skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a body shot for those who don't know. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBPT6AUnUnI | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKP99wrx6Sc | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBbz6hhoKbg

Open-Minded Alternative-Understanding Scenario time:

You're a male with your male gay friends at a gay bar. They're taller than you as they are gays of the muscle bear variety. You're the only one who's straight but you want to show them you're one of the gang too. You agree to a body shot or a pole dance to show them "hey look I'm not homophobic, I can roll with you guys I can go along with the joke, I'm comfortable around you". One of the muscle bears (beefy, dominant, taller and stronger than you) starts kissing you, sticks his hands down your pants, grabs & squeezes your testicles and fingers your ass. How would you react?

Did you make a bad decision?

Were you asking for anything?

Was it your fault or the muscle bears fault?

Who went too far?

What were your and others' expectations of the situation?

This scenario is specifically designed to help people understand that while Justine did agree to a body-shot, nothing warranted taking things further. The "look but don't touch" rule applies at all times. Then again body shots are impossible to do without someone sucking juice out of your belly button with their mouth. I'm trying to see this from both parties' points of view. On Joe's end, I think a lot of men are trained by society, dating advice, hormones, movies, films, and even other girlfriends, that a man's purpose is to take what he wants, make the first move, initiate dominance and not ask for permission.

From Justine's point of view.... I understand what you were going for. Trying to earn their admiration... I feel bad for you. A body shot, pole dance, strip tease, doesn't warrant kissing, groping, or fingering, period. But honestly, body shots with co-workers is a bit.........unprofessional. Don't ever put yourself in a submissive position emotionally or physically around drunk men to try to prove yourself to them. Men do not respect submission. How is letting them do body shots off you make you one of them? Do they do body shots off each other?
This isn't her fault at all but I have to say this:

Hang around people doing drugs (large amounts of alcohol) and bad things are guaranteed to happen sooner or later.
It is possible that, in the moment, that would have made a difference. Remember this assault occurred almost a year ago.

Furthermore, I didn't say 'crimes,' I said sexual assault. Again, I am not being abstract: if you talk to anyone who works with sexual assault victims, you know how futile that course of action is.

Let's not forget that lawyers cost money, for example.
a question/answer interview is not a good way to learn what the candidate knows or not.

just let him tell you about projects that he worked in the past, and interrupt from time to time with relevant questions. you'll get a better sense of what he knows/does not know from that.
We, as a community, are simply incapable of discussing this subject responsibly.[1] Similar stories have been posted before. Some people are outraged at the incident. Others are outraged that the author publicized the incident. Others question the author's account. Others are outraged at the outrage of the second group and/or the skepticism of the third group. Et cetera.

The ultimate result is this: Endless angry comments. Everyone feels rage. All parties mentioned by name (and some unlucky enough to have the same name) wake up to inboxes full of hate mail. Careers are harmed, sometimes permanently.

If you had never read this story, how would the world be different? You would feel slightly happier, and you would have likely spent your time doing something more pleasant. In other words: not different at all outside your own mind.

Unless, of course, you actually did something to help. Even a token gesture would be better than posting an angry comment. Send an email with some nice words in it. Heck, maybe even do something in the real world to help. And instead of jumping on the rage train and telling everyone how angry you are, tell everyone what you did to try to make things better.

1. To be fair, the same is true for almost all online communities.

Edit: It's been an hour since I wrote this comment. So far, nobody has followed my suggestion and said how they've helped this situation. I guess I'll be the first. I sent a short email to Justine. Hopefully her day is a little better because of it.
My ex-girlfriend wrote a blog post similar to this one, accusing me of sexual assault. I volunteered to take a police polygraph test, hired a lawyer and initiated a libel suit. Fortunately, I didn’t need to go further because she suddenly changed my name & her story. But the experience was still stressful and scary. Many commenters vilified me because they assumed her information was true.

Prior to being falsely accused, I didn’t believe in false accusations. I couldn’t believe that anyone would tell a lie so insulting to victims. I still do believe that the vast majority of accusations are true, but I always reserve judgement because I know how it feels to be vilified in a blog post.

I applaud the author for sharing her experiences. This post is eloquent and courageous. Having said that, a blog post is not the right place to seek justice. In fact, the information here may interfere with a trial. I encourage her to delete this post and initiate a criminal trial in order to hold the perpetrator accountable.
Cool! What do you like more about it than MS Office?
Can we agree that you speak from an idealistic, not realistic, point of view? https://twitter.com/kittystryker/status/388925083559141376
You can italicize one letter with styles. It's not a requirement to have two completely different methods of doing so.
> This is not an empty gesture.

Neither was the assault.
There's absolutely no excuse for such behaviour - the man should be prosecuted. I wish Justine a lot of luck getting her life back on track.

It's worth mentioning (since the volume of comments doesn't make it obvious) that it appears to be a single commenter doing the vilifying.
This is the painted lie that her company allowed him to make: http://objo.com/2013/01/31/funemployment/

This is the reality. I don't hold too much optimism that the police would somehow solve this problem considering the damage done and the lack of any support to go back to.
We have a culture of alcohol being involved in most team interactions outside of work. Those mostly take place in the evening, a time when, usually, private socializing, including mate seeking behaviour, happens. That alone would be quite a fertile ground for sexual harassment, if you add a few females to a group mostly consisting of men. Then add companies where people work long hours and have little life outside of work. And now consider conferences, where people are away from their regular social circle for extended periods of time.

I would not want to be a young, attractive female working in this environment.
I think Norway does the same with their oil resources...
The comments are... odd. I can understand leaving comments open as an illustration of the backlash that results from trying to talk about these matters, but at some point, banning particular people makes sense: the majority of the comments there are vile primarily because the majority of comments have been made by one apparently obsessed person making utterly ridiculous comments in a deranged tone.

I fear that the shock of those comments hides what I consider the more important, problematic vilification going on in the comments, which is the argument made by a few sane people that talking about this, rather than keeping it a private matter, is not appropriate, and that Justine should have stayed silent and only gone to the police. This is perhaps more harmful, as it comes from people who aren't obviously deranged or trolling.
Word is an end user product - not open source - not developer friendly - want a developer friendly format - work with ODF or similar entities pushing open standards. Word does its job fairly well.
Word is IMO just fine for most uses. It has lots of features and lots of ways of writing and designing documents because users wanted them. You can't blame a product on its users.

And note the 'IMO' bit: Why on earth do people think that because they don't like a piece of software, they want to force all the other happy users to stop using it. It's just selfishness and self-importance. The world won't just use the pieces of software that you want, you are going to have to live with other people's choices.
Gareth Rushgrove (UK Government) - The Unavoidable Big Bang (talk)
Ask HN: What's the sense behind Hackermeter's acquisition
Cool advice. Now please tell me about an industry where "drinking with the guys" is not a central part of the networking/socializing needed to have a career.
Not true. There have been issues at conferences that have been talked about on places like HN, and now many conferences are adopting anti-harassment policies, like at the Cascadia Ruby Conference http://cascadiaruby.com/policies

It's a mess, yes, but change does happen.

There are many people who are very skilled at talking about tough issues like this one who simply need to be given an opportunity to address the community. I for one hope the Ruby community steps up and changes, for the better, because of this one.
But they wouldn't actually be participating, they'd just be a middle man that takes a small cut to support their own life without providing anything useful in return (aka a parasite)...
The good part is that it looks like most people wouldn't just do nothing all day long, they would contribute in one way or another...
The world is full of evil.

Not talking about it allows it to continue unimpeded.

Most people are not angry at the person shining the light on evil, just a tiny and vocal minority.
I'm not going to pretend that equity price represents the fair value of the asset, but none the less, hoards of offshore cash, cash equivalents, and tradable assets do affect share prices. As the majority of Google shares are held by US persons, this money does re-enter the US as capital gains. The taxes may be deferred for a long time, but the money just doesn't disappear once it enters a tax haven.

Of course, if Larry, Sergey, or Eric at some point have kids or ex-spouses who are non-US persons, perhaps the majority of these assets won't re-enter the US in some form.
How does Sipser's content compare to Ullman's (free) Foundations of Computer Science?

http://i.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html

As far as x86 assembly goes, I found Kip Irvine's book to be pretty great. (not free) It's not a subject I would want to spend more time on, though.
So, I'm a bit confused. Are registers SRAM? Or are they faster than SRAM?
Sadly, I think this will just raise inflation a lot.

If this passes, I would not be surprised that 1 kg of rice in the supermarket suddenly starts costing $100. The reasoning being: "hey, all my customers now have much more money than before, I can charge more for the same wares".
I have Google+ enabled as a service, and shared ads are still disabled for my domain. It does appear to be the default setting for Apps.
Unfortunately, private citizens cannot initiate criminal trials, and most police do not take reports of sexual assault very seriously, if indeed they do anything at all.
The best way to get involved with Local Hackathons and Startup Events is to get involved with the Local Startup Ecosystem. The last time I was in The Valley, I found Meetup.Com to be an awesome source of Startup Related Events and Functions. That might be a good place to start (filter by technology or language). You'll also find that some of the more popular Hackathons or Non-Profits have their own Website, such as the TechCrunch Hackathon (http://techcrunch.com/events/), the Launch Hackathon (http://hackathon.launch.co/), or Startup Weekend (http://www.startupweekend.org). These are just a few examples, I'm sure there are many more across the World that I don't even know about.

Regarding product methodologies, what you describe sounds somewhat similar to Eric Ries' Lean Startup. I hope it's not offensive to make a comparison, but I think it's good food for thought. The concept of involving customer feedback into the product development process (or any process) is extremely powerful. But I wouldn't doubt that there are different ways to apply that Approach. The Lean Startup is based on a Build, Measure, Learn methodology. What you describe sounds somewhat like a variation; maybe closer to Measure, Learn, Build. Expanding on that, other variations could relate to the number of cycles you consider and the possibility that they can be in different orders to achieve different results. For example; Build, Measure Learn might be a great process for an existing Team to develop a Product based on an existing idea. Another example; Measure, Learn, Build (cycle 1) and then Build, Measure, Learn (cycle 2) might be a good 2 cycle process for an existing Team to develop a Product that does not initially have an idea or direction. And yet another example; Build, Measure Learn, (cycle 1) and then Build, Measure, Learn again might be a good 2 cycle process for Building a Team to develop a Product based on a validated idea. These are all hypothetical of course, but it's interesting to consider. I'm sure there are many different possibilities based on how you apply the concepts. In any event, I wish you well in validating your methodology!
> it appears to be a single commenter doing the vilifying.

It may appear to be that way, but many people have stated various things. If you haven't been following this on Twitter for the last few weeks, it can look different.

It is certainly not just one person.
I'm so with you. After reading this (and a lot of similar) account, I knew, that I would never(!) enter any conference like that, regardless, where it is held.

An drug-induced culture like that is just hurtful/unhealthy. Regardless of the drug they put into their bodies, I have an internal policy never to mix with druggies.

I am really shocked, that it seems so normal to drink that much booze. Hey, I really like a glas of wine here or there, a glas of good scotch once in a while. But I am not 15 (coming from Germany) anymore. I do not have to be dumb playing cool drinking booze.

So I really hope for the OP, as I really hope for the american tech-conference culture. For the first: I wish her the utmost and very best. For the second: Grow up!
Last time I checked there was this thing called "due process". There were two witnesses to the alleged assault and I say alleged because in the eyes of the law it is alleged until tried in a court, and you are an idiot if you don't know this.

You don't even know if the assault happened and you are judging this man without a trial. You are a a goddamn imbecile. There were two witnesses, that's pretty clear cut.

His blog post has nothing to do with the alleged assault and you produce that as evidence of his guilt? I'm glad you're not running the legal system.
Consider that the person who would be doing the banning is the victim, which means that she would have to read all of those shitty comments, continually, in order to determine who to ban.
I'm glad this is out there. It's a tragedy that it happened at all, but it would be an even bigger tragedy if nobody else knew the consequences. I think everyone experiences that moment sometimes where you think "is this okay? should I say something?" And after you waver for a second, your decision reinforces itself and you end up doing nothing at all. Maybe you can even convince yourself that it was all okay in the end. After all, the consequences are invisible. Well, not this time.

I found two other perspectives on the story:

http://theotherzach.com/writes/2013/10/9/events
http://blog.matt-darby.com/essays/i-am-the-other-developer

I'm particularly heartened by Zach's account. The police can prosecute assaults, absolutely, but they can't stop them before they happen. The community can. By setting clearer expectations of behaviour, recognising potentially dangerous situations and taking steps to ameliorate the risk, and by being willing to step in before anything goes off the rails, the community can stop this from happening again.

And, thanks to Justine, maybe they will.
You believe people should go to bars with the expectation they'll be sexually assaulted?
Statue of limitations on sexual assault is longer than 9 months. Two witnesses that can be tracked down. You are advising against not even trying to press charges?

Character assassination without trial is better? The courts exist for a reason and there were two witnesses.

Do you have any citations for the futility of reporting a crime with two witnesses?
> better nutrition, exercise

In the states. Really.
Exactly how would you ask that questions? (I'm honestly asking, I grew up in a country where personal space are quite strongly respect - even hugging between close friends are almost nonexistent.)
THERE WERE TWO WITNESSES. His blog post is irrelevant to his guilt or innocence based on a blog post of another individual.

Two witnesses is pretty clear cut. It's called 'corroboration', you should look it up and learn something perhaps!
I tried it because I wanted to try free (as in freedom) software and never felt the need to switch back as it did everything I required of a WYSIWYG word processor. I guess I have just gotten so used to it now that when I use Word/Excel etc (mostly briefly on someone else's computer) I get all confused about their new panel based menu system.

The point is not that they are better but that they are a suitable replacement for all but a very small niche of power users. But people tend to compare the limit cases even if all they'll ever use are the day-to-day functions.
Yeah, I really wish we lived in a world where pigs take sexcrime seriously. :(

I think police attitudes toward this stuff are probably one of the biggest stumbling blocks on the path to eradicating it. Think of how much progress could be made if reports were taken seriously and actually investigated with the levels of effort they put into investigating murder or drug trafficking.
As an aside, why is alcohol such a big part of things like tech meetups, etc? I've been to a few and there is always alcohol being served and people drinking it. As a Muslim, I've never touched alcohol and never will, and I don't understand the need to "alcoholize" everything. Why can't there be a culture of having just good clean fun, no alcohol, no drugs, no sexualizing? And what place does alcohol even have at tech events?
That may be part of why he writes relatively slowly. (WordStar doesn't exactly provide support for refactoring huge, complex structured documents ...)
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I hear about Dauphin occasionally, but it would be great to see actual data rather than breathless reporters fawning over it. Unfortunately that's all wikipedia links to. I really want to see good data on this, since it seems useful. Do you have any?

Also, wikipedia's secondary sources don't agree with each other. Some do list small disincentive effects, and suggest they would have been larger if mincome wasn't a short term thing (i.e., "don't quit your job, mincome is going away").
N64 emulator in Javascript
MS Word still can't kern very well, and can't really hyphenate for double-column justified papers. LaTeX is still my tool of choice.
Lest we mention PyCon...
> An drug-induced culture like that is just hurtful/unhealthy. Regardless of the drug they put into their bodies, I have an internal policy never to mix with druggies.

Caffeine culture suffers no such problems.
The Ribbon is almost seven years old now.
I see what you mean, and you're right, the workflows would be near impossible to manage without standardizing on one format.
That's right. I didn't mean to imply that citizens can initiate it on their own, but the author should at least try to press charges. The definition of sexual assault / rape varies by state.

In any case, I don't think vigilante justice by blog post is an appropriate solution.
It's very practical. It's called sales tax. Gasoline sales taxes are supposed to be used to maintain roads.

In general, taxing income and profit is difficult to do fairly. It requires a really complex and invasive bureaucracy that scrutinizes everyone and every business. Sales tax, on the other hand, is easy to do fairly. You already have to regulate sales to enforce anti-fraud laws, food and drug laws, and other regulations.

People often say that sales tax is regressive, whereas income tax is progressive. But in practice, income tax is regressive, really falling only on the middle class. For example, multi-billionaire Warren Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secreta...
I cringed when I saw that comments were enabled _at all_ on that post.
Please read "After the shot" again. If im not mistaken kissing forheads and rubbing is commen place with your male friends. You mention multiple coworkers. He hand grabs your butt and you dont immediatly pull away????? Why not take responsibility for your actions as well. Ive been to bars and seen drunken mistakes but to vilify the person like this and not take any resposibilty for your actions is pathetic and immature. Yes he crossed the line but maybe we should hear that from you too.
Can you explain to me how posting a factual account of a situation is 'vigilante justice'?
Reading this comments, one can see the huge political and social perspective between Americans (USA) and Europeans, which is very intriguing - especially reading the arguments.
The vast majority of people are good, honourable though often less vocal on the internet.

We outnumber the bastards out there. We just need to learn to step up and stop evil when we see it. That's the leson I take from Zach's account.

If we can be just as quick in doing that as others are in posting judgemental comments on board then a lot of horrible experiences will be averted.

How horrible the effect evil has on people is what I learned from Justine's account. The stakes couldn't be higher.
A genuine question:

How can some people be so reflective and seem to understand their problems really well, yet still be completely paralyzed and unable to do anything about them?
Read this slowly, you can do it-- you're good at reading:

It should be expected not that victims live up to another's definition of responsibility, but that people be responsible enough not to create victims.
Every open source project large enough to have a community that cares?
"Erin" sounds like "she" has an axe to grind with Justine.
The problem is what did they witness? A girl doing a bodyshot, followed by the man who took the shot kissing her and getting hands on. In this post I don't see anything indicating she tried to reject these moves.

I don't see how somebody could tell it was unwanted from a third person perspective.
In recent months this year I’ve been arrested, charged with a DUI ... become a borderline alcoholic

She has been drinking and driving. This is not just peer pressure, this is unforgivable.
Or maybe, just maybe, it could be that word is actually a market leader in terms of features and interface.