skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a sense, Reddit has made these users (from banned subreddits) someone else’s problem. To
be clear, from a macro persepctive, Reddit’s actions likely did not make the internet safer or less
hateful.

section 6.6 of the paper.

I argue that this paper capstones the pathway to concentrate, sequester, fester and finally eradicate hate subs from a single platform. It just moves elsewhere and then begins to adapt.

Also - Suppose the study was turned on its moral head, and people applied its lesson to bannign subs focused on "social equality", "improving one self", "making a better world" = what would the implications of that be.

In the hands of an attacker, what does this paper say?
Is the harm then a) that these people are exposed to the larger ideology, or b) that these people don't have the critical thinking tools or habits to see these ideologies for what they are?

I think it's (b).

In life we are exposed to a lot of bad ideologies, and the only thing that can help us navigate these ideas is our own thick skin and critical thinking tools and habits. The only way you develop these are through exposure and practice.
Right now there is a big gap between "trustworthy enough defaults" and "security expert who has the judgment to determine which CAs deserve to be trusted with the most sensitive data".

It's easy enough to remove CAs for one's self, the issue is understanding the possible entanglements that might make some of them less trustworthy or more easily compromised. That requires quite a bit of expertise and judgment.
Those sound like archaic unenforced laws which every state has. But they really do have a very overbearing government. It's very common to see labels like "not available in California" or "known to the state of California to cause cancer".
Equifax played a slightly different version if this commercial during Monday Night Football a few times, it takes no accountability, but also doubles-down, claims your info might* be on the dark-web(*because they just negligently released it), and offers a "dark-web-scan" service to help find it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjrydnr_pvQ
But even there you've got to be careful. For example if you're using GNU Emacs to read your email you could have been vulnerable to arbitrary code execution for the past few years:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28350
> It may not occur in USA or China's jurisdiction, but its going to keep happening.

Where will it keep happening?
Ugh, yes, the country, not the city next to Anaheim. Thank you.
Exactly, I knew a sales guy at a former start-up who, when not selling for our company, was off selling watches or hustling something else. He lived and breathed sales in his free time, like an open source programmer lives and breathes programming in his free time.
Managed object internals, Part 3. The layout of a managed array
> I'd like to see a modern forum site where anyone can create a subforum and moderate it themselves the way anyone can create a subreddit on Reddit.

Isn't that...Reddit?
Maybe he means not catching them with some kind of linter, IDE, or test? I'm choosing to believe that, at least.
At least with plain-text, it's a slightly harder to forge links. (i.e. you have to do http://www.megabank.com.phishingattempt.io instead of <a href="http://www.phishingattempt.io"><img src="megabank.com/logo.png"></a> )

Speaking of JavaScript in e-mail, gmail doesn't allow you to send or receive .js files (even tarred up), which is somewhat inconvenient, and I'm not really sure what attack that prevents. Maybe there is a mail client out there that will happily execute attached js?
>If you don't trust your phone's hardware or software, switch phones.

Given documented cases of three letter agencies intercepting electronic devices to install implants, how can anyone realistically trust any phone they buy, ever?
I built Suet - an analytics dashboard and reporting tool for Mailgun transactional mails.

Source: https://github.com/kehers/suet. Managed: https://suet.co
Isn't this pretty much what the DAO was trying to solve for?
Miami Sharks Because of Hurricane Irma
Most Atlassian users are not thier customers. Their users' employers are the customer. This appeals to the customer who doesn't actually have to use this stuff. "ooh pretty".

Those of us stuck with Atlassian refusing to fix their garbage, differing markdown syntaxes, removal of stratight text in favour of rich gui brokeness and the unrelenting S L O W...

Yeah we won't be so impressed by it.

Fix your junk. I can't threaten to leave - the choice isn't mine to do so. The only choice I have is to complain in public. Just like the public service. Go Atlassian! Hooray! User hatred achievement unlocked!
This study seems to have failed to compensate for the most basic of confounding variables. For instance their control group was specifically chosen not to be a control, in the nominal sense, but other groups that were likely to be banned or otherwise reprimanded. Why? They showed that the so-called control group and the treatment groups had a slight decline in overall posting activity, but failed to consider the trends for the site at large. What was the overall trend, per user, at the time? Many of their control groups were also banned, some within the window of time they sampled!!

The authors also seem to be failing to account for the fact that the entire site began to begin automated censorship of posts with undesirable keywords or from users that had posted in undesirable subs. Many of these posts can not be recovered even from the API which directly taints their data. This also resulted in two further confounding issues. A very non-zero number of users that stayed on decided to post under new names and use language less likely to be tagged by automated censors.

I think the important question is what effect this censorship has had on trends of such beliefs, rather than whether the certainly specifically censored words continue to appear. The answer to the former is interesting and the entire question of censorship. The answer to the latter is rather self evident and has little to do with whether censorship is effective, which is itself separate from the question of whether it's desirable.
Charging time:

In the US, houses commonly have from the
grid 100 A at 230 V. So, that is

100 x 230 = 23,000 W (Watts)

or 23 KW (kilowatts).

For an electric car with a 75 KWh battery,
the charging time using all the house
power would be

75 / 23 = 3.26

hours. Maybe the house needs also to use
an electric stove, electric clothes dryer,
air conditioning, a water pump, a
microwave oven, some lights, etc. so
wants to use only half the house power for
the car charging in which case the
charging time would be

75 / (23 / 2) = 6.52

hours.

From a Google search, supposedly at

https://www.tesla.com/models

is

"With unparalleled performance delivered
through Tesla's unique, all-electric ....
will achieve the maximum charge rate of
11.5 kW for 75 kWh configured vehicles."

Then the minimum charging time would be

75 / 11.5 = 6.52

hours.

So, net, for an electric car, I'd be
concerned about charging time.

With a gasoline powered car, can fill up
in a few minutes.
I have never seen a useful sparkline.
Heh, you should hear their shady business tactics. It would be a shame if your business suddenly had 1 star on yelp.
>I place the responsibly

Nobody cares where you, or I, place it. You don't write for the NYTimes. You don't have that sort of sphere of influence.

>with the company using Struts in their product, not the Struts dev.

They don't.

http://nypost.com/2017/09/08/equifax-blames-giant-breach-on-...

It's very easy to explain to the public. "Those software hacker people did this to you. Look, here he is. He made the faulty software. Burn him at the stake."

Zufrekci is with them, blaming the developer.

Developer licensure, here we come. Illegal to write open source software. Another one of those crazy Richard Stallman predictions that comes true while you guys sleepwalk into the dystopia.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Thank you. I've realized I've been hearing warning klaxons everytime a new paper on social media comes out.

I've started posing the question - what would happen if someone used this paper, and decided to ban subs like "twox". or "for equality to all" or "improve yourself" and so on.

And the fear of that must also be tempered by reading the paper itself, since a key part is being ignored in many comments so far
Section 6.6

> In a sense, Reddit has made these users (from banned subreddits) someone else’s problem. To
be clear, from a macro persepctive, Reddit’s actions likely did not make the internet safer or less
hateful.

So its not like we've cleared the thicket, we've just put it in a jar not owned by reddit.

The study itself seems to be over the 10-20 day period immediately before and after the ban.
I wonder what an org would look like where engineers got compensated as well as salespeople--as a percentage of sales, where if you made a great product that sold like gangbusters, you got showered with money, but if it doesn't sell you get very little or fired. I bet at the very least the products would look very, very different.
The push towards electric cars is an ostensible step in the right direction from an environmental standpoint, but most commentators fail to consider the massive quantities of hazardous toxic waste produced as a byproduct of neodymium mining.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/aug/07/china-ra...

http://e360.yale.edu/features/boom_in_mining_rare_earths_pos...
They assume the human who created the robot is built to Asimov's law.
> I wish there were a disaster militia

In many other countries there is Civil Defense (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense_by_country).

The US also appears to have a Citizen Corps
(https://www.ready.gov/citizen-corps) under DHS.
Highly competitive markets are the most well understood and predictable. It's the same reason we focus on and talk about the scientific outcomes where p < 0.05.
A lot of the things I recommend doing in the first month are just repeatable for the length of their employment. But there is a greater question I think you are asking around how do you know when you made a good hire? That's a big curly question probably worthy of a follow-up post.
ahhh, haha ok I see!

yeah it isn't awesome that we feel we need these security features. However I think even without the fear of government (etc...) this is still a great feature I would love to have.
Predixy – high performance and fully featured proxy for redis
Accelerated XGBoost Gradient Boosting on GPUs
New Zealand programmer made a 3D copy of his daughter
Recently I was wondering how you would teach kids how to deal with money if there is no money you can see. There is a lot of research about the effects of seeing the money you spend and how this helps to assess how much you are actually spending. (No, your Spreadsheets don't help really.)

So if you don't learn this (to me one of the strongest and still most important) lesson as a kid, which effect will it have on your spending behavior in the long term?
They don't. I just bought a car from a dealership on August 1 without a credit check.

The dealership wanted to run a credit check if I were to pay with a personal check, but not if I paid with certified funds. I called my bank to have my debit card limit raised to $40,000 for 24 hours and paid for the car on my debit card with no credit check.
Similar to the New Madrid earthquakes (1811-1812) in the US. These intraplate earthquakes also cause more damage than other earthquakes of the same size because they travel greater distances than the more common ones near plate boundaries. The less fractured bedrock in the middle of plates propagates the energy with less loss.
Thanks for your comment. Glad you enjoyed the series.

I did consider a 6th article looking at the longer term outcomes but decided at the time to cut it. Might have to reconsider as there seems to be good interest.
Usually a chart would be an SVG that contained a <title> and <desc> tags. Or an <img> tag with an alt attribute.

I haven't tried it, but perhaps aria-label would do the trick.

My point is, people create these fairly novel approaches all the time, but never think about the structure of the markup, and if the semantic meaning is at least usable for screen readers. Turning on screen reading functionality in Chrome, the first example in the article read as follows:

"1 2 3 left brace 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100 right brace 7 8 9"

The semantic meaning is lost.
The real URL will appear in the browser address bar anyway before the user gets the chance to disclose any information. I don't know exactly what proportion of users will notice a well-disguised phishing URL in the email body but not in the address bar, but I bet it's not that high.

The attack prevented is simply having the user open the attachment, allowing the sender to execute arbitrary JavaScript on their machine in the file:// context. (Modern browsers have made the security consequences of this somewhat less dire than they once were, but it's still not something you want to do if you can help it.)
If he was this successful at hiring, onboarding, and training new devs and getting them up to speed, I must really suck. It took me close to two months and around 14 interviews just to hire four people as contractors - for the right person, I had the budget to give them a top of the market rate. I didn't need the 10x developer just smart .Net developers.

You would be surprised at the number of developers with 10 years of experience who couldn't do what was the equivalent of the FizzBuzz problem. (http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest)

60-70% of the people I interviewed had never done automated testing - I've been teaching them how.
I was ready to take shit on their rebranding effort as unnecessary waste, but I have to say the new product logos are nicely done.

I would've kept the old Atlassian logo however.
Announcing Twist, a fundamentally different way to work together
This extension seems decent:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stop-wasting-time/...
Coffee is for closers!
Quality (for engineering skill AND attitude) was the top focus, salaries were market rate, and there are no options/RSUs involved.

Thanks for the suggestions about the follow up to hiring and measuring success. It seems most of the comments want to know more about this so I will look at a follow-up post.
>But it treats perfectly competitive markets as special cases rather than the norm, trying to incorporate from the very beginning the progress economists have made during the past forty years or so in analyzing more complex situations: when firms have some monopoly power; people aren’t fully rational; a lot of key information is privately held; and the gains generated by trade, innovation, and finance are distributed very unevenly. The CORE curriculum also takes economic history seriously.

This sounds excellent.

I think "free market" is the worst-named concept ever, and has caused lasting damage since it sounds too much like "unregulated market".

Acknowledging the spectrum of properties, and how unregulated markets don't end up free in a lot of important cases from the get-go will help to fight this damage.
If you have absolutely runaway traction in a winner-take-all market, then tripling the size of your dev team in 6 months can make a lot of sense.

Facebook, Google, and Uber have all had periods of growth that fast.

For example, Uber's overall employee headcount went from ~2500 at the start of 2015 to ~13,000 at the end of 2016 -- although that includes non-engineering hires.

But for companies that aren't Facebook/Google/Uber? A slower growth rate is almost always the better decision.
That's really interesting. They might be trying to blacklist scrapers that don't properly respect robots.txt files.
What about AWS ? I often see spend 10k+ Without much of a conversation with salespeople. But this is probably the exception rather then the rule. And of course there is high touch to grow accounts after they reach certain threasholds.
I'm actually writing about this exact thing: https://kirubakaran.com/blog/consulting-outline/

But to answer your question:

It seems obvious that you trade the low variance pay of a salaried job for higher variance but generally higher expected value of consulting pay + other lifestyle benefits. But it is hard to actually internalize this.

That is, you're happy when your pipeline is full and you're making a lot of money. But you can't work at this pace for ever. So, when there are natural lulls and you aren't making any money for a bit, instead of being miserable, you should know that it is a part of how it is and be thankful for the break and catch up on all the sci-fi books you've been meaning to read.

It took me a while to not stress too much about these lulls and instead make the best of it.
PDF

https://assets.pubpub.org/aacpjrja/AgainstTheLaw-CounteringL...

TXT

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
Right. And if we're going to talk about the social value of free expression, that has to include consideration of how certain unconstructive behaviors undermine that value. And how people may go out of their way to defend those unconscrutive behaviors if they serve to push people out of conversations with whom they disagree.
Browsers are primarily in the user fingerprinting business, but I would not be surprised that there is absolutely no incentive nor desire to invest in "security and privacy"(tm) other than to facilitate their main purpose. Let me stress this once again, the main purpose of a modern browser is to enable global, cross-network user tracking so that companies like google can collect data regardless of whether you "accept cookies", use vpns or sign up into one of google apps(which makes that "see what data google has about you" project even more evil).
Before, I checked Facebook like 50 times a day. Now I check it once a day.

It was so easy to make the change! Facebook is just a habit, a bad habit, but it's easy to break.
The 3-mile island of data leaks will happen when the ISP DNS lookups and browser history logs get matched up with the credit data and all the other datasets that are floating around.
> Once again I want to make it clear I'm just an interested layman, not a historian and claim no expertise on all this.

I am the same here (and not even a Christian, just a curious observer). I think you went overboard in your accusations here

> I think the problem is you are picking and choosing what you think is true from a given text, and then offering up an explanation that you can neither prove nor falsify.

I would have to be informed enough in the first place to be able to pick and choose. Seems I have stirred up a hornets nest. Given the situation, I have no further intention to participate in the thread.

Regardless,

> offering up an explanation that you can neither prove nor falsify

this I will eagerly concede. I just did not realize my off-hand thinking aloud would be an object of such scrutiny. I should have known better.
Also, I gather that non-text emails make it possible to disguise the link target when you hover over it to see where the link goes. Whether that is using css or js, I'm not sure.
no it shouldn't, but doesn't it always throughout history?
I thought you could, at least on Linux.
> How does that work? Is it for worry about pests

Yes, California’s ag quarantine/inspection laws are about pests (and the prohibited without certificate imports are part of those laws). California is unusual in enforcing its quarantine laws with border inspections, but not in having them.

> I thought the US Constitution prevents a state from banning products from another state.

State ag quarantine laws are common and have generally been held Constitutional absent federal action that overlaps with or expressly preempts them.
Since we are into personal anecdotes: the annoying giant red blinking popup they display all the time to force you to download the app instead of using the mobile website was all I needed to get entirely rid of my habit to visit Reddit, and I like the idea that I might not be the only one.
That is a good question!

It made sense from the perspective that the product we were building was good but a little 'behind' our competitors and we needed to catch up.

The scaling has allowed us to tackle new projects that utilise the underlying platform that we would have otherwise not been able to even consider.
Electric cars reach a tipping point
I've always had my work email client set to text only. Never been a problem for me (unless you consider missing out on a lot of unnecessary smilies, fonts, and colors a problem).
Thanks for the reference, I did not know this.
You know, that UI's aren't very complex? You know what's scalable? PAGES. The entirety of the (www) internet is done with HTML content that link to another HTML content. The entire Internet!

What would happen if we made the entire Internet a react application? Would that be "scalable"?

Please choose your words more precisely!
Does the card have an EMV chip? An absence of that may have been the trigger.
Propaganda should be kept out of education.
yes. a year or two ago they built out an editorial staff.
This looks pretty cool. A nice simpler alternative to things like Skitch.
For this ...

Any successful read() from each byte position in the file that was
modified by that write shall return the data specified by the write()

... perhaps I can re-open() and re-read() the same byte value written by another process for the same file, but the file contents may not have been fully flushed all the way to disk. The file contents may be "durable" across processes on the same running OS that mount the same filesystem ... but if the OS happens to die before the data is flushed, then perhaps after reboot the open()/read() will return an older value previously written.

The semantics of "durability" are a squishy concept.
https://www.avogadr.io/?background=5f0000&foreground=ce3838&...

https://www.avogadr.io/?background=5f0000&foreground=ce3838&...

https://www.avogadr.io/?background=5f0000&foreground=ce3838&...
Photographer and PETA reach settlement over rights to monkey's selfie
Threads are less of a problem with file i/o, because usually a process doesn't need to have 10000 outstanding disk io requests.

(Windows async disk i/o is thread-backed too behind the scenes, though)
SpaceX’s internet satellite strategy faces possible setback after FCC decision
What do you suppose would happen if we all visited these URLs from every public access point we use? (edit: and shared VPNs, Tor, corporate networks, etc.)
Well I guess my comment is an anecdote, not everyone is the same.

I can track better what I'm spending with a card, which means that I can plan my spending better.
What if God spelled backwards was Foot? Your hypothetical is irrelevant in the real world, as there are commission jobs available as an alternative.

Commmunism would be wonderful if it weren't for basic human psychology.
Not engineers. Resources.
I worked as a summer camp counselor and I loved every second of it. We ran a competitive sports camp with kids aged 8-13 years. It was well-run, action-packed, and my co-counselors included some close friends that I still keep in touch with. We laughed, cried, sweated, and laid it all on the line for our weekly team of kids, which was re-drafted every new week. Team loyalty was fierce and the competition extended to include team spirit, sportsmanship, and being a good citizen.

We had enough time to really connect with and influence the kids. I also keep up with a lot of "my kids" on facebook, and they are all grown and many are married with children of their own. I'm very proud of so many of them.

Working with children is incredibly rewarding, but there was no obvious career path where I was. When I was promoted I hated it, and quit.

I was young though, and I didn't care about the money at all while I worked with the kids. It was the best time of my life, so far. Development pays better, but it's really drab by comparison.