skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That last part isn't naive at all. The last time all of the browsers were owned by private corporations, was called the browser wars, and we all know had bad that was for innovation and development.
Your comment reminded me of this story I read about a month back, which was pretty eye-opening to me as a male who's never been in a position to worry about these things:

http://jezebel.com/how-to-make-an-accused-rapist-look-good-1...

I'd known, intellectually, that a large fraction of rape is perpetrated by someone the victim knows and somewhat trusts. But the story here put concrete details to that and made me think. What do you do if someone you like, who you have been consensually involved with, takes advantage of you? What do you do if they had been, until then, your strongest support at a new school (or in a new job, or something), and social structures are that you're expected to keep working together? Is there even a better response than pretending it didn't happen, at least for a bit?

I'm also a little ashamed to say that, if I hadn't heard stories like this one and thought them through, I can see myself being the skeptical cop who says, well, why were you continuing to hang out with him and invite him over. And I'd known intellectually that skeptical cops were a problem that dissuaded reporting, and that it often was naïveté not malice, but never thought through what an actual case would look like.
Fun fact: bringing a lawsuit against your company is not good for feeling like you're going to be getting hired places later: especially since I believe (not completely sure) you can only sue for punitive damages.
I agree that there are lots of reasons that someone would make a site like this, but I think people are curious as to the maker's specific reason. From the github:

Why would you do such a thing? My full explanation was in the content of the site. (edit: ...which is now gone)

I'm curious as to what the website said originally.
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Edit: I'm wrong. Apparently coercion implies under threat. I Thought it just meant to convince someone of something. My apologies.
I dumped Firefox ages ago, when I first heard of Eich's hatred towards the gay and lesbian community.

It is inconceivable that his colleagues at Mozilla did not know about his bigoted beliefs and the financial support he gives to similarly bigoted organisations. Yet they decided he was the best person to run Mozilla, a company that only pays lip service to equal rights - clearly at the top levels of management it is a vile, homophobic, racist organisation.

There is no way I am using a homophobic web browser on any of my desktops, so off it went.

I now happily use Safari for my everyday browsing, knowing that Apple is in the safe hands of Tim Cook, a proud gay man who I admire greatly.
> unless maybe it turned out to be false

I'm assuming most of the people who have been sexually assaulted have no proof of the incident. So while it wouldn't necessarily "turn out to be false," there's a definite risk of people thinking that she was making the whole incident up for attention/out of spite/to get the other guy fired, etc. I think that's where the author's fear is coming from.
That, or they had a technical friend who laughed at them for using IE and told them to use Chrome.
This is definitely a good to remind everyone about what girlhood entails in the Western/English-speaking world. First some articles on games and then some general articles:

Games for Girls? - http://thehussingtonpost.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/games-for-gi...

Little girls deserve better than to be told to make themselves sexy - http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/jan...

Girls, Boys, Feminism, Toys: Deborah Siegel and Rebecca Hains Discuss - http://thesocietypages.org/girlwpen/2014/01/14/girls-boys-fe...

Hers; The Smurfette Principle - http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/07/magazine/hers-the-smurfett...

What it’s like being a teen girl - http://web.archive.org/web/20140820073431/http://sodisarming...

teenage girls: "...they haven’t been living, they’ve been performing." - http://www.metafilter.com/121190/teenage-girls-they-havent-b...

‘I’m not a pilot, I’m a pilot’s wife,’ says 3 yr old girl - http://reelgirl.com/2013/11/im-not-a-pilot-im-a-pilots-wife-...

Sexism 'is daily reality' for girls - http://www.bbc.com/news/education-25138455

Womanhood, girlhood and shared exclusion - http://glosswatch.com/2013/12/16/womanhood-girlhood-and-shar...

“Is my son smart?” “Is my daughter skinny?” Google Searches Reveal Parents’ Gender Biases http://rebeccahains.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/is-my-son-smart...

What Do Little Girls Really Learn from “Career” Barbies? - http://peggyorenstein.com/blog/what-do-little-girls-really-l...

Report: Many girls view sexual assault as normal behavior - http://www.salon.com/2014/04/14/report_many_girls_view_sexua...

Cosmetic surgery and teenagers – a disaster waiting to happen - http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/apr...
Eich resigned less than two weeks after being made CEO after the outcry from both outside and within Mozilla.

Mozilla isn't homophobic. They put him in that position because they thought he was the best candidate - clearly they were wrong, but I expect this is a Hanlon's razor case.

I was saddened that he was made CEO, but he was only CEO for a very brief period and Mozilla has learned its lesson.

(Speaking as an LGBT person myself)
We didn't put Gitorious to shut down the project. Gitorious was no longer sustainable.

We don't move projects because we don't want to move them to a new organization and url without explicit consent. We're working with archive.org to make sure nothing is lost.
:( Thanks for sharing.
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"they've been surprised that anyone was offended"

What did they say?
From one heterosexual man to another, surely we can see that we're in a different situation than this woman was. Also,

> Young associate worked for this partner

I don't know how the legal profession works. But:

1. It's quite likely that leaving firm as a young associate carries a huge negative connotation. In other words, her choices might not have been "give a blowjob" or "quit and find another job." It might have been more like "give a blowjob" or "quit and find another job, and maybe not find another job because there's this huge negative on her resume."

2. The law profession has a reputation for being quite chummy. If she had quit over this harassment, even if she filed no charges then it's quite possible that this partner would have gone on the offensive to discredit her character to other influential people.
It's interesting. When I first started using computers it was to play games, and in those days the only way to play those games was to either type up the BASIC code by hand, or learn the incantations to load the programs from disk or tape. In either case, you needed to (rote) learn some technical skills to have a bit of fun.

In retrospect, I see I was lucky enough to come into computing at exactly the right time. When I was young I was capable of understanding (practically) my entire computer system, because those systems were so simple. As the complexity increased, so did the depth of my understanding. Today, I understand most of what my computer does (the most important parts, at least).

What a tough road it must be for a newcomer to cope with all this complexity, the very complexity I have literally spent my whole life learning.
You bring up a useful point (and I upvoted you back out of the grey because of it), though I think I disagree with where you're going with it. There is simply no such thing as meaningful consent when someone is intoxicated.

Someone else brought up the idea of "grey area sex", with the example of two intoxicated parties. This happens enough between willing participants that we can't simply wave it away as "never OK, always rape", but we also can't say that just because a person was too drunk to say no that they can't have been raped (as more than a few people in positions of power have said or implied, even in this decade).

Anyway, my concern with waving away this situation ("they were both drunk") as being not rape (or both parties being in the wrong), is that it can and is used by people who want to victimize others without consequence. I've known a man who used this approach; it eventually came out that he'd used the tactic on a number of occasions to rape several of our mutual friends. His modus operandi was to encourage heavy drinking or drug use, isolate the woman (to "take care of her" or "make sure she gets home OK"), and then have sex with her, whether she was willing or not. When questions were raised by his male friends about stuff like this, he would wave it off with a "I don't really remember, we were both so wasted", and his male friends would shrug and say, "Oh, OK, I guess shit happens." It took an organized effort by women in our social circle to put a stop to it.

I think what makes this hard to grasp for most men is that most men don't want to do this. Most men want to have sex with people who reciprocate the feeling. So, when a woman comes forward and says, "This happened to me. A man did this to me." A lot of men process that first through their lens of, "I would never do that. I can't believe she says men do stuff like that. This can't be true!"

I've rambled way off topic of your comment, I guess. Sorry about that. My mind is kinda a maelstrom of competing thoughts and trying to understand the mindset that leads to some of the comments in this thread, and also trying to figure out how to make my thoughts more clear to people who are so clearly at odds with where my head is at on the issue.
Perhaps it would be more useful to talk about a female boss or being a homosexual male if you're going to try and wrap your mind around this.
Cassandra seems like a good fit.

Writes are faster than read, it's an AP, and you shouldn't really update frequently it unless you want tombstone hell. There's also TTL too.

Is there any cons of using Cassandra as a Time Series Database? I'd like to hear it.

The biggest thing for Cassandra is you should know your queries before hand before you data model.
See? This is what I mean. I'm sure the parent poster is generally a nice person, but while they make what I'm certain they believe is an innocent comment, they claim a) women are less suited for technical careers (which has no basis in fact and is sexist as hell), b) suggest that women should "not complain" because by complaining they only cause men to reject them even more, but then c) on the flip-side say that if a woman is being harassed or raped they should call the police (which is certainly going to end their career if even talking about it is a no-no), and finally d) if there is a problem, I have nothing to do with it and should have no responsibility for it (which has all sorts of negative historical connotations).

All of these statements are questionable but were presumably made in good faith, by what I assume to be a reasonable person. That's the curious thing about all of this.
Forced oral sex is also by definition rape. And is it consent, despite performing a sexual act, if a "no" causes you severe harm (in this case financial/career harm) and you truly didn't want to do that sexual act, but you acted out of fear and coercion?
Consent when being coerced?
My understanding is that rape does involve physical violence, or at least physical coercion.

You're missing the threat of violence.
Forced oral sex is considered rape. This isn't feminist redefinition. You think if a gun is to your head and you give a blowjob that is sexual harassment? Think about someone who has a family and needs their income, and what this kind of situation puts them in.
> heterosexual man, regardless of my financial
> circumstances, no one could coerce me into giving
> blowjobs under the threat of losing my job

What about the slightly older and attractive female manager asking you to give her a shoulder rub that gets progressively more sexual each time she asks you to do, and that you get progressively more uncomfortable doing? Would you quit the first time she told you she had a sore shoulder, and asked you to stick your elbow in it? What about the third time when she takes her shirt off, and another coworker has been joking to you about how she likes you, and how you're a lucky guy?

Yes as a hetro guy you're going to have trouble imagining a situation where you end up with a penis in your mouth, but I suspect with a bit of imagination you can think of how you might end up in a very uncomfortable situation with a female boss that you don't feel you can get out of.
Would that make it OK here? If it happened any less anywhere else? Would that make you want to fight against a thing that was wrong any less?

I feel like we all joined this community because we thought we could change stuff.
Inability to comprehend pointers

Inability to determine the order of program execution

I don't think that pointers or mutable variables are important, when you are a pure functional or logic programmer.
The "hackability" (and decrease thereof) isn't something exclusive to games - just look at what happened to the UIs of popular programs like browers, for example. Everything is becoming hidden away and more difficult to configure.

In contrast to the many menus and dialogs we had before that encouraged users to explore and customise, it seems that apps now are far more opaque to the point that many users don't even realise some things are options that can be changed.

That ecosystem isn't just unavailable in mobile games, but would probably be hated by many companies who want full control over their product

Perhaps it's a bit of a stretch, but I think the whole "war on general-purpose computing" has played some part in this too.
Reduce the barrier. Make your boss an attractive woman, who over the course of months goes from asking you to rub her shoulders to release stress to holding her breasts. And now consider that perhaps you are in a committed relationship with someone else.

At some point you crossed the line of acceptable intimacy (probably rather early) and it escalated from there as you were uncertain how to deal with the relationships.

Is it cold hard rape? No. Is it an unacceptable and illegal exploitation of power and psychological torment by the boss? Yes.
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I feel like we're talking about different things...

Continuous refactoring IS focusing on quality, it IS managing complexity. I think you've seriously misunderstood Deming if you think he stood for "Do it perfect from the start". The whole Kaizen philosophy is built on continuous improvement and elimination of waste (redundant code)

I'm not saying do a week/month/year of crappy coding and then "fix it later". Refactor continuously and as often as needed. Writing code is research.

The cost of refactoring is the greatest when you've done it too seldom. Otherwise with the right tools it's pretty efficient these days.

I see larger dangers in doing up front architect astronauting and make decisions before you've internalized all the problems.

For complex project it's of course appropriate to gather requirements, limitations etc and make a rough design, but going into too much detail is setting the cart before the horse... IMHO of course.
Recently came across Prometheus (http://prometheus.io)

There's also OpenTSDB (http://opentsdb.net) that's been around for a while.
Why not use Photosynth
Rape is not just sexual intercourse. But all of these comments do raise an important point. We have so many variations on killing someone (murder, manslaughter) and assaulting someone. Rape is calling out for 3 or 4 definitions so that a) Men don't hear the word and compare it to a violent movie scene in an alley and if it doesn't hold up to comparison dismiss it and b) Police and prosecutors would be more likely to prosecute knowing they could win. In the US we created "vehicular manslaughter" because no jury would convict a drunk driver of "murder" given that out of a jury of 12 more than half have driven a car drunk one time so murder was too much.
Only thing I use chrome for is netflix and web testing. Otherwise it is Firefox all the way baby!
Massively offtopic, but powerlifting records (http://www.usapowerlifting.com/records/national-championship...) support that yes, elite female powerlifters top out at what would be considered a rep weight for a male lifter in the same weight class.
I thought Eich chosen to step down.
Caches and Lisp: faster list processing via auto-rearranging memory (2003) [pdf]
It simply is not rape. It's sexual harassment.

There is a concerted attempt now to characterize sexual harassment as rape. The person we are replying to did it in an off-hand manner and it is wrong - not just as a point of law but as a strategy for social change.
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The difference is that online, it is entirely optional.
No I meant that I wouldn't have given two shits who he asked to carry heavy stuff. I'll edit it to make that more clear.
Why do you indicate "men" as "males", but "women" as "women" and not "females"? Seems odd.
I don't intend to tell anyone what to do nor to solve women's problems. I explained why I felt disconnected with a part of the article and had questions.

About the "women in XXX" part, I don't know if it's really a good way to put the problem. There is no simple way of putting it of course, but I think women face the same kind of problems in the fashion, movie, music, tv, press, politics, car, construction industry. Basically anywhere power massively concentrates in the hand of men I think.

If tech became a safe haven for women getting out of the other industries that could be great, but problems of women in tech could as well be solved from a more global perspective. Getting raped is awful in any industry, and I don't know if there is any solution that is only relevant to the tech fields.
I'm not talking about world records - I'm talking about typical numbers that get put up in competition.
Which part of "consent" is confusing to you?
The former is most definitely rape.

We call sexual coercion rape because it can cause severe and lasting trauma even if physical violence or threat of physical violence is not part of the coercion.
I really enjoy playing go. I found the online platforms burdensome and poor at matching me with beginners of similar experience. For years I've imagined Go bringing the world closer together through a platform that combines use of a physical board with Internet connectivity. Playing in person is so much more gratifying.

if anyone would like to simulate this experience together we can Skype play
> I can't help but think this is a problem in america and not a problem in tech. Over here (UK) I've never seen or heard of anything like this.

I asked a friend why she wasn't going to Linux.conf.au. She stopped going after she was sexually assaulted at one.

It's not just a US problem.
I don't know that it is more common in tech because I have only worked in tech. Does that make it OK in tech if it happens everywhere else too? Would that make you want to fix it any less if you knew it was wrong that it happened everywhere?
No I'm not talking about a disorder or any kind of mental illness. I'm saying that a woman's experience with comments about her appearance makes her view them completely differently than a man would.

> Unfortunately, it's impossible for me to know if someone is dealing with that, and I'm also not going to walk around in life assuming every woman has PTSD and could be triggered by an honest complement.

You should actually assume a woman doesn't want you to comment on her appearance.

> It may be triggering but it still is absolutely not sexual harassment.

The EEOC does a good job of defining what [harassment](http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/harassment.cfm) and [sexual harassment](http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm) are. Importantly:

"Harassment is unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information."

Basically, you can't separate out, "Hi [woman], you look great in that dress" from "Hi [woman], that dress makes me sexually attracted to you'. That's an unwelcome sexual advance. And since you can't separate them out, you ought to stay away from them altogether. You don't have the right to say whatever you want to someone. There are lines, and comments about a woman's appearance are on the wrong side of them.
I don't think there's a particular reason to believe this is significantly worse in tech than it is elsewhere (although if this I'm wrong, I'd definitely appreciate being corrected on this). But there are a few things I'd say:

- Tech has this particular weird cultural self-view that we all see ourselves and each other as middle-school nerds emerging victorious, as people who got past the bullies and the ills of "normal people" society, as people who were friendless (and dateless) in school but have found our own little environment now where we can be accepted as we are. So there's a tendency to think that we're not capable of the same sort of awfulness, and that we're better people than the other industries. There's a tendency, subconsciously, to think that if someone's saying something bad about any of our people, they're no better than our middle school bullies. We need to get over that and admit that the tech industry is like any other industry.

- On a different and simpler note, tech is our industry. I don't have nearly as much say about the culture of, say, big law firms or furniture design studios, than I do about the culture of companies where I work and where I might consider working.

Regarding Google, did you see this discussion, which was on the HN home page yesterday? https://plus.google.com/+KellyEllis/posts/L4wawXpNt25
I've used both terms interchangeably in several comments in this thread. I wouldn't read anything into it.
"MS. SOMMERS: I interviewed a young women at the University of Pennsylvania who came in in a short skirt and she was in the Women's Center, and I think she thought I was one of the sisterhood.And she said, 'Oh, I just suffered a mini-rape.' And I said, 'What happened?' And she said, 'A boy walked by me and said, `Nice legs'.'You know? And that -- and this young woman considers this a form of rape!" - http://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript132.html

"psychological rape" - http://www.avoiceformalestudents.com/wp-content/uploads/2014...

"For some females the trauma of eve teasing is almost equivalent to a mini rape which leads to depression and suicide." - http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/for-some-women-eveteas...

"the little rapes" - http://www.avoiceformalestudents.com/wp-content/uploads/2013...

"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated." - http://books.google.it/books?id=rxE8FQzjpYMC&pg=PA82&lpg=PA8...
Wait a minute.... do people actually do that? Do co-workers ask each other for massages and/or rub their shoulders?! I've never heard of that, ever. Inform me please. How often does this happen? I've always though the "unspoken rule" of the office is nobody touch anyone else, ever. I've never seen that rule violated except for people who've known each other for a good while, and it's usually 2 heterosexual guys punching each other in the arm.

Has anyone on HN seen a coworker give another coworker a massage?

I'm even a bit hesitant to give people high-fives. And those emotional goodbyes where you hug employees on their last day in the office? Those are very awkward for me, but everyone else is doing it... so... I just go along. =/
I especially hate IDE features that don't have a corresponding plaintext representation that you can edit. For example, a graphical layout editor which saves data into a binary blob that then requires a special merge tool which is only available in the IDE.
The amount of downvotes I've got on the above comment really speaks volumes about the problem. It is shameful to me that I can get downvotes on a comment that suggests people actively listen to women.