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The parent's description above is rape. See for example the Wikipedia page:

> Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration perpetrated against a person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or against a person who is incapable of valid consent...

See: ...coercion, abuse of authority...

You don't think that it was rape, but that is part of the problem: people are always trying to redefine "rape" so it doesn't cover this or that particular flavor of it. But if it is sex without consent, it's rape, period.

I reference Wikipedia not because it is an unassailable authority, but because it represents the lowest common denominator of what most people agree on.
Are these public schools with 3x tuition increases or private schools?
Thanks for your concern :). I was motivated to post this after 8 years of frustration at IRS and other's failure to act.

I've contacted IRS numerous times on this subject and they've indicated to no concrete plan and timeline to act decisively.

In their defense - there are some quick and easy checks they could implement tomorrow, but the most definitive one is would be to check the W-2 the taxpayer enters vs. the W-2 they receive from the taxpayer's employer. The problem with this is - IRS doesn't receive the W-2 from the employer until after most refunds are issued. When they've pressed for it, small business owners and payroll providers push back hard, throwing out the "overreaching government" accusation.
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That's a great anecdote.

I look forward to seeing the results of your research at a level at least as detailed as that performed by the 12 year old author of the article, to see how well the subjective recollection of your recent experience matches with objective data.
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According to a random google search, 39 percent of workers have engaged in some sort of office romance. So you can bet there's quite a lot of touching going on - hopefully most of it consensual, almost certainly some of it not, and with plenty of grey areas in between.
You bring up a good point, but the law is very clear and intentional (in illinois).

"Uses force or the threat of force." It means that even if you decline you have no choice but to have sex with them. You will be forced to. In the white-collar situation, you can say no, even if you don't want to.
Love Dropwizard! Here's the notes on what's new in the March 5 release. Can anyone summarize the best bits?

http://dropwizard.github.io/dropwizard/0.8.0/docs/about/rele...
Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.

- Woody Guthrie
Do subsidized projects such as Tesla earn any returns for the government?
Many, probably most, other men in the firm, and your local industry, would rally to your defense.

Often the opposite happens to a woman who accuses a senior manager of sexual assault.
> Every large city (>1M people) will almost certainly have communities of people who share your culture or at least tolerate and support it.

That is not enough. There need to be companies willing to hire. Those companies spring around where there is more talent so they don't have to relocate everyone. Where is more talent? Around more companies. It is a feedback loop. Network effect is probably the correct phrase here.

Unless large tech companies perhaps move their main offices or open large offices around these Midwest or Southern cities the situation will not change. But do we see Google, Facebook, Apple moving their HQ to Cleveland, or Memphis?
There's a much simpler definition of "rape" as "being coerced into having sex that you do not want to have." It, of course, is not the present legal definition of rape. But it's something that's easy to talk about and to use in conversation.

In other words, the point is that sex is put into a separate sphere of activity from other ordinarily-pleasant experiences and given a dignity which is not special to those other activities. (This is not particularly tendentious: most cultures have, say, hygeine laws which are important to follow but it's hard to identify the exact reason "why". Egg on your face is "dirty". Will it hurt anyone or cause you to contract or spread disease etc.? No. But it's still dirty and it's still important in our culture.)

The gap from sexual harassment to rape is therefore not, say, violence, but the escalation from uncouth groping to uncouth sex. The fact that there is a narrative where she looks out upon her options and says, "okay, I will fearfully give this man a blowjob rather than give him the middle finger and prepare for joblessness" -- one where she somehow rationally "chooses" sex as her "best option" -- is moot if sex is fundamentally privileged by the society you're a part of. The problem is that the "rape" has essentially happened (it's happened as a conspiracy, say), by the time that that "choice" has to be made.
What is your definition of rape?
>I'd note that she complains about games where the protagonist has no identifiable gender, or is an animal

I'd note that she doesn't complain about this.

She simply mentions the data because it is relevant to the overall research she is doing.
> I also find it "interesting" that the tech industry seems to have replaced the finance industry (whose shenanigans put the West into recession) as the focus of media critique.

Guess who's the next group of rich people thinking their bubble's never going to pop?
I'm not an expert in taxation, but corporate taxes are just one piece of the pie. There is no way for employees to avoid income tax, and as far as I know, no way for US based shareholders to avoid paying capital gains/dividends taxes.
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Oh, I didn't mean it had never been posted before. I meant that none of the previous posts received significant attention or discussion. Sorry for not being clear.
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Am I wrong for thinking it sounds really antisocial for girls to have sleepover and then play on their phones? When I have a kid I really don't want them to be exposed to mindless consumption but it sadly seems like it's not going to be possible unless they're home schooled. At the very least, they're getting a very locked down smart phone.
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HDF5 is mostly a storage format. It's not what he's looking for because it doesn't meet the requirements of a database.

For example, only one process at a time can open an HDF5 file for writing.
I built exactly the database that you are describing here. Unfortunately it is not open source. However it is no secret that we used sqlite for the storage. Inserts and queries in sqlite are fast, even for databases with billions of rows. Deletes are very, very slow, so we created a new sqlite database for each week, and simply deleted an entire database file when the retention period expired. Sqlite is ACID, supports all of the complex queries that could be imagined and is easy to embed into the overall engine code base. We use aggregate tables to more efficiently display common aggregations of the data (e.g. graph metric over the last day, or average metric over the last date). The aggregates were updated as data was inserted, so that real-time views were always available.
"The biggest problem is the persistent and incorrect belief that applied mathematicians (CS majors) can easily learn the skils needed to engineer complex systems as they go (or, worse, that said skills are trivial or even irrelevant compared to the ability to recite textbook DS/Algorithms trivia) and that they are also able to adequately determine the capabilities of other similarly trained persons to do the same mainly by relying on textbook test problems (albeit sometimes with a twist)"

thank you for this golden nugget. its like thinking you can build the best basketball team by getting the most athletic looking players, except much worse. i guess the conventional wisdom is that good software engineers are like mathematicians, but in my experience they are more like craftsmen, like a cabinet maker or ship builder. i suppose its contextual to the software problem, but analytical, deductive aptitude, while helpful, seems to pale in comparison to what i consider the craft (consistent style, naming, testing, pacing, working together and communicating, effective editor and shell use, knowing how the fuck to use git, etc) which have very little to do with analytical, deductive aptitude.
Is investing in a company like exxon a good proxy for oil price?
> per tab processes [...] are still nowhere to be seen.

Electrolysis (separate content processes) is available now in Nightly, and "The e10s team estimates e10s with a single content process will be enabled in Firefox Release by the end of 2015."

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis
Not the same.

The GameGenie/GameShark/ActionReplay scene was much more accessible than hacking .apk files and jailbreaking mobile devices. I was messing with those devices even before I decided on a CS major. And it was as simple as just having one stray thought "What happens if I change this number?"
In contrast, you don't just decide "What happens if I open this apk file up and change such and such?" How many people even know that the apk files are just zip files to start with? Then you get into decompile the files or hex-editor or whatever... but none of that is accessible as just randomly entering a different number in the GameGenie interface that's presented to you immediately.
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There is a huge difference between founding a startup in the midwest and being an engineer in the midwest. I believe that gets lost in a lot of the rhetoric from both sides. I love hiring engineers in the midwest. Consistently great work ethics, etc, etc.

On the other hand, if you're an entrepreneur, you don't live in SF and you're building a consumer internet startup, you're fucked. Primarily because your access to capital is so limited it's ridiculous. Most people that live in the midwest aren't able to put in the time required to build out the relationships needed to successfully fundraise in the Valley.
> cocaine fueled parties filled with hookers that seem to regularly emerge from the world of finance.

Your finance industry stereotypes are about 30 years out of date. Wall Street is way less flagrant about their excess these days.

Meanwhile, in tech... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titstare
Very serious issue, but your first point is silly. While the absence of coercion does not clear the bar for "not rape", it does not follow that being unable to declare "not rape" equals "rape".

In your world view, it it inappropriate for any sexual intercourse to exist between a person of power and a subordinate who might gain from a relationship? Because the conclusion of #2 seems to be that sexual relationships can only exist between social / workplace equals, otherwise it will be M.A.D.

Rape is very serious. Sexual relationships are very complex. Every situation is different, and there is nobody (famous) on this forum that knows all the facts and should comment on this case, and should especially not try to draw conclusions from it.

This is more of a comment about the thread in general than your response, except where I specifically asked questions.
I think your piece does a great job of highlighting the design principles behind React and friends, but in reality, I see nothing wrong with having your cake and eating it too: understand the principles but still use a battle-tested framework with a strong community around it. I don't see why everyone should reinvent the same abstractions. Your last sentence really nails it.

Great piece though. It's good for programmers to understand how powerful the concept can be of factoring state out of actions of your app.
When I was growing up, it was typical for your order to be fulfilled absurdly fast. Almost by the time the cashier finished making change the tray would be ready with your order.

Their just still built around that model and never figured out what to do for those waiting. It's a constant problem at other fast food places as well. Taco bell, chickfila etc.
I suppose it depends on what the word 'rape' is to you. To me it is a word in the English vernacular which has a certain meaning to everyday people. To me preserving that lexical meaning is super important because it fosters a common understanding between people which is the primary thing.

The word or concept has nothing to do with jurisprudence or the idea of jurisdiction which is what many people here keep referencing. A word still holds it's proper definition in the minds of men and it is prudent to defend them as such irregardless of what goes on within government.
As a native Clevelander I can fully back this piece. I came back to Cleveland upon graduating college in May and have not regretted my decision one bit. While the resources are nowhere as easy to come by as in the Valley there still is a great startup community that's been building over the past few years. The cheap cost of living, beautiful seasons and plethora of things to do year-round have me recruiting college friends to come join me instead of vice versa.
i bet there is a little bit of interviewer insecurity going on. "look how hardcore we are, we act like this is normal and we solve problems like this every day"

when i run in to an interview like this, it tells me i dont want to work with these people.
I was going to add a comment at the end about how I fear that I may be fighting a losing battle against socioeconomic feedback loops.

That's profoundly sad to me though. Concentrating all of the technological revolution's talent and wealth in a few cities will have bad effects on the rest of the country.
I'd be curious if the content of these posts is genuinely worse than the things they say to each other with boring old human speech.

Just because the awful-ness isn't normally shouted into a megaphone, doesn't mean it's not there. My high school shortened the lunch break because of how horrible the girls were being to each-other when they had free time. Not effective of course.
I feel a lot of the same feelings the author felt while doing his undergrad, and it's nice to know other people feel the same way about their geographic location.

I'm also from Ohio and completing my undergrad, and considering where to possibly move for a career. (If that means much at all)
This is why the term "slippery slope" is so common in the legal profession. If financial consequences = coercion = rape then there is a huge range of situations that can now be cast under the cloud of rape, such as relationships where one person is financially dependent on the other.

Fortunately some states have laws that specifically define and criminalize sexual extortion. It's distinct from rape / sexual assault but it is a felony.
Yes. This is just the sound of the free market telling you to get a different job.
More like the Saudis are driving the price down partly in order to inflict damage on the Iranians, with whom they are engaged in something close to a cold war, but mostly to choke out the high cost producers in the US and make future investments in that sector look very risky.

There is definitely a strong destabilizing effect on Russia, Iran, and Venezuela at the very least.
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Pennsylvania the 33rd largest state. It is definitely not a large state by western standards. I guess if you consider NYC the center of the universe then maybe it's the Midwest, but as a Midwesterner (from Minneapolis) I'm not really feeling that.
I don't think the assumption is that all the users are male... it seems to me a lot of the assumption is that "girls are more likely to pay for a character change than boys" which may or may not be correct, without actual data.

That said, I feel that most (not all) apps with in-game purchases are pretty sleazy.
Not to mention, what actually makes money is AdWords...
#2 of the recommendations at the end (correction without punishment when appropriate) is an excellent point that I've rarely/never seen discussed in articles like this. It reminds me of a past job where a friend of mine silently put up with (relatively low-level) harassment because she didn't want to get the guy pilloried.

I think one confounding issue with sexism in tech is that companies find it so uncomfortable to talk about that they shy away from real analysis - adopting whatever policy comes to mind without seriously examining what the root cause was and whether they're addressing it.

The only solution is cogent discussion, like this excellent article.
A successful game company would be in constant engagement with their user base, asking them about their favorite characters, etc.
Poor girl. I really hope she has the strength and support necessary to survive the inevitable barrage of criticism, anger, threats and hate that gets directed at females speaking out on topics like this.
I got 7/8, one of the game scores got me.

I'm a writer, so it's reassuring I'm able to tell the difference even in something so trivially short as game scores, and I don't follow a single sport.
Accounting usually tends to trail events. That's not a bad thing. More problems come from valuations of future events.

Oil may go up tomorrow. The short-term price is driven more by political events than drilling activity.
Even backbone isn't worth the added complexity IMO.

All these frameworks make you write more code than needed... and because people started to feel it wasn't worth it, their latest pitch focuses on speed. They say the "virtual DOM" is the future, and if you're not diffing your state to re-render the DOM you're not a serious developer.

I still don't see the benefit. I've written 15k lines of javascript code in some apps. My components have state and I re-render as needed, and as long as you separate code between components it's fine.

How many times have you been using a js app and thought "wow this DOM is slow?" You don't. It's either 0.1 sec or 0.2 sec to re-render the whole component/widget. 99.9% of the time a website is slow because the server requests take too long. Every once in a while you'll see some crazy CSS3 animations that make things unresponsive.

The people who go on about having a virtual DOM run benchmarks on thousands of elements... I don't know about you, but I'm never rendering thousands of elements at a time. Ajax/pagination works fine for extra data. I did write a very simple template system and event management system... but I'd rather do that than add the complexity of a framework. Dealing with a framework to make things work in "the X way" is wasting everyone's time. And then the next Angular or whatever comes along... and everyone wastes more time learning the latest version. This has turned into a rant... but I just want to say I'm happy as a coder who avoids frameworks at all costs. At the same time I try to use as many libraries as possible. Libraries save time, frameworks waste time.
Do you work/live in Columbus? I graduated from OSU in 2012 and it's great to hear on HN other people who feel the city is exciting.
Any evidence that she didn't do it on purpose to destroy the guy after he didn't want to leave wife for her?

Remember, male weapon might be brute force, but it's not like Mother Nature didn't empower women in millions of years of the evolution process. Females are masters of social manipulation. And 99% of the time this isn't a bad thing. The same way that 99% of the time this isn't bad that male is physically strong. The problem is 1% of those who abuse.

In other words ask your lawyer friend what are the guy chances of she started giving her boss sexual favors then demanded he divorces wife. And as this doesn't happen, she starts her big time drama about being raped. No evidence what so ever. Just her word that she was raped by giving a head CS his that she wanted it.

Poor weak sex, hahaha... And you white knights clueless about social manipulators aka women. Grow up!
I did that (as a boy) back in the day too. Pack up the PC and bring it over to a friend. Even when playing single player games we still had the experience of being immediately together, able to talk directly and freely, and able to show/help each other stuff. I suppose that's just the modern version of that.
> 2) 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.

As a man, I may have a hard time understanding any nuances here, but I think being known as "the woman who called the police on her boss" would be highly advantageous in creating a filter where the only male bosses who would want to hire you are the ones who know they aren't going to rape you. Or try to fuck you "consensually" (air quotes) either.
I work with Baron, the author. He gave a talk recently at SCaLE[0] about our time series storage using MySQL. The slides[1] are also available in case you don't want to watch the entire talk.

[0] http://youtu.be/EoUfkkrIbPg

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/vividcortex/scaling-vividortexs-bi...
Interestingly in many games of the 90s...

- there were both genders more often (in, fact, i can name very few of the games I played that were male only... yeah DukeNukem for ex. I know a couple female only games, tho)

- when different genders were proposed it was OF COURSE for free. Now u gotta pay because u like a red hat better or what not.
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Is sex somehow fundamentally different than every* other act that it should be treated so differently?

* Every. If I used my power at work to make you eat a literal lunch of feces, is that more or less egregious? I know what my gut would say, but why? Isn't the core bad behavior the concept of abrogating another human's free will? Why is sex in this other classification?

Edit: put another way, why is it that being coerced into sex is much worse than being coerced into e.g., murder. Is it simply the frequency? (It doesn't seem like the issue is that the act is against a specific or particular gender/race/hate crime victim group, unless we're differentiating between "straight rape" or "gay rape", which is a moral hazard worth avoiding...)
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In Defense of Silicon Valley

1. World class food. There is no way you can get the same quality of chinese,japanese,korean,indian,french,italian,californian,thai,vietnamese in Cleveland.

2. People creating things in coffeeshops on the weekends, instead of wasting life watching TV or drinking beer. You only get one life in this great country.

3. It's not ice freezing cold

4. It's not superficial (like LA), not money worshipping (like NY), not power hungry (like DC), not gun/football crazy (like Texas), not corrupt (like Florida)

5. Diversity

6. Tech, Venture networks

7. Silicon Valley people are great people. The entrepreneurs are supportive of each other, since they know how much pain it is to start a company. The people who take risks moving across country to here are brave and adaptive and optimistic. (instead of rotting away on a couch in midwest complaining about lack of jobs)