skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly don't understand why this is surprising or problematic. Working to get Democrats elected is the purpose of the DNC. They aren't some disinterested third party. Of course they have memos on how to help Hillary Clinton run for office. And I'm sure they go further back than 2015 too. I'd hope they'd do that for many Democrats, but I'd be shocked if they didn't do tons of work to help someone as prominent as HRC.

> favoritism in a party primary

Do the documents show that or are you inferring it based on what hasn't been leaked?

Even if we grant that the DNC leadership thinks Hillary is the best... so what? It's a political party that takes public input from voters as one factor in deciding a nominee. The DNC shouldn't stuff ballot boxes and should try it's best to make the primaries as fair as possible, but to pretend they don't have like some candidates more than others strikes me as unrealistic.
You're right. I hope they get there eventually - NuGet has a lot of attention at the moment due to it being a critical component of .NET Core.

Solution level repositories might go some way to fixing your last issue, see https://github.com/voltagex/junkcode/blob/master/CSharp/zzCo...
It's not justice when we put the victim on trial (As we do in most rape cases), but we do it anyway.
If you flipped this and asked all these people arguing that it's never ok to quit on the spot if it's fine to fire someone on the spot, do you think a single one would say no? Of course not. Employers wanted right-to-work laws to make it easier for them to fire workers at will; workers should feel free to return the favor and leave when and if they want.
Just growing the economy (as "economy" is currently defined) may well leave people less happy, with less access to services and infrastructure because the government has failed to keep up.

Just being in a "larger economy" may mean each person is burdened with more air pollution (e.g. China and India) and more crowded conditions than when the economy was smaller, while reducing access to various natural attractions (e.g. beaches, forests, open spaces).

Where are the economic models that take these sorts of economic costs to people into account?

I'm often surprised so many people are persuaded to embrace various policy positions by general statements to the effect of "studies say this increases GDP."

As in the old saying "War is much too important to be left up to the generals", it seems the economy is too important to be left up to the economists.
As far as I know it remains controversial whether causality is a topic for philosophy or science (ie do any of our most successful physical laws require the concept of causality, I think not).

It irks me to see that term mixed into scientific discussions, because I am sure it will just be assumed that everyone knows what they mean by "casual" and accepts it as a useful scientific concept.
>That said, something about the tone of this blog post is utterly repellent to me and I'm struggling to put my finger on the reason why.

It may be b/c she's conflating "rockstar" with "asshole", begging the question are all tech rockstars assholes, and are all tech assholes rockstars? Her personal experience seems characterized by a preponderance of evidence in support of that, but others may not have the same experience.

She also seems to define rockstars as attention whores who don't actually get any real work done (in the section on how you recognize one), which is not the definition the HN crowd is used to (quite the opposite), and begs the question why are they rockstars? Coasting on a single past achievement maybe?
>>fundamental principle of the universe.

Fundamental principles of the universe also say heavier than air machines should be impossible.

FTL issue is the same thing. Its possible, it just won't happen in the way we might expect.
Most clients seem to respect the Reply-To header, but they're not required to [1], and some popular MS ones in particular seem to ignore it, at least in some cases [2, 3].

There are a bunch of arguments for avoiding "noreply" addresses in the first place [4, 5]. We started using our customer service email as the from/reply-to for password resets and other service emails, with good results.

But that's not a good option for messages you're sending on behalf of particular users... the replies are probably intended specifically for those users. I'm running into something similar with emailed invitations from my site, and have been thinking about ways to get the replies back to the user doing the inviting.

You could try something like:

From: "John Smith via ExampleCo" <replies+encoded-user-id@example.com>

where "encoded-user-id" is a signed and timestamped identifier that lets you identify your "John Smith" user, so you can forward the reply to them (or insert it in their newsfeed in your product, or whatever makes sense). You'd have to be very careful to validate incoming replies, to avoid creating an open mail relay or a vector for spammers to reach your users. (Services that implement anonymous/private replies, like Craigslist, use an approach like this.)

Does anyone know of any well-tested packages that safely provide this sort of reply forwarding? Or transactional ESPs that offer it directly?

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32696850/is-the-reply-to-...

[2]: https://medium.com/@BraunDoug/windows-10-mail-client-broken-...

[3]: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=86&topicid=1949...

[4]: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/email-marketing/2011/08...

[5]: https://www.mailjet.com/blog/the-noreply-dilemma-going-from-...
Thank you. Yes.
Is there a modern language built on these (or similar) principles? Just curious. I imagine a DSL would be adequate, but it seems we still use SQL and OOP most often, with the exception of array languages. (These days even my array programming is in an OOP language, Python)

Not to say that this is necessarily a better idea, but I find it interesting enough to wonder what analogous things are out there right now.

Aside: I find this a neat example of some hidden knowledge buried in the historical web that could easily have been lost if it weren't for brave internet archivists. Kudos to the internet archive et al!
Warning: this may involve paying them more.

Though much of the time it should suffice to simply not treat them horribly.

Difficult though that may seem for the management circles of certain organizations.
Did solar panel company Miasole ever recover from the branding of "My Ass Hole"?

http://www.fakesteve.net/2007/05/john-doerrs-my-asshole-comp...
"Who is hiring" threads aren't useful for finding entry jobs. There are usually around two companies hiring for entry roles. I have tried applying for every one of them, and have never received a reply.
The 400,000 people pre-ordering Model 3s have plenty of confidence in the Tesla brand. That would not happen with a new or unknown brand.
Do you live in an urban area? I don't believe there is a city over 500,000 in North America where you could go more than 5 minutes without someone recognizing a Tesla.
few really good managers of researchers

Bob Taylor has been generally praised as a great manager, and I believe them of course. But when I heard stories of his management style, it seemed to go against every instinct we have on how to foster creativity. Could you comment on that?

Also, in terms of funding, I wonder -- haven't things changed? Wasn't funding more important in, say, the 1960's and 70's due to the cost of computer time, especially at the processing level that would let you "see the future." A $1000 computer today is not so different, in terms of power, from a similar machine 5 years ago, right?

Things have happened in the past when passionate and confident people with chops have decided to do something.

But wasn't the past more open? When a field is just forming, everything is crazy, so nothing is. It's only when it has solidified (and in exactly the wrong direction) that you would more expect to find a "crazy professor" having more of an impact, right?
What a disaster. The purchase makes no real sense, unless you bend over backwards to try to force a rationalization. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea can't read a financial statement. Solar City as an investment is terrible, and even Goldman Sachs recently said they were one of the worst performing companies in the sector.

I'm expecting a ton of shareholder lawsuits at this point. The idea that Tesla was buying SCTY bonds is sketchy enough, the idea of buying the entire company is just insane.
My example definitely presumed things like service discovery which gets you to URLs. But I think I see the larger point you make about what if you don't even know what kind services are available (which my example assumes you already know) and once told of their existence how do you negotiate their capabilities and usage (my example, as I envisioned it, completely falls apart here without some major plumbing which might require running an open sewage line through the kitchen. i.e. probably not the best way to do it)

P.S. I have found the team's work on STEPS quite thought provoking. If anyone could find the time once things settle down, it would be most appreciated if some quick docs re: how to reproduce (i.e. build) the Frank environment could be put together. (if they already exist, a pointer to them would be helpful)
Ion Storm had more than one employee.
Personally I find trigger warnings annoying sometimes as well, though I believe it is mostly for irrational reasons and so I don't let it stop me from reading anything preceded by a trigger warning. Even if you believe you have good reasons for being offended/annoyed by trigger warnings, it's unfortunate that this would cause you to dismiss the text/opinion out of hand.

Perhaps we need trigger warning trigger warnings for people who are triggered by trigger warnings?
You can't "undelete" a deleted draft email, so no.
"Others cite an increased tendency among employers to rescind job offers"

I was under the impression an employer could get in litigation trouble for rescinding a formal job offer that costs the employee significantly (ie moving across country, losing their old job, etc).

At the very least I'd imagine they would get one hell of a glassdoor black mark pulling a stunt like that.
For $120K in most of the country you can live in a nice house with a big yard and have a few nice cars.

In Sillycon Valley for $120K you can share bunk beds and bathrooms with strangers and ride the bus.
Ghostbot pretends to be you, talking to people you want to avoid
We changed the title to the subtitle, which is more substantive.
No, but they can probably look at how Netflix is utilizing AWS and make that better.
It's mentioned in the first linked article from that one that she is one of the "three respected members of the computer security and privacy tech communities" she mentions who was assaulted.

I hope that she will take the evidence to the police and file charges as soon as possible. Violent crimes such as are being reported can not be allowed to slide. It's critical that trained authorities take over the investigation at this point and determine the facts, gather evidence, interview witnesses, and proceed as needed with prosecution. Prosecuting a case through amateur blogs is not an effective or appropriate means of obtaining justice.
Yes, at some places the idea of treating employees decently may inspire even more horror than the idea of paying them more.
It's All Text! on Firefox
Have needed something like this a few times, would be great if it was standardized.
"Rock star" isn't a description of what a bad actor looks like, but it is a description of treatment of people who have high performance on one axis which empowers those that happen to be bad actors in manners unrelated to that axis and disempowers their victims.

Keeping out bad actors is desirable, but never going to be 100%. Avoiding creating the power dynamic which enables abusers to flourish is also important.
Web pages that suddenly lock up Chrome for ten seconds or more while it apparently does nothing.

Windows apparently starting up and launching apps quickly but then requiring over a minute before anything will actually respond.
Is it not easier to just ignore or block people you'd rather not chat with? Why deceive them? Isn't it kind of immoral?
Assuming there is a justifiable reason behind it, quitting on the spot is not at all unprofessional, and may even be the most professional thing you can do in a given circumstance.

When I meet people who have quit on the spot, I always assume it was for a reasonable, professional reason. Unless I am somehow presented with evidence suggesting otherwise, there is no reason for that to have a generic stigma of unprofessionalism. It's just a normal part of business life.

The same is largely also true with employment gaps. Too often people make unreasonable assumptions about why someone has a gap. For example, in my own case I have had a big unemployment gap due to a severe family problem that was truly unavoidable and required full-time effort from me for around 8 months. I'll never know how many hiring managers saw the gap on my resume and elected to reject me solely based on that, assuming it was a negative mark regarding my skill or job performance, without ever asking me to find out. I definitely don't want to make that same mistake by unfairly making premature assumptions about other people I meet who have gaps on their resume.
She's saying that if word of harassing behavior bubbles to the surface, you should not ignore it but do the due diligence and see if there's a pattern of behavior there, not prosecuting the accused based on a single accusation. She also makes a distinction between accidental behavior and intentional/predatory/patterned behavior.
Abusers who are not rock stars are not as much of a problem because the community is much more willing to throw them out. They just seem like a troll.

But if they are also a rock star they often get tolerated/encouraged. Their value appears to mean the community is willing to put up it. And THATS where rock stars are a problem.

You can call Carmack a rock star, he's earned it. I don't think I've ever heard anything other than he's a nice guy (I hope that's not from lack of people speaking up).
How we made $20,000 on Snapchat and got into Y Combinator
"A rock star likes to be the center of attention."

That describes many CEOs and founders. The VC system today values the glib attention-seeker. So does Kickstarter, where the video of the presenter is often more important than the product. Society as a whole today rewards the attention-seeker. There was a time when self-promotion was considered an embarrassing lower-class trait, associated with door to door salesmen and such. Today, we have Donald Trump.

"Attention seeking" and "asshole" are independent. Making your organization asshole-resistant can be worthwhile. Read "Assholes, A Theory", by Aaron James. There are people who want attention but aren't assholes; many actors are like that. There are assholes who don't want attention, just power - they're found in dysfunctional organizations.
Right, and that makes sense for companies, but someone should be able to make a PR against a Github project for which their wife is a maintainer.
Several banks here in Brazil have fingerprint readers in their ATMs. This makes at least two factors: what you have (the chip in your bank card, which also identifies you to the ATM) and who you are (the stored fingerprint). Depending on which operation you are doing, or on the amount of money involved, the ATM can also ask for the third factor (what you know): one or more of a numeric password, an alphabetic password (chosen from a group on the screen, so shoulder surfing just once isn't enough), the first/last three digits of your tax ID, your mother/father first name, and so on.

For phones, things aren't as advanced, though a bank manager told me that fraud happens more often when online banking is used on the computer, not on the phone. The phone is, in fact, often used as the second factor for online banking in the computer.
and we've done better by censoring the guy? it wasn't an enlightened comment, but it wasn't even close to offensive.
It's not just JSON without [ and ], it's a bunch of JSONs represented as a table. The first line sets the property's key and every other line are the values. It is a representation that needs a parser to be read but that's way faster for a row based database to generate it than to output full json. Plus it's smaller than minified json.
DRBD supports flushes and barriers. You just switch the primary and startup the database. InnoDB will recover as necessary and you are good to go. This is assuming you are using all InnoDB tables(you likely should be).
Why is this a disaster?

Why doesn't the purchase make sense?

Why do you think I can't read a financial statement?

Why is SCTY a terrible investment?

Why is buying the entire company insane?

You've said absolutely nothing constructive or useful, just a bunch of (wrong, imo) opinion.
It would be irresponsible for a machine learning black box like Google's indexer to give much importance to rel="nofollow". Think about it.

Imagine you're building the perfect internet indexer. In an effort to generalize your model, you anticipate a scenario where a nofollow link shows up consistently on various Wikipedia pages where it persists for a long time. What are you going to do? Ignore the link because, sorry, them's the rules?

Or are you going to realize that nofollow is about as useful of a signal as <meta name="keywords">?
This has been my experience in every job that I have had (4 in total). I've suffered severe career burnout basically wholly because my working experience leads me to believe there is no such thing as a company that treats employees with even a minimal level of acceptable decency, at least in the U.S. (I have no experience working elsewhere).

In my early career I was foolish enough to believe this was just a symptom of earning your stripes or paying your dues. In the first professional job in which I gave two weeks' notice, I worked my tail off during those two weeks to clean up several lagging code repos, write a bunch of badly needed tests, polish off a deliverable for an important system, and write copious documentation detailing step-by-step how to handle any of the little ad hoc things that I had to do on a weekly or monthly basis. On my final day, I even worked an hour late (until 6 pm) furiously giving a tutorial on some of that last-minute work. I was literally sweating in my shirt when I collected my last items and walked to the elevator for the final time.

Months later I came to find out that a former colleague at that firm had given a negative review about me (a very petty action related to being upset about my choice to leave) to another employer when I was interviewing. Now I feel it is completely unsafe to ask them for any kind of reference or recommendation.

So much for really pouring myself into the role and trying, even literally to the final minute, to be an exceptional employee for them...
It sounds to me like you're arguing that we should never try to prove that anything causes anything because we don't have a good definition of causality.

I hope that's not what you're saying, because it's absurd.
Victim blaming is pretty insensitive though, as is "letting yourself get screwed over". There was an infamous case in Australia where a cleric responded to gang-rape by members of his community by labelling young girls in skirts as being like raw meat attracting animals. The implication was "of course the animals will want to eat the meat".

Yes, the reality is that if you never leave the house, live in a panic room, cover your entire self at all hours, etc you reduce the risk, but ultimately the action is on the abuser rather than the one being abused and that is where we should direct criticism, especially in immediate/direct response to something like this IMO.

What are we ideally working towards? A world where everyone must avoid a defined level of risk (including certain level of dress!), or one where any of us can walk anywhere with an expectation that we won't be abused by another one of us? I'd like to think the latter.
Yes, that's the one :)
There's a difference between biological extinction and cultural extinction. Cultures are incredibly fragile, and the chances of developing current levels of science and technology again if we lost them aren't all that great.

As for runaway climate change - it's definitely a possibility. Current models don't try to estimate potential coupling between the effects of methane and CO2.

It doesn't seem to be considered likely. But a lot of scientists are already surprised by the speed and scale of climate change, and the fact that we're seeing effects in a decade or two that weren't expected until the end of the century.

Worries about runaway climate change may be pessimistic, but they're certainly not unscientific. Considering the stakes, more research would be wise.
You should give two weeks notice, but be financially prepared to have to leave immediately. However, if a company does ask you to walk instead of notice, they've pretty much given up on ever getting any notice from any of their other employees.
Well, in this case, the question is will some people that have shorts and have to pay higher premiums decide to drop them if the offer sits for a while and continues to affect the market, if they expect it to go through? Does getting more exposure in the media affect the companies in a lasting way beyond the timeframe of the deal?

In a perfectly rational and efficient market the answer would be no. I don't think we're in a perfectly rational and efficient market. So I guess the question is whether the market is irrational enough or inefficient enough that there's some way to game the side-effects of this usefully.
Working to get Democrats elected: okay

Party preferences in a Democrats-against-Democrat competition while publicly declaring the party infrastructure neutral: not okay

That is, the DNC is supposed to be about promoting the chosen candidate to the American people, not actively picking one.

Nobody doubts that official favoritism isn't theoretically _allowed_ in a party primary, it just goes against the theory that it is a truly wide-open contest where the American people decide the direction of their government.
If the author must ignore third-party reports and first-hand experience (including a witness), what's left?

Many internal business investigations rely on exactly those things to make judgements that protect their work environment.
I'd be much more interested in a "secretary" product that openly acts as a gatekeeper and escalates important conversations to me as necessary. But Ghost is named very aptly - that seems to be a footing description for their service.