skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing to see how the left latched onto this as a "billionaire buys lawsuit" narrative, as opposed to the much more accurate "shitty darling of the left that habitually engaged in abuse got its comeuppance" narrative.

Gawker repeatedly, knowingly, unabashedly, broke the law. They repeatedly, knowingly, unabashedly, tried to ruin innocent people's lives. They absolutely deserve everything that happened to them and more. Thiel is a goddamned hero for the part he played.

Edit:

>Also. This has nothing to do with left v. right.

Only people on the left believe this. GawkMedia was loathed by the right as pretty much the worst example of how bad leftist media could get. Trust me, we were all popping champagne and lighting off fireworks when we got the news on this side of the aisle.
Yeah, everyone treats non-routable space as a security control. So expect to only see DMZs and edges of networks in the routable IPv6 space.
>Codes of conduct are a flavor of the month, and they don't achieve anything

In other words you've never felt harassed. That's a good thing but it doesn't mean your situation is all encompassing.

>The same is true for the types of offenses typical of a code of conduct.

Also a good thing. How many times have you rejected a patch because someone was harassing another member of your community?
tl;dr:
githubbing open sourcers face culture shock because they haven't realized that people have been doing opensource/free stuff for a lot longer than the world of pull-requests and slack. and rather than think that there may be value in the existing ways they just brand everything as old fashioned and wrong.

I thought the cliche was meant to be that old developers don't know new tech and don't want to know.

Now it seems that there are even more new developers that don't want to know old tech.
The precedent isn't about the quality of your journalism, it's "get a billionaire angry, get sued into oblivion". That's what scares people. Mother Jones nearly faced the same fate for very good journalism.
I'm not the parent poster, but will post anyway. I really don't want to get into this discussion, which is kind of ironic because the reason I don't want to get into the discussion is the very reason codes of conduct are purported to exist. It is very easy to become targeted and vilified if you happen to have a different point of view on the subject.

A very common clause in codes of conduct is that people who are identified with a project must uphold the code of contact when they are communicating, even when they do so outside the context of the project. Usually "identified with a project" is defined loosely enough that it can be used fairly indiscriminately. It has happened that people who voiced objectionable ideas outside the context of a project have been forcibly removed from those projects.

For some, this is a triumph of justice. For others (and I include myself in this camp) it is further fostering an "us" vs "them" viewpoint, vilifying those whose ideas differ. Interpersonal conflict is difficult and requires considerable skill to moderate. A code of conduct, while it can simply be a communication of the ideals that the project strives towards, can be used as a scaffolding to attack those who we disagree with and wish to punish.
As is often the case, xkcd to the rescue.

https://xkcd.com/810/
Beautiful new Website design responsive and clean
Gawker was guilty of illegally publishing a recorded sex tape.

If I did this to someone I would go to jail.

If Gawker didn't want to go bankrupt, then maybe it shouldn't have illegally recorded and published a sex tape.

This is NOT just "poor taste shock journalism". Just like how setting up a hidden camera in a girl's high school locker room wouldn't just be "in poor taste".
Can anyone explain slack to me? It just seems like a shitty reinvention of IRC.
Wow. I wonder if Thiel calculated the exact amount it would take to put Gawker out of business AND send Denton into personal bankruptcy. I mean, as a venture capitalist, you have pretty good insight into the finances of companies at a macro level. You're used to doing a little bit of "estimation from the outside", i.e. for both potential investments and for competitors. And he was also a lawyer.

This is the most ruthless revenge story ever, not least because it was all legal...

Thiel seems like a nerdy and curious fellow -- almost gentle, if he weren't so opinionated. But I guess everyone now knows not to mess with him.
I'm not sure what you mean by "music games" but I've been playing StepMania for awhile now and it seems to handle latency just fine.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/business/media/gawker-hulk...

> The damages awarded to Mr. Bollea on Friday were compensatory: $55 million for economic harm and $60 million for emotional distress.
(+$25M punitive)

The numbers are nonsense (who has $60M worth of feelings?), but there you go.
SBCL can compile lisp to native code. :-)
My understanding is a lot of the excessiveness was due to the behavior of the defendant. They ignored court orders, they repeatedly tried to make a joke out of it and all around refused to take it seriously. This lead the judge to using the large end of the stick.
Are you sure those are bookmarks in the second image and not some examples of IP addresses? It seems unlikely that they'd be visiting addresses in all three of the RFC1918 spaces.
Science only works predicatively if the sample size n > 1.

You can run counterfactuals but you can't run experiments on history.

By studying history you can discover recurring patterns but these are more like heuristics than laws of nature.

Did you know that Germany had a similar reproduction problem pre-1914?

It was also held to be the most civilized culture in Europe at the time.

Or that France was the strongest nation before the Revolution? This was before a financial crisis and failed harvests tipped the balance suddenly.

Point is that when things go tits up it is always less than obvious to the people involved. Even when you find evidence of 'cracks' developing that led up to that situation, they hold little predictive power when discovered in other situations.

Consider this prediction for example.

Right now France is receiving the brunt of attacks by Islamic extremists. Logically any public outcry and counter-reaction should start there, yes?

But I think it is actually more likely in Germany, Holland or Denmark because of national psychology. They tend to go one way, or the other, you should know the Germans don't do half measures.

Can I measure that scientifically? Hell no. I'd still put money down on it.
Limited liability doesn't apply apply to torts committed by company officers.
> Why is these data structures called "filters" rather than hashes.

I would guess because they are probabilistic data-structures which are information-lossy. Bloom Filters and Cuckoo Filters aren't guaranteed to give you a correct result and they cannot retrieve the original input. Cuckoo Filters of course take the name from Cuckoo hashing.
This wasn't a criminal case, though.
Housing is expensive because demand is high while supply is low. Perhaps a portion of the the difference in housing costs between certain areas in California and certain areas in other states (i.e., the 4 br/2 bathroom example) can be attributed to regulation, but the the vast majority of the difference is attributed to the fact that there is high demand for that $2 million home whileas that $100k home is in Podunk, Fly-Over State, USA where no wants to live.

In addition, at $100k, there has to be something wrong with that home. My old house's insurance bill claimed that it would cost in the mid-$200k range to rebuild that exact same, 4 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom, ~4,000 sq. ft. home.
I agree with you. For a practical example, the Rust Code of Conduct has done an excellent job at being inviting. Even our community's most divisive arguments remain civil, which, as a side effect, means more discussion, so each others' perspectives are better explored.
>faster ways to edit text than someone limited to what the OS provides

But other editors aren't limited to what the OS provides, they build on those basics to provide most of the same features, but in a way that's intuitive to modern users.

For example in Sublime:

>ci{ - Replace text enclosed by curly braces

Ctrl-Shift-M selects text inside brackets. Subsequent presses work outwards through layers of brackets.

>:g/\(['"]\).* \1/d - Use regex to delete every line containing a string literal

Ctrl-F Alt-R (['"]).* \1 Alt-Enter Ctrl-L Delete

>yt( - Copy characters up to the nearest (

Not available out of the box, but there are plugins for it. Although, in my experience of using vim, the mental effort of working out what character I needed for t/f tended to be far more disruptive than just using arrow keys/mouse.

Honestly that was my experience of vim in general. Whenever I had to do anything slightly non-trivial, it took a lot of mental effort to work out the exact command I needed. Whereas Sublime's multiple selections are more intuitive and flexible in unusual situations.

To use your regex example above, depending on the context, I'd probably just use Ctrl-D to step through instances of " checking whether each one is a string (which it probably is), skipping any that aren't, and then Ctrl-L Delete. (And repeat for ') If it's a short file, this is probably about as fast, it flows from muscle memory, and it means I'm actually checking through the changes I'm about to make. (And if it was a massive file, I'd use the regex. My point is just that Sublime offers a more ad-hoc way to do bulk edits where you're not exactly sure what you need to match on.)
Five hours this time.
GitHub code of conduct actually is in favor of racism, if you're in the wrong group. Ditto for sexism.

"We will not act on complaints regarding ‘reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’"

That they even use the term "reverse racism" is telling. This is from a company that, in internal training, has anti-white material. "This is not work for white people", "biggest barriers to progress are white women". https://m.imgur.com/7YaVYUx?r

I don't particularly care, but if you're going to be inclusive, it should be technically inclusive, not loaded with politics. I'd bet there's a lot of people like me, thinking a egalitarian would be far less of an issue though I don't like curtailing expression, abrasive it may be, nor policing people in their personal lives.
It really brings to mind "City and the City".

https://www.amazon.com/City-Random-House-Readers-Circle/dp/0...
> It does not create indices

You combine it with a Compute Shader to create the indices. Indirect draw is how you make those indices available to the drawing functionality.
> If Gawker didn't want to go bankrupt, then maybe it shouldn't have illegally recorded and published a sex tape.

To be fair the sex tape was recorded by Hulk's best friend and husband of the woman he was having sex with. They knew a tape was being made.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/12/media/hulk-hogan-gawker-sett...

> Bubba Clem could be heard on the full tape saying that if he ever wanted to retire, he simply needed to release the video.

Clem settled for $5,000.
How the Ethereum Hard Fork Can Fail
When Google started they didn’t really have a plan for how they were going to make money or get customers (as apposed to users)[1]. This is fine, but just be aware of this when you pitch investors. If you don’t have a plan for how you are going to make money be explicit about it.

1. Personally I doubt that Google was that clueless early on as how to make money. A better search engine is inherently valuable because of the ability to direct traffic flow to favoured sites.
> because publishers do not promote books. There's a sell-in period aimed at store buyers before publication to get the book on physical shelves, but otherwise publishers do somewhere between exactly zero and almost zero marketing and promotion.

I'd be interested in hearing more about this. Why is it that publishers don't promote books?
The advantage is that there is some level of standardization.

404? That means the entity doesn't exist. 302? I should look somewhere else. 401? The server doesn't know who I am.

Accept? I can specify the format. ETag? I can get a faster response if I include the token in the next request.

This stuff is really, really common, and people can learn your API very quickly. A transparent caching server can improve performance.

Sure, with a custom protocol you can get a tight system. Hell, write your own transport layer for even more control. But it will take longer to learn and harder to interoperate.
The point of building dense cities is to not pave over the open space.
As an example of changing values (though not 19th C), the Hoover Dam claimed 100-ish lives during its construction. That would be a scandalous number today.
Yes, that third-order enclave was Dahala Khagrabari (#51): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahala_Khagrabari
This is exactly it. You want a directed tree for learning, whereas wikipedia is an undirected graph. Mathematics suffers the most since its tree is unusually deep, not wide.
If you have to rely on a CoC to get your contributors to not "be jerks" and "be professional", you have other issues with your community which really need to be addressed first.

No CoC is ever going to stop a jerk from being a jerk. It will just prompt the jerks to work around it and cause even more headaches for the contributors. Worse, it brings about those who only want to criticize the CoC, either because it's too strict, or too lenient.

Taking the time to address critiques on a CoC is time taken away from actually developing on a project and building a community who cares about the project, not the CoC.
Doesn't require an IRC client, looks slick, has rich text, and integrations with other platforms. Biggest thing is that it doesn't need an IRC server. It could have been made with IRC underneath, but you'd want an intermediate layer to retain messages and so on.
Don't forget the part about publishing a sex tape without knowledge of the party involved. Mother Jones won their lawsuit, because the statements they published were both true and in the public interest. There is a very large difference between what Gawker did and what Mother Jones did, and the judgments reflect that.
The Rust community, comprised largely of "New Guarders", is very active on IRC. It seems to me as though this community split is really an issue of a (relative) lack of developer community-building and marketing.
For reliability, you could start another minio server process on a different machine and use "mc mirror" subcommand (https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-complete-guide#mirro...) to asynchronously copy out data. In this release, one needs to run "mc mirror" periodically using cron(8) or an equivalent tool in their platform. We are looking at providing "-c" option to "mc mirror" subcommand, which performs continuous replication. i.e, there would be no need run it periodically.

Minio encourages micro-storage architecture and scalability is achieved by deploying many minio server instances.

Hope that helps.

Disclaimer: I work at Minio.
Clue: it's not about the code.

This was the point of the original article.
Well, we don't know what would have happened if Hungary wasn't a Member State.
He seems like a real asshole to me. Nothing I have read about him has given me the impression that there is anything gentle about him at all.
Really great book! Really one of the most interesting thing to come out in the past few years.
Totally different genre, but The Talos Principle is another beautiful puzzle game with a thoughtful story.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/
Some of us need tooling because we do not even know what to learn, or where to start.

Again, this on me. I listened to Wiegley talk, and wanted to get involved. I looked into one weekend, but did not follow up. I need to stay committed. I like the history and culture of GNU as an outsider, and this is why I wanted to get more involved in Emacs.
Its a little different than that. I'm working 1-on-1 with the manufacturers to customize products based on their pre-existing "template" products. I try to work with manufacturers with low minimum orders to prove the demand before making bulk orders.
Maybe the farm lobby generally supports deregulation legislation and other "pro-business" agenda.
Ok but...meanwhile on Wall St. individuals can't be held accountable for corporate actions.
That's a problem with the legal system that's not tied to journalism at all. It could happen to any company or person at any time. As long as the case looks to have enough merit to avoid dismissal, then rack those legal costs up! The only precedent related to journalism here is that journalists doing illegal things is still illegal.
Darling of the left? Is that really how Denton has been described? I don't know anyone -- left or right -- who thinks Denton is anything more than a scumbag.
The Mechanics of AngelList Syndicates
Not disagreeing with your points on Gawker's despicable behavior, but this doesn't answer the question of how the damages were calculated. It also doesn't address the precedent issue, beyond voicing support for exacting revenge as justified.
cf. before and after.
I'm a little confused by the Big-Oh notation O(2). In my CS classes we were taught that O(c) = O(1). So seeing something like 'O(1) to O(2)' is a bit odd.

But I love the visualization - it's very clear how things are working conceptually.
I understand that is a real problem but you should know terrorism is not like the others. It's almost never about the absolute numbers of injuries or deaths.

Acts of terror (the number of them) follow an exponential curve culminating in civil conflict. The objective of terror isn't to kill large numbers of enemies, it is to stress society into dragging one faction into battling the other.

That is why you should be more worried about terrorism than slippery showers. It scales differently. Violence is a contagion.

People's intuitions about this are actually correct. Bear in mind I dislike both the media and democracy! Sometimes what the 'man in the street' thinks is more accurate than an expert opinion, and that is because intuition is more holistic than a collection of expert opinions in specific fields conjoined together.
The delays would have to be longer than that, not just a few seconds. You're looking at minutes to hours for strong guarantees. Also having a configurable option could make you more fingerprintable.
It's not really up to you to decide if a puzzle is mundane for all players. Maybe it was for you, but there was a real aha moment for me on some of those puzzles.
Active vs Passive investing
Also the "Insertions may be rejected" thing would be a deal-breaker for a lot of applications.

If you can't guarantee that an insert will be successful, then you have to be willing to either tolerate false positives and false negatives, or throw away the cuckoo filter and re-create it from scratch.
What precedent, exactly? That doing illegal things is still illegal, even if you're a journalist? Or that you can get sued into oblivion, which could and did happen before this case?
This is great, thanks for linking it. I'm really interested in this kind of stuff, but it's so hard to find resources on it. Lots of people on Twitter making fun of mistakes people make, not a lot of folks giving advice.
Tldr:

Investors must choose to be either active and concentrated or passive and diversified; big gains require investments of time, energy and intellect, in addition to capital; truly active investing limits the number of investments a person or firm can make; it's difficult to scale.
> Regarding clarity, I avoid using "forward" and "backward" with regards to time.

That came out wrong. I don't avoid talking about a forward and a backward direction of time. What I avoid is saying that a planned event has been moved forward or backward, because people have different ideas of which means which.
Funny, Sublime was my gateway drug to Vim. It has "Vintage Mode" (which gives you vim keybindings) which I enabled just for macros since they are so powerful. After a month of going directly to insert mode I started accidentally picking up more and more random keys. Eventually I was so fast in normal mode it just didn't make sense not to use vim since everything else I use is in the terminal anyway.
The natural way that markets behave is when prices are high, the price is an incentive to create more supply, which then reduces the supply/demand mismatch.

With reduced regulation, there would be much more housing supply in SF. E.g. the city's footprint is slightly larger than Paris proper, which has 2.5x the population thanks to a consistent building height of ~6 floors. Paris is hardly a free-market bastion, or a place known for low quality of life, but SF out-regulates Paris with its tyranny of the vocal minority and regulation by bodies driven by perverse incentives.

Apart from directly adding supply, building up increases tax revenues and local population which enables / justifies transit expansion, which then increases the practically accessible pool of housing for anyone desiring to live in the city.

So, in trying to understand your point: do you not believe that housing costs would be lower if there was 3x the supply of housing, ala Paris, and a faster, more comprehensive farther-reaching transit system?
E for E-commerce
​Microsoft invests in fundamentally speeding up networking
> it was the EU attitude which caused lots of turkish people to vote for a strong islamic president.

Or it was just a temporary aligning of views that Erdogan and AKP initially seemed to be moderates, but it turned out that the sheep is actually a wolf with a sheepskin. It happened in history already a few times.

Also, diluting the progressive thought of the EU would likely have prevented it from being an effective counterforce to radicalization. (Though it could have moderated things a bit in Turkey.)
so you got paid $5,000 ? How long since the first report did it take for that to reach your bank account?
> If this is the "New Guard", perhaps it's best they are scared away by email.

This isn't a healthy attitude to have toward an open-source project -- as a "New Guarder" myself, I would be very sad to see Emacs contributions dry up.
I agree with this

If you've designed your client-side javascript (or swift or whatever it is) properly, you've abstracted out the API calls to say, AWS Lambda, and wrapped them such that the implementation is not tightly coupled to the calling code. Eg you write a generic Storage class and call Storage.Save, which wraps whatever API you use to save stuff, be it Lambda or otherwise. Change vendor and you just change your Storage class's implementation without needing to alter client functions..
Amazon FBA takes a huge amount, but it's worth it in my opinion. Look up "retail arbitrage" if you want to get your feet wet. There is a bit of learning curve with private labeling. I also recommend The Amazing Seller Podcast if you're serious about getting into it.
Is this some sort of gamergate leakage, that makes Gawker "left" because they are united with Kotaku, who gamergate hates, and social-justice fighers hate gamergate, and social-justic fighters are "left", so Gawker is "left"?
All this discussion makes me think about that bet Warren Buffet issued some years back about dumb index vs managed hedge fund. Political authority is an interesting slant to all this. Makes me also think about Thomas Sowells "varieties of nothing", ie putting on a show to make it look like someone is doing something when their net contribution is near nil.
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/10/469897691/armed-with-an-index-...