skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it becomes less grey when you think of it in terms of whether one would consent to sex when sober. i.e. if one of the parties has always wanted to have sex with the other, but the other is having none of it, and they use intoxication to get what they want, that isn't a grey area situation. That's rape. It is not a "no fault" incident.

If all parties involved wanted to have sex with the other party or parties, and the opportunity arose while they were intoxicated, that's not rape. Maybe still a little grey for all parties, and possibly not good judgment.

But, I think the grey area is much smaller than the instances of rape, and the fear some men seem to have of being accused of rape or similar for those extremely rare instances of "grey area" sex way overblown.

There was a study recently where participants were asked if they'd ever done various things, that effectively described rape. The same participants were asked if they'd ever raped anyone. The incidence of people who said "yes" to the behaviors that describe rape was much higher than the incidence of people who said "yes" to having ever raped someone. The participants thought those were "grey areas", but most of them were pretty clearly just rape.
I don't want to openly doubt rape, but jesus, several times over several months? Call the police, or at least avoid a situation if possible. Clearly she is willing to talk about it, so where's the police report?

Also, every time I read one of these articles I cringe. There's a big movement to "include women in tech", but it's interesting to note that (in my experience) there is a large group (bordering on majority) of women in tech that are just as disgusted by these articles.

My girlfriend finds it particularly offensive, her comments usually being something along the lines of: "If women want to be treated as equals, they should act like equals, not complain." Point being, she finds these articles counter productive, and most of the women whinny. She thinks a lot of the people in tech can be weird, and this can lead to people believing it there sexism, when in actuality it is just awkward behavior.

Finally, and my personal opinion, no one supports rape, sexual harassment or racism, and any subconscious bias is pretty hard to discern. It would be better to involve the authorities if you feel you are being rapped or harassed. From my personal point of view I have seen SO many women complain about being harassed or put down, and the fact is they may have, but I have never seen it. I work regularly with women in my jobs and I've never seen or had a problem. Some are bad team members and some are good. They are usually treated by skill level from my experience, and I have seen this taken as sexism more than once.

Other places are different (apparently) and if that's the case, punish the crap out of the people who harass women/race.

BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, stop putting me in a group with these people. I'm calling bullshit on not just this article, but half these articles. There is definitely less women in tech, and nothing is inherently wrong with that. If there's something I can do to make it more inclusive, I will. However, please OP and anyone reading this, come at it with an open mind. Just because women aren't in tech does not imply something is wrong. Women and men are different, it's okay as long as it is not a sexist barrier. Just not having a lot of women does not mean there is that barrier.

Every situation is different, and you may have indeed been wronged (and I can sympathize), but stop generalizing. It's borderline sexism to claim "everyone in tech is sexist against women," we all know males have to watch themselves and be careful. That's probably why the OP was offered money, people are so scared of being called sexist, because it's so blown out of proportion. Handle it like everything else, with a clear mind.

If we are going to talk about sexism, give me the facts, give me the barrier, and give me a way I can fix it besides just being "subconsciously and uncontrollably bias." If that can't be done, then there probably isn't justification to discuss the concerns (yet).
I'm sorry, but I'm struggling to come up with a reason why you would want a note above $100?
Yep, agreed. There's an abundance of this kind of scornful thinking in the tech world. I figure it's mostly a subliminal attempt by programmers to convince themselves that they're smarter than other people.

That being said, the article seems to be pretty well-written and does have some good info about anti-patterns once you get past its title. Also, it proposes remedies to these anti-patterns and bad habits which are useful.
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Something getting lost in the responses here is the "stress" factor of these interviews. When encountering a difficult architectural or algorithm decision, experience has taught me to develop slowly, prototype often, investigate previous work, and even step away from the issue. Meanwhile, engineering interviews require you to code immediately, in isolation, and then be judged on the first solution you crap out of your brain.

In a recent interview, my solution to a question was bad, I knew it was bad, and I informed my interviewees it was bad. It was difficult for me to come up with other solutions on the spot under pressure of judging eyes and limited time. Immediately after getting off the phone I was able to assess better ways to approach and solve the problem, but too late, those 45 minutes were more important to them than my many years of provable, directly related experience.
I feel they could have done it without making my boss feel like he was being directly threatened with a huge HR complaint. It’s a real shame for our tech culture that there is no way to get somebody tutored about what is and isn’t appropriate without also landing them in deep trouble.

I'd like to add the only education available to teach people social interactions, outside of being self-taught, is PUA material, as well as in-house education on how to influence masses in the intelligence community. Which means if you weren't in a situation to talk to enough people while you were growing up, later on in life you'll miss out on jobs, you'll feel insecure, you'll make inappropriate comments, you'll have difficulty making friends, you'll have difficulty seducing a potential mate, you'll get divorced later on due to inability to manage arguments and fights and conflicts.

Families have been getting smaller - first people stopped living with close to their relatives, then people stopped living with their parents and siblings, and now people begin to stop living with their husbands or wives, and children without at least one of their parents, and parents having fewer siblings in general.

People are receiving less practical experience in interacting socially as they are growing up. You either fit in at school and do well, or you don't and isolate yourself and fall behind.

We have a mess at university campuses.
We have a mess in tech companies.
We have growing numbers of men who are 'losers'.
We have growing numbers of women who can't get married if they want to.
We have growing instances of inappropriate behaviour at work.
Men and women resorting to electronic means to communicate, and avoiding face-to-face interaction, even among friends.
Parents sent to nursing homes, pension spending growing and unsustainable.
People growing up with little to no spiritual values besides materialism.
etc, etc.

I think all of these stem from smaller families, causing less exposure to social interaction with others of the same age as well as with the older generation, resulting in less wisdom passed down, and decreased social ability of people growing up.

And it's only going to continue to get worse.

Though maybe people getting poor and being forced to stay with their parents for long might just be where the second derivative is beginning to turn.
> Why not report to the police? Because it's mutually assured destruction. Even if you bring the guy down, you'll be known as the woman who called the police on her boss.

Would the police do anything about the scenario you outlined above? Wouldn't sexual harassment where the boss trades sexual favors for promotions/job security be considered a civil matter in most places?
You run the risk when trying to say two issues, which many people consider separate, are related that you will just battle harden the opposing side. This is not a healthy article for discussion on either issue.
What language would you suggest be used instead of the word "rape"?
"The intent of that remedy is to wean the programmer off of using a debugger and to executing the code mentally."

good point.
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Computer hardware will always be limited by the software that programmers write for it.
Mozilla doesn't have the same leverage as other players to push their browser. Apple has OS X and iOS to push Safari, Microsoft has with Windows the most popular desktop OS to promote IE and Google can use its search domination and Android to advertise and push Chrome. Mozilla tries to create its own mobile platform with Firefox OS and I hope they succeed with that, because they can use all the leverage.
I really like Firefox. It's fast and stable, has some very useful plug-ins, it's well supported and I trust Mozilla more than the big 3. That last bit may be naive, I know.
That's not rape. Rape is sexual intercourse without consent.
Edited to clarify. Oral sex without consent is also rape. Threatening to fire someone unless they give them a BJ is sexual harassment.
I agree that there was no actual SWATing in Cernovich's case. He has been reported to the LAPD (probably several times) for harassment. However he has been doxxed, and I don't know how you're saying none of it was done by Quinn. Quinn has 52K followers on twitter. I think I can conclude that her tweets are widely read. And she has repeatedly publicized dox articles. Does that make her any less guilty than actually writing those articles herself? And Quinn herself admits that doxxing and SWATing are a package deal. SWATings are usually initiated as an anonymous tip, "stranger's actions", as you put it in a different context. I don't know how the law works in the US, but if it were up to me, I'd hold the doxxer responsible for it.

The Guardian article is probably right in naming baphomet (on 8chan), but then follows it up with some very shady language to link it with KiA. I have visited baphomet a few times, and they seem to be doing their own thing, whatever that may be.

As far as I know, Reddit has very strict policies in place to discourage doxxing (except on r/doxme). KotakuInAction, the one you called gamergate's organizing site, cannot be involved in doxxing. Though I'm not a regular reader, I visit it every few weeks to see what they're up to. Not only have I not seen any doxxing there, I have seen threads discouraging such behavior. Also see their Rule #2: "This is the quickest way to a ban, not just from us, but the Reddit admins. Seriously, don’t do it. Take every effort to ensure that your posts do not include any personal information, especially in screenshots."
I've heard men in the tech space who I would normally have considered very nice people say extremely sexist / homophobic / transphobic things. When I've called them out on it, they've been surprised that anyone was offended. As I've said, otherwise really nice guys, but they seem to have just thought such comments were acceptable in the context of the 'community'. Strange stuff.
>And doesn't anyone notice just how wrong whole concept of studying for an interview is?

This has been going on for ages. A lot of coding bootcamps and similar things are just interview prep programs. A lot, I mean a lot, of people I have worked with can nail interviews but can't do real work for shit.

Unfortunately to land a job, you have to go through this process. Developing interview skills is parallel to being able to do actual work.
"I have been raped by a colleague — not just once, but several times over months."

As much as I want to read this as hyperbole it doesn't look like that's the case. I guess it may be because I consider myself a level-headed person, and have (to the best of my knowledge) never even interacted with someone that vicious.

A person like that doesn't deserve just to be reprimanded. They should be in jail.
Can you clarify what sort of coercion was involved? My understanding is that rape does involve physical violence, or at least physical coercion. In particular, "give me a blowjob or you are fired" is not rape, but "give me a blowjob or I'm not unlocking the door" is.
a) One can also use referer to check whether a visitor has come from Google to trigger the deletion (in addition to "seek itself in Google").

b) robots.txt shall get the same results, plus, no cached content at Google, unlike "deleting itself", which the cache content remains at Google.
The separate search bar is for privacy reasons. Mozilla doesn't want to send all key presses in the url bar to a search engine, yet search suggestions are useful enough to show them when users actually want to search.
The existence of bias isn't an "irrational" thing to believe in; in fact it's provable through science, and has been in an innumerable amount of cases (websearch "bias study"; if you want, I have access to university resources where I can give you full studies PDFs.)
That's right. See:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/12/quantum-teleportation-dem...

And if you really want to understand in general what is going on, read this:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf
1. I like the idea here, I'm hearing impaired myself and like what you're trying to do with the app but I don't like the idea of sending private conversation across the network in clear view. What's your privacy policy?

2. What's with the name? That's not really a good name to focus on the core thing that deaf people can't do. How about a more positive name that shows what they CAN do.

"How to communicate with the deaf people?" was your question when you develop the app and your answer "let's release an app that clearly focuses on their disability by naming it, iCantHear".

If you wanted to release an app to help the blind people, you're going to name it "iCantSee", right?
> he frequently came out with scary-harsh messages that had little relation to reality, like being worried about who he asked to help carry heavy equipment

That's "scary-harsh?"

Fact: women are not as strong as men. It's not even a question.

Go look at weightlifting records, if you don't believe that. Even elite, lifelong female powerlifters max out at weights that a man in the same weight class can throw up for reps with just a moderate amount of training.

Disclaimer: I believe everything else cited in the article is absolutely horrible, but this particular thing is not.
I'm in my 30s, no degree, my career is in infrastructure/sysadmin/networking/management, doing devops now. I've done datataking for a detector at the LHC, managed datacenters, etc. Not having a degree has never been a problem.
I'm sure that as a heterosexual man, regardless of my financial circumstances, no one could coerce me into giving blowjobs under the threat of losing my job. I'd quit and take my chances. What am I missing here?
(I do. If anyone's interested, I made a little site you can play a casual game of Go; no complexity to getting started, since play is by email correspondence:

http://go.davepeck.org/

The sources are at https://github.com/davepeck/game-of-go under the MIT license -- I have a long list of things I'd love to work on if I could find the time.)
I don't really want to be the one to speak authoritatively on this topic because I can only speak about a very personal subject that happened to me and about what a colleague of mine told me under very strict confidence. I'd rather see serious scientific study on the topic, so we can refine our efforts to most effectively cut out this problem at the root cause.

We know rape is statistically a problem and we know it isn't well-studied. We are scientists. The next thing to do is not to listen to panic and get reactionary, it is to dedicate the resources necessary to pursue a proper understanding of it.

We're also engineers and entrepreneurs. I'd like to think we know well enough that to start with the lowest hanging fruit when trying to make positive change.

These are the reasons I'm not really ready to march in here with a "how to fix rape: the article." I would be really excited to see what other people have written as far as possible solutions to this. I'm trying to read through scholarly criminology journals when I have time. They're doing some good work. I wish more smart people were paying attention.

In the meanwhile, what I am for sure is needed is for people to look out a little bit for each other, so if there is somebody in your life who has reason to feel afraid and alone (or afraid of being alone), they know they aren't going to be.
It's funny how the amount of FUD has shot up as the price has precipitously dropped:

* They're unreliable.

* The intermittency makes it impossible to use.

* It's unfair on the monopolistic power companies.
The author of the article doesn't seem to be judging Mozilla by the work they have done...
It's an interesting choice though. Wealth of parents is not a fair metric. But on the other hand, letting the demand-side have its pick of the lot and leaving the chaff to rot is wasteful and cruel.

I got to thinking about this a while back when learning about Patton. You could say he was born to be a general- a wealthy, military family, extensive military education. Most of the rest of the world, from the moment he was born, never had a chance to be what he was. But you can't give that lifetime of military education and training to everybody, and isn't that OK? You might like to be fair and give everyone the same chance, and maybe there's a guy out there who would have been even better with the same opportunity, but can we afford to do that?

It's a similar story with racing drivers and many athletes.

Edit: It occurs to me one can point to the failure of communism to determine how many potatoes should be grown, as a reason why we should not try to predict the number of professors that will be needed. I'm not sure where to go from here. Perhaps the next question is, have we gotten in the way of the invisible hand, the traditional savior from this kind of problem? If so, what next?
That is not consent.
I think that filtering is only one of many important factors, many of which are interrelated. An elite school's imprimatur, for example, can more easily convince clients and even internal management of an employee's competence.

Filtering alone doesn't explain why those companies go 50% deep into the pool of Harvard graduates before considering the top 5% of UCLA grads.
Hello! Thank you so much for the feedback - well spotted, corrected those two issues.

As for your contest, were you not able to finalise it? We are taking a look at it right now!
Even if that's true, that's a lousy way to make a game (they should be fun first, right?).

I know first hand this sucks. I have a daughter who just a couple days ago had me to download the Oz Temple Run game. She was very disappointed that the main character was a boy, that only 1 of 4 available characters was a girl, and that the girl was the hardest to unlock. We aren't spending running on virtual currency, so odds she'll never get to play the game as a girl.
How diverse is your workplace? I think that a lot of the differences are not in the workplace culture, but how it is reported. I work in the US and I also have never seen anything like this (not that I would have necessarily seen it if it was common, but the same applies to you and other non-US commenter).
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Perhaps at the initial stage of analysis this situation is not "because of bias", but don't stop thinking after just one thought. Why are boys like that? (Ignoring the exception that would seem to have been made for Lara Croft.) Why are girls like that? Do you really think it's biology, or is there perhaps some cultural reason why one group of children would be somewhat comfortable undermining their identity while a different group cannot imagine doing so?
Every non-technical friend I have installed Chrome because "Google told them it was faster" from the link Google has on their site when you use a different browser or it is bundled with so much software.
Being reasonably sure that wouldn't happen at the next job.
I dump my coins in a jar when I get home and we have $1 and $2 coins (Australia). It's really not that big a deal having your minimum purchase price of things be $5. Your coin jar will get >$1000 in it reasonably quickly too which is nice ;)
this can happen

Yeah, it can happen by the Golden Horde, the Red Army in Berlin circa 1945, or Rotherdam/Oxfordshire imports.

But in realistic contexts is it possible? Is it possible that a woman can be raped at work? Sure. And not report it to the police? I guess. And continue working with her rapist? Umm... And then get raped again? And then not report it again? And then keep working there again? And then get raped again? Etc. Etc.

It's bullshit. Even Hollywood executives, island-owning venture capitalists, NFL players, and 1970s-era rock groups can't actually get away with this degree of abuse.

But to credit such abuse with beta male code jockeys? Bull.
The comments critiquing her research make me so sad. I don't think anyone wouldn't agree with her basic, essential point; Many, many more games have only a default male character.

It is interesting that often we don't see others' points of view until they're put in front of us. My entire life, I've played games with male defaults and never noticed the lack of females. Only when my 8 year-old girl said, "Why can't I play a girl?" did I realize it was an issue. Yikes!
The word 'rape' is being re-defined now. The definition is being expanded far beyond what we called rape 20 years ago. Feminists are trying to do this in order to call attention to sexual harassment, but it is backfiring. They will dilute the term to the point where violent rape is no longer seen as the uniformly more serious offense that it is.
Three years of practical software engineering at Lifelock (2012)
I did in fact say just that, in the comment you replied to I said:

"By the time all autos are switched to electric in 30 years"

You ignored what I said, and proceeded to tell me how the shift will take decades.
Besides Archive.org, there's also another reliable source for the second email: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/andy_tanenbaum
If building up the grid to support 500 million electric cars only costs trillions, it sounds like an order of magnitude easier than the batteries.
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> Even elite, lifelong female powerlifters max out at weights that a man in the same weight class can throw up for reps with just a moderate amount of training.

That's not a true statement. A quick look at the IPF female world records shows an unequipped lifter putting up a 230 kg squat at 107 kg body weight. That would be considered almost an elite lift for a male of the same weight class, which requires far more than "moderate" training.

Regardless, the main point of your post holds true.
I'm using a throwaway here since my normal account is my real name.

My mom went to Long Beach to meet my dad before they got married. He was returning from Vietnam at the end of the war. She was gangraped in a alley by about five guys.

My sister was raped by my cousin when she was 13 and we were on a camping trip. She is 40 years old now and after a night out crashed on a friends couch and woke up to him jerking off on her back (this was a few months ago).

Things like this happen a lot and shit like "I have never seen so it can't be true" are part of the reason why you barely ever hear of it.

If you have a mom and sister the odds are pretty good one of them have been raped.
Social bond with a woman who cheated?