skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vocal criticisms for a former employer will do nothing but come back to bite you. It looks pretty bad to future employers and burns bridges unnecessarily with the former employer, who you generally have to rely on for recommendations. In this case the public criticism being in general a bad idea just highlighted the lack of political acumen that this guy had already shown.
Actually China is #1, triple the USA. Have they stopped growing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
That's also true of 4chan. And the internet in general.
It's common to see people frown upon seeing

curl ... | sh

Sad that we happily allow a black box to connect to our internet without any inkling of the fact that it might be used to attack someone, spy upon someone (ourselves?), ...
> fear-based rhetoric

A place was firebombed because it belonged to republicans, that's terrorism. People are completely right to be afraid to express their opinions because of that. It's not fear-based rhetoric.

Furthermore, there has been no terrorism of this type against liberals.

I just told you that you're right that I should not have made the accusation so casually with no evidence. But as I just wrote, you're missing the point I was trying to make. You've picked out one dubious claim I made and ignored everything else I was trying to say.
slatestarcodex.com, I haven't nearly read all the archives and I'm always running into links to Scott's work
But outside of the garbage subs, people don't.
Are humans the primary source? Would love a reputable citation.
I can imagine having a vulnerable webcam is a huge privacy risk too.
If anyone is interested I wrote a lock-free, c/c++ free, implementation of an AF_PACKET socket abstraction in Golang:

https://github.com/nathanjsweet/zsocket

I haven't implemented fan-out at all, but if anybody is interested in adding it, I'd happily apply they're pull-request.
> You know how the mods are always saying "you promised us this feature a year ago, and it's still not here!" You know why? Because the team was constantly drawn into having to police drama and blow-ups

> when actually, the admins would just like y'all to shut up so they can write some features to make the site better

Why did they have admins coding or coders admin'ing? Those should be different people.
What we can learn about marketing automation from grocery shopping
Oh yeah! I forgot about that. That is a pretty big reason to hate her.
Hard to sift through all the trolling and BS, but some people claim she was an entitled abusive entity inside of reddit. [This is the first obviously biased, but information dense post on her I found](https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/2x79ql/pdf_publ...). I don't make any claims to the accuracy of the accusations, but it's probably a decent starting point for anyone wanting to google around and learn more about the reddit crusade against her.
The moderation of usenet was very much centralized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone_cabal
It's really nice for when you have to do operations where you want a "tuple" in Javascript.

Consider the case of finding all companies along with their hires from the last week, but only if the company has a hire from the last week:

companies.map(c => [c, employeeStorage.getEmployees(c)])
.map(([company, employees]) => [company, employees.filter(e => e.hireDate > aWeekAgo)])
.filter(([company, employees]) => employees.length > 0)
My impression is that he got less hate and more ridicule.

Sure, Gates looked like the archetype nerd any time he presented something. But not was lightyears better than the whole "developers developers developers" dance Ballmer managed to pull.

Sadly the tech media have over the years blended over into lifestyle media. No longer is the computer or phone something to get a job done and that's it, now its a indicator of how you see yourself and how you want others to see you. And that image goes all the way back to the company making them, and the people that are the faces of said company.
Slate Star Codex: http://slatestarcodex.com/, for a lot of interesting socio-philosophical discussion on a variety of topics.

Meditations on Moloch is one of my favorites:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
> One key factor intertwined with this loss of dynamism: The U.S. is creating startup businesses at historically low rates.

This is one of the outcomes of oligopoly, and a system that encourages oligopoly (see: "legal" tax evasion[0]).

Google and Amazon, in particular, have their tendrils extended to many more areas in tech than Search, Affiliate Marketing, good Hardware, and selling products at cheap prices and highly developed operation systems.

In fact, one of this year's most successful tech IPO, Twilio, put the disclosure on their filing that their entire business is toast if AWS begins offering a VoIP / SMS delivery service and start undercutting their costs.

[0] https://thestack.com/world/2016/05/03/the-tech-giants-invent...
It can never be proven and that's the ingenuity of it, meanwhile the company does a token PR effort to fix the issue still leaving millions of weaponisable devices employed. It's not the first time China has been 'caught' doing something like this either https://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/...
> political brinkmanship and finger-pointing

The difference is that parties that try to pull that in Germany not only loose elections, but are punished so hard by voters that they can't even get over the necessary 5% requirement in the next election.

Have a look what happened to the FDP after they pushed through lower taxes for hotels.
Lichess: Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Yeah but that's a secured loan. The machinery is the collateral.
In the US I think it is still a necessity for many people because a lot of cities are so expensive, but if money were out of the picture I do think a lot of people would still choose to live with their friends.
Thanks to this, we have some great, legal mountain bike trails in the Chicagoland area. If it wasn't for these reactors being buried there, it would be full of McMansions and strip malls.
The same could have been said about the ipod as well. It has little to do with computing and was marketed as a lifestyle product. Apple is notorious for being second to the market with its simplified vision of emerging tech.
I started volunteering. Most Saturdays I'm out early in the morning building a house with Habitat for Humanity. Then I go home and nap, feeling content that I did something worthwhile with my weekend.

After that, it's easier to actually work on computer-y things. Don't fool yourself into thinking that you can do thought-heavy things all the time. You need physical activity! Mind and body must both be healthy in order for either of them to work at the highest levels.
Used to take my dogs there to run around. Nice natural area.
To keep the white men in power? Very effective.
Wow, with more and more crap entering the market and more and more people connecting things, it seems like in the future it would be nearly impossible to prevent these types of attacks.

Who could you hold responsible? The user for not setting a password or the manufacturer for accidentally creating a backdoor? Neither is really reasonable nor feasible. Filtering the attack is also extremely hard due to the scale of distribution.

Will this lead to a more locked down internet?
You get the users you tolerate.

> "The reddit admins (of the time; it's mostly a different group now) really did not like SRS. In attempting to force the admins to take their side, they would dox them, send bad shit to their family members, etc. It was really bad. Despite this, the admins never cracked but they really hated them."

And somehow weren't banned for this? Futher down they say that they just want to make the site better, but 90% of that is just about building tools to stop (in order of importance) harrasment of users by other subreddits, fighting within a subreddit and (c) poor topic discipline.

Eventually they learn from this:

"11/ ... bans ALL the problematic subreddits. F* your free speech, this is why we can't have nice things.

12/ They've had peace so far, so I guess that was probably the right policy"

I'm old enough to remember when people ran unmoderated newsgroups and open mail relays for free speech reasons. They either drowned in spam or were gradually blocked by so much of the rest of the internet that their position became untenable.

If you build a system that doesn't deal with spam, it gets drowned in spam. If you build a system that doesn't deal with abuse, abuse becomes commonplace. If you don't secure your IoT devices you get journalists DDoSed by lightbulbs. It's the same kind of social responsibility.

What makes this problem worse in the mid-20-teens is that there are hate groups organising off-board to cause these problems.

See the discussion of VR harrasment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777340
I don't know. From what I (and many others) have seen, Windows 10 is a big improvement over 8.1.
The flight cost is almost negligible!

British Airways, and possibly other airlines, offer packages where you do a short layover in Keflavik or Reykjavik, then they provide you transportation to Blue Lagoon, then get you to your plane from Blue Lagoon.

Hotel and Airbnb and hostel costs are very high compared to everywhere else in the world.

Last time I went, I brought a small tent.
I agree with you, although I should note that the current Navy railguns are not capable of putting shots in orbit. However, the logic behind choosing guns over elevators is simple:

I. Actively supported towers are easier/more likely to be built than a space elevator made of unobtainium.
II. The technology to build a space fountain or actively supported tower is more difficult than a gun, because you first have to have a gun which can shoot objects faster than orbital speed, and then add the recirculation plus the momentum transfer to the tower. So, an orbital gun is a subset of the technology needed for an active tower.

One other thing which is often overlooked when discussing shooting stuff into orbit, is that the size and cost of the gun is proportional to the size of the projectile. If shooting from very high in the atmosphere, very small projectiles could work without significant atmospheric losses. A railgun or light gas gun on an airplane could easily shoot literal tons of small projectiles, machine gun style, then land and reload (and with current tech, replace barrels).

If a target in orbit was shot at, you wouldn't even need to have a rocket in each projectile to provide thrust at apogee. Instead, you hit the target and embed into it. By hitting the target at different parts of its orbit, you avoid substantially changing the shape of its orbit, balancing out the momentum change to keep the orbit how you want it.

This wouldn't work for anything besides bulk materials which can be broken down into small pieces and shot like tiny bullets out of a hypersonic machine gun. But the cost per kg for bulk materials could be very low.
Well, maybe I'm just jaded by a recent experience with a former business partner who was an attorney himself. They guy had provably stolen over $100K from the company and our attorney basically charged us $20K to let him go. It was a valuable lesson to me to never go into business with an attorney again.
Nah, Google is first and foremost about ads. Search was just a damn good gateway for pushing those ads. Now you get them pushed on phones and laptops (chromebook) as well.
The makeup subreddits are great (although of course they have their own micro-dramas too). /r/MakeupAddiction, /r/BeautyGuruChat, etc, etc.
By the way, has anybody seen the rationalwiki page for Reddit? Some of it's accurate, and some of it is hilariously wrong: For example, they claimed the now infamous "Reddit Revolt" was due to /r/FPH being banned, which just goes to show how utterly out of touch they are.
> You should always name your closures

Yes. Why? Because you should have readable tracebacks. Why? Because you should receive all meaningful errors reports from the devices.
WOW: http://drunkmenworkhere.org/archive

This is the rabbit hole you've been waiting for. Be warned!
To be fair, the article was referencing regulations added since the Great Recession, so after 2008.
I would argue that it wouldn't do much to conviction because the organs used from the current people would satisfy a lot of the need. Yes, it may increase unfair convictions, but I don't think it would be a strong enough incentive.
The internet is still actually controlled by 14 people who hold 7 secret keys
> I suppose the assumption you make is that the death penalty is meant as a deterrent.

Yes, but the assumption is not mine. It is an axiom of our criminal legal-justice system, namely: punishment deters future crimes.

> My world-view is that the death penalty is a form of punishment for serious crime. It is not meant as a deterrent, not meant as some "lesson" for others. And I, personally, see no problem with it as a form of penalty to be payed by some. (I also reject Blackstone's formulation)

Punishment without social purpose is sadism.

I suspect I misunderstand your position. The answers to the following may help me understand.

If you are advocating for punishment without a useful social purpose (like deterring future crimes):

1. Why limit the death penalty to serious crimes?
2. Why punish at all, if it achieves nothing?
3. What do you think the death penalty should achieve?

It's just a thought exercise – no real need to reply.
I never would have imagined myself reading a book about teaching improvisational theater and enjoying it, much less finding it applicable to my career in engineering.
It's both amazing, and 600MB worth of dependencies. We use it for server-side code. It's high quality, and we only have a few issues with it, but I can't wait to be able to ditch is (pretty much when async/await lands in a stable node).
Well, it's not a bank, yet. Their banking license restrictions could be lifted next year. That said if they are successful it will probably go a long way towards disrupting the customer experience of retail banking. The banks will be able to compete with this, but having something like this to model their improved experience on is good for them and good for customers in general. I am, however, a bit cynical about this. I think if Monzo takes off they will hit a hurdle or event along the way that can sink the company. Most fintech companies are overly vulnerable to making the same mistakes as most banks made many decades ago. In the end it will probably mean they will get salvaged by being bought by a bank. Then the customer experience won't improve so fast any more, while the back end and processes are being made robust to allow it to remain in business long term. The culture in the company will also change to be somewhat more, uhm, traditional and boring. The result will still be that the customer experience has been pushed forward in general and that is a good thing.
Exactly the same reason why I'm not applying for TopTal. I started their tests and realised what it is about is the opposite of what I consider to be good programming and problem solving skills.
Once again, far from being an expert in this field.

That was also my understanding for the general case, but I was also assuming that cameras were available that could at least approach human dynamic range.
> Reddit on the other hand is very much centralized and for profit.

Although in a mind-bogglingly incompetent way. Their self-serve ad product is so far behind even Twitter's offering (which is inferior to Facebook and Google) that it's not even funny.
I think the problem was more that she attempted things that didn't work quite as well as she thought they would, and the Internet Hate Machine - amplified by the presence of the CEO's additional X chromosome - spun things out of control faster than they could have been fixed, by pretty much anybody.

There was plenty to dislike about Pao's actions as CEO (as well as the KP lawsuit), but I think the real lesson is that the Internet Hate Machine is very difficult to slow down or stop once it flies out of control. Every nuance or worthy consideration is drowned out by waves of rage at even the smallest worthy object of complaint.
Anything coming out of /r/MensRights doesn't even deserve to be taken with a grain of salt. It should be ignored completely.
So a free get therapy card?

I don't mean to be asshole. It's just that the general moral decay from these things is the absolute worst that can happen. Most people don't think about it with all the focus in the current criminals and victims. Not the future of society.

In my understanding the future of society is exactly why there is penal code in the first place.
what about the routers and other cheap devices. This is a drop in the bucket. Until regulations (and strong enforcement) of devices requiring device security to sell them in countries like the US, UK, EU etc. happen this will continue to be a problem.
Well, yeah. Some people handle freedom responsibly. Most... don't.

If you really want freedom, 4chan, glorious 4chan! Enjoy your cesspit.
RIP RAM
The News Is Now Literally a Video Game
The pro-Sanders bias was so extreme that it was actually pretty amusing to watch. He'd lose 6 primaries in a night but win, say, Wisconsin, and every front-page post would be about his win.

The users there made the same mistake Trump makes after a well-attended rally. If you're surrounded by supporters, then it's hard to reason about how broad your support really is.
You haven't provide a citation in either case.
Admins in this case is slang for Reddit employees.
Well, if by that you mean that people dying in countries which are low polluters happen to belong to the same species as the biggest polluters, then yes.

But in the grand scheme of things, we can't rely on such a mechanism, because the consequences are not proportional to the causal actions.

As an example, ask yourself this: what proportion of people would be ready to, say, pay twice as much for electricity if it meant that 1 million people/year less would die in some African country?
Entrepreneurship and the U.S. Economy
we have paid 90,000 ... and received 18,000

But have you seen how they gouge the uninsured? I was in a minor bike accident last year and I had a 5k deductible. Just had an ambulance ride and got checked out at the emergency room. The bill was $6000 without insurance, which was reduced to $1500 with insurance.

Hospitals have such poor cost accounting.. they basically make something up if you're uninsured. It completely eliminates going without insurance. The charges would be outrageous.

Edit: The 4x multiple in my bill isn't anywhere near the worst. There are hospitals that charge up to 12x (so 1500 turns into 18000):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-s...
Add to that, hospitals won't tell you what something will cost up front... so you get to find out when they send you the bill.
IMO: It had no effect on high end tech jobs.

From the recruiters I talked to recently, it had no effect. From the interviews I had recently, it had no effect. Still recruiting and expanding.

One of my past company recently interviewed with journalists to announce that they are extending their operations and opening a new office in the USA. The next day the news published an article "<company> is leaving the UK after the Brexit". I'll let you imagine the surprise when we discovered the article the next morning. That's just 100% wrong and misleading.

I'm now willing to extrapolate that 90% of brexit announcements are fake invented by journalists for sensationalism. Nothing is happening, really.

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Regarding the GBP exchange rate.

As in all the major cities in the world, most of the income goes to pay the rent. The rent is in local currency, unaffected by USD-EUR-GBP rate.

We might hit a +10% on food price (and gaz) in a near future. It might get harsh[er] for big families and low income jobs, it's fine for people with good salaries. (Not to mention free catered lunches at tech jobs :D)
Hey, doesn't blu-ray players have web access?

Rowhammer via Javascript is already a thing.

See where I'm going with this?
I'm a crypto currency hater, but there are other types of crypto coin that reach consensus in seconds.
Going to need a whole lot of characters to prevent someone being malicious and just resetting passwords randomly. Long characters are also more annoying to type for the end user. If the link is unique you can keep the passcode a little shorter and it requires two pieces of information to complete a reset.
I meant people use debit card instead. Sure, I can use my us credit card in France after te weird you-need-a-signature-? look, but no-one has credit cards there :-)
Which includes leased company cars. So yes, people don't finance their cars.
You are right. http://i.imgur.com/SKBitNQ.jpg
That's a big part of it. But there were legitimate reasons it got to that point in the first place.
Why should we trust any website and execute their JS code on our machine? What about privacy, if they decide they can track us and sell the information to whoever they want? And even if they're "legit", what about the 3rd parties they might trust wrongly?
People who are caught doing bad things tend to lie about it (they are already people who are willing to break the rules, so lying isn't such a stretch).

Man, tell me about it. I was a moderator for the Vault Network message boards back in the days when it was still around. It's hard to overstate how hard some people will work to make people they disagree with look bad.

People would post super racists, hateful, gross comments and images to the board, get a ban, and then try to go on an alt account and complain about the moderator who banned them. The moderator would remove that post (discussing mod actions was against the rules) and then that person (and others) would use that as a reason that the mods were evil, biased people just trying to silence disagreement. They would go so far as sending personal messages to individual mods (both on and off the boards) who they assumed were responsible. The worst attacks somehow usually made it to a mod that wasn't involved, usually a woman.

It really gave me an appreciation for how hateful and deplorable some people can get when they can remain anonymous.
Working in an open-plan office where people expect that it looks like you are working is "very accepting of surveillance"?
It reduces the occurrences of successful bitflips with a big margin. So it is helpful, but not perfect.
Just FYI, the credit/debit card company is often stylized as "VISA", and the travel document is a "visa".
If you take the position that the lawsuit was frivolous, hatred seems to be an extreme response.

Reddit as a whole seems to struggle with recognising feminism as a legitimate social struggle and I cant help but feel that helped fuel the fire against Ellen.