesting way to put it actually... I wonder what the result would be if the author performed such an analysis.

You're definitely right about trying to change the world.
Specialization builds trust among web users
While I did not notice this myself, a past girlfriend said I acted differently and felt more comfortable when I was wearing my glasses, as if they were something to hide behind.(compared to when I was wearing my contacts).
Agreed. When people have alcohol, they often lose inhibitions and do or say things they otherwise would not. There's a good chance this applied to many of the people described in the story.
Anecdotal evidence wins again!
You can basically read it two ways. One way is that you're suggesting that she's at fault for being an assault victim (all other things aside about this story). Along the lines of "she deserved it", "she was asking for it", and similar victim blaming.

Another more logical way to read what you're saying is that she should think to see if she's doing anything wrong when she's telling these guys to go away or stop, like conflicting body language.

My only problem with that argument is that very few people purposefully do anything to get that kind of behavior out of someone else that they don't want it from. It's like ignoring the elephant in the room, which is the behavior of the person doing the assaulting.

I've never been sexually assaulted by anyone at any event (and I am female), but I've had plenty of guys hit on me and feel me up and such. If I don't know you as a close friend, "stop" means stop. Doesn't matter how naked or dressed or drunk or sober or sleepy I might be. It is NEVER my fault for being who I am and telling people to stop at the same time. People that can't understand anything like that need to reconsider what they're doing, because they're about to cross a very, very uncomfortable line. And thankfully, every person that has ever tried to do such a thing has stopped. Good thing, cause I'm the type that will eventually break fingers and call the cops no matter how drunk I am over something like that. That is never acceptable behavior. I don't do that to any person, ever. Nobody should ever be doing that to anyone else.

Lastly, please don't read this as any sort of commentary on the actual story in question. I was shocked to read the post originally, but I'm not passing judgment on anyone. Just a general statement.
I don't think that's an accurate analogy. It doesn't matter what your digital cables are made of, so long as noise doesn't go above the threshold.

Cheap copier paper, on the other hand, looks and feels like crap. The only reason you print stuff on paper is to communicate with another human being, and the paper is part of the message.

I wouldn't quite go as far as the business cards scene in American Psycho (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y) though.
meowsex.com is available!

On a more serious note, I just registered trynode.com. Great app.
check the photo on the left. No zipper.
Thanks for the inputs. I am almost sure the ads are from direct ad sales and the site has just 4-5 ads listed. It's a PR5 site, good user-generated content, updated daily without fail.
> And even if what was claimed to happen did happen, it's not at all clear to me that it was some horrible thing that deserves somebody being jailed or being punished for the rest of their life for.

So forcing one's hand in to or near someones underwear is acceptable behavior? It's a crime. Whether under or above clothing, it is a crime.
What pattern of behavior could have led to this event? I mean that sincerely. I think sometimes women are led to be a little more careless than they should be (not that it's their fault, but it's far better to avoid being a victim than to have someone to blame for victimizing you) — but I don't see how there's anything for her to analyze here. She just walked up to a guy who said he wanted to talk and he shoved his hand down her pants. Like, what's the pattern she needs to analyze there? Talking to men?
I think it's only direct ads and no affiliates.
In the sense that Monster Cable is printing money, and cotton paper ("resume paper") is what the government prints money on?
Does this mean that Android users (who stated they were Android users in the original $5 sign up orders) have been waiting while Apple decides to provider certification for the iOS version?

I saw a WakeMate advert recently, which really frustrated me given that long-loyal customers(-to-be) have been waiting for their units. If the Android app has been delayed for iPhone certification then I'm going to get really annoyed.

Please WakeMate, I really want to buy one of these thins but I'm loosing patience.